Top 50 universities in The Times Higher Education Impact Ranking 2020

Here are the top 50 universities in The Times Higher Education Impact Ranking 2020

The dominating universities hail from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and UK, with a good representation from Ireland, the US, and some EU countries. In Asia, only China, (Hong Kong, Taiwan), South Korea and Indonesian institutions made it to the top 50 whereas Brazil is the only candidate from South America.

According to the THE website the "Impact Rankings are the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)"

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Rank	University	Country
1	University of Auckland	New Zealand
2	University of Sydney	Australia
3	Western Sydney University	Australia
4	La Trobe University	Australia
5	Arizona State University (Tempe)	United States
6	University of Bologna	Italy
7	University of British Columbia	Canada
8	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
9	King’s College London	United Kingdom
11	University of Leeds	United Kingdom
11	Newcastle University	United Kingdom
13	Tongji University	China
14	University of São Paulo	Brazil
14	Trinity College Dublin	Ireland
16	University of Waterloo	Canada
17	McMaster University	Canada
17	Monash University	Australia
19	Simon Fraser University	Canada
20	Aix-Marseille University	France
21	University of Leicester	United Kingdom
22	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States
23	Aalborg University	Denmark
23	Auckland University of Technology	New Zealand
23	University of Otago	New Zealand
26	Western University	Canada
27	Northumbria University	United Kingdom
28	University of Toronto	Canada
29	University of Calgary	Canada
30	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
31	University of Wollongong	Australia
32	University College Cork	Ireland
33	York University	Canada
34	University College Dublin	Ireland
35	Penn State (Main campus)	United States
36	Victoria University of Wellington	New Zealand
37	Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University	Russian Federation
38	National Cheng Kung University (NCKU)	Taiwan
39	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	Netherlands
40	University of Malaga	Spain
41	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
41	Laval University	Canada
43	Glasgow Caledonian University	United Kingdom
44	University of Dundee	United Kingdom
45	University of Gothenburg	Sweden
45	University of Newcastle	Australia
47	Aalto University	Finland
47	University of Indonesia	Indonesia
47	University of Tasmania	Australia
47	Yonsei University (Seoul campus)	South Korea

Source: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/rankings/impact/2020/