The Times Higher Education rating agency has announced the results of the Impact Ranking 2023 rating, which evaluates universities for compliance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This year, the rating includes 32 domestic educational institutions. Sumy National Agrarian University is the only higher education institution of agrarian profile that was included into the rating.
Impact Rankings 2023 is the fifth edition. In general, the ranking includes 1,591 universities from 112 countries/regions. Again the ranking is headed by the Western Sydney University: The University of Manchester in the UK takes the second place, while the Canadian University of Queens is ranked third. The UK is the most represented country in the top 100 with 26 institutions, followed by Australia with 16 and Canada with 15.
The ranking is given in four areas: research, management, location and teaching.
The agency’s website can also analyse the University’s compliance with each specific Sustainable Development Goal. In particular, Sumy National Agrarian University is one of the 300 best universities in the world in terms of meeting the goal No. 2 “Zero hunger”. Compliance with this goal includes analysing university research on hunger, studying food sustainability and their motivation to fight food waste, food shortages for students and local communities and agricultural development
