Türkiye’s Graduate Emigration Rate Reaches 2.2%, Rising to 7% in ICT

ANKARA — The emigration rate among the higher-education graduates covered by Türkiye’s official statistics increased to 2.2% in 2025, according to a Turkish Statistical Institute release dated 23 October 2026. Information and communication technologies recorded the highest field-level rate, at 7%.

Engineering, manufacturing and construction followed at 4.8%, while natural sciences, mathematics and statistics stood at 3%. Molecular biology and genetics had the highest rate among individual degree programmes, at 13.1%.

Germany accounted for 22% of emigrating graduates, followed by the United States at 16.9%, the United Kingdom at 10.5%, the Netherlands at 8.3% and Canada at 5.2%. These are destination shares among emigrants, not emigration rates for all graduates.

The study covers a defined cohort of Turkish citizens who completed undergraduate study in Türkiye and subsequently lived abroad long term; open and distance education are excluded. The figures describe observed migration, without establishing why individuals left.

Read the original Turkish report · Official source.

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