QS World University Rankings For Equality January 2023

The Equality category of the QS Sustainability Rankings evaluates universities based on their commitment to promoting social equality. This category assesses various policies and practices related to gender equality, access for disadvantaged groups, and support for underrepresented students and staff.

According to the rankings data as of January 31, 2023, Uppsala University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill secured the first and second positions, respectively, with index scores of 100. These universities are recognized for their exceptional efforts in promoting social equality within their campuses and communities.

The University of British Columbia claimed the third position with an index score of 99.8, showcasing its dedication to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for all members of its community.

The University of Tsukuba, Osaka University, and Hokkaido University obtained index scores of 10, 6.6, and 5.9, respectively, placing them at the 329th to 331st positions in the rankings. These institutions scored relatively lower in terms of their initiatives to promote social equality.

The QS Sustainability Rankings on Equality highlight universities that champion equality and strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment. These rankings provide valuable insights for students, faculty, and organizations interested in institutions that prioritize social equality and inclusivity.

QS World University Rankings For Equality January 2023 (Index, January 2023)

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Rank	University	Country	Index
1	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	100
1	Uppsala University	Sweden	100
2	University of British Columbia	Canada	99.8
2	The University of Sydney	Australia	99.8
3	New York University (NYU)	United States	99.4
4	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	98.8
5	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	United States	98.4
6	University of California, Davis	United States	97.9
7	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	97.7
8	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	97.4
8	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	97.4
9	University of Pennsylvania	United States	96.9
10	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	96.5
11	Western Sydney University	Australia	96.2
12	Western University	Canada	95.5
13	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	94.9
14	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	94.6
15	Université de Montréal	Canada	94.4
16	University of Otago	New Zealand	93.9
17	University of Kent	United Kingdom	93.8
18	The University of Adelaide	Australia	93.1
19	Colorado State University	United States	92.7
20	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	92.6
21	University of South Australia	Australia	92.1
22	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom	92
23	University of Florida	United States	91.4
23	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	91.4
24	Arizona State University	United States	91.2
24	RMIT University	Australia	91.2
25	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	90.8
25	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia	90.8
26	University of Toronto	Canada	90.7
27	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States	90.4
28	Northeastern University	United States	90.3
29	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	90.2
30	University of Southern California	United States	90
31	Ghent University	Belgium	89.7
32	Radboud University	Netherlands	89.4
33	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	89
34	University of East Anglia (UEA)	United Kingdom	88.8
35	Lund University	Sweden	88.7
36	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain	88.3
36	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	88.3
37	Yale University	United States	88.2
38	The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON)	Australia	88.1
39	University of Calgary	Canada	87.8
40	Griffith University	Australia	87.5
41	University of York	United Kingdom	87.3
42	University of Victoria (UVic)	Canada	87.2
43	Massey University	New Zealand	87.1
44	York University	Canada	86.3
45	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands	85.9
46	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia	85.8
47	Boston University	United States	85.3
48	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	85.1
49	University of Antwerp	Belgium	85
50	Stony Brook University, State University of New York	United States	84.8
51	University of Milan	Italy	84.7
52	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	84.4
53	University of Washington	United States	84.1
54	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	83.6
55	UCL	United Kingdom	83.5
55	King's College London	United Kingdom	83.5
55	University of Turku	Finland	83.5
56	Columbia University	United States	83.3
56	George Washington University	United States	83.3
57	The Ohio State University	United States	83.2
57	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	83.2
58	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	82.8
58	Emory University	United States	82.8
59	Macquarie University	Australia	82.7
60	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	82.6
60	Dalhousie University	Canada	82.6
61	Duke University	United States	82.2
62	University of Pittsburgh	United States	82.1
63	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	81.8
64	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	81.7
65	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	81.6
65	Université Paris-Saclay	France	81.6
65	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	81.6
66	Johns Hopkins University	United States	81.4
67	Georgetown University	United States	81.3
67	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	81.3
68	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	81.1
68	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	81.1
68	Northwestern University	United States	81.1
69	Brown University	United States	80.8
70	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	80.4
