The Higher Education Quality Council of Türkiye (YÖKAK)

      The Higher Education Quality Council of Türkiye (YÖKAK)
      The national body responsible for quality assurance in higher education in Türkiye.
      What is YÖKAK?
      The Higher Education Quality Council (YÖKAK) is the national quality assurance body that evaluates the quality of teaching, research and administrative services at higher education institutions in Türkiye. It supports institutions in establishing their own internal quality assurance systems and in improving them over time.
      Through external evaluation and accreditation processes, the Council strengthens transparency and accountability in higher education, authorises accreditation bodies, and works to keep the national quality assurance system aligned with international standards.
      Legal Status and Establishment
      YÖKAK was first established on 23 July 2015 (Official Gazette No. 29423) through the Higher Education Quality Assurance Regulation. On 1 July 2017 it was reorganised by Law No. 7033 and placed under Additional Article 35 of Higher Education Law No. 2547. The Council has the status of an organisation with administrative and financial autonomy, holding public legal personality and a special budget.
      The board consists of 13 members and has a broad representative structure. Its members are drawn from the following institutions:
      YÖK
      Council of Higher Education
      ÜAK
      Interuniversity Board
      MEB
      Ministry of National Education
      MYK
      Vocational Qualifications Authority
      TÜSEB
      Health Institutes of Türkiye
      TÜBİTAK
      Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye
      TÜRKAK
      Turkish Accreditation Agency
      TOBB
      Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye
      Student representatives
      Student representatives
      Core Duties
      Institutional External Evaluation
      Subjects the teaching, research and management processes of higher education institutions to external evaluation against defined criteria.
      Registration of Accreditation Bodies
      Carries out the authorisation and recognition of accreditation bodies and assesses their compliance with the defined standards.
      Spreading a Quality Assurance Culture
      Ensures that a quality assurance culture is internalised and spread across higher education institutions.
      Evaluation and Accreditation Programmes
      KDDP
      Institutional External Evaluation Programme
      The programme in which an institution’s internal quality assurance system is examined through external evaluation.
      KAP
      Institutional Accreditation Programme
      The programme through which institutions are accredited against defined criteria.
      UKAP
      International Institutional Accreditation Programme
      The programme in which institutional accreditation is carried out at the international level.
      International Memberships
      ENQA
      EQAR
      APQN
      CHEA
      INQAAHE
      IQA
      These memberships reflect YÖKAK’s alignment with international quality assurance networks.
      Relationship with Our University
      Giresun University operates within YÖKAK’s quality assurance framework.
      Each year the university prepares an Institutional Internal Evaluation Report (KİDR) and is subject to YÖKAK’s institutional external evaluation and accreditation processes.