The results of 2023 UI GreenMetric World University Ranking System, which evaluates world universities in the fields of environmental awareness, energy and climate change, waste, management of transportation and sustainability, were announced. In this ranking, in which 1183 universities were evaluated, our University was ranked 85th among world universities and came in 3rd among 98 Turkish universities. In the GreenMetric Ranking aiming to draw attention to the matters about sustainability and to create global awareness regarding environmental consciousness, while our University increased its 2023 total score from 8260 to 8460, it increased its score from 1325 to 1350 in the Setting &Infrastructure category, from 1535 to 1610 in the Energy and Climate Change category and from 1575 to 1675 in the Education and Research category. It achieved to be ranked 4th in the Setting &Infrastructure and Transportation categories.

Figure 1. Change of UI GreenMetric Scores of our University by Years

Table 1. Top 10 Turkish Universities in the GreenMetric Ranking 2023

UI GreenMetric platform was established by the University of Indonesia in 2010. UI GreenMetric Ranking evaluates the current conditions and policies of the universities regarding green campus and sustainability and compares worldwide. UI GreenMetric aims to encourage paying more attention to combating global climate change, energy and water conservation, waste recycling and green transportation by drawing the attention of university administrators and stakeholders. ERU conducts significant studies for the purpose of providing high-level contributions to our city and country in terms of education, research and community services, and it achieves important successes in this sense. In addition, important activities are carried out to make the green campus, energy conservation and eco-friendly policies widespread by improving them in order to provide our students and staff members with clean and livable environments. The green campus and sustainability activities of our university can be accessed at https://surdurulebilirlik.erciyes.edu.tr/ .

We would like to thank all our staff members, students and stakeholders who contributed to the development and achievements of our university.