Eötvös Loránd University ranks third in Hungary and secured the 377th place among 2,000 institutions worldwide.
Responding to the growing importance of environmental protection, after Times Higher Education, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) also launched its own global university ranking based on sustainability criteria (Sustainability Rankings) in 2022. In the evaluation, the indicators used by QS are again divided into three main groups: measuring environmental impact (considering education, research, and sustainability), measuring social impact (considering employability, equality, health and well-being, educational impact, knowledge transfer), as well as a category assessing university governance. A detailed summary of the survey methodology is available in English on this page.
In the ranking, after previous counts of 700, 1,400, and then 1,743, this year’s list now features the world’s 2,001 best higher education institutions, including 620 from Europe and 14 from Hungary. Eötvös Loránd University secured the 377th place in the overall ranking, maintaining its position as the third-best Hungarian institution on the sustainability ranking, following the University of Debrecen (322) and the University of Szeged (338). Within Europe, it holds the 170th position.
Out of the three evaluated areas, ELTE achieved its best result in the university governance category, ranking 171st there, while it ranks 486th in environmental impact and 406th in social impact.
ELTE ranks first among Hungarian universities in university governance and social impact,
and third in terms of environmental impact.
ELTE believes that global solutions are needed for the global problem of climate change, but it is also important for countries and smaller organizations, such as universities, to focus their efforts in this direction. One of the central points of the university's strategy is sustainability, and educating for sustainability is part of every faculty’s training portfolio. ELTE strongly supports research related to environmental protection and sustainability and is a founding member of the CHARM-EU European university alliance, whose first master’s program is called “Global Challenges of Sustainability”.
Leading the QS Sustainability Rankings for 2026 are Sweden's Lund University, the University of Toronto, and London’s UCL, in that order.
Detailed results, broken down by geographic locations and institutions, can be browsed on this page, while a more comprehensive summary of ELTE’s national and international rankings can be found in this summary.