University Impact Rankings 2022

The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings are 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 overall ranking includes 1,406 universities from 106 countries/regions.

Key insights

• The overall ranking is led by an Australian institution: Western Sydney University
• In second place is the US’s Arizona State University and third is Western University in Canada.
• No one country dominates the top 10, with universities from the UK, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Japan also featuring
• The top institutions from an emerging economy are King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia and Universiti Sains Malaysia, in joint fourth place