Hasan Kalyoncu University (HKU) ranked 17th among foundation universities, and 24th among all universities without a faculty of medicine, in the 2025–2026 Türkiye ranking announced by the University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) Research Laboratory, established within the Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University (METU), which evaluates universities’ academic performance according to objective indicators such as articles, citations, scientific documents and TÜBİTAK projects.
According to the latest data published by URAP, HKU increased its total score from 548.48 to 618.33, a 13% rise. It recorded a +61 point increase in its TÜBİTAK Project score compared with the previous year, along with rises of +12.0 in its article score, +3.1 in its citation score and +1.7 in its scientific document score, demonstrating that its scientific output capacity grows stronger every year.
A SIGN OF OUR ACADEMICS’ DEDICATED WORK AND OUR RESEARCH-ORIENTED VISION AS A UNIVERSITY
Noting that ranking systems allow universities to learn about their own position and development within the higher education ecosystem and offer an opportunity to review their education and research policies, HKU Acting Rector Prof. Dr. Gül Rengin Küçükerdoğan said: “As Hasan Kalyoncu University, I am very pleased to see that we have achieved a steadily rising momentum in academic quality and scientific output. Ranking 17th among foundation universities and 24th among universities without a faculty of medicine in the URAP 2025–2026 Türkiye ranking is a sign of our academics’ dedicated work and of the research-oriented vision we have adopted as a university. The 13% increase in our total score reflects not only our successes in TÜBİTAK projects but also the rise in our article, citation and scientific document output. This success shows that we are on the right track towards our goal of increasing HKU’s scientific output capacity every year. We congratulate our academic and administrative staff and our students for their valuable contributions, and in the coming period we aim to take our scientific excellence even further.”
HKU Dean of Research Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serkan Aracı stated that the URAP 2025–2026 data show that HKU improves its research capacity steadily every year; that the increase in TÜBİTAK projects indicates the strengthening of the university’s research ecosystem and that academics are using national and international funding sources more effectively; and that the rise in article, citation and scientific document scores shows that the research culture has taken root.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aracı said that in the coming period they aim to increase interdisciplinary projects and take academic impact and social contribution to higher levels.
