{"id":8977,"date":"2025-11-21T17:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/?p=8977"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T08:41:32","slug":"waseda-ranked-in-the-top-12-of-the-qs-world-university-rankings-sustainability-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/news-en\/8977","title":{"rendered":"Waseda Ranked in the top 12% of the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Waseda University ranked in the top 12% globally in the Sustainability Rankings 2026, and ranked 15th in the world for environmental sustainability.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Top 12% in the world and number one amongst private universities in Japan<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>On November 18, 2025, Japan time, the UK-based QS* announced the QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026, with Waseda ranking 227th, or in the top 12% of the 1,994 universities worldwide (ranked 1st among private universities in Japan).<\/p>\n<p>*QS: A British educational company that evaluates universities around the world every year and publishes a variety of university rankings.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>15th in the world for environmental sustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Among the indicators that make up this ranking, our university received a particularly high rating of 15th in the world in &#8220;Environmental Sustainability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>QS ranks universities around the world in order of overall score based on three pillars and nine indicators. For more details, please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/sustainability-rankings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2026<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8978 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251121_QSRankingTable.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251121_QSRankingTable.jpg 721w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/assets\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251121_QSRankingTable-610x501.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waseda University ranked in the top 12% globally in the Sustainability Rankings 2026, and ranked 15th in the w [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[94,134,132,133],"class_list":["post-8977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-general-en","tag-newsletter-e","tag-vision150-en","tag-vision-now-e"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8983,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8977\/revisions\/8983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/vision150\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}