University Impact Rankings 2023 for SDG 4: Quality education

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 1,304 universities from 109 countries/regions.

This table on SDG 4 – quality education measures universities’ contribution to early years and lifelong learning, their pedagogy research and their commitment to inclusive education.

Key insights

• Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology leads this table
• Aalborg University in Demark and Lingnan University Hong Kong share in joint second
• Spain is the most-represented nation in the top 100, with 14 institutions, followed by France with six
• Thailand, Russia, Pakistan and Chile have five universities each in this group