70	Harvard University	United States	80.4
70	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	80.4
71	University of Texas at Austin	United States	80.1
72	Cornell University	United States	79.9
72	Durham University	United Kingdom	79.9
73	The Australian National University	Australia	79.6
73	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	79.6
74	University of Waterloo	Canada	79.5
75	The University of Exeter	United Kingdom	79.3
76	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	79.1
77	University of Southern Denmark (SDU)	Denmark	79
78	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	78.9
79	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	78.7
80	University of Wollongong	Australia	78.6
81	University of Helsinki	Finland	78.5
82	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	78.4
82	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands	78.4
83	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	78.3
84	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	78.1
85	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	78
86	Linköping University	Sweden	77.9
87	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	77.8
88	University of Cape Town	South Africa	77.5
89	Pennsylvania State University	United States	77.4
90	University of Saskatchewan	Canada	76.8
91	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	76.7
91	Vanderbilt University	United States	76.7
92	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	Ireland	76.4
92	University of Turin	Italy	76.4
93	Università di Padova	Italy	76.2
94	Tufts University	United States	76
95	Aarhus University	Denmark	75.9
95	Stanford University	United States	75.9
96	Universidad de Zaragoza	Spain	75.6
97	University of California, Irvine	United States	75.4
98	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	75.2
99	University of Connecticut	United States	75
100	University of Stirling	United Kingdom	74.9
100	University of Chicago	United States	74.9
100	Université de Paris-Cité	France	74.9
101	KU Leuven	Belgium	74.7
101	Princeton University	United States	74.7
102	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	Belgium	74.6
103	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	74.4
104	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	74.2
104	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain	74.2
105	Michigan State University	United States	73.8
105	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)	United States	73.8
106	University of Nebraska - Lincoln	United States	73.7
106	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	73.7
106	Dartmouth College	United States	73.7
107	Dublin City University	Ireland	73.2
107	The University of Arizona	United States	73.2
107	University of Witwatersrand	South Africa	73.2
108	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	Chile	73
109	University of Groningen	Netherlands	72.5
110	University of Kansas	United States	72.4
110	University of Johannesburg	South Africa	72.4
111	Florida International University	United States	72.3
111	University of Florence	Italy	72.3
111	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	72.3
112	University College Cork	Ireland	72.1
112	Sciences Po	France	72.1
113	University of Miami	United States	71.7
113	The University of Queensland	Australia	71.7
114	University of Utah	United States	71.6
115	The University of Georgia	United States	71.5
116	University of Oslo	Norway	71.3
117	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	71.2
118	Universidad de Alcalá	Spain	71.1
119	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	70.9
120	The University of Western Australia	Australia	70.6
120	University of Limerick	Ireland	70.6
121	University of Cologne	Germany	70.4
121	University of Zurich	Switzerland	70.4
122	University of Bergen	Norway	70.3
123	McGill University	Canada	70.1
123	Umea University	Sweden	70.1
124	Monash University	Australia	69.9
125	Queen's University at Kingston	Canada	69.7
125	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	69.7
126	University of Waikato	New Zealand	69.5
127	University of Virginia	United States	69.4
128	Jagiellonian University	Poland	68.8
129	University of Bern	Switzerland	68.7
129	University College Dublin	Ireland	68.7
130	Concordia University	Canada	68.6
131	University of Pretoria	South Africa	68.5
132	Florida State University	United States	68.4
133	McMaster University	Canada	68
134	Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)	United Kingdom	67
135	Norwegian University of Science And Technology	Norway	66.9
136	University of Hull	United Kingdom	66.8
136	North-West University	South Africa	66.8
137	Simon Fraser University	Canada	66.7
137	University of Warsaw	Poland	66.7
138	University of Porto	Portugal	66.6
139	Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha	Spain	66.4
140	University of Reading	United Kingdom	66.2
141	Universidade Nova de Lisboa	Portugal	66
142	Washington State University	United States	65.6
142	Charles University	Czech Republic	65.6
143	University of Surrey	United Kingdom	65.5
143	University of Coimbra	Portugal	65.5
143	National University of Ireland Galway	Ireland	65.5
144	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	65.4
145	University of Ottawa	Canada	65.1
145	Oregon State University	United States	65.1
145	University of Salamanca	Spain	65.1
146	University of Alberta	Canada	64.4
146	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	United States	64.4
147	The University of Melbourne	Australia	64.3
148	University of Canterbury \| Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha	New Zealand	64.2
149	University of Basel	Switzerland	63.2
149	James Cook University	Australia	63.2
149	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	63.2
150	Stockholm University	Sweden	63.1
150	University of California, Riverside	United States	63.1
151	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	63
151	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	63
151	North Carolina State University	United States	63
152	University of Portsmouth	United Kingdom	62.3
152	Louisiana State University	United States	62.3
152	Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main	Germany	62.3
