ITU Once Again Leads Türkiye with 28 Ranked Scientific Fields

ITU was listed in 28 scientific fields in the URAP Research Laboratory 2025–2026 World Field Rankings, making it the university from Türkiye included in the highest number of fields. Among these, it ranked first in Türkiye in 20 scientific fields.

Istanbul Technical University (ITU) was included in 28 out of 78 scientific fields in the URAP ( University Ranking by Academic Performance) 2025–2026 World Field Rankings. With this achievement, ITU positioned itself as the leader among universities in Türkiye in terms of the number of ranked fields. Additionally, compared to the 2024–2025 results, our university rose in 14 fields in the 2025–2026 rankings.

ITU, which ranked first in Türkiye in 20 fields including Engineering, Architecture, and Technology, was also the only university from Türkiye listed in the fields of Marine Sciences and Technology, Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Water Resources, Telecommunications, and Artificial Intelligence. 

Fields Where ITU Ranks First in Türkiye and Their World Rankings:

Archeology (Department of Ecology and Evolution, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences) – 219th worldwide

Information and Computing Sciences (Faculty of Computer and Informatics Engineering) – 309th worldwide

Environmental Engineering – 481st worldwide

Marine Sciences and Technology (Faculty of Maritime, Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering) – 141st worldwide

Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering) – 458th worldwide

Civil Engineering – 151st worldwide

Geology (Faculty of Mines) – 207th worldwide

Chemical Engineering – 509th worldwide

Mechanical Engineering – 472nd worldwide

Materials Engineering (Metallurgical and Materials Engineering) – 452nd worldwide

Architecture – 209th worldwide

Engineering – 295th worldwide

Polymer Science (Chemistry) – 73rd worldwide

Robotics and Intelligent Systems (Control and Automation Engineering) – 268th worldwide 

Water Resources (Faculty of Civil Engineering) – 139th worldwide

Agriculture (Faculty of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Letters) – 617th worldwide

Technology – 468th worldwide

Telecommunications (Electronics and Communication Engineering, Computer Engineering) – 208th worldwide

Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering) – 223rd worldwide

Earth Sciences (Faculty of Mines and Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences) – 242nd worldwide

 

Fields Where ITU Ranked Among the Top Three in Türkiye:

Environmental Sciences (Faculty of Civil Engineering) – 712th worldwide

Energy and Fuels (Faculty of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering) – 434th worldwide

Physics (Physics Engineering) – 768th worldwide

Chemical Sciences (Chemistry) – 609th worldwide

 

About URAP Field Rankings

URAP field rankings use objective data provided by Clarivate Analytics InCites, one of the reliable data sources for articles and citations. The rankings present an assessment of academic performance over the last five years. The impact of universities’ articles, total documents, and citations within the relevant field, along with international collaboration indicators, constitute the main criteria used in URAP field rankings.

For more information on the methodology, click here.