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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
| 1 | University of Sussex |
| 2 | SOAS University of London |
| 3 | University of Oxford |
| 4 | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 5 | The University of Manchester |
| 6 | University of Cambridge |
| 7 | Harvard University |
| 8 | Wageningen University & Research |
| 9 | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 10 | UCL |
| 11 | University of Cape Town |
| 12 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 13 | Columbia University |
| 14 | Australian National University (ANU) |
| 15 | Cornell University |
| 16 | Stanford University |
| 17 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) |
| 18 | University of Leeds |
| 19 | Princeton University |
| 20 | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| 21 | King's College London |
| 22 | The University of Sheffield |
| 23 | Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 24 | University of East Anglia (UEA) |
| 25 | University of Witwatersrand |
| 26 | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| 27 | Universidad de los Andes |
| 28 | Leiden University |
| 29 | The University of Tokyo |
| 30 | The University of Edinburgh |
| 31 | The University of Queensland |
| 32 | University of Bath |
| 33 | Universidad de Chile |
| 34 | University of British Columbia |
| 35 | Johns Hopkins University |
| 36 | Utrecht University |
| 37 | Peking University |
| 38 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) |
| 39 | University of Toronto |
| 40 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne |
| 41 | The University of Melbourne |
| 42 | Yale University |
| 43 | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 44 | Tsinghua University |
| 45 | The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies - Geneva |
| 46 | McGill University |
| 47 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) |
| 48 | American University |
| 49 | Kyoto University |
| 50 | Newcastle University |
