The UI GreenMetric ranking is produced by Universitas Indonesia (UI) and is the first global ranking that assesses universities’ contributions to sustainability. It’s first edition was published in 2010, and it has expanded to include 1,745 institutions.
The methodology has remained stable and comprises six groups of indicators:
- Settings and Infrastructure (15%)
- Energy and Climate Change (21%)
- Water (10%)
- Waste (18%)
- Transportation (18%)
- Education and Research (18%).
The number of universities in these rankings has increased rapidly since 2010. However, many countries are not participating. This year, the United Kingdom is represented only by Nottingham Trent University, which is in third place, Mainland China by Fudan University, Israel by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Hong Kong by the Hang Seng University.
In marked contrast, this year’s GreenMetric now includes 196 Indonesian, 142 Turkish, 91 Malaysian, and 88 Iraqi universities.
The top five universities this year are:
1. Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands
2. University College Cork, Ireland
3. Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
4. Umwelt -Campus Birkenfeld, Germany
5. Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
The top universities by region are:
- Africa; Alexandria University, Egypt
- Asia; Universitas Indonesia
- Europe; Wageningen University and Research, Netherlands
- Oceania; Lincoln University, New Zealand
- North America; University of California Davis.
Source:
UI GreenMetric