Also in this year, Liepaja University enters the “green” world university ranking – UI GreenMetric World University Rankings, by improving the result from 450th to 422th place.
The aim of the rating is to assess the activities of the world's higher education institutions in green policy-making and a sustainability, focusing on global climate change challenges, energy and water saving, recycling and green transport.
The rating identified a number of criteria: surroundings and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste, water, transport and education and research. Liepaja University showed the best indicators in the categories: transportation, energy and climate change and education and research.
A total rating this year includes 1050 higher education institutions. There are 3 universities from Latvia: Riga Technical University (55th place), Liepaja University (422th place) and Rezekne Academy of Technologies (878th place).
In the first place of the ranking is the Wageningen University & Research from the Netherlands, the second and third – Nottingham Trent University from the United Kingdom.