A report has been published that reveals the number of books per student at universities in Turkey. The report showed that universities are officially ‘poor’ in terms of books.
The Council of Higher Education (YÖK) evaluated the 2020 data of 193 universities. “University Monitoring and Evaluation General Report 2021” The results of the study were shared. of 193 universities The report, which is examined in terms of Education and Training, Research-Development, Project and Publication, Internationalization, Community Service and Social Responsibility, shows that higher education is in Turkey. sad status revealed once again.
According to the study, the average number of printed books per student in universities is 8 The number of universities with 10 or more printed books per student is only 10 turned out to be. On the other hand, the number of books per student in 4 universities ‘0’ was stated.
There is not even one printed book per student in 4 universities.
As a result of the research, the number of public universities with more than 10 printed books per student among 193 universities. 17while the number of foundation universities 15 turned out to be. In the report, where it is stated that there is not even one book per student in 4 universities, it is noted that the three universities with the highest number of printed books compared to the number of students are Bilkent, Istanbul University and Boğaziçi University.
Similar to these data, the average number of electronic publications per student in universities 55 it has been reported.
In addition, universities were examined in terms of research and development, project and publication issues. According to this, the average number of publications in national refereed journals 198the average of the number of publications per instructor. 0.20 was stated. On the other hand, the number of universities with an institution-addressed publication of 500 or more is only 16 was recorded.
Only the number of universities with more than 500 publications written in the 2016-2020 period and cited in the top 10 percent 10 In the report, in which it is stated that the number of universities that do not have a publication, 8 was recorded. Accordingly, the top three universities with the highest number of cited publications were determined as Hacettepe University, Istanbul University and Ankara University.
Only 6 universities in the top 500
In the report, which also shared the data of international rating institutions such as THE, QS and ARWU, universities in Turkey only 6in the lists of rating agencies top 500It was reported that he could enter .
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It turned out that some universities don’t even have a book in their libraries.
Here are the universities that managed to enter the top 500:
- Cankaya University
- Sabanci University
- Hacettepe University
- Bilkent University
- Koç University
- Istanbul University.