QS World University Rankings For Sustainable Education January 2023

The Sustainable Education category of the QS Sustainability Rankings assesses universities based on how effectively they incorporate sustainability into their curricula. This category evaluates the presence of sustainability-related courses and the integration of sustainable practices in teaching methods.

According to the rankings data as of January 31, 2023, the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) secured the first position in the Sustainable Education category with an index score of 100. UCB is recognized for its exemplary efforts in providing sustainable education to its students.

The University of Tokyo claimed the second position with an index score of 99.6, showcasing its strong commitment to integrating sustainability into its educational programs. Yale University secured the third position with an index score of 99, highlighting its dedication to sustainable education.

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Leiden University, and Erasmus University Rotterdam obtained index scores of 12.2, 8.1, and 2.7, 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 curricula.

The QS Sustainability Rankings on Sustainable Education recognize universities that prioritize sustainability in their educational programs, equipping students with the knowledge and skills needed to address sustainability challenges in their future careers.

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

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Rank	University	Country	Index
1	University of California, Berkeley (UCB)	United States	100
2	The University of Tokyo	Japan	99.6
3	Yale University	United States	99
4	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)	Mexico	97
5	The University of Auckland	New Zealand	95
6	The University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	94.9
7	University of Toronto	Canada	93.6
8	University of British Columbia	Canada	91.7
9	Uppsala University	Sweden	90.5
10	University of Otago	New Zealand	90
11	University of Canterbury \| Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha	New Zealand	88.9
12	Delft University of Technology	Netherlands	86.9
13	University of Aberdeen	United Kingdom	86.1
14	James Cook University	Australia	84.7
15	University of Pennsylvania	United States	84.4
16	Aarhus University	Denmark	84
17	The University of Sydney	Australia	83.6
18	Universidade de São Paulo	Brazil	82.6
19	University of California, Davis	United States	82.5
19	American University of Beirut (AUB)	Lebanon	82.5
20	University of Waikato	New Zealand	80.9
21	Massey University	New Zealand	77.6
22	Lund University	Sweden	77.1
23	The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)	Australia	76.4
24	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	75.3
24	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	75.3
25	Harvard University	United States	75.2
25	Stanford University	United States	75.2
26	University of York	United Kingdom	75.1
27	Rutgers University–New Brunswick	United States	74.9
27	Bangor University	United Kingdom	74.9
28	Colorado State University	United States	74.8
28	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States	74.8
29	Dalhousie University	Canada	74.7
30	Technical University of Munich	Germany	74.6
31	University of Southern California	United States	74.3
31	Tohoku University	Japan	74.3
32	University of East Anglia (UEA)	United Kingdom	73.9
33	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	73.8
34	Kyoto University	Japan	73.7
35	Pennsylvania State University	United States	73.6
36	The University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	73.2
37	National Taiwan University (NTU)	Taiwan	72.5
37	The University of Exeter	United Kingdom	72.5
38	Western University	Canada	72.4
38	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand	72.4
38	Stockholm University	Sweden	72.4
39	Arizona State University	United States	72.2
40	Durham University	United Kingdom	71.9
41	McGill University	Canada	71.6
42	Cardiff University	United Kingdom	71.3
43	Universidad Nacional de Colombia	Colombia	71.1
44	University of Glasgow	United Kingdom	70.9
45	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain	70.8
46	University of Oslo	Norway	70.7
47	Tongji University	China	70.6
48	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	70.3
49	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)	India	70
50	Duke University	United States	69.2
51	The University of Adelaide	Australia	68.8
52	Columbia University	United States	68.7
53	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands	68.3
54	The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong	68.2
54	Kyushu University	Japan	68.2
54	Universiti Malaya (UM)	Malaysia	68.2
55	University of Waterloo	Canada	68
56	University of Saskatchewan	Canada	67.5
57	Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)	Brazil	67.3
58	ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology	Switzerland	67.2
59	Newcastle University	United Kingdom	67.1
60	Lancaster University	United Kingdom	66.9
60	Complutense University of Madrid	Spain	66.9
60	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	66.9
61	University of Calgary	Canada	66.7
62	Chulalongkorn University	Thailand	66.6
63	Washington University in St. Louis	United States	66.1
64	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	United States	66
65	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC)	Spain	65.9
66	Gadjah Mada University	Indonesia	65.8
67	Sapienza University of Rome	Italy	65.2
67	Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)	Malaysia	65.2
68	UNESP	Brazil	65.1
69	Macquarie University	Australia	64.8
70	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Spain	64.5
70	Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)	Spain	64.5
71	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	64.3
71	University of California, Santa Cruz	United States	64.3
72	Università di Padova	Italy	64.2
