The University of Plymouth has been ranked among the world’s top 100 universities – and the top 15 in the UK – in the 2025 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings.
The rankings measure the performance of more than 2,500 universities from 130 countries or territories based on their progress towards the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).Out of all those universities, Plymouth was placed equal 84th globally and equal 14th in the UK in the tables, recognising its long-held commitments to sustainability across all of its operations.
This is the latest acknowledgement of the University’s sustainability expertise and achievements, and it recently retained its PAS 2060 verification after being independently certified carbon neutral for a third year.In 2024, it won two Green Gown Awards – one for the impact of its pioneering marine litter research, and a second recognising BSc (Hons) Environmental Sciences graduate Hayley Hill as a national sustainability champion.
Its work to embed sustainability in all of its undergraduate and postgraduate teaching was central to it being awarded triple gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework, while 78% of its research was assessed as world-leading or internationally excellent in the most recent Research Excellence Framework.