The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings are the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). They use indicators to provide comprehensive and balanced comparison across four broad areas: research, stewardship, outreach and teaching.
The 2023 Impact Rankings is the fifth edition and the overall ranking includes 1,705 universities from 115 countries/regions.
Maynooth University has been ranked in the 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 THE Impact Rankings.
In 2023, Maynooth University was ranked in the top 600 universities.
SDG 4 – Quality Education measures universities’ contribution to early years and lifelong learning, their pedagogy research and their commitment to inclusive education.
The list includes 1304 universities from 109 countries/regions.
MU was ranked in the top 31% (#301-400) of institutions globally (SDG 4 Quality Education) for our contribution to early years and lifelong learning, pedagogy research and our commitment to inclusive education.
SDG 5 - Gender Equality focuses on universities’ research on the study of gender equality, their policies on gender equality, and their commitment to recruiting and promoting women. The SDG itself phrases this explicitly as supporting women. We cannot hope to develop the world sustainably if the needs of more than half our population are not addressed.
Maynooth University (MU) has been ranked in the top 7% of universities globally (at number 79 out of 1081 institutions) for its research on the study of gender equality, policies on gender equality and commitment to recruiting and promoting women (5 Gender Equality).
SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities focuses on universities’ research on social inequalities, their policies on discrimination and their commitment to recruiting staff and students from under-represented groups.
MU’s research on social inequalities, policies on discrimination and commitment to recruiting staff and students from under-represented groups was reflected in MU being ranked in the top 200 institutions globally (#101-200) for our work on SDG 10 - Reducing Inequalities.
SDG 17 – partnerships for the goals looks at the broader ways in which universities support the SDGs through collaboration with other countries, promotion of best practices and publication of data. Every institution that enters the Impact Rankings is ranked within SDG 17.
Maynooth University is ranked in the top 1000 of 1,625 institutions in Partnership for the Goals in 2023.
Inaugural Report on MU Teaching & Learning’s Engagement with Sustainability and the SDGs
This inaugural report on Maynooth University (MU) teaching & learning’s engagement with sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is prepared by the three MU Teaching and Learning Committees of the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy, arising from an online questionnaire issued in May 2021.
The three MU Teaching and Learning Committees and the Faculties sincerely thank the Heads of Departments, Centres, Schools, and Institutes, Teaching and Learning Committee Departmental representatives, and individual staff who gave up their time to complete this questionnaire and, in some cases, to submit significant extra content. All content is archived pending further analysis following the feedback from the University Teaching and Learning Committee and the University Faculties.
Report Authors:
Michael Kenny, Patricia Kennon (Faculty of Social Sciences Teaching and Learning Committee), Rebecca Maguire and Joost Slingerland (Faculty of Science and Engineering Teaching and Learning Committee), Susan Gottlober (Faculty of Arts Celtic Studies and Philosophy Teaching and Learning Committee), and colleagues in the three Faculty Teaching and Learning Committees.
Inaugural Report on MU Teaching & Learning’s Engagement with Sustainability and the SDGs
