Private Versus Public Universities: The Turkish Experience İhsan Doğramacı Chairman of the Board of Trustees and President, Bilkent University, Ankara 18th Conference on Higher Education

1 Placement of Top 100 Candidates Out of 1.7 million Candidates (August 2005) Source: Higher Education Council Statistics Private University Public University

2 Placement of Top 100 Candidates Out of 1.7 million Candidates (August 2005) 88 of the top 100 candidates chose the following universities:  Bilkent 32  Boğaziçi 30  METU 14  Hacettepe 12 Total:88 Source: National Student Selection and Placement Center, 2005

3 Rate of Enrollment in Turkish Higher Education in Age Group Source: National Student Selection and Placement Center, Higher Education Statistics

4 Progress in the Last 25 Years 1980 Today 1980 Today Population45 million70 million Age Group (20-24) 4 million 6 million No. of Universities Public Private -24 Total 1977 Rate of Enrollment 6.3%32.9%

Increase in Number of Students and Teaching Staff 1986 Number of Students per Teaching Staff: Number of Students per Teaching Staff: 16.8 Number of Students Number of Teaching Staff 5

6 Number of Articles Published in Journals Indexed by the Institute of Scientific Information Citation Indexes Source: TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM Information Retrieval System (Web of Science)

7 Turkey's Ranking in the World According to Number of International Publications Source: TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM Information Retrieval System (Web of Science)

8 Number of International Publications per Faculty Member (2004) Source: Higher Education Council Statistics Private University Public University

İhsan Doğramacı Health Foundation İhsan Doğramacı Education Foundation İhsan Doğramacı Science and Research Foundation The Story of the First Non-profit Private University: Bilkent Established in 1984 by three foundations 9