QS World University Rankings For Impact of Education January 2023

The Impact of Education category of the QS Sustainability Rankings assesses universities based on their incorporation of sustainability into their curricula and educational programs. This category evaluates how well universities prepare students to understand and address sustainability challenges in their future careers.

According to the rankings data as of January 31, 2023, the University of Oxford and Stanford University secured the first and second positions, respectively, with index scores of 100. These universities are recognized for their exceptional efforts in integrating sustainability into their educational programs.

Harvard University claimed the third position with an index score of 99.8, highlighting its commitment to providing sustainability-focused education to its students.

Kasetsart University, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), and King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi obtained index scores of 7.1, 6.8, and 5.6, respectively, placing them at the 329th to 331st positions in the rankings. These institutions scored relatively lower in terms of their incorporation of sustainability into their educational programs.

The QS Sustainability Rankings on Impact of Education showcase universities that prioritize sustainability in their curricula, preparing students to become future leaders in addressing global sustainability challenges. These rankings provide valuable information for students interested in pursuing education that aligns with their sustainability values.

QS World University Rankings For Impact of Education January 2023 (Index, January 2023)

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Rank	University	Country	Index
1	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	100
1	Stanford University	United States	100
2	Harvard University	United States	99.8
3	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	99.4
4	The University of Sydney	Australia	99.2
5	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	97.8
6	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	96.8
7	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	96.7
8	University of Toronto	Canada	96.5
9	Utrecht University	Netherlands	96.1
10	Cornell University	United States	96
10	The University of Melbourne	Australia	96
11	University of Pennsylvania	United States	95.4
12	KU Leuven	Belgium	95.2
13	University of Chicago	United States	94.8
14	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore	94.4
15	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	93.6
16	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	93.1
17	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	92.9
18	Yale University	United States	92.6
19	University of Texas at Austin	United States	92.5
20	University of British Columbia	Canada	92.4
20	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	92.4
20	Monash University	Australia	92.4
21	McGill University	Canada	90.9
22	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	90.6
23	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	Chile	90.2
24	The Australian National University	Australia	90.1
25	Ghent University	Belgium	90
26	University of Oslo	Norway	89.9
27	University of Southern California	United States	89.6
27	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	89.6
28	University of Zurich	Switzerland	89.3
29	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	89
30	New York University (NYU)	United States	88.3
31	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	88
32	Columbia University	United States	87.2
33	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	87.1
33	Radboud University	Netherlands	87.1
34	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	86.7
34	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	86.7
35	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	86.6
35	Leiden University	Netherlands	86.6
36	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain	86.4
36	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	86.4
36	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	86.4
37	Uppsala University	Sweden	85.7
38	Johns Hopkins University	United States	85.6
39	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	85.3
40	University of Florida	United States	85.1
41	University of Washington	United States	84.8
42	Stockholm University	Sweden	84.5
43	The University of Adelaide	Australia	84.4
44	UCL	United Kingdom	84.2
45	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia	83.8
46	University of Bern	Switzerland	83.7
47	Seoul National University	South Korea	83.6
48	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia	83.3
49	University of Helsinki	Finland	83.2
50	The University of Queensland	Australia	82.6
51	Vanderbilt University	United States	82.5
52	University of York	United Kingdom	82.3
53	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	Ireland	82.1
54	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	81.9
55	Boston University	United States	81.8
55	University of Groningen	Netherlands	81.8
55	Queen's University at Kingston	Canada	81.8
56	University of Pittsburgh	United States	81.7
56	Michigan State University	United States	81.7
57	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands	81.4
57	The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON)	Australia	81.4
58	Duke University	United States	81.2
59	Aarhus University	Denmark	80.7
60	Pennsylvania State University	United States	80.6
61	Florida State University	United States	80.2
62	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	80
62	Peking University	China	80
63	Macquarie University	Australia	79.8
64	University of Porto	Portugal	79.6
65	University of Alberta	Canada	79.4
66	Norwegian University of Science And Technology	Norway	79.3
67	Western University	Canada	79.2
67	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	79.2
68	The University of Arizona	United States	78.8
68	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)	United States	78.8
69	King's College London	United Kingdom	78.4
70	University of Geneva	Switzerland	78.1
71	University of Turku	Finland	78
72	Tsinghua University	China	77.4
