University Impact Rankings 2023 for SDG 5: Gender equality

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 comparison across four broad areas: research, stewardship, outreach and teaching.The list includes 1,081 institutions from 106 countries/regions.

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

Key insights

• The ranking is led by Western Sydney University in Australia, which also tops the overall ranking
• The University of Bologna in Italy and University of Malaya in Malaysia complete the top three
• Australia has the highest representation in the top 100 of this ranking with 11 institutions. The UK and US follow with nine universities each