ITU Ranked 25th in the World and 1st in Türkiye in the 2025 UI Greenmetric Rankings!

ITU Ayazağa Campus became the 25th greenest and most sustainable campus in the world and the 15th in Europe in the 2025 UI GreenMetric ranking! ITU ranked first in Türkiye again and is proud to be first in Türkiye for the ninth time with this success.

Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Ayazağa Campus achieved great success by ranking 25th in the world in the 2025 UI GreenMetric, which ranks the greenest campuses in the world by evaluating 1745 campuses from 105 countries. ITU ranked 38th last year and took its position even higher this year with its green campus.

Istanbul Technical University, which has implemented many innovations and firsts in our country by establishing the Sustainability Office, ranked 15th in the European region in the 2025 UI GreenMetric ranking. Our university has made both ITU members and our country proud once again by being ranked 1st in Türkiye this year as it has been in the past eight years.

2025 UI GreenMetric World University Rankings Results and Awards, for which the ITU Sustainability Office is responsible for the application process, hosted by National Chi Nan University (NCNU), Taiwan on December 5, 2025.

UI GreenMetric

GreenMetric University Ranking System was launched in 2010 by the initiative of Universitas Indonesia in order to attract attention to issues of global climate change, energy and water conservation, waste recycling, and green transportation. UI GreenMetric, which aims to provide more attention to sustainability of the environment, as well as economic and social problems related to sustainability, collects numeric data from thousands of universities worldwide. Universities are evaluated according to a single score that reflects their efforts to implement environmentally friendly and sustainable policies and programs.

Sustainability at ITU

• Sustainability efforts, which began in 2013 with Green Campus initiatives, continue to grow stronger each year.
• In 2019, the EELISA (European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance) university alliance, of which ITU is a founding member, was launched. EELISA aims to be a role model for a resilient, inclusive, and diverse society by demonstrating the potential of transnational cooperation in shaping a sustainable future. ITU Rector Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal assumed the role of Chair of the Governing Board of EELISA in 2025. The first Sustainability Panel within EELISA was also created in 2025 and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Börte Köse Mutlu, Head of the ITU Sustainability Office, took on the chair of the panel.
• ITU Sustainability Reports have been published annually since 2020.
• The ITU Sustainability Office was established in 2021.
• In 2021, five ITU campuses received the Zero Waste Certificate at the basic level.
• Starting in 2022, the ITU Biological Diversity and Ecosystem Conservation and Sustainable Use Commission has been recording the living species in the ITU Ayazağa Campus through the ITU BIOBLITZ event.
• In 2023, the Sustainability Master's program, a 100% English-language program with a thesis requirement, was launched.
• In 2023, ITU received the “Most Sustainable University in the Middle East” award at the “2023 UI GreenMetric World University Rankings Results and Awards” ceremony held at ITU Abu Dhabi University.
• In 2025, ITU launched an innovative minor program in Sustainability.
• In 2025, the Zero Waste Institute was established through a protocol signed between ITU and the Zero Waste Foundation.