Ranking Chemical Engineering Departments in Turkey Based on Academic Performance

Abstract

I I n contrast to other G20 countries, Turkey has focused on expanding the number and size of its universities in recent years (British Council, 2015): The number of universities increased from 71 to 179, total number of students increased from 1.6 million to more than 6 million between 2011 and 2016 (YÖK, 2016). While there are few number of universities performing well in the global university rankings, majority of the Turkish universities are classified as virtually 'research-inactive', a situation which requires attention (British Council, 2015). University rankings that have been initially originated in the United States attracting considerable interest of countries. Ranking a university gives an overall picture of its quality. However, many universities are quite heterogeneous, thus,

Role of Emotional Intelligence and Work-Life Balance in Relationship between Workplace Happiness and Perceived Performance in Academic Setting

“…Since this speech, it was understood that most universities in Turkey had grown away from scientific research and focused on educating an incre-asing number of students and social problems. In third phase, with government intervenes, the number and scales of universities increased in 10 years exceedingly as a counter policy to other G20 countries (Uyar, 2018). Apart from these, the established research culture, foreign language problem, heavy course loads, and insufficient funds reserved for scientific research lead to this problem.…”