World Impact Rankings 2019: Gender equality

This table on SDG 5: gender equality measures universities’ research on the study of gender, their policies on gender equality and their commitment to recruiting and promoting women.

The list includes more than 300 universities from 70 countries.

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The list is led by Australia’s Western Sydney University, while the Netherlands’ Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Sweden’s University of Gothenburg complete the top three.

Japan is the most-represented nation in the table with 28 institutions, followed by Russia with 21 and the US with 20.

View the full results of the overall Impact Rankings 2019

The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings are the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We use carefully calibrated indicators to provide comprehensive and balanced comparisons across three broad areas: research, outreach, and stewardship.

The metrics were developed in partnership with Vertigo Ventures.