72	University of Chicago	United States	64.2
73	University of Wollongong	Australia	64
74	Peking University	China	63.9
75	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	Taiwan	63.7
75	Université PSL	France	63.7
76	University of Tsukuba	Japan	63.6
77	Osaka University	Japan	63.5
78	Hanyang University	South Korea	63.2
79	National University of Ireland Galway	Ireland	63.1
80	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia	Malaysia	63
80	Istanbul Technical University	Turkey	63
81	RMIT University	Australia	62.8
82	Kasetsart University	Thailand	62.7
83	Université de Montréal	Canada	62.6
84	Hiroshima University	Japan	62.5
85	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	62.3
85	Universitas Indonesia	Indonesia	62.3
86	The University of Manchester	United Kingdom	61.8
87	University of Gothenburg	Sweden	61.5
88	Queensland University of Technology (QUT)	Australia	61.4
89	University of Technology Sydney	Australia	61.2
90	Cornell University	United States	61.1
90	University of Florence	Italy	61.1
90	Charles University	Czech Republic	61.1
91	National Taipei University of Technology	Taiwan	61
92	University of Victoria (UVic)	Canada	60.2
93	Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg	Germany	60.1
94	Aix-Marseille University	France	59.7
94	Saint Petersburg State University	Russia	59.7
95	University of Milan	Italy	59.3
96	Middle East Technical University	Turkey	59
97	Princeton University	United States	58.9
98	University of Washington	United States	58.7
98	University of Massachusetts Amherst	United States	58.7
98	Aalto University	Finland	58.7
99	National Taiwan Normal University	Taiwan	58.5
100	Griffith University	Australia	58.4
101	Linköping University	Sweden	58.3
102	California Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States	58.1
103	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)	Taiwan	57.9
104	The University of Newcastle, Australia (UON)	Australia	57.7
105	Waseda University	Japan	57.4
106	University of Pretoria	South Africa	57.3
107	University of Kansas	United States	56.9
108	University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)	United States	56.7
109	Dartmouth College	United States	56.6
110	University of Pisa	Italy	56.5
111	Chiang Mai University	Thailand	56.1
112	University of Warsaw	Poland	55.8
113	University of Bergen	Norway	55.6
114	UCL	United Kingdom	55.5
115	The University of Queensland	Australia	55.4
115	Tsinghua University	China	55.4
116	University of South Australia	Australia	55.3
116	Masaryk University	Czech Republic	55.3
117	Ghent University	Belgium	55.1
117	Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague	Czech Republic	55.1
118	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	United States	55
118	University College Cork	Ireland	55
118	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	Brazil	55
119	University of Bern	Switzerland	54.8
119	University of Basel	Switzerland	54.8
120	The University of Melbourne	Australia	54.7
120	York University	Canada	54.7
121	University of Witwatersrand	South Africa	54.5
122	University of Genoa	Italy	54.3
123	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	54.1
123	University of Johannesburg	South Africa	54.1
124	King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi	Thailand	54
125	University of Leeds	United Kingdom	53.6
126	University of Stirling	United Kingdom	53.4
127	University of Florida	United States	53.3
127	University of Copenhagen	Denmark	53.3
127	University of Salamanca	Spain	53.3
128	Korea University	South Korea	53.2
129	University of Texas at Austin	United States	53
130	Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg	Germany	52.9
131	University of Aveiro	Portugal	52.6
132	Northeastern University	United States	52.5
133	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande Do Sul	Brazil	52.4
133	University of Lausanne	Switzerland	52.4
134	Khalifa University of Science and Technology	United Arab Emirates	52.3
135	Kyungpook National University	South Korea	52
136	Stony Brook University, State University of New York	United States	51.9
137	University of Antwerp	Belgium	51.5
138	University of Turin	Italy	51.4
139	Cairo University	Egypt	51.3
140	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	51.2
141	Technical University of Denmark	Denmark	51.1
142	University of Zurich	Switzerland	51
143	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	50.7
143	University of Oulu	Finland	50.7
144	Sorbonne University	France	50.6
145	Emory University	United States	50.4
146	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	United States	50.3
147	University of Pittsburgh	United States	50.1
148	Lincoln University	New Zealand	50
149	Wageningen University & Research	Netherlands	49.5
150	University of Minnesota Twin Cities	United States	49.4
150	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU)	Singapore	49.4
151	The Australian National University	Australia	49.1
151	Western Sydney University	Australia	49.1
152	University of Reading	United Kingdom	49
153	Utrecht University	Netherlands	48.9
153	University of California, San Diego (UCSD)	United States	48.9
154	Seoul National University	South Korea	48.8
155	Università degli Studi di Perugia	Italy	48.7
155	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel	48.7
156	Oregon State University	United States	48.6
157	Johns Hopkins University	United States	48.5
158	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	48.2
159	University of Southampton	United Kingdom	47.7
159	The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	47.7
160	Babes-Bolyai University	Romania	47.5
161	University of Alberta	Canada	47.4
161	University of Southern Denmark (SDU)	Denmark	47.4
162	Texas A&M University	United States	47.3
162	University of Lisbon	Portugal	47.3
163	Radboud University	Netherlands	47
163	University of Kent	United Kingdom	47
163	RWTH Aachen University	Germany	47
164	Northwestern University	United States	46.9
164	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	46.9
165	Hokkaido University	Japan	46.8
