Context:
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) recently released the Sustainability Rankings 2025.
QS Sustainability Rankings 2025
- The 2025 rankings showcase over 1,740 universities from 107 countries and territories.
- University of Toronto from Canada is ranked 1 with an overall score of 100 followed by ETH Zurich from Germany.
- India’s top five institutes in the rankings:
| Institute | Rank | Overall Score (out of 100) |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | 171 | 80.6 |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur | 202 | 78.6 |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | 234 | 76.1 |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur | 245 | 75.6 |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Madras | 277 | 74 |
- Out of 78 featured Indian universities 34 have improved on last year’s placing and eight have maintained their positions.
- According to the vice president of QS, Indian universities should improve their scores in the Social Impact category areas such as: – Health and Wellbeing, Impact of Education, and Equality.
About QS and its rankings:
Quacquarelli Symonds (founded in 1989) is a London-based higher education analyst and for-profit service provider, with regional offices across Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
QS measures rankings based on 3 Categories, 9 Lens, and 63 indicators
- Environmental Impact: Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Environmental Sustainability.
- Social Impact: Employability and Opportunities, Equality, Health and Wellbeing, Impact of Education, Knowledge Exchange.
- Governance: Good Governance.
Lens is a group of Indicators that are related to the same theme.
Eligibility for the ranking:
To be eligible for the Sustainability Rankings an institution must be eligible for one or all of the following:
- QS World University Rankings
- QS Rankings by Region
- QS Rankings by Subject
Business Schools are not currently eligible in this ranking.