Times Higher Education (THE) 2016-2017 announced the World University Rankings list. This year 980 universities from 79 countries ranked in the list while 800 universities were listed last year. This year for the first time, Marmara University entered the World University Rankings including 18 universities from Turkey. This year, the University of Oxford is the world’s number one university in THE World University Rankings and Turkish universities ranked in the list as follows: Koç University, Sabancı University, Bilkent University, Atılım Univesity, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Technical University, Eastern Mediterranean University, Hacettepe Uiversity, Istanbul University, Izmir Institute of Technology, Middle East Technical University, TOBB Economy and Technology University, Anadolu University, Ankara University, Erciyes University, Gazi University, Marmara University, Yıldız Technical University.