The UAB ranks top public university in the CYD ranking

The CyD Foundation presents the results of the thirteenth edition of the CyD ranking for Spanish universities. This classification is produced in association with the international ranking U-Multirank, with which it shares methodological principles and most of the indicators, adding some indicators that are unique to the Spanish university system. The report analyses 43 universities, 31 areas of knowledge, and 3,909 degrees. 

The ranking evaluates the performance of universities based on the results obtained in 36 indicators, and produces an institutional classification and a university classification for 31 areas of knowledge. The criteria are structured in five dimensions: teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, international orientation, and involvement with the environment.

The CYD ranking does not aim to make an ordered classification of universities, but rather classifies them by performance groups (high, medium or low) according to the result obtained in each criterion.

It is worth noting that the UAB, together with UC3M and the University of Navarra, leads the universities in the State with the largest number of indicators with high performance, with a total of 28 (four fewer than in the previous edition, with two of them not being included in this edition).

The UAB's level of performance, according to the five dimensions of the ranking and the indicators that each of them includes, is as follows:

• Teaching and Learning: the UAB is in the high-performance group in 6 of the 9 indicators: master's degree graduation rate, on-time graduation rate for bachelor's and master's degrees, bachelor's and master's degree performance rates, and bachelor's degree success rate. It is among the universities with an average performance in bachelor's degree graduation rate; and in the low-performance group in attracting students nationally (bachelor's and master's degrees).

• Research: the UAB is in the group of universities with high performance in 6 of the 8 indicators: publications per full-time equivalent PDI, external funding raised, external funding spent, normalised impact, highly cited publications, impact on public policies, and number of postdocs per PDI. It is in the group of average performance in open access publications, and in the group of low performance in active research periods.

• Knowledge Transfer: the UAB is in the high performance group in 7 of the 9 indicators: publications in collaboration with companies, patents with companies, funding from private sources, publications cited in patents, income from licenses, and patents granted. In the indicator for income from continuing education and spin-offs, it is in the medium performance group.

• International orientation: the UAB is in the high performance group in all 6 indicators: bachelor's degrees and master's degrees in a foreign language, foreign teaching staff, international theses, publications in collaboration with foreign universities, and student mobility.

• Involvement with the Environment: the UAB has a high performance in 3 of the 4 indicators: publications with regional entities, internships in companies in the region, and publications with companies in the region, and an average performance in research income from the region.

The UAB stands out above all in the dimensions of knowledge transfer, international orientation, and involvement with the environment. It is worth noting that the UAB is one of the universities with the fewest indicators of low performance, only three (undergraduate and master's students from other autonomous communities, and research periods).

More information:
https://www.rankingcyd.org