In recent years, the UAB has seen recognition for its efforts in promoting quality in teaching, in attracting international talent and in obtaining a growing impact in research, together with a progressive improvement in its classifications in the most prestigious and influential international rankings. Thus, the UAB is well as occupying an outstanding position among Spanish universities in world rankings such as the QS World University Rankings (QS WUR), the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE WUR) and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
UAB ranks as 200 best world universities
In the 2023 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the UAB is the second Spanish university, occupying position 183 in the world ranking. In Europe, the UAB ranks among the Top 100 (81st position).
UAB is leading Spanish universities
The UAB is located at position 178 in the world ranking and is leading Spanish universities according to the QS World University Rankings 2023, that ranks of the 500 World's Best universities by QS.
2nd best Spanish university
The UAB is located between positions 201 and 300 in the World Ranking produced by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University. At Spanish level, the UAB appears as the 2nd best university sharing position with other universities.
UAB ranks World's 143 university
UAB is the 143th world university in the Best Global Universities ranking published by the American newspaper US News. At European level occupies the 52nd position and is the second Spanish university.
The UAB ranks 12th in the world ranking
The UAB is in the 12th position worldwide, 5th at European level, and the second Spanish university in the QS Top 50 under 50 Ranking which classifies the top 50 universities of the world founded less than 50 years ago.
The UAB ranks 13th in world classification
In the 2018 edition of the THE Young University Rankings, the UAB ranks 13th, ocuppying the second place among Spanish universities, and 7th among european.
UAB ranks Spanish first university
UAB ranks world's 166th university, la 67th in Europe and 1st in Spain, in the 2022 edition of RUR Ranking Agency. In teaching criteria UAB ranks 132nd worldwide.
Second university in Spain
UAB ocupa ranks 175 from all world universities, and is the second spanish university in the Scimago Institutions Ranking 2022.
UAB ranks 129
UAB is the second university in Spain, the 49th in Europe and 129th in the world according to the 2021-2022 edition of the URAP ranking, published annually by the Middle East Technical University (Turkey). This ranking classifies 2,000 universities in the world according to the number and quality of scientific publications.
UAB has nine scientific disciplines among best 100 in the World
Nine scientific disciplines at UAB are among the top 100 in the world: Veterinary (placed among 50 best worls universities on 31st place), Archaeology, Modern Languages, Agriculture, Geography, Sociology, Social Policy and Administration, Economics, and Educacion, as ranked at QS WUR by Scientific Disciplines Ranking 2020. In overall, UAB is among the top 200 universities in 28 of the 48 subjects classified by QS.
UAB ranks World's 161 university
UAB has reached 161st place worldwide in the Global indicator published by the National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2022 on the basis of research activity. UAB remains among 200 best world's universities and consolidates as third spanish university.
UAB ranks 2nd in spanish universities
UAB ranks 184 in the global rank. At spanish level, occupies second place in the eleventh edition of this ranking published by Center for World University Rankings from Saudi Arabia.
Fisrt Spanish web repository
The Diposit of Digital Documents (DDD) of the UAB is the first Spanish university web repository, according to the January 2017 edition of the Web of World Repositories Ranking developed by the CSIC, and reaches 20th position in world institutional repositories.
UAB ranks 2247th in volume of papers
In the 2022 edition of the Leiden University Ranking of scientific productivity, UAB ranks 247th worldwide. At Spanish level is 3rd in total volume of publications, and 2nd in international collaboration.
The UAB is among best Spanish universities in research
UAB ranks second in the productivity ranking on research. Moreover, the UAB is in second level in the Productivity global ranking U-Ranking 2022, which groups teaching amd research rankings
U-Ranking is published by the BBVA Foundation and the Institut Valencià d'Investigacions Econòmiques (IVIE).
UAB ranks third in spanish universities
UAB ranks 44th in the world and is the fisrt Spanish university
UAB ranks 44th in the World and second in Spain at the 11th edition of GreenMetric Ranking of World Universities. This ranking is hold by Indonesia University, and compares universities efforts for sustainibility and responsive policies with environtment.
UAB is the best spanish university by number of high-performance criteria
In the 9th edition of the ranking held by Fundación CYD, in cooperation with U-Multirank, UAB is the first Spanish university in obtaining the highest number of high-performance criteria.
UAB website ranks world's 200th and third in Spain
The UAB website is in position 200 in the world and third in Spain according to the Webometrics 2022 ranking prepared by the CSIC's Cibermetrics LAB. The ranking analyzes aspects such as the size of the website, the links to other pages, the number of documents available, transparency or excellence.
UAB ranks 100th in Europe's most innovative universities
UAB ranks 100th in the first edition of Reuters top 100 Europe's most innovative universities, and ocupies fifth place in Spain.
UAB libraries rank among most efficient in Spain
UAB libraries rank in 9th position in the SECABA Spanish University Libraries Ranking (SECABA-Rank 2020), based on budget incomes amb loans per capita.