ETH is the second most sustainable university in the world

ETH is the second best university in the world and the best in Europe in terms of sustainability. Compared to the previous year, it has improved by 16 places. The University of Toronto once again took the top spot. Sweden's Lund University and the University of California at Berkeley are tied for third place. This is according to the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2025.

This year's ranking by Quacquarelli Symonds(QS) includes a good 1740 universities at 107 locations. The University of Basel is ranked 74th, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne 74th and the University of Lausanne 315th. The universities of Zurich, Bern, Fribourg and Geneva are ranked between 320th and 372nd. The University of St.Gallen is ranked 527th, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences 616th and the University of Italian-speaking Switzerland 786th.

The QS World University Rankings: Sustainability assesses the social and environmental impact of universities as centers of education and research and as major employers, which, like any large organization, face challenges in this area. For example, the contributions of alumni in science and technology to solving climate problems are just as important as the impact of research carried out as part of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

As QS explains in a press release on this ranking, the USA is the most strongly represented country with 239 facilities, but the country's average score is behind that of Europe and the region around Australia and New Zealand. The eight New Zealand universities, all in the top 500, have the highest average score of all countries. Despite the second-highest number of applications, no Chinese university from China is represented in the top 100. ce/mm