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).
In the 2020 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the UAB is the second Spanish university, occupying position 157 in the world ranking. In Europe, the UAB ranks among the Top 100 (69th position).
The UAB is located at position 213 in the world ranking (and 91 in Europe) according to the QS World University Rankings 2021, that ranks of the 500 World's Best universities by QS.
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 is the 161st world university in the Best Global Universities ranking published by the American newspaper US News. At European level occupies the 70th position and is the second Spanish university.
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.
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 world's 153h university, la 62nd in Europe and 2nd in Spain, in the 2020 edition of RUR Ranking Agency. In teaching criteria UAB ranks 97th worldwide.
UAB ocupa ranks 271st from all world universities, and is the second spanish university in the Scimago Institutions Ranking 2020.
UAB is the second university in Spain, the 51st in Europe and 133th in the world according to the 2018-2019 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.
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 has reached 181th place worldwide in the Global indicator published by the National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2019 on the basis of research activity. UAB remains among 200 best world's universities and consolidates as second spanish university.
UAB ranks 196 in the global rank. At spanish level, occupies second place in the eighth edition of this ranking published by Center for World University Rankings from Saudi Arabia.
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.
In the 2019 edition of the Leiden University Ranking of scientific productivity, UAB ranks 212th worldwide. At Spanish level is 3rd in total volume of publications, and 2nd in international collaboration.
UAB ranks second in the productivity ranking (ISSUE-P) on research. Moreover, the UAB is in fourth place in the Productivity global ranking ISSUE-P, which groups teaching, research and technology development rankings
The system rankings 2019 ISSUE "Synthetic Indicators of Spanish Universities", is published by the BBVA Foundation and the Institut Valencià d'Investigacions Econòmiques (IVIE).
UAB ranks 16th in the World and first in Spain at the 10th 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.
In the 7th 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.
El web de la UAB se encuentra en la posición 225 del mundo y la tercera de España según el ránking Webometrics 2019 que elabora Cibermetrics LAB del CSIC. El ránking analiza aspectos como el tamañodel web, los enlaces de otas páginas, el nñumero de documentos disponibles, la tranaparencia o la excelencia.
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 in first position in the SECABA Spanish University Libraries Ranking (ECABA-Rank 2018), based on budget incomes amb loans per capita.
The Fundació Autònoma Solidaria contributes to building a university with more solidarity and strongly committed to the realities of society.
The Environmental Office implements actions which help the university continue to advance and improve in its effort to be a more sustainable university and more respectful with the environment.
The Healthy and Sustainable Campus project has the objective of improving the health of the university community and promoting healthy lifestyles and surroundings.
The UAB Observatory for Equality is centred on the inequalities that exist in different groups which may result in unfair conditions or treatment for reasons of sex, disability or economic or social situation.