The British QS World Rankings has published its latest ranking of sustainable universities. TU Delft has dropped 20 places, but still performs best in the Netherlands. The list is headed by Lund University (Sweden), the University of Toronto (Canada), and UCL (London).
Last year, Delft was ranked 15th, but the university has now dropped to 35th place. The universities that complete the Dutch top 3 are Wageningen University (from 53rd to 64th place) and Radboud University, which rose from 355th to 133rd place.
It is striking that TU Delft scores highest among Dutch universities. In May of this year, Studenten voor Morgen (Students for Tomorrow) presented a ranking of universities and colleges based on sustainability, in which Delft shared ninth place, behind TU Eindhoven, VU Amsterdam, and Wageningen University.
Critics have long questioned rankings because they do not do justice to the breadth of work that is done at universities. Utrecht University, for example, has decided not to provide data and not to participate.
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