ɫƵ has been named among the top 15 most sustainable universities in the world as part of a leading global ranking.
UL placed 14th out of 1,745 universities worldwide in the 2025 UI GreenMetric World University Rankings – a leading ranking on green campus and environmental sustainability.
This year’s ranking, which builds on last year’s placement of 19th out of 1,477 universities across 105 countries, positions UL as Ireland’s second-most sustainable university.
Now in their sixteenth iteration, the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings – which were initiated by Universitas Indonesia – employ 39 indicators in six key criteria to assess the sustainability performance of an institution: Setting and Infrastructure, Energy and Climate Change, Waste, Water, Transportation, and Education and Research.
With a 263-point increase in 2025, UL’s latest ranking can be chiefly accredited to improvements across Energy and Climate Change, and Transportation, while the University remained unchanged in two further categories – Waste and Water.
Other Irish universities included among the latest rankings are University College Cork (UCC), Dublin City University (DCU), and Maynooth University.
The rankings were originally devised in acknowledgement of universities’ “integral role in the joint effort between stakeholders and communities in combating climate change”.
Its aim, vision and mission states: “It is expected that by drawing the attention of university leaders and stakeholders, more attention will be given to global climate change, clean energy, water conservation, waste recycling, green transportation, and sustainability education and research.”