No Indian institute in top 200 in QS Sustainability Rankings 2026
IIT Delhi was followed by IIT Bombay, which stood at a global rank of 236 (a notch down from 235 last year), and IIT Kharagpur (236, down from 202 last year).
In the 2026 rankings, 103 universities from India made the list that ranks educational institutions based on sustainability. (Image: AI Generated) No Indian institution made it to the top 200 in the QS Sustainability rankings 2026, released on Tuesday, with IIT Delhi, the country’s top-ranked institution, slipping to rank 205 from last year’s 171.
IIT Delhi was followed by IIT Bombay, which stood at a global rank of 236 (a notch down from 235 last year), and IIT Kharagpur (236, down from 202 last year).
| 2026 Rank | 2025 Rank | Institution | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | =3 | Lund University | Sweden |
| 2 | 1 | University of Toronto | Canada |
| 3 | =5 | UCL | UK |
| 4 | =7 | The University of Edinburgh | UK |
| 5 | =5 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
| 6 | =39 | London School of Economics (LSE) | UK |
| =7 | =7 | Imperial College London | UK |
| =7 | =12 | University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) | Australia |
| 9 | =15 | McGill University | Canada |
| 10 | =9 | The University of Manchester | UK |
| =11 | 2 | ETH Zurich | Switzerland |
| =11 | =3 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | USA |
| 13 | =19 | Stanford University | USA |
| 14 | =199 | University of Oxford | UK |
| 15 | 11 | The University of Sydney | Australia |
Of the top 10 Indian institutions in the rankings, seven have seen their rankings drop this year compared to the previous edition. In addition to IITs Delhi, Bombay and Kharagpur, this includes IIT Madras (dropped from 277 last year to 305 this year), IIT Kanpur (310 this year vs 245 last year), and the Indian Institute of Science, which saw a steep fall from rank 376 last year to 462 this year.
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