Four Indian universities have secured a position in the top 100 list in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings 2025 released on June 18. The Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham at 41st rank is among the best-performing Indian institutes. The other Indian institutes in the list in the top 100 are Lovely Professional University (48), JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research (56) and Shoolini University of Biotechnology and Management Sciences (96).
Australia’s Western Sydney University has bagged the top position for the fourth consecutive year, followed by the United Kingdom’s University of Manchester and South Korea’s Kyungpook National University (KNU) in the second and third positions, respectively.
Asian universities claim more than half of all places in the rankings, and 10 out of the 17 individual Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) rankings are now led by an Asian university, a statement on the THE Impact rankings website said. It stated that Indonesia’s Universitas Airlangga, in joint ninth place, is the most sustainable institution from an emerging economy.
Eight countries — Botswana, Burkina Faso, El Salvador, Estonia, Maldives, Namibia, Papua New Guinea and Senegal — have made their debut in the sustainability rankings this year.
Beyond 100, THE Impact Rankings 2025 does not assign individual ranks but places institutions in ranges instead.
Anna University, BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, KIIT University and Manipal Academy of Higher Education are ranked at 101-200.
Nitte (Deemed to be university) placed at 201-300, is the only institute in that range.
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Centurion University of Technology and Management, Chitkara University, Dr DY Patil Vidyapeeth Pune, IIT Gandhinagar, Manipal University Jaipur, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences and Shiv Nadar University are placed between 301 and 400 ranks. While IIT Guwahati and VIT find themselves between 601 and 800 ranks, IIT Mandi, NIT Silchar and JNU are ranked between 1001-1500 in the THE Impact Rankings 2025.
The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2025 has ranked 2,526 universities from 130 countries or territories based on their progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
