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ERIC Number: EJ1460682
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Feb
Pages: 35
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0742-5627
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1758
Available Date: 2024-08-20
The Race to Sustainability: Decoding Green University Rankings through a Comparative Analysis (2018-2022)
Innovative Higher Education, v50 n1 p241-275 2025
This study investigates the evolving landscape of green universities by analyzing and comparing rankings from 2018 to 2022. It expands beyond the single score offered by the UI GreenMetric, employing Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques to evaluate universities from diverse perspectives. Focusing on the top 50 universities from 2022, the study assesses their performance across six key criteria: setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste, water, transportation, and education and research. Various MCDM methods (LOPCOW MEREC, CoCoSo, CRADIS, EDAS, MABAC, MAIRCA, and MARCOS) are implemented, revealing how they prioritize different aspects of sustainability. Furthermore, the study examines the correlation between rankings and employs the COPELAND aggregation approach to derive a unified ranking. This investigation not only contrasts MCDM outcomes with the UI GreenMetric's total score-based rankings but also illuminates the relative significance of each criterion and its variation across weighting techniques. Additionally, the study delves into the temporal dynamics of university rankings, offering insights into institutional performance across different years.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Ondokuz Mayis University, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Samsun, Turkey; 2MEF University, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey; 3Széchenyi István University, Gyor, Hungary; 4University of Belgrade, Department of Operations Research and Statistics, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia; 5Western Caspian University, Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, Baku, Azerbaijan