UAB bachelor's degrees score high once again in the El Mundo ranking
13/05/2015
As in previous years, the UAB stands out in the ranking of the 50 most sought after bachelor's degrees in Spain, conducted by the newspaper El Mundo, and comes in second place only behind the Complutense University of Madrid. A total of eighteen bachelor's degrees rank among the top five programmes in their respective categories. Of these, three are positioned in first place: Veterinary Medicine, Environmental Sciences and Advertising and Public Relations.
In second place are the bachelor's degrees in Political Science and Public Administration, Social Education, Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Spanish Language and Literature, Physics, and Translation and Interpreting. In third place are the bachelor's degrees in Biology, Biotechnology, Audiovisual Communication, Economics and Accountancy and Finance. The degree in Journalism is positioned in fourth place, and both Physiotherapy and Food Science and Technology are in fifth place.
El Mundo analyses fifty bachelor's degrees offered in universities around Spain. Of these fifty bachelor's degrees, the UAB offers a total of 35. The results of the classification are based on data obtained from the universities themselves (programme demand, available resources, study plans and results obtained, context data, etc.), questionnaires filled out by the lecturing staff and other objective indicators such as international rankings programmer reports from the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation of Spain (ANECA). Each of these aspects were valued at 50, 40 and 10 percent respectively in the final result of each bachelor's degree.
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