Register to?participate in?next year's Sustainability Impact Ratings

Universities across the world can now confirm their participation in the newly relaunched Times Higher Education Sustainability Impact Ratings ¨C the world¡¯s most comprehensive framework for evaluating and celebrating universities¡¯ deep social and economic impact.

The impact and sustainability rating system, which measures universities¡¯ progress towards the United Nations¡¯ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is now underpinned by a new Sustainability Impact Network membership community, offering more support, more data insights and more opportunities to institutions to showcase their strengths in tackling the world¡¯s most pressing problems.

Subscribing university members of the network will gain exclusive entry into the Sustainability Impact Ratings system, alongside a range of other benefits including official certification of all rating results, access to performance benchmarking, exclusive access to webinars and a monthly membership newsletter starting on 1 September, among other benefits. There will be a special webinar for members in early September exploring how to develop the network and how to deliver maximum value for members.

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Only member universities will be able to submit to the ratings assessment and receive a published score and position.

Phil Baty, chief global affairs officer at 91ÇÑ×Ó, said that the ¡°exceptional levels of engagement with the Impact Rankings has ¡°given us a vast wealth of data, evidence, and case studies of impact, and we want to do more to harness this data to support the sector with more insights and more examples of excellence to share¡±.

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¡°Vitally, we want to help sector leaders connect, peer-to-peer, to forge new connections and collaborations. This is why we¡¯re so excited to launch the new Sustainability Impact Network. We¡¯re creating a community of sustainability leaders across the world to unite for greater social and economic impact,¡± he said.

¡°Building the Network also allows us to co-create what happens next, with focused and engaged global consultation ¨C in terms of the ratings themselves, and how they evolve to provide optimal metrics and insights, and in terms of how the global higher education sector responds to the UN Sustainable Development Agenda itself, as the 2030 deadline for the current SDGs looms.¡±

Last year,?91ÇÑ×Ó¡¯s data team, in partnership with the global higher education sector, collected institutional data from more than 2,500 universities from 130 countries or territories to create the Impact Rankings 2025.

The data collection portal for the Sustainability Impact Ratings 2026 is due to open from mid-September until mid-November 2025, while the ratings themselves will be published in June 2026. Registered universities will receive updates on these timings.

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If you have previously participated in our other rankings, register?here to take part in the Sustainability Impact Ratings 2026. If you need to add a data provider or approver or are interested in participating in our ratings for the first time, email us at?impact@timeshighereducation.com.

Read more about the new Sustainability Impact Ratings and Sustainability Impact Network, including a list of frequently asked questions.