73	Griffith University	Australia	77.3
74	University of Otago	New Zealand	77.1
75	University of Witwatersrand	South Africa	77
76	University of Virginia	United States	76.9
77	Lund University	Sweden	76.7
77	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	76.7
78	National Taiwan Normal University	Taiwan	76.5
79	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	76.4
80	Arizona State University	United States	75.8
81	The University of Georgia	United States	75.7
82	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	75.5
83	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	75.4
83	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	75.4
83	Brown University	United States	75.4
83	University of Ottawa	Canada	75.4
84	University of Calgary	Canada	75.1
84	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	75.1
85	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain	75
86	University of California, Irvine	United States	74.8
87	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	74.7
87	University of Wollongong	Australia	74.7
87	Northwestern University	United States	74.7
88	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	74.6
89	The Ohio State University	United States	74.1
90	University College Dublin	Ireland	73.9
91	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	73.8
91	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	73.8
92	Université de Montréal	Canada	73.6
93	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	73.2
94	McMaster University	Canada	73.1
95	University of Connecticut	United States	73
95	Georgetown University	United States	73
96	Universität Hamburg	Germany	72.6
97	Università di Padova	Italy	72.1
97	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	72.1
97	University of Granada	Spain	72.1
98	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	72
99	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	71.6
100	RMIT University	Australia	70.8
101	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	70.6
101	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	70.6
102	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	70.5
103	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	70.3
104	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	70.2
105	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	70.1
106	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	69.7
106	University of Kansas	United States	69.7
106	The University of Western Australia	Australia	69.7
107	Western Sydney University	Australia	69.5
108	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom	69.3
109	University of Canterbury \| Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha	New Zealand	69.1
110	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	United States	69
111	The University of Exeter	United Kingdom	68.4
112	University of Utah	United States	68.1
112	Umea University	Sweden	68.1
113	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands	67.9
114	University of Tasmania	Australia	67.7
115	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	67.6
116	University of Limerick	Ireland	67.4
117	George Washington University	United States	67.3
118	North Carolina State University	United States	66.9
119	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	66.8
120	University of Salamanca	Spain	66.6
121	The University of Tokyo	Japan	66.4
122	University of South Australia	Australia	66.1
122	Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel	Germany	66.1
123	Linköping University	Sweden	66
124	University of Vienna	Austria	65.9
125	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)	Taiwan	65.8
126	Texas A&M University	United States	65.7
127	University of Cape Town	South Africa	65.6
128	University of California, Davis	United States	65.3
128	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	65.3
129	University of Bergen	Norway	65.2
129	Tufts University	United States	65.2
130	Sorbonne University	France	65.1
131	Emory University	United States	64.9
132	University of Antwerp	Belgium	64.8
132	University of Oulu	Finland	64.8
133	Technical University of Munich	Germany	63.7
134	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	63.3
135	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	62.4
135	University of Nebraska - Lincoln	United States	62.4
136	Dalhousie University	Canada	62
137	James Cook University	Australia	61.8
137	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	61.8
138	Purdue University	United States	61.4
139	Princeton University	United States	61.3
140	Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna	Italy	61.2
141	Universidad de Chile	Chile	60.8
142	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)	Malaysia	60.5
142	Washington State University	United States	60.5
143	Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)	United Kingdom	60.3
144	Durham University	United Kingdom	60.1
145	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	59.6
146	Florida International University	United States	59.4
147	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	58.9
147	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	58.9
148	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	58.5
148	University of Southern Denmark (SDU)	Denmark	58.5
149	Kyoto University	Japan	58.1
150	University of Reading	United Kingdom	58
151	University of Lisbon	Portugal	57.9
152	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	Belgium	56
153	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	55.9
154	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States	55.7
155	Universidad de Zaragoza	Spain	55.6
156	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	55.4
157	University of Florence	Italy	54.8
157	University of Miami	United States	54.8
158	University of Waterloo	Canada	54.6
158	Zhejiang University	China	54.6
159	Freie Universitaet Berlin	Germany	54.1
159	Simon Fraser University	Canada	54.1
160	Charles University	Czech Republic	53.7
161	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	53.6
162	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	53.4
163	Iowa State University	United States	53.2
164	University of Pretoria	South Africa	53.1
164	Korea University	South Korea	53.1
