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Top 25 Universities based in Türkiye
RevenueBase identified 117 universities headquartered in Türkiye as of September 2026 and tracks 74,837 professional contacts across them, including 20,922 with verified work emails. Istanbul is the largest hub.
This list covers universities headquartered in Türkiye, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 15, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest universities based in Türkiye
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6,231 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Tarihten Geleceğe Bilim Köprüsü" Dünyanın En İyi 500 Üniversitesi Arasında Öğrenci Odaklı Eğitim Anlayışı 48039 Lisans Öğrencisi 12536 Yüksek Lisans Öğrencisi 6625 Doktora…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 5,883 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded on the foundations of the Chair of Child Health established in 1954 by Prof.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,360 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Gazi University (Turkish: Gazi Üniversitesi) is a public university primarily located in Ankara, Turkey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 4,074 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dokuz Eylül University (DEU) which is one of the largest higher education institutions in our country, offers faculties of Buca Education, Maritime, Dental Medicine, Literature…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 3,801 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “First founded as Eskişehir Academy of Economy and Commercial Sciences in 1958, it became Anadolu University in 1982.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 2,889 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kocaeli University’s mother institution was founded in 1976 as Kocaeli State Academy of Engineering and Architecture, and housed Electrical and Mechanical Faculty, Faculty of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,884 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Koç University strives to be a center of excellence, one that succeeds in providing a world-class education to its students, creating new knowledge via the research of its…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,332 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Medipol: The Choice of Champions” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,248 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Uludag University is a state funded public university with 4 Institutes, 11 Faculties, 1 State Conservatory, 3 Graduate Schools, 15 Vocational Schools and 19 Research and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,187 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As a higher education institution dedicated to teaching, research, and service to our society, the mission of Bahceşehir University is to educate the leading work force of future…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,976 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1996 with the motto “Learning not for school but for life” (Non scholae sed vitae discimus), BİLGİ has attempted to establish a community that promotes tolerance and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,956 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,913 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Selçuk University was established in 1975.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,466 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2007 by the Hüsnü M.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,439 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Celal Bayar University (CBU) is a state university located in Manisa, a beautiful historical city in the Aegean part of Turkey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,336 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ülkemizin yüzölçümü bakımından ikinci büyük şehri olan Sivas'ta kurulan Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi, Cumhuriyetin kuruluşunun 50.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,292 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Afyon Kocatepe University was founded on July 3, 1992.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,253 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi is a yüksek öğrenim company based out of Eskişehir, Turkey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,096 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The central campus of Dicle University is located in Diyarbakır.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,075 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Geçmişten Geleceğe.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 908 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2001, young Yasar University is an academic institution that acknowledges the universal identity of a scientific organization with enthusiasm, genuineness and devotion…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 897 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kütahya Dumlupınar University was founded in 1992 as the university of the city where the struggle for ‘Foundation and Salvation were fought”.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 865 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mersin University is a state university, built in 1992 in Mersin province, Turkey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 807 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eskişehir Technical University was officially founded in May 18, 2018.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 689 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Eğitim ve Öğretim” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 15, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: universities. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names universities.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of universities, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name universities. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Universities based in Türkiye at a glance
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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Türkiye, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Türkiye, over 117 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among universities, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Türkiye whose own description of what they do matches “universities”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names universities), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among universities, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Türkiye are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 20,922 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 15, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names universities, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many universities are there based in Türkiye?
RevenueBase identified 117 universities headquartered in Türkiye as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Istanbul University, headquartered in Istanbul, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most universities?
Istanbul leads with 13 headquartered companies, followed by Ankara (5) and Konya (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 20,922 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 117 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 15, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.