PROJECT PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF TURKISH UNIVERSITIES BY LOPCOW-CRADIS METHODS

The encouraging regulations put forward by the countries in the fields of science and technology make quite positive contributions to the efforts of the relevant stakeholders. The effort to benefit from these financial supports, which has a motivational role for scientists and industrial organizations focusing on research and development activities, has become a competitive issue and performance indicator today. In this study, the performance of 200 state and foundation universities operating in Turkiye is examined in terms of project submission and execution capacities within the scope of Research Support Programs Directorate (ARDEB). In order to weight the evaluation criteria, the LOgarithmic Percentage Change-driven Objective Weighting (LOPCOW) method was used and the criterion "Number of Project Submissions" is determined as the prominent one. The performance order of the universities is determined by the Compromise Ranking of Alternatives from Distance to Ideal Solution (CRADIS) method where Middle East Technical University, Ege University, Istanbul Technical University, Hacettepe University, Ankara University, Istanbul University, Koç University, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University, İzmir Technology Institute and Erciyes University are determined in the first ten order. It has also been determined that especially the universities established in recent are far from a competitive position.