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Ranking of Private Turkish Universities: Proposal of New Indicators

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This study evaluates a total of 65 Turkish Private Universities considering their both academic and social benefits to the students. The principal aim of this paper is to provide a ranking for all Turkish Private Universities. Therefore, all universities can access their ranking since “University Ranking by Academic Performance” (URAP) only provides the ranking of 56 universities. Also, they can see their different impacts on several issues, such as environmental impacts, technological impacts, as well as academical impacts. The data for this study is obtained from open source reliable corporate sources such as Higher Education Institution of Turkey, Scopus and Univerlist web site. Univerlist is a university guide which provides informed-decision making support for students. It also supported this study. The findings indicate that the positions of private universities in the rankings of research, academic staff and opportunities do not vary much. However, their positions differ when the rankings for teaching, student choice and mobility indicators are considered. The findings of this paper could help students, administrators, and academicians to understand how the universities are performing in terms of many different perspectives.

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This study was supported by Univerlist, which is a platform of the universities, in the data collection and analysis steps.

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  1. Industrial Engineering Department, Izmir Democracy University, İzmir, Turkey

    Damla Kızılay

  2. Computer Engineering Department, Yasar University, İzmir, Turkey

    Murat Ödemiş

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    M. Güneş Gençyılmaz

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Kızılay, D., Ödemiş, M. (2021). Ranking of Private Turkish Universities: Proposal of New Indicators. In: Durakbasa, N.M., Gençyılmaz, M.G. (eds) Digital Conversion on the Way to Industry 4.0. ISPR 2020. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62784-3_83

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