The UAB ranks 229 worldwide according to CWUR

16/10/2017

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR), based in Saudi Arabia, recently presented this year's edition of its ranking of the best universities in the world. The UAB ranks 229 and occupies second place among Spanish universities, behind the University of Barcelona which ranks 103. The UAB is followed by the Complutense University of Madrid in position 230 and the University of Valencia, in 287th place.
 
The ranking is headed by Harvard University, followed by Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. All five universities maintain their positions from last year's edition.
 
The CWUR analyses over 27,000 higher education institutions and lists the top 1,000 centres. To evaluate the position of each centre it takes into consideration eight indicators: quality in teaching, measured by the number of a university's students who have won international awards (25% of the final score); alumni employment, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have held CEO positions in top companies (25%); quality of faculty members, measured by the number of academics who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals (25%); number of articles published (5%); influence, measured by the number of research papers appearing in highly-influential journals (5%); citations, measured by the number of highly-cited research papers (5%); broad impact, measured by the university's h-index (5%); and, finally, patents, measured by the number of international patent filings (5%).
 
This year's ranking places the UAB at number 136 in number of articles published; 197 in broad impact; 212 in number of research papers appearing in highly-influential journals; 240 in quality of faculty members; 278 in number of citations; 280 in patent filings; 383 in quality in teaching; and 616 in alumni employment.

More information:
http://cwur.org