Education for Better Future: QS Sustainability Rankings on Impact of Education - Jan. 31, 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.

Jan 31, 2023 Index
1st
  University of Oxford
100
1st
  Stanford University
100
2nd
  Harvard University
99.8
3rd
  University of Cambridge
99.4
4th
  The University of Sydney
99.2
5th
  The University of Auckland
97.8
6th
  University of California, Berkeley (UCB)
96.8
7th
  National University of Singapore (NUS)
96.7
8th
  University of Toronto
96.5
9th
  Utrecht University
96.1
10th
  Cornell University
96
10th
  The University of Melbourne
96
11th
  University of Pennsylvania
95.4
12th
  KU Leuven
95.2
13th
  University of Chicago
94.8
14th
  Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)
94.4
15th
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
93.6
16th
  University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
93.1
17th
  University of Amsterdam
92.9
18th
  Yale University
92.6
19th
  University of Texas at Austin
92.5
20th
  University of British Columbia
92.4
20th
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
92.4
20th
  Monash University
92.4
21st
  McGill University
90.9
22nd
  University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
90.6
23rd
  Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)
90.2
24th
  The Australian National University
90.1
25th
  Ghent University
90
26th
  University of Oslo
89.9
27th
  University of Southern California
89.6
27th
  University of Copenhagen
89.6
28th
  University of Zurich
89.3
29th
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
89
30th
  New York University (NYU)
88.3
31st
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
88
32nd
  Columbia University
87.2
33rd
  The University of Edinburgh
87.1
33rd
  Radboud University
87.1
34th
  University of Gothenburg
86.7
34th
  The University of Hong Kong
86.7
35th
  University of Glasgow
86.6
35th
  Leiden University
86.6
36th
  Universitat de Barcelona
86.4
36th
  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
86.4
36th
  Indiana University Bloomington
86.4
37th
  Uppsala University
85.7
38th
  Johns Hopkins University
85.6
39th
  University of Minnesota Twin Cities
85.3
40th
  University of Florida
85.1
41st
  University of Washington
84.8
42nd
  Stockholm University
84.5
43rd
  The University of Adelaide
84.4
44th
  UCL
84.2
45th
  The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
83.8
46th
  University of Bern
83.7
47th
  Seoul National University
83.6
48th
  Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
83.3
49th
  University of Helsinki
83.2
50th
  The University of Queensland
82.6
51st
  Vanderbilt University
82.5
52nd
  University of York
82.3
53rd
  Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
82.1
54th
  University of Maryland, College Park
81.9
55th
  Boston University
81.8
55th
  University of Groningen
81.8
55th
  Queen's University at Kingston
81.8
56th
  University of Pittsburgh
81.7
56th
  Michigan State University
81.7
57th
  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
81.4
57th
  The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON)
81.4
58th
  Duke University
81.2
59th
  Aarhus University
80.7
60th
  Pennsylvania State University
80.6
61st
  Florida State University
80.2
62nd
  University of Leeds
80
62nd
  Peking University
80
63rd
  Macquarie University
79.8
64th
  University of Porto
79.6
65th
  University of Alberta
79.4
66th
  Norwegian University of Science And Technology
79.3
67th
  Western University
79.2
67th
  University of Southampton
79.2
68th
  The University of Arizona
78.8
68th
  University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
78.8
69th
  King's College London
78.4
70th
  University of Geneva
78.1
71st
  University of Turku
78
72nd
  Tsinghua University
77.4
73rd
  Griffith University
77.3
74th
  University of Otago
77.1
75th
  University of Witwatersrand
77
76th
  University of Virginia
76.9
77th
  Lund University
76.7
77th
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
76.7
78th
  National Taiwan Normal University
76.5
79th
  University of Nottingham
76.4
80th
  Arizona State University
75.8
81st
  The University of Georgia
75.7
82nd
  Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
75.5
83rd
  University of Colorado Boulder
75.4
83rd
  Sapienza University of Rome
75.4
83rd
  Brown University
75.4
83rd
  University of Ottawa
75.4
84th
  University of Calgary
75.1
84th
  University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
75.1
85th
  Complutense University of Madrid
75
86th
  University of California, Irvine
74.8
87th
  The University of Manchester
74.7
87th
  University of Wollongong
74.7
87th
  Northwestern University
