Browse the full results of the latest Times Higher Education Sustainability Impact Ratings
What can an elephant skeleton, a campus displaced by war and an app for scouting water availability in Indian villages tell us about higher education? Each is the result of a university’s drive for sustainability, and provides an insight into how many institutions view their mission as something much larger than their own academic excellence.
This is what Times Higher Education also believes, and this conviction runs through the core of our eighth annual Sustainability Impact Ratings (formerly Impact Rankings), the only global university ranking that examines how institutions are performing in relation to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
As Julian Skyrme, executive director of social responsibility and civic engagement at the University of Manchester, puts it, the impact ratings encourage institutions to consider “what universities are good for, not just what universities are good at”.
For Manchester, which leads the 2026 impact ratings, placing an elephant skeleton in a busy train station to spark a conversation about extinction was just one of many ways the university strives to reach the community beyond the university and contribute to cultural life.