165	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	53
166	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	52.8
167	Massey University	New Zealand	52.6
168	Colorado State University	United States	52.4
168	National University of Ireland Galway	Ireland	52.4
169	American University of Beirut (AUB)	Lebanon	52.2
170	Loughborough University	United Kingdom	51.8
170	Université de Liège	Belgium	51.8
171	University of Coimbra	Portugal	51.1
172	Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main	Germany	50.6
173	Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha	Spain	50.3
174	Aix-Marseille University	France	50.2
175	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	United States	49.9
176	University College Cork	Ireland	48.6
176	Dublin City University	Ireland	48.6
177	University of Cologne	Germany	48.5
177	Swansea University	United Kingdom	48.5
178	Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)	Belgium	48.3
179	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	Taiwan	47.8
180	University of Kent	United Kingdom	47.7
181	Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg	Germany	47.5
182	University of California, Riverside	United States	47.4
183	Concordia University	Canada	47.2
183	Universite libre de Bruxelles	Belgium	47.2
184	University of Surrey	United Kingdom	47
184	York University	Canada	47
185	Oregon State University	United States	46.8
186	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	46.6
187	University of East Anglia (UEA)	United Kingdom	46.5
188	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	46.4
189	Université de Paris-Cité	France	45.3
189	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	45.3
190	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Mexico	45
191	University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom	44.7
192	University of Basel	Switzerland	44.5
193	University of Aveiro	Portugal	44.4
193	Northeastern University	United States	44.4
194	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	44.1
195	Osaka University	Japan	43.6
196	University of Warsaw	Poland	43.5
196	Jagiellonian University	Poland	43.5
197	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States	42.5
197	University of Turin	Italy	42.5
198	University of Johannesburg	South Africa	42.3
199	Babes-Bolyai University	Romania	41.9
200	University of Naples - Federico II	Italy	41.8
201	University of Victoria (UVic)	Canada	41
202	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia	Malaysia	40.9
203	Université PSL	France	40.8
204	North-West University	South Africa	40.7
204	Middle East Technical University	Turkey	40.7
205	Wuhan University	China	40.5
206	King Abdulaziz University (KAU)	Saudi Arabia	39.1
206	University of Waikato	New Zealand	39.1
207	University of Stirling	United Kingdom	39
208	University of Milan	Italy	38.8
209	University of Göttingen	Germany	38.7
210	University of Saskatchewan	Canada	37.8
211	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	37.1
212	Université Paris-Saclay	France	37
213	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	35.7
214	Hanyang University	South Korea	35.6
215	Waseda University	Japan	35.4
215	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	Brazil	35.4
216	University of Hull	United Kingdom	35.2
217	Sciences Po	France	34.9
218	University of Pisa	Italy	34.8
219	Stony Brook University, State University of New York	United States	34.6
220	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany	34.3
221	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	33.7
222	University of Genoa	Italy	33.2
223	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)	Spain	33
224	Saint Petersburg State University	Russia	32.9
225	Chiang Mai University	Thailand	32.4
226	Kyushu University	Japan	32
226	Université de Montpellier	France	32
227	Khalifa University of Science and Technology	United Arab Emirates	31.8
227	Aalto University	Finland	31.8
228	Universidad de Alcalá	Spain	31.7
229	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul	Brazil	31.5
230	Dartmouth College	United States	30.3
231	University of Portsmouth	United Kingdom	29.4
232	Tohoku University	Japan	29.3
233	Cairo University	Egypt	29.2
234	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC)	Spain	28.8
234	Nanjing University	China	28.8
235	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	Brazil	28
236	Universidade Nova de Lisboa	Portugal	27.8
237	University of Tsukuba	Japan	27.6
238	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	26.9
239	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	France	26.8
240	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	26.3
240	Masaryk University	Czech Republic	26.3
241	Louisiana State University	United States	26.1
242	Université Grenoble Alpes	France	26
243	UNESP	Brazil	25.6
244	Tongji University	China	25.4
245	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	Germany	25.3
246	Bangor University	United Kingdom	25
247	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey	24.6
248	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	24.4
249	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	24.2
250	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia	22.9
251	Ca' Foscari University of Venice	Italy	22.5
252	Universitas Indonesia	Indonesia	20.8
252	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	20.8
253	Politecnico di Torino	Italy	20.5
254	Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia	19.1
255	Università degli Studi di Perugia	Italy	18.9
256	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	18.7
256	Kyungpook National University	South Korea	18.7
257	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	17.7
258	Hiroshima University	Japan	16.9
259	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	15.6
260	Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague	Czech Republic	12.6
260	Lincoln University	New Zealand	12.6
261	Hokkaido University	Japan	12
262	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	10.9
263	National Taipei University of Technology	Taiwan	8.7
264	Kasetsart University	Thailand	7.1
265	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India	6.8
266	King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi	Thailand	5.6