74.7
88th
  Imperial College London
74.6
89th
  The Ohio State University
74.1
90th
  University College Dublin
73.9
91st
  University of Birmingham
73.8
91st
  The University of Warwick
73.8
92nd
  Université de Montréal
73.6
93rd
  University of Bristol
73.2
94th
  McMaster University
73.1
95th
  University of Connecticut
73
95th
  Georgetown University
73
96th
  Universität Hamburg
72.6
97th
  Università di Padova
72.1
97th
  University of Technology Sydney
72.1
97th
  University of Granada
72.1
98th
  Washington University in St. Louis
72
99th
  The University of Sheffield
71.6
100th
  RMIT University
70.8
101st
  Lancaster University
70.6
101st
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
70.6
102nd
  Cardiff University
70.5
103rd
  Erasmus University Rotterdam
70.3
104th
  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
70.2
105th
  The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
70.1
106th
  Universiti Malaya (UM)
69.7
106th
  University of Kansas
69.7
106th
  The University of Western Australia
69.7
107th
  Western Sydney University
69.5
108th
  Queen's University Belfast
69.3
109th
  University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha
69.1
110th
  Rutgers University–New Brunswick
69
111th
  The University of Exeter
68.4
112th
  University of Utah
68.1
112th
  Umea University
68.1
113th
  Wageningen University & Research
67.9
114th
  University of Tasmania
67.7
115th
  University of Sussex
67.6
116th
  University of Limerick
67.4
117th
  George Washington University
67.3
118th
  North Carolina State University
66.9
119th
  Victoria University of Wellington
66.8
120th
  University of Salamanca
66.6
121st
  The University of Tokyo
66.4
122nd
  University of South Australia
66.1
122nd
  Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel
66.1
123rd
  Linköping University
66
124th
  University of Vienna
65.9
125th
  National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)
65.8
126th
  Texas A&M University
65.7
127th
  University of Cape Town
65.6
128th
  University of California, Davis
65.3
128th
  Newcastle University
65.3
129th
  University of Bergen
65.2
129th
  Tufts University
65.2
130th
  Sorbonne University
65.1
131st
  Emory University
64.9
132nd
  University of Antwerp
64.8
132nd
  University of Oulu
64.8
133rd
  Technical University of Munich
63.7
134th
  ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
63.3
135th
  Delft University of Technology
62.4
135th
  University of Nebraska - Lincoln
62.4
136th
  Dalhousie University
62
137th
  James Cook University
61.8
137th
  University of Leicester
61.8
138th
  Purdue University
61.4
139th
  Princeton University
61.3
140th
  Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
61.2
141st
  Universidad de Chile
60.8
142nd
  Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
60.5
142nd
  Washington State University
60.5
143rd
  Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)
60.3
144th
  Durham University
60.1
145th
  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
59.6
146th
  Florida International University
59.4
147th
  National Taiwan University (NTU)
58.9
147th
  King Saud University
58.9
148th
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
58.5
148th
  University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
58.5
149th
  Kyoto University
58.1
150th
  University of Reading
58
151st
  University of Lisbon
57.9
152nd
  Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
56
153rd
  University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
55.9
154th
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
55.7
155th
  Universidad de Zaragoza
55.6
156th
  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
55.4
157th
  University of Florence
54.8
157th
  University of Miami
54.8
158th
  University of Waterloo
54.6
158th
  Zhejiang University
54.6
159th
  Freie Universitaet Berlin
54.1
159th
  Simon Fraser University
54.1
160th
  Charles University
53.7
161st
  Universidade de São Paulo
53.6
162nd
  University of Liverpool
53.4
163rd
  Iowa State University
53.2
164th
  University of Pretoria
53.1
164th
  Korea University
53.1
165th
  Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
53
166th
  Stellenbosch University
52.8
167th
  Massey University
52.6
168th
  Colorado State University
52.4
168th
  National University of Ireland Galway
52.4
169th
  American University of Beirut (AUB)
52.2
170th
  Loughborough University
51.8
170th
  Université de Liège
51.8
171st
  University of Coimbra
51.1
172nd
  Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
50.6
173rd
  Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
50.3
174th
  Aix-Marseille University
50.2
