Ulyanovsk State Technical University (UlSTU) has entered the international UI Green Metric World University Ranking 2021.
956 universities from 80 countries participated in the UI GreenMetric 2021. Russia was represented in the ranking by 54 universities. UlSTU became the only university of the Ulyanovsk region included in the rating.
The assessment is carried out on 6 indicators: setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste management, water resources, transport policy, education and research. Maximum points UlSTU got in such groups as "education and research" and "setting and infrastructure".
The University of Indonesia (UI) initiated in 2010 the World University Ranking, which later became known as UI GreenMetric (UI GreenMetric World University Rankings). Its purpose is to quantify efforts to maintain the sustainability (environmental friendliness) of campuses. The founders of the rating seek to draw the attention of the academic community to the need to conduct a policy of sustainable environmental development in order to solve environmental problems.
UlSTU entered the UI GreenMetric rating along with such universities as the University of Glasgow (UK), the University of California at Davis (USA), Cairo University (Egypt), University of Baghdad (Iraq), Ton Duc Thang University (Vietnam), University of Indonesia (Indonesia), National Pingtung University of Science & Technology (China), Free University of Berlin (Germany), Politecnico di Torino(Italy) etc.