This research aims to determine 2023 goals of the rectors of the Turkish universities founded in 1992, and what they can manage to do in line with these goals. Within the scope of the research, various face-to-face interviews were conducted with a total of 12 state university rectors out of 23 rectors of universities established between the dates from December 2014 to April 2017. As a result of the research,the goals and visions of the rectors are as follows; to be a world university, to be an innovative and entrepreneurial university, to establish the institutional identity of the university, to be open to vision and change and to motivate employees and students. It is believed that these universities will play an important role in local, reginal and national development thanks to the right development strategies. The results of this study were discussed in accordance with the related literature.