Participate in THE’s Impact Rankings 2026
The world’s leading impact and sustainability rating system, celebrating universities’ achievements against the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, is now a membership network offering more support, more data insights and more opportunities to showcase your strengths.
Since 2019, the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings provided a unique, global framework to evaluate, benchmark and showcase universities’ social and economic impact, framed through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – which cover everything from delivering innovation and economic growth to taking action to protect the environment.
Thousands of universities worldwide joined the assessment system – submitting evidence of the positive effect that their teaching, research, stewardship and outreach has on the world. In order to carry out the extensive evaluation and to deliver the rankings results, Times Higher Education’s expert teams collect millions of data points directly aligned with all 17 of the UN SDGs, assesses almost 4 million research publications and evaluates many tens of thousands of policy documents.
Now, to enhance our support for participating universities and to deliver them greater value, to better harness the data and insights of the system to drive performance improvement and to secure the long-term future of the world’s most comprehensive and trusted sustainability evaluation system, we are re-launching the Impact Rankings a new ratings system, the Times Higher Education Sustainability Impact Ratings, underpinned by a new Sustainability Impact Network membership community.
Read more about the changes, and view our frequent asked questions, here.
Subscribing university members of the Sustainability Impact Network will receive a comprehensive range of powerful benefits:
The annual Network membership package provides universities with:
- Exclusive entry into the Sustainability Impact Ratings system, with THE’s expert data team on-hand to support your institutional data submission to ensure your inclusion in the annual published ratings. Note: only member universities will be able to submit to the ratings assessment and receive a published score and position.
- Evaluation and validation of all documentary evidence submitted as part of the ratings assessment, alongside THE’s analysis of institutional data and research output data against the impact sustainability framework methodology across all SDGs submitted to.
- A public listing on THE’s website in each individual SDG rating successfully entered, including an institutional profile on THE’s website complete with detailed sustainability performance information.
- Official THE date-stamped certification of all ratings results across each SDG where a rating is achieved, as well as the overall Sustainability Impact Rating outcome.
- Fully licensed range of date-stamped flexible THE marketing assets to confirm and showcase your performance across all achieved ratings, and overall, across all print and digital materials.
- Access to performance benchmarking: your performance compared to the global benchmark for each SDG, and a detailed breakdown of your scores across all performance metrics for each individual SDG rating.
- Exclusive access to webinar sessions providing data insights, best practice case studies and opportunities to connect with peers to share insights and build relationships and partnerships.
- A monthly membership newsletter providing news and insights, sharing case studies and highlighting institutional opportunities across the full range of sustainable development goals.