We offer an overview of TOP-100 best universities in the world for sustainable development for foreign students. Innovative training programs are related to global environmental problems, sustainable development problems require holistic, integrated, coordinated actions in a wide range of areas. This programme provides students with an extensive knowledge base on core concepts related to sustainable development, with the opportunity to specialise in a field of interest to them.
Most sustainability courses are Master of Science or Master of Arts. It will take 1-2 years to complete the studies. While studying sustainability, you can choose from a variety of specialisations: sustainable energy, sustainable management, planning, sustainable property development, sustainable urban development.
Programs include classes on globalization, environment, innovation for sustainability, sustainable finance, investment, environmental science, sustainable technologies, materials, integration of renewable systems with the energy system.
Explore the list of the world's best universities for sustainable development for international students!
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Development Studies
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Sussex | 96,8 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 93,0 |
| =3 | SOAS University of London | 92,7 |
| =3 | The London School of Economics and Political | 92,7 |
| 5 | Cambridge University | 91,5 |
| 6 | Harvard University | 91,0 |
| 7 | Wageningen University & Research | 88,1 |
| 8 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 87,5 |
| 9 | National University of Singapore (NUS) | 87,4 |
| =10 | The Australian National University | 87,2 |
| =10 | The University of Manchester | 87,2 |
| 12 | Stanford University | 87,0 |
| 13 | Princeton University | 84,1 |
| 14 | UCL | 83,7 |
| =15 | Columbia University | 83,2 |
| =15 | University of Cape Town | 83,2 |
| 17 | The University of Melbourne | 83,0 |
| 18 | Cornell University | 82,6 |
| 19 | University of East Anglia (UEA) | 82,3 |
| =20 | Jawaharlal Nehru University | 81,3 |
| =20 | Johns Hopkins University | 81,3 |
| =20 | University of Chicago | 81,3 |
| 23 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 80,9 |
| 24 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | 80,6 |
| 25 | University of British Columbia | 80,4 |
| =26 | Leiden University | 79,7 |
| =26 | The University of Tokyo | 79,7 |
| 28 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | 79,4 |
| 29 | University of Leeds | 79,2 |
| =30 | King`s College London | 78,7 |
| =30 | Massey University | 78,7 |
| 32 | McGill University | 78,3 |
| 33 | Boston University | 78,0 |
| =34 | The University of Sydney | 77,9 |
| =34 | University of Amsterdam | 77,9 |
| 36 | University of Toronto | 77,7 |
| 37 | National Autonomous University of Mexico | 77,3 |
| 38 | Yonsei University | 77,1 |
| 39 | Ghent University | 76,9 |
| 40 | Universidad de Los Andes | 76,8 |
| 41 | University of Wisconsin - Madison | 76,5 |
| 42 | The University of Hong Kong | 76,2 |
| 43 | Delhi university | 76,1 |
| =44 | Makerere University | 75,9 |
| =44 | University of Witwatersrand | 75,9 |
| =46 | Pennsylvania State University | 75,6 |
| =46 | The University of Queensland | 75,6 |
| 48 | University of Edinburgh | 75,5 |
| =49 | Newcastle University | 75,1 |
| =49 | Bienvenue à l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne | 75,1 |
| =49 | University of California, Davis | 75,1 |
| 51-100 | Western Sydney University | |
| 51-100 | American University | |
| 51-100 | American University of Beirut (AUB) | |
| 51-100 | Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand | |
| 51-100 | Brown University | |
| 51-100 | Cairo University | |
| 51-100 | Chulalongkorn University | |
| 51-100 | Deakin University | |
| 51-100 | Duke University | |
| 51-100 | Fudan University | |
| 51-100 | George Washington University | |
| 51-100 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | |
| 51-100 | Imperial College London | |
| 51-100 | Kyoto University | |
| 51-100 | Lund University | |
| 51-100 | Michigan State University | |
| 51-100 | Monash University | |
| 51-100 | Nagoya University | |
| 51-100 | New York University (NYU) | |
| 51-100 | Politecnico di Milano | |
| 51-100 | Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn | |
| 51-100 | Seoul National University | |
| 51-100 | Stellenbosh University | |
| 51-100 | The Ohio State University | |
| 51-100 | The University of Auckland | |
| 51-100 | The University of Sheffield | |
| 51-100 | The University of Warwick | |
| 51-100 | The University of Western Australia | |
| 51-100 | Tsinghua University | |
| 51-100 | Universidad Nacional de Colombia | |
| 51-100 | Universidade de São Paulo | |
| 51-100 | Universitas Indonesia | |
| 51-100 | Universitat de Barcelona | |
| 51-100 | University of Antwerp | |
| 51-100 | University of Bath | |
| 51-100 | University of Birmingham | |
| 51-100 | University of Copenhagen | |
| 51-100 | University of Ghana | |
| 51-100 | University of Gothenburg | |
| 51-100 | University of Göttingen | |
| 51-100 | University of Groningen | |
| 51-100 | University of KwaZulu-Natal | |
| 51-100 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | |
| 51-100 | University of Minnesota Twin Cities | |
| 51-100 | University of Pretoria | |
| 51-100 | University of South Africa | |
| 51-100 | Utrecht University | |
| 51-100 | Victoria University of Wellington | |
| 51-100 | Gadjah Mada University |
