According to the results of the 2024 YKS, candidates ranked 71st, 111th, 166th, 277th, 326th, 328th, 546th, 627th, 634th ve 856th have all opted for the History BA program at Ibn Haldun University.
This stands as a major achievement for our History Department. In our first five years of existence, we had been admitting students from the first 3000-4000 belt. Two years ago we had jumped to the top 1500, but then retreated once more to the first 3000. The current listings surpass all our previous positions, giving us to think that the History Department’s overall academic quality, staff strength, curricular wealth and level of teaching is coming to be widely known and appreciated.
Also significant in this regard is the rise of the last-placed candidate’s score from 442.3311 in 2023 to 477.4542 in 2024. It is no secret that doing a History BA is widely regarded as pursuing a not very promising profession or career. Through its departmental stance, its cultural and intellectual ambition, and all its public and publicity activities, IHU’s History team has always been committed to overcoming this prejudice – with, now, some very tangible evidence of initial success.
Over the eight years of IHU’s existence, these have been the History Department’s full YKS rankings (from front to back):
2024 856
2023 2977
2022 1331
2021 3995
2020 3632
2019 2577
2018 2264
2017 3227
Common wisdom says that in all walks of life, conquering a summit, any summit, is much easier than surviving there or maintaining that level. This is the challenge that IHU History faces, and will hope to overcome, over the coming years.
