QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2025 Revealed

The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2025 is now live. The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability was founded with a pilot edition in the end of 2022, even before the initial full-fledged Ranking in 2023. The Rankings are used to recognize the contributions of which institutions are showing their commitment to existence, while still engaging in a variety of factors across environmental, social, and governance (ESG) measures.

Universities are, at the same time, both educational and research facilities and manufacturers of employment. The impact of them on the environment, nevertheless, is being brought out into the open through the gradual adoption of the greening of campuses.

The Sustainability QS World University Rankings uses a plethora of measures that display how alumni in the field of science and technology are striving to evade climate change as well as the impact of research being done across the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2025 top 10

• 1. University of Toronto, Canada
• 2. ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• =3 Lund University, Sweden
• =3 University of California, Berkeley, US
• =5 University College London, UK
• =5 University of British Columbia, Canada
• =7 Imperial College London, UK
• =7 The University of Edinburgh, UK
• =9 The University of Manchester, UK
• =9 The University of Melbourne, Australia

The top universities in the Northern Hemisphere demonstrate the way forward in sustainable development. Apart from the University of Cape Town which is in =45, all universities listed in QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2025 are in the Global North.

Five new entrants in the top 20 of QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2025

• University College London: =5
• King’s College London: 14
• University of Helsinki: 18
• Pennsylvania State University: =19
• Stanford University: =19

Nations Improving Across ESG Metrics

With 78 universities ranked and 57% of them improving their Environmental Impact score he Indian higher education sector has shown a significant improvement in the country. On the other hand, while they are getting better, the top 200 list has only six Indian colleges.

It is incredible that 92% of the Portuguese universities successfully improved the aspect of their social impact. Driving them to the top of the national ranking was the great performance of the Knowledge Exchange program and the indices of Staff Perception and Policy Citations. This proves that the Portuguese universities have done the necessary research in the field and staff has a positive response to how they perceive their institutions' impact on society, which has been enhanced from year to year.

The issue of sustainability in higher education is one of the topics to be discussed at the QS Higher Ed Summit: Europe 2025, which is going to be held in Porto, Portugal.

Conclusion

Students interested in pursuing careers in sustainability and renewable energy now have many universities to choose from. These universities provide an opportunity to participate in leading research and cultivate a sense of global responsibility to mitigate the climate crisis through sustainable practice.