Sustainability Awards and Rankings

In FY 2023–24, UC campuses were ranked as leaders in sustainability by a wide range of organizations and publications.

Highlights from 2023–24:

Five of the nine undergraduate campuses currently hold an AASHE STARS Gold rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). UC Merced and UC Irvine have a Platinum rating. Two UC campuses, UC Berkeley and UC Riverside, extended their STARS reporting timeframe to submit through the just-launched and more comprehensive STARS version 3.0. UC Berkeley previously held a Platinum rating and UC Riverside a Gold rating.
UC Davis Health and UCLA Health’s Santa Monica UCLA Medical Center were recognized as two of the top 25 Environmental Excellence Award Honorees by Practice Greenhealth. UC Irvine Health, UCLA Health’s Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UC San Diego Health, and UCSF Health received Practice Greenhealth Emerald Awards in the top 20% of hospitals nationwide.
UC Irvine and UC Merced were ranked ninth and tenth, respectively, in the Princeton Review’s list of top 50 Green Colleges in 2024.
The UC system received the EcoChampion: Most Sustainable Organization award from EnergyCAP.

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