What is University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP)

Universities are indispensable and crucial part of academic life and education system. They grant academic degree in a variety of subjects and provide undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate educations. They carry institutional memory based on experience and knowledge developed by many years. They are the centers of scientific world. In addition, they are one of the important decision point in the human life to shape their future life. In the light of this mission, they are in continuous changing process to provide high level of standards, in science and technology, and better environment for education of students. Therefore ranking of universities have gained a considerable importance among academia, students, parents and industry. There are so many web sites that are publishing the results of their independent evaluations based on different objective and subjective criteria. The aim of this chapter is to provide a background to improve criteria using in ranking methodologies with the help of integrated DEMATEL-AHP methodology by taking into account ranking of Turkish Universities.