The 2014 GreenMetric World University Ranking
With all the fuss about the People and Planet rankings and the significant gaps in university participation in the table a bigger environmental ranking has been a bit overlooked.
The GreenMetric ranking for 2014 produced by UI has just been published and UK universities do rather well:
Universitas Indonesia (UI) released the results of its GreenMetric Ranking of World Universities on 16th January 2015. This is the fifth year of this ranking which compares universities efforts towards campus sustainability and environment friendly university management. it was announced by the university Rector, Prof. Muhammad Anis, Prof Gunawan Tjahjono, and the Chairperson of UI Greenmetric Prof. Riri Fitri Sari at the Central Administration Building, Depok.
This year, 360 universities from 62 countries took part, which is an increase from last year with 301 universities from 60 countries. University of nottingham in UK was ranked first with a score of 7,803, followed by University College Cork National University of Ireland in the Ireland (score 7,553) and third by Nottingham Trent University (score 7,530). The UC Davis, University of Oxford, the University of Bradford, University of Connecticut, Universitat fur Bodenkultur Wien Austria, UC Berkeley, andNortheastern University are on the top 10 of the rank.
Apart from the US, the UK, Japan, south America, Chinese Taipei and countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, the 2014 results include universities from Trinidad & Tobago, Sri Lanka, and Syria.
This year the criteria are organized into six main categories which are weighted as follows:
Green Statistics (15%)
Energy and Climate Change (21%)
Waste management (18%)
Water usage (10%)
Transportation (18%)
Education (18%)
Fuller details of the criteria are on the GreenMetric site.
(Needless to say the University of Nottingham is pretty pleased with our first place for the third time in four years.)
