According to the QS World University Rankings (QS WUR) 2025 results, ITU rose 78 places and ranked 326th this year, achieving its best ranking to date. ITU, which ranks 1st in Türkiye in the “International Research Network” and “Sustainability” indicators, was also awarded the QS “Most Improved-Europe” Award for its outstanding achievements in the last 5 years.
ITU also ranked 112th among the 1503 universities listed in the “employer reputation” indicator, once again demonstrating the strong bond of its graduates and members with the industry. This achievement, which refers to ITU’s global recognition, was also in line with the theme of our university, which declared 2024 as the “Year of Global Impact”.
As ITU Volunteering Club, our in-kind and cash aid efforts for the earthquake victims continue in cooperation with public institutions and organizations.
You can donate to the account number below in order to overcome the disaster in our country together, to support and contribute to our relief efforts. Your donations will be converted into in-kind aid (dried food, winter clothes and water, etc.) and delivered to the earthquake victim families.
Season’s greetings from Istanbul Technical University
Dear Colleagues,
As we are approaching a new year, we are in great excitement. I am proud to announce to you that 2023 marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of Istanbul Technical University (ITU). To highlight this landmark year, we are organizing a series of events including conferences, seminars, concerts and sports activities, publishing books and documentaries. One of our main goals, in this respect, is to bring together our students, graduates, academics, employees, and stakeholders from all around the world to celebrate such a special milestone. I, therefore, warmly invite you to join our celebrations!
As it is well known, bees are the major pollinators of our ecosystem. As a university identifying itself with bees, we continue to pollinate science and technology with more than 250.000 graduates in every part of the world. We are working hard to embrace more and more students each year from diverse countries, making international collaborations with many universities, and striving for the best for the education of our students.
ITU is an institution that guides the engineering education of the future. As a strong partner of the European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance (EELISA), we are defining a common model of the European engineer for a bright and sustainable society. Connecting campuses from different European countries, EELISA also aims to bring the state-of-the-art research to our students. As a research-intensive university, we contribute to this goal with excellent pioneering research projects recently funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Our academics are shaping the future of engineering with these projects involving our graduate and undergraduate students.
I sincerely wish that the New Year brings health, success, and peace to all my dear colleagues, their families and countries. ITU is always open to new collaborations in order to transform our world into a more sustainable environment.
Prof. Selma Soysal has achieved worldwide fame with her doctorate thesis.
Dr. Selma Soysal, Turkey’s first female math professor, was laid to rest in an Istanbul cemetery yesterday following a commemoration ceremony held in her honor at Istanbul Technical University’s (İTÜ) Taşkışla campus.
“As far as I am concerned, work that is conducted in İTÜ in the field of mathematics also bears Selma’s contributions. As a woman of science and a modern Turkish woman, Selma has represented our country abroad with pride. I learned about what a human being, a teacher, an academic [and] a university ought to be like by watching her,” Professor Mümtaz Soysal, a legal expert, politician and Dr. Soysal’s brother, told the Hürriyet Daily News.
Selma Soysal was born in the Black Sea province of Zonguldak in 1924. She entered Istanbul University’s Math and Astronomy Department in 1941 and was taught by world-renowned mathematician Cahit Arf. Her doctorate thesis titled “Infinite Dimensional Hilbert Space” achieved worldwide fame.
She also attended specialty programs at universities in Paris and London, at Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She trained thousands of scientists throughout her 47-year career at İTÜ.
Soysal’s funeral was held at Şişli Mosque yesterday, after which her body was buried in the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.
İTÜ’s Deputy Rector Derin Ural also expressed the deep grief felt by the university in its loss, while retired İTÜ faculty member Professor Hande Suher said Soysal’s mentorship qualities were exceptional.
The ceremony was attended by a host of academics and university administrators from İTÜ, as well as Soysal’s family, students and acquaintances.
via Turkey’s first female math professor laid to rest – Hurriyet Daily News.
Students at Istanbul Technical University are working on a 3U CubeSat that will carry a linear transponder for SSB/CW amateur radio communications.
TURKSAT-3USAT will carry a 50kHz bandwidth 145/435 (V/U) linear transponder, beacon and telemetry downlink. It is hoped to have an early 2012 launch into a Sun Synchronous Orbit (SSO) at around 680km.
Istanbul Technical University’s first Communication Satellite
Istanbul Technical University TURKSAT-3USAT
TURKSAT-3USAT on the IARU Satellite Frequency Coordination pages
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via Istanbul students plan 145/435 MHz satellite | Southgate Amateur Radio News.
