Preferability Ranking of Alternative Energy Resources Technology Programs in Turkey using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Method

Alternative Energy Resources Technology Programs (AERTPs) in Turkey are among the attractive programs on vocational schools that has a significant potential to cover employment gap in energy sector. For the participants of these programs, it is a tough decision by making a consistent list of programs associated with participants’ preferences including foreign language education, campus life and living facilities of a university, technological investments, and the number of students in a university. According to increasing the number of Alternative Energy Resources Technology Programs in between the terms of 2018-2019 and 2019-2020, this study intends to carry out an updated preferability ranking actively operating in these energy programs using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method of Multi-Criteria Decision Making Analysis. For that purpose, an applied survey on a hundred students evaluated questions to understand what preferences for selection an energy program the participants pick. As a consequence, this study provides an opportunity for the participants to make consistent choices with the help of preferability ranking of the energy programs in Turkey.