The UAB among the top 200 universities according to THE World University Rankings 2026
The UAB moves up 6 places compared to last year's edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE WUR) and is now in position 183. A total of 2,191 universities from around the world appear in the ranking.
In this year's edition of the ranking, the UAB improves its score, reaching 59.8 (compared to 58.7 in 2025). The UAB obtains its best results in the most important areas of the ranking: research environment (position 189), teaching (position 224), and research quality (position 217).
The UAB is the 78th top university in Europe and also ranks second among higher education institutions of Spain. It thereby improves in both sectors, given that it ranked 86th in Europe and third in Spain in the previous edition of the ranking. There are a total of 57 Spanish universities in the classification, which this year is headed by the University of Oxford.
THE World Universities Rankings is a leading ranking prepared by the Times Higher Education journal, which analyses higher education institutions based on 18 performance indicators grouped into five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, transfer and international projection.
The UAB, with Sustainable Development Goals
Quality education