Sakarya University (SAU) maintains structured mechanisms to measure and monitor the graduation outcomes of women compared to men, aligning with its gender equality and sustainability governance. The University’s Sustainability and Student Access framework confirms that, during and after registration, SAU tracks the male–female distribution of students, study durations, and completion (graduation) rates through institutional information systems.
A dedicated page, “Measurement/Tracking of Women’s Likelihood of Graduating,” explicitly states that the University monitors education periods and graduation rates of male and female students, noting that women’s graduation time is shorter and their graduation rates higher than men’s. This commitment is further reflected on the SAU news page, which outlines programmes to measure and monitor women’s likelihood of graduating and to close potential gaps in completion outcomes.
Beyond these Sustainability pages, SAU’s Gender Equality Plan (2022–2025)—approved by the University Senate and implemented annually by SAUKAM and SESAM—sets out governance measures to monitor and improve gender equality in education and employment. SAU also publicly shares gender-disaggregated student composition and graduation data on its “By the Numbers” (Sayılarla SAÜ) statistics page, reporting the female student share (Kız Oranı) and total graduate numbers. Complementarily, the Alumni Relations Coordination Office maintains contact and data exchange with graduates, enabling longitudinal tracking of career and education outcomes.
Together, these sources demonstrate that in 2024 SAU actively tracked women’s graduation outcomes, maintained the institutional capacity and commitment to monitor gender gaps, and implemented a Senate-approved governance plan to ensure continuous equality oversight—even though a public dataset explicitly splitting graduation rates by gender was not published online.
