METU ranked first among Turkish universities and 497th among world universities in the 2021 Webometrics Ranking of World Universities.

The Graduate Thesis and Course Performance Awards, award ceremony is to be held online on September 29, 2021, at 13.30.

The games of three video game development studios of METU TEKNOKENT ATOM were among the most downloaded games in the United States in July.

The Zero Waste Unit of the Middle East Technical University has managed to collect 78,250 kilograms of waste as a result of their waste collection efforts in the first six months of 2021.

METU is the local coordinator of the project titled "CRAFT: Developing a Novel Climate Change Risk Assessment Framework for Cultural Heritage in Turkey", funded by United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

At the end of the Horizon 2020 program, Middle East Technical University has ranked first among the universities in Turkey in terms of the number of projects received funding.

METU Design Factory was founded with the support of the Ministry of Development.

METU Faculty of Engineering students with their eco-friendly electronic cash register project "QRegister," which they developed with the support of AdımODTÜ, has made it to the finals of Google's worldwide Solution Challenge by being chosen as one of the top 10 projects.

According to the data obtained from around 115 thousand METU alumni who are also members of LinkedIn, one out of every five METU graduates lives abroad.

The new business venture of Eren Bali, a double-major graduate of METU Mathematics and Computer Engineering Departments, has started to be called a unicorn.