QS Emerging Europe and Central Asia Rankings

The 2015 QS University Rankings for Emerging Europe and Central Asia were released. The rankings highlight the top 150 universities in the Eastern Europe–Central Asia region.

Bilkent and METU are the highest-ranked universities in Turkey, sharing 11^th place in the listing. Sabancı University is ranked 14^th and Koç University 15^th, with Boğaziçi University and İstanbul University both ranked 17^th.

Indicators used in calculating the rankings include academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty–student ratio, papers per faculty member, citations per paper and percentage of international faculty and students. Bilkent is ranked among the top 10 in the EECA in the categories of academic reputation, papers per faculty, citations per paper and international faculty, and first in Turkey in the latter two categories.

In terms of faculty areas, Bilkent ranks 3^rd in the EECA in the natural sciences, 9^th in engineering and technology, 10^th in the life sciences and medicine, 15^th in the social sciences and management and 16^th in the arts and humanities.

In the overall EECA rankings, Lomonosov Moscow State University and Novosibirsk State University (both in Russia) were 1^st and 2^nd, with Charles University (Czech Republic) 3^rd.