Impact Rankings 2023: good health and well-being

The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings are the only global performance tables that assess universities against the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We use carefully calibrated indicators to provide comprehensive and balanced comparison across four broad areas: research, stewardship, outreach and teaching.

This table on SDG 3 – good health and well-being measures universities’ research on key diseases and conditions, their support for healthcare professions and the health of students and staff.

The list includes 1,218 universities from 106 countries/regions.

View the methodology for Impact Rankings 2023: good health and well-being (SDG 3)

Ireland’s RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences tops the ranking. Australian Catholic University and Thailand’s Mahidol University complete the top three.

Institutions from Australia are the most-represented in the top 100 of this ranking with 14, followed by the UK with 11. Japan comes in next with seven institutions in this group. 

The Impact Rankings are inherently dynamic: they are growing rapidly each year as many more universities seek to demonstrate their commitment to delivering the SDGs by joining our database; and they allow institutions to demonstrate rapid improvement year-on-year, by introducing clear new policies, for example, or by providing clearer and more open evidence of their progress. Therefore, we expect and welcome regular change in the ranked order of institutions (and we discourage year-on-year comparisons) as universities continue to drive this urgent agenda.

View the full results of the overall Impact Rankings 2023

Read our analysis of the Impact Rankings 2023 results

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