Ranked 13th in the world for clean water and sanitation (SDG 6)
Source: THE Impact Rankings: Clean Water and Sanitation, 2025
Full ranking profile 59 placements
Every placement the Index records for Macquarie. The headline figure is the strongest of these.
| Ranking table | Publisher | World rank |
|---|---|---|
| THE Impact 2025 Headline clean water and sanitation (SDG 6) | Times Higher Education | =13 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Philosophy | Quacquarelli Symonds | =18 |
| THE Impact 2025 life below water (SDG 14) | Times Higher Education | =21 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Economics | METU (URAP Lab) | =28 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Linguistics | Quacquarelli Symonds | =29 |
| QS by Subject 2025 Linguistics | Quacquarelli Symonds | =36 |
| RUR 2026 international diversity | RUR Rankings Agency | =39 |
| ARWU GRAS 2024 Business Administration | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =41 |
| ARWU GRAS 2025 Business Administration | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =41 |
| QS by Subject 2026 Petroleum Engineering | Quacquarelli Symonds | =49 |
| THE Impact 2025 advancing the Sustainable Development Goals | Times Higher Education | =50 |
| SCImago 2025 Economics, Econometrics and Finance | SCImago Research Group | =55 |
| RUR 2026 research | RUR Rankings Agency | =65 |
| SCImago 2025 Psychology | SCImago Research Group | =66 |
| SCImago 2026 Business, Management and Accounting | SCImago Research Group | =76 |
| Leiden 2025 mathematics and computer science (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =83 |
| QS Sustainability 2026 sustainability | Quacquarelli Symonds | =98 |
| QS Employability 2022 graduate employability | Quacquarelli Symonds | =98 |
| NTU 2025 Social Sciences | National Taiwan University | =118 |
| QS 2027 | Quacquarelli Symonds | =126 |
| QS 2025 | Quacquarelli Symonds | =133 |
| SCImago 2026 Arts and Humanities | SCImago Research Group | =134 |
| QS 2026 | Quacquarelli Symonds | =138 |
| SCImago 2025 Social Sciences | SCImago Research Group | =141 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Studies in Human Society | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =149 |
| Leiden 2025 social sciences and humanities (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =150 |
| NTU 2025 Agriculture | National Taiwan University | =153 |
| THE 2026 | Times Higher Education | =166 |
| ARTU 2025 | UNSW Sydney | =170 |
| US News 2026-2027 | U.S. News & World Report | =173 |
| Leiden 2025 scientific impact (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =192 |
| Nature 2025 Earth & environmental sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =197 |
| ARWU 2025 | ShanghaiRanking Consultancy | =201 |
| Webomet 2025.2 (July 2025) | Cybermetrics Lab, CSIC | =215 |
| Leiden 2025 life and earth sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =217 |
| SCImago 2025 Computer Science | SCImago Research Group | =230 |
| Time 2026 | Time / Statista | =232 |
| Leiden 2025 biomedical and health sciences (top 10% most-cited papers) | CWTS, Leiden University | =241 |
| RUR 2026 | RUR Rankings Agency | =255 |
| URAP 2024-2025 Public, Environmental & Occupational Health | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =255 |
| URAP 2025-2026 | URAP Research Laboratory, Middle East Technical University | =268 |
| NTU 2025 | National Taiwan University | =275 |
| Leiden 2025 physical sciences and engineering (top 10% most-cited papers) | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =280 |
| SCImago 2025 Engineering | SCImago Research Group | =280 |
| NTU 2025 Clinical Medicine | National Taiwan University | =298 |
| NTU 2025 Life Sciences | National Taiwan University | =340 |
| CWUR 2025 | Center for World University Rankings | =341 |
| RUR 2026 financial sustainability | RUR Rankings Agency | =355 |
| NTU 2025 Natural Sciences | National Taiwan University | =355 |
| Nature 2025 biological sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =356 |
| SCImago 2026 | SCImago Research Group | =393 |
| Leiden 2025 | Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University | =401 |
| MosIUR 2025 | Association of Rating Makers (MosIUR) | =401 |
| NTU 2025 Engineering | National Taiwan University | =404 |
| SCImago 2025 Mathematics | SCImago Research Group | =409 |
| Nature 2025 health sciences | Nature / Springer Nature | =429 |
| SCImago 2026 Chemistry | SCImago Research Group | =433 |
| SCImago 2026 Physics and Astronomy | SCImago Research Group | =471 |
| RUR 2026 teaching | RUR Rankings Agency | =730 |
Banded results are recorded at the lower bound of the band. For how the headline figure is selected, see the methodology.