Supplied by Asbah Ahmad I didn’t even read up to the “global impacts” part of the headline—I was just shocked we beat out schools like Cambridge and Princeton. After all, last fall, Principal Patrick Deane referred to Queen’s global academic rankings as “depressing.” Immediately, I investigated the background of the rankings we topped. The Times Higher Education ( THE) Impact Rankings, run by the “esteemed” THE publication, is a global ranking of universities based on their advancement of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Within minutes, I found glaring issues with the ranking’s methodology. Furthermore, how Queen’s advertised its rankings results seemed dodgy, peculiar, and even dishonest during the peak of the 2025 admissions cycle.