165	Nanjing University	China	46.8
166	Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel	Germany	46.7
167	University of Helsinki	Finland	46.6
167	The University of Arizona	United States	46.6
168	The University of Western Australia	Australia	46.4
169	Norwegian University of Science And Technology	Norway	46.1
169	Universidad de Chile	Chile	46.1
170	Boston University	United States	45.7
170	Purdue University	United States	45.7
170	Université Grenoble Alpes	France	45.7
171	Zhejiang University	China	45.5
172	University of Vienna	Austria	45.4
173	University of Cape Town	South Africa	45.2
173	University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)	United States	45.2
173	Monash University	Australia	45.2
174	Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)	Germany	45
175	Concordia University	Canada	44.9
176	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	China	44.8
177	KU Leuven	Belgium	43.9
178	Dublin City University	Ireland	43.8
178	University of Göttingen	Germany	43.8
178	University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa	United States	43.8
179	Wuhan University	China	43.5
180	University of Coimbra	Portugal	43.4
181	King's College London	United Kingdom	43.1
182	Florida State University	United States	43
183	Ca' Foscari University of Venice	Italy	42.9
184	Université de Montpellier	France	42.7
185	Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna	Italy	42.6
186	The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)	Hong Kong	42.5
186	Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen	Germany	42.5
187	Queen Mary University of London	United Kingdom	42.2
188	The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)	United Kingdom	42
189	The Ohio State University	United States	41.9
189	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	United States	41.9
189	University of Miami	United States	41.9
190	The University of Sheffield	United Kingdom	41.8
190	University of Hull	United Kingdom	41.8
190	University of Tasmania	Australia	41.8
191	Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin	Ireland	41.7
192	Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main	Germany	41.6
193	Universite libre de Bruxelles	Belgium	41.3
194	McMaster University	Canada	41.1
195	University of Birmingham	United Kingdom	40.9
195	University of California, Irvine	United States	40.9
195	University of Leicester	United Kingdom	40.9
196	Michigan State University	United States	40.8
197	University of Geneva	Switzerland	40.2
198	Washington State University	United States	40.1
198	Louisiana State University	United States	40.1
199	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC)	Chile	40
200	North Carolina State University	United States	39.8
200	Universidad de Zaragoza	Spain	39.8
200	Iowa State University	United States	39.8
200	Universidad de Alcalá	Spain	39.8
201	University of Portsmouth	United Kingdom	39.7
202	National University of Singapore (NUS)	Singapore	39.1
202	University of Groningen	Netherlands	39.1
203	Queen's University at Kingston	Canada	39
204	University of Granada	Spain	38.9
205	University of Liverpool	United Kingdom	38.7
206	Brown University	United States	38.6
207	Sciences Po	France	38.3
208	Université de Liège	Belgium	38.1
209	King Abdulaziz University (KAU)	Saudi Arabia	37.8
210	KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Sweden	37.7
211	University College Dublin	Ireland	37.5
212	Simon Fraser University	Canada	37.1
213	University of Nebraska - Lincoln	United States	36.7
214	University of Virginia	United States	36.6
215	The University of Georgia	United States	36.1
216	University of Porto	Portugal	35.9
217	Tecnológico de Monterrey	Mexico	35.8
218	Chalmers University of Technology	Sweden	34.9
218	Swansea University	United Kingdom	34.9
219	University of Cologne	Germany	34.7
220	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD)	India	34.3
221	Umea University	Sweden	34.1
221	University of Naples - Federico II	Italy	34.1
222	New York University (NYU)	United States	33.6
223	University of Nottingham	United Kingdom	33.5
224	University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)	United States	33.3
224	Politecnico di Torino	Italy	33.3
225	Institut Polytechnique de Paris	France	33
226	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid	Spain	32.8
226	North-West University	South Africa	32.8
227	Florida International University	United States	32.3
228	University of Utah	United States	31.8
229	Stellenbosch University	South Africa	31.6
229	University of California, Riverside	United States	31.6
230	Queen's University Belfast	United Kingdom	31.5
231	King Saud University	Saudi Arabia	31.3
232	Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU)	United Kingdom	31.2
233	University of Turku	Finland	30.2
233	Université de Paris-Cité	France	30.2
234	Georgetown University	United States	29.9
235	Universidade Nova de Lisboa	Portugal	29.5
236	Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)	Belgium	29.4
237	University of Ottawa	Canada	29.1
237	Tufts University	United States	29.1
238	University of Limerick	Ireland	28.8
239	Loughborough University	United Kingdom	28.5
240	Jagiellonian University	Poland	28.4
241	Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha	Spain	27.6
242	Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)	Belgium	26.8
242	Vanderbilt University	United States	26.8
243	Université Paris-Saclay	France	26
244	University of Connecticut	United States	24.3
245	Indiana University Bloomington	United States	23.4
246	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	22.4
247	University of Strathclyde	United Kingdom	22.1
248	Universität Hamburg	Germany	20.9
249	Freie Universitaet Berlin	Germany	20.6
250	George Washington University	United States	19.7
251	University of Surrey	United Kingdom	18.1
252	The University of Warwick	United Kingdom	12.4
253	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	Germany	12.2
254	Leiden University	Netherlands	8.1
255	Erasmus University Rotterdam	Netherlands	2.7