153	Chiang Mai University	Thailand	62.1
154	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	62
155	University of Lisbon	Portugal	61.9
156	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	61.8
157	Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)	Belgium	61.5
157	Aix-Marseille University	France	61.5
158	University of Geneva	Switzerland	61.1
159	Peking University	China	60.8
159	Freie Universitaet Berlin	Germany	60.8
160	Sorbonne University	France	60.7
161	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	60.5
162	Texas A&M University	United States	59.6
162	Bangor University	United Kingdom	59.6
162	Utrecht University	Netherlands	59.6
163	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul	Brazil	59.5
164	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)	Malaysia	59.4
164	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	59.4
165	American University of Beirut (AUB)	Lebanon	58.4
166	University of Göttingen	Germany	58.2
166	Babes-Bolyai University	Romania	58.2
166	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	58.2
167	Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna	Italy	58
167	Kasetsart University	Thailand	58
168	Universite libre de Bruxelles	Belgium	57.8
168	University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom	57.8
169	Middle East Technical University	Turkey	57.5
169	Leiden University	Netherlands	57.5
170	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States	57.4
171	University of Oulu	Finland	57.2
172	University of Vienna	Austria	57.1
173	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	56.5
173	Université PSL	France	56.5
174	Iowa State University	United States	56.3
175	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	55.6
176	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore	55.5
177	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	54.9
177	Universität Hamburg	Germany	54.9
178	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	54.5
179	Lincoln University	New Zealand	54.4
179	Università degli Studi di Perugia	Italy	54.4
180	Université de Montpellier	France	54.1
181	Loughborough University	United Kingdom	53.9
181	Cairo University	Egypt	53.9
181	Ca' Foscari University of Venice	Italy	53.9
182	Universitas Indonesia	Indonesia	53.4
183	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Mexico	52.1
184	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	51.3
185	University of Genoa	Italy	51
186	University of Pisa	Italy	50.8
186	Masaryk University	Czech Republic	50.8
187	Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia	50.4
188	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	Brazil	49.7
189	King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi	Thailand	49.6
190	Universidad de Chile	Chile	49.1
191	University of Aveiro	Portugal	48.9
191	University of Tasmania	Australia	48.9
192	Swansea University	United Kingdom	47.7
192	Purdue University	United States	47.7
193	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	47.6
194	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	47.2
195	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	47
196	The University of Tokyo	Japan	46
196	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany	46
197	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	Brazil	45.1
197	Zhejiang University	China	45.1
198	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	44.9
199	UNESP	Brazil	44.5
200	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	44.3
201	Université de Liège	Belgium	43.9
202	Wuhan University	China	43.4
203	Université Grenoble Alpes	France	43.2
204	King Abdulaziz University (KAU)	Saudi Arabia	42.9
205	Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg	Germany	41
206	National Taiwan Normal University	Taiwan	40.4
207	Saint Petersburg State University	Russia	40.1
208	Kyungpook National University	South Korea	39.6
208	Khalifa University of Science and Technology	United Arab Emirates	39.6
209	Technical University of Munich	Germany	38.1
210	University of Granada	Spain	37.5
211	Nanjing University	China	37.2
211	Politecnico di Torino	Italy	37.2
212	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	36.7
213	Aalto University	Finland	36.5
213	Tsinghua University	China	36.5
214	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)	Spain	35.9
214	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	Germany	35.9
215	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	Taiwan	35.5
215	Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague	Czech Republic	35.5
215	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	35.5
216	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	35
217	University of Naples - Federico II	Italy	34.7
218	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	34.2
219	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	33.1
220	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey	32.3
221	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	31.9
222	Seoul National University	South Korea	31.8
223	Waseda University	Japan	30.5
224	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia	Malaysia	29.7
225	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia	29.4
226	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC)	Spain	28.6
227	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	France	27.4
228	Kyoto University	Japan	27.2
229	Tongji University	China	25.2
230	Hiroshima University	Japan	22.4
231	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	22.1
232	Korea University	South Korea	20.6
233	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	20.5
234	Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel	Germany	19.6
235	Kyushu University	Japan	19.5
236	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	19
236	Hanyang University	South Korea	19
237	Tohoku University	Japan	18.4
238	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India	13.4
239	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)	Taiwan	12.7
240	National Taipei University of Technology	Taiwan	11.7
241	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	10.7
242	University of Tsukuba	Japan	10
243	Osaka University	Japan	6.6
244	Hokkaido University	Japan	5.9