The UAB ranks top university in Spain according to CyD
The 12th edition of rankings of universities in Spain conducted by the CyD places the UAB in first position, with the largest number of high performance indicators of the 82 universities analysed.
The Fundación CyD presents the results of the twelfth edition of its CyD ranking for Spanish universities. This ranking is prepared in association with the international ranking U-Multirank, with which it shares the methodological principles and most of the indicators, adding some indicators that are more appropriate for the Spanish university system. This edition includes the results of 82 universities, 30 fields of knowledge and 3,454 degrees.
The ranking evaluates the performance of universities based on the results obtained in 38 indicators, both for the institutional ranking and for the ranking of the 30 fields of knowledge: Agriculture, Business Administration, Earth Sciences/Geology, Education, History, Journalism and Communication, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Odontology, Pharmacy, Physics, Physiotherapy, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, and Veterinary Medicine.
New in this 2025 edition is the incorporation of the field of Electrical Engineering and Energy, and an update in the results of the degrees in 11 STEM areas: Architecture, Biology, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications, Industrial Engineering and Production, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering and Physics.
The CYD ranking classifies universities by performance groups, high, medium or low according to the result obtained in each criterion. The UAB is once again, in this edition, the university with the highest number of high performance indicators in Spain, with a total of 32 indicators in this category, three more than in last year's edition.
The criteria are structured in five dimensions: teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, international orientation and involvement in the environment.
In terms of teaching and learning, the UAB is in the high performance group in 7 of the 9 indicators: undergraduate and master's degree graduation rate, undergraduate and master's degree normative graduation rate, undergraduate and master's degree performance rate and undergraduate success rate.
In terms of research, the UAB is also in the group of universities with high performance in 7 of the 8 indicators: external research funds received and awarded, publications per faculty member, normalised impact of publications, highly cited publications, open access publications and number of postdocs.
In terms of knowledge transfer, the UAB is in the high performance group in 9 of the 10 indicators: private funding, publications with companies, granted patents per faculty member, patents with companies, licensing income, spin-offs, publications cited in patents, impact on public policies, and publications related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
In international orientation, the UAB is in the high performance group in 6 of the 7 indicators: undegraduate and master's degrees taught in a foreign language, student mobility, foreign teaching staff, international doctoral theses and international publications.
Finally, the UAB presents a high performance in 3 of the 4 indicators of contribution to regional development: internships at local companies, publications with companies in the region and regional publications.
The 10 Spanish universities with the highest number of performance indicators in the ranking are, in this order: the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, University of Navarra, Pompeu Fabra University, Autonomous University of Madrid, University Carlos III of Madrid, University of Barcelona, Rovira i Virgili University, University of Pontificia Comillas, Ramon Llull University and University of Deusto.
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