03/01/2023

UIC Barcelona improves for the third consecutive year in the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking on Sustainability

In its third year in the ranking, UIC Barcelona moves up 171 positions in the world ranking, and is now in the 301st position of 1,050. It also moves up to 16th position of 29 in the Spanish university system

The UI GreenMetric World University Ranking on Sustainability is an initiative of the Universitas Indonesia, which was first carried out in 2010. In three years, UIC Barcelona has gone from the 589th position, to the 472th position and, in this edition, to 301st position.

The objective of this ranking is to measure the current situation and policies related to sustainability in universities across the world, through an online survey in which information is collected in six areas related to sustainability: Setting and Infrastructure (SI) (15%), Energy and Climate Change (EC) (21%), Waste (WS) (18%), Water (WR) (10%), Transportation (TR) (18%) and Education and Research (ED) (18%).