According to the Impact Rankings 2020 results announced by the world universities ranking institution Times Higher Education (THE), METU has become the university with the best results among the Turkish universities, taking place in the top 10 in the title of “clean water and sanitation”.
METU ranked 9th in the field of “SDG6-Clean Water and Sanitation” among the 330 universities that applied to the THE University Impact Rankings, assessing universities for their societal, environmental and social development activities for the 17 social development goals (SDGs) determined by the United Nations member countries, in 2015, in order to establish a better and sustainable future.
Criteria in the field of clean water and sanitation and the weights of these criteria are determined as: 27% research in this area, 19% water use, 23% water maintenance, 12% ratio of re-used or recycled water to total water use, and 19% common water use.
