Now in its sixth 12 months, the rankings – revealed final week – highlighted universities from across the globe which can be main the cost in international sustainable improvement.
HE establishments in Australasia dominated the highest finish of the checklist, having essentially the most universities ranked within the general 10 most sustainable universities amongst over 2,000 submissions.
THE famous that “some establishments and areas are making extra progress than others”.
“Oceania, particularly Australia, is a area that takes sustainability extraordinarily severely. We see this annually when the tables are revealed, and 2024 is not any completely different,” it stated.
All collaborating universities have been ranked on how properly they adhered to the United Nations’ Sustainable Growth Targets (SDGs). The highest 10 options 4 universities from Australia – up from three in 2023 – and two from the UK, whereas North American and Danish universities additionally bought nods.
In a Voices article for The PIE this week, assistant vice-chancellor engagement on the College of Canterbury in New Zealand, Brett Berquist, highlighted that there have been solely round 500 submissions from 75 international locations for THE’s inaugural checklist in 2018, and that this has shot as much as over 2,000 submissions from a whopping 125 international locations in 2024.
“It’s daunting for worldwide college students to decide on an abroad college from 1000’s and rankings assist households slender down their decisions,” he wrote for The PIE. “The newer give attention to sustainability and affect has introduced us new and difficult methods to consider our work and the way it issues to society.”
It marks the third time in a row that Western Sydney College has been on the prime of the checklist and the second consecutive 12 months that the College of Manchester has been runner up.
Oceania, particularly Australia, is a area that takes sustainability extraordinarily severely
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In the meantime, there have been no universities in Asia or the Center East that positioned within the prime 10 for the 2024 rankings, regardless of Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz College, Malaysia’s Universiti Sains Malaysia and Japan’s Hokkaido College all having carried out strongly in both 2022 or 2023.
Queen’s College in Canada continued to carry out strongly, inserting within the prime 10 yearly since 2022. However having risen to 3rd place in 2023 from seventh in 2022, it dropped to eighth this 12 months, lagging behind UNSW Sydney and the College of Alberta.
In the meantime, Canada’s Western College fell out of the highest 10 in 2024 and positioned twenty first, regardless of having sat in joint ninth place in 2023 and third place in 2022.
