The Council Approves 2025 Accreditation for 32 HEIs: 30 Under MtEP, 2 Under IAP

As a result of the evaluations and site visits conducted within the scope of the Institutional Accreditation Program (IAP) carried out by the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council (THEQC), the accreditation of 23 universities with 2-year conditional accreditation was upgraded to 5-year full accreditation with the decision taken at the Council meeting in July.

Atatürk University and Ondokuz Mayıs University, whose institutional accreditation has ended, were granted full accreditation for 5 years as a result of the new evaluation process.

Holding a 5-year full accreditation, Gazi University, Middle East Technical University, Özyeğin University and Sabancı University were decided to continue their full accreditation as a result of the mid-term evaluation program (MtEP), while the conditional accreditation status of three other universities was terminated.

President Kocabıçak pointed out that the IAP provides advantages to HEIs in many areas, such as increasing quality, ensuring sustainability in quality assurance systems, and encouraging stakeholder involvement and transparency. He said, “In addition, the reports of Turkish universities that have been granted institutional accreditation are published on DEQAR, where review outcomes of quality agencies across Europe are also present and only institutions that fully comply with ESG are accepted, providing equivalence, recognition, visibility and increasing competitiveness in the international arena.”

Within the scope of the 2025 IAP and MtEP, HEIs granted accreditation and whose accreditation continues are listed as follows:

HEIs with 5-Year Full Accreditation:

Atatürk University

Ondokuz Mayıs University

HEIs with Continued 5-Year Full Accreditation:

Gazi University

Middle East Technical University

Özyeğin University

Sabancı University

HEIs Whose 2-Year Conditional Accreditation Upgraded to 5-Year Full Accreditation:

Abdullah Gül University

Altınbaş University

Bahçeşehir University

Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University

Bursa Technical University

Bursa Uludağ University

Çukurova University

Fırat University

Harran University

İnönü University

İstanbul Arel University

İstanbul Beykent University

İstanbul Okan University

İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim University

İzmir University of Economics

İzmir Institute of Technology

Kadir Has University

Manisa Celâl Bayar University

Süleyman Demirel University

Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University

Trakya University

Uşak University

Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University