The Middle East Technical University has ranked first in the "Research Universities Performance Monitoring Index" by The Council of Higher Education (YÖK).

According to the results of THE World University Rankings by Subject, METU has ranked 93rd among world universities and the first among Turkish universities.

METU has ranked 75th among world universities and the first among Turkish universities in the "reputation ranking" announced by the Round University Ranking (RUR).

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

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 ranked first among 55 universities from Turkey according to the 2021-2022 ranking of two thousand universities worldwide, according to the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR).

METU ranked 1st in 2020 Patent Report, published by Patent Effect, according to both numbers of commercialization and numbers of commercialization by cumulative data and licensed patents.

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 first according to the 2017 and 2018 performance rankings among the “Research and Candidate Research Universities”.

UK-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) Company announced the 2019 results of university rankings by subject on February 27, 2019.