9 Turkish universities have been ranked among the world's top 500 universities according to the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2023. A total of 206 universities in Turkey were evaluated and 9 of them managed to make it to the Leiden list:
Middle East Technical University
Hacettepe University
Istanbul University
Istanbul Technical University
Bilkent University
Boğaziçi University
Koç University
Sabancı University
Çankaya University
According to the number of students, universities in Turkey are distributed as follows:
Istanbul Üniversitesi - 527.088
Ankara Üniversitesi - 70.221
Marmara Üniversitesi - 68.530
Anadolu Üniversitesi - 3.538.594
Atatürk Üniversitesi - 549.461
Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi - 67.173
Akdeniz Üniversitesi - 64.335
Selçuk Üniversitesi - 63.331
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi - 62.764
Kocaeli Üniversitesi - 62.741