175th
  University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
49.9
176th
  University College Cork
48.6
176th
  Dublin City University
48.6
177th
  University of Cologne
48.5
177th
  Swansea University
48.5
178th
  Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
48.3
179th
  National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)
47.8
180th
  University of Kent
47.7
181st
  Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg
47.5
182nd
  University of California, Riverside
47.4
183rd
  Concordia University
47.2
183rd
  Universite libre de Bruxelles
47.2
184th
  University of Surrey
47
184th
  York University
47
185th
  Oregon State University
46.8
186th
  KTH Royal Institute of Technology
46.6
187th
  University of East Anglia (UEA)
46.5
188th
  University of Lausanne
46.4
189th
  Université de Paris-Cité
45.3
189th
  Queen Mary University of London
45.3
190th
  Tecnológico de Monterrey
45
191st
  University of Strathclyde
44.7
192nd
  University of Basel
44.5
193rd
  University of Aveiro
44.4
193rd
  Northeastern University
44.4
194th
  Georgia Institute of Technology
44.1
195th
  Osaka University
43.6
196th
  University of Warsaw
43.5
196th
  Jagiellonian University
43.5
197th
  University of Massachusetts Amherst
42.5
197th
  University of Turin
42.5
198th
  University of Johannesburg
42.3
199th
  Babes-Bolyai University
41.9
200th
  University of Naples - Federico II
41.8
201st
  University of Victoria (UVic)
41
202nd
  Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
40.9
203rd
  Université PSL
40.8
204th
  North-West University
40.7
204th
  Middle East Technical University
40.7
205th
  Wuhan University
40.5
206th
  King Abdulaziz University (KAU)
39.1
206th
  University of Waikato
39.1
207th
  University of Stirling
39
208th
  University of Milan
38.8
209th
  University of Göttingen
38.7
210th
  University of Saskatchewan
37.8
211th
  City University of Hong Kong
37.1
212th
  Université Paris-Saclay
37
213th
  University of Aberdeen
35.7
214th
  Hanyang University
35.6
215th
  Waseda University
35.4
215th
  Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
35.4
216th
  University of Hull
35.2
217th
  Sciences Po
34.9
218th
  University of Pisa
34.8
219th
  Stony Brook University, State University of New York
34.6
220th
  Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
34.3
221st
  Shanghai Jiao Tong University
33.7
222nd
  University of Genoa
33.2
223rd
  Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)
33
224th
  Saint Petersburg State University
32.9
225th
  Chiang Mai University
32.4
226th
  Kyushu University
32
226th
  Université de Montpellier
32
227th
  Khalifa University of Science and Technology
31.8
227th
  Aalto University
31.8
228th
  Universidad de Alcalá
31.7
229th
  Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul
31.5
230th
  Dartmouth College
30.3
231st
  University of Portsmouth
29.4
232nd
  Tohoku University
29.3
233rd
  Cairo University
29.2
234th
  Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC)
28.8
234th
  Nanjing University
28.8
235th
  Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
28
236th
  Universidade Nova de Lisboa
27.8
237th
  University of Tsukuba
27.6
238th
  University of California, Santa Cruz
26.9
239th
  Institut Polytechnique de Paris
26.8
240th
  California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
26.3
240th
  Masaryk University
26.3
241st
  Louisiana State University
26.1
242nd
  Université Grenoble Alpes
26
243rd
  UNESP
25.6
244th
  Tongji University
25.4
245th
  Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)
25.3
246th
  Bangor University
25
247th
  Istanbul Technical University
24.6
248th
  University of St Andrews
24.4
249th
  Chulalongkorn University
24.2
250th
  Universidad Nacional de Colombia
22.9
251st
  Ca' Foscari University of Venice
22.5
252nd
  Universitas Indonesia
20.8
252nd
  Chalmers University of Technology
20.8
253rd
  Politecnico di Torino
20.5
254th
  Gadjah Mada University
19.1
255th
  Università degli Studi di Perugia
18.9
256th
  Technical University of Denmark
18.7
256th
  Kyungpook National University
18.7
257th
  RWTH Aachen University
17.7
258th
  Hiroshima University
16.9
259th
  The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
15.6
260th
  Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague
12.6
260th
  Lincoln University
12.6
261st
  Hokkaido University
12
262nd
  Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
10.9
263rd
  National Taipei University of Technology
8.7
264th
  Kasetsart University
7.1
265th
  Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)
6.8
266th
  King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
5.6