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.