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Riga Technical University (RTU) Ranks 45th in GreenMetric World University Rankings 2023, 10 Places Higher than Previous Ranking

Riga Technical University (RTU) has been ranked 45th in the world in the green policy and sustainability ranking “GreenMetric World University Rankings 2023”, which is ten places higher than in the previous ranking, according to the results of the ranking.

In the “GreenMetric” rating, the world’s universities are ranked according to their commitment to reduce the harmful impact on the environment. The compliance of the universities’ actions with green principles is evaluated in six criteria – common infrastructure, energy efficiency and climate change mitigating activities, waste management, efficient use of water resources, transport infrastructure and environmental education and science.

RTU has achieved the highest results in environmental education and science, transport infrastructure and implementation of energy efficiency and climate change mitigating activities.

Other Baltic higher education institutions have not been ranked among the 200 greenest universities in the world. “GreenMetric 2023” from Latvia also includes Liepāja University (LiepU), which is ranked 294th. It has shown the highest results in waste management, transport infrastructure, as well as in the implementation of energy efficiency and climate change mitigating activities.

Two universities from Lithuania entered the ranking – Vītautas Diža University in 445th place and Mikolas Romeris University in 547th place. Also from Estonia, two universities are included in the ranking – the Estonian University of Life Sciences in 593rd place and the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1019th place.

Wageningen University and Research Center in the Netherlands, Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom and Trier University of Applied Sciences in Germany are in the first three places of the rating. In total, 1183 universities from 84 countries were evaluated in the ranking.

Photo: Riga Technical University

2023-12-19 04:18:17
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