The UAB ranks top university in Spain according to CyD

The Fundación CyD presents the results of the eleventh 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 81 universities, 30 fields of knowledge and 3,407 degrees.

The ranking evaluates the performance of universities based on the results obtained in 36 indicators, both for the institutional ranking and for the ranking of the 30 fields of knowledge.

In this 2024 edition, Physiotherapy has been added to the fields analysed in the previous edition: Agriculture, Architecture, Biology, Business Administration, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Civil Engineering, Earth Sciences/Geology, Education, Electrical Engineering, History, Industrial Engineering, Journalism and Communication, Law, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mathematics, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, and Veterinary Medicine.

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 29 indicators in this category.

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 graduation rate, master's degree graduation rate, undergraduate and master's degree normative graduation rate, undergraduate and master's degree performance rate, and undergraduate success rate. It ranks among the universities with an intermediate performance in master's degree students from other autonomous communities.

In terms of research, the UAB is also in the group of universities with high performance in 6 of the 8 indicators: external research funds paid, external funds raised, publications per teaching and research staff, normalised impact of publications, and highly cited publications and number of postdocs. It is located in the medium performance group in open access publications.

In terms of knowledge transfer, the UAB is in the high performance group in 7 of the 8 indicators: private funds, publications with companies, patents with companies, licensing income, spin-offs, publications cited in patents and continuing education income. In the indicator of patents granted per professor it is in the medium performance group.

In international orientation, the UAB is in the high performance group in 6 of the 7 indicators: undergraduate and master's degrees in foreign languages, student mobility, foreign teaching staff, international PhD theses, and international publications. In internships abroad it is in the intermediate performance group.

Finally, the UAB presents a high performance in 3 of the 4 indicators of contribution to regional development: internships in companies in the region, publications with companies in the region, and regional publications, and presents an intermediate performance in regional research funds.

The 10 Spanish universities with the highest number of performance indicators in the ranking are, in this order: the UAB, University of Navarra, Autonomous University of Madrid, University Carlos III of Madrid, University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University, University of Deusto, University of Pontificia Comillas, Rovira i Virgili University and Ramon Llull University.

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