Impact Rankings 2025 digital edition
Universities’ work to align with and promote the SDGs benefits not only their immediate environs but the future of the planet. The Impact Rankings reflect those institutions striving to meet the goals

Universities’ work to align with and promote the SDGs benefits not only their immediate environs but the future of the planet. The Impact Rankings reflect those institutions striving to meet the goals

These rankings celebrate universities’ impact – but also hold institutions to account, highlighting where the sector is falling short

AI expert Tshilidzi Marwala calls for closer collaboration between universities and companies and rebalancing of AI power divide away from US and China

Regulator to reopen to new applications after heavily criticised eight-month pause

Malaysia and South Korea are making the most rapid advances in tables showing best universities for sustainability, writes Patrick Jack

Turkish academic says women who ‘share their core values visibly’ face ‘invisible barriers’, as she recounts experience of studying in both Istanbul and London

Universities Down Under punch above their weight in global assessment of sustainable development efforts

Ex-partner demands reimbursement for £42 million investment in now-defunct branch campus

Uptick in ‘unprecedented’, ‘exceptional’ and other grandiose terms within scientific papers can be traced to launch of ChatGPT, say scholars

The new Adelaide University will combine goal-oriented basic and applied research in search of greater impact, say Peter Høj and David Lloyd

Foreign student numbers rebound despite fee increases as other anglophone countries impose immigration restrictions

Dawn Freshwater says universities must reclaim social licence to operate to help push for more sustainable planet

Top-down approach may be needed to coordinate university research as funding cuts bite, departing science chief tells MPs

Climate expert Mike Berners-Lee says major global crises can only be tackled by return to simple values of truth and respect

More English institutions escalating cases to counter-terrorism organisation Prevent, driven by concerns related to radical Islam