São Paulo (Brazil) hosted the announcement of the results of the UI GreenMetric World University Rankings, designed to assess the sustainability performance of educational institutions. This year, 1,477 universities from 95 countries, including 50 educational organizations of higher education in Russia, took part in the ranking. Yugra State University is participating in this rating for the first time and took 49th place in the national rating and 1437th place in the world rating with 1890 points.
The leader of the national rating is the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after P. Lumumba. It scored 9050 points and took 22nd place. The highest possible score is 10,000.
The top ten most “sustainable” universities included two universities from the Netherlands (Wageningen - 9575, Groningen - 9475), two from the United Kingdom (Nottingham Trent University - 9550, Nottingham University - 9425), two from the United States (University of California at Davis - 9425, University of Connecticut - 9375), one from Ireland (University College Cork - 9450), one from Brazil (University of São Paulo - 9450), one from Germany (Birkenfeld Environmental Campus (Trier University of Applied Sciences) - 9425) and one from Italy (University of Bologna - 9400).
In 2024, in addition to Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, the top three leaders of the national rating (RF) include Siberian Federal University and Baltic Federal University named after I. Kant.
The Green Metric rating takes into account the indicators of the world's universities on the economical use of natural resources, including electricity generated from various sources, the area of green spaces on campus and their share of the total campus area, the use of environmentally friendly modes of transportation by employees and students. The presence of an accessible environment for people with disabilities, the number of students' projects in the field of environmental literacy, the university's openness to the urban community and the presence of “Smart Infrastructure” systems are also taken into account.