Use of Academic Incentive Points in University Rankings: State University Rankings (SUR-2018)

State University Rankings (SUR) was first carried out in 2016 and the research was repeated in 2017 and 2018. The main purpose of SUR is to provide a different source of data to the university administrations by ranking state universities and faculties based on their academic incentive scores. SUR ranks state universites and faculties in Turkey according to their performance in academic incentive. In the ranking process, scores that are approved by universities’ academic incentive commissions and data on the number of faculty members published by CoHE. Results; When ranking the average scores of the faculty types, the first three faculty types with the highest average score are; (i) Faculty of Fisheries/Aquaculture, (ii) Faculty of Pharmacy and (iii) Faculty of Forestry. When the state universities are listed on the basis of the academic incentive system, the first five universities are; (i) ？zmir Institute of Technology, (ii) ？skenderun Technical University, (iii) Ege University, (iv) Hacettepe University and (v) Akdeniz University