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Times Higher Education World University Rankings provides a ranking of the best universities in the world, assessing their performance using the following indicators that are grouped into five areas: teaching (the learning environment); research environment (research productivity, research reputation, research income), research quality (citation impact, research weight, research excellence, influence of research), the international outlook (staff, students and research) and the industry (industry income and patents).

Times Higher Education World University Rankings continues to be the leading international ranking that underpins excellence in higher education. This year, the ranking includes 2,092 institutions from 115 countries, based on the participation of 2,860 higher education and research institutions from around the world.

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The Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona) has been ranked in the following positions in the THE World University Rankings 2025:

• World position: 801-1000 out of 2,092
• Spain position: =15 out of 55

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Times Higher Education Young University Rankings list the world’s best universities founded after 1974. It is based on the same 18 performance indicators as the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which are grouped into five pillars: teaching, research quality, research environment, industry and international outlook, but the weightings have been adjusted to give less weight to reputation. 

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UIC Barcelona has been ranked in the following position in the THE Young University Rankings 2024:

• World ranking: 201-250 out of 673
• National ranking: 8-16 out of 32

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Times Higher Education World University Rankings by subject provides a ranking of the best universities in the world by subject, covering eleven subjects and providing a general description of the best places in the world for studying a particular discipline.

The eleven different fields are arts and humanities; business and economics; clinical and health; computer science; education; engineering; law; life sciences; physical sciences; psychology and social sciences.

The methodology used to compile the World University Rankings by subject is based on eighteen performance indicators, which are grouped into five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry and international outlook, which are recalibrated to suit each subject individually.

UIC Barcelona has been classified in the fields of Clinical and Health and Social Sciences. The disciplines that are included in the field of Clinical and Health are Medicine, Dentistry, and others related to health and in the field of Social Sciences, the disciplines that are included are Communication and Media, Politics and International Studies (including development studies ), Sociology and Geography.

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UIC Barcelona has been ranked in the following positions in the THE World University Rankings by subject 2024:

Clinical and Health

• World ranking: 601-800 out of 1059
• National ranking: 15-38 out of 43

Social Science

• World ranking: =801+ out of 997
• National ranking: =38+ out of 44

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QS World University Rankings: Europe 2025 is a ranking that focuses exclusively on European universities and analyses them in different areas of Research, Employability, Learning, Global Engagement and Sustainability, focusing especially on exchange and internationalisation, two key metrics in Europe, and introduces a new metric, which is International Student Diversity.

The metrics used to analyse the different areas that make up the university according to the methodology of this ranking are:

• Research:
  • Academic Reputation
  • Citations per paper
  • Papers per faculty
• Employability:
  • Employer reputation 
  • Employment Outcomes
• Learning:
  • Faculty Student Ratio 
• Global Engagement:
  • International Research Network
  • International Faculty
  • International Student Diversity
  • Inbound Exchange Students
  • Outbound Exchange Students
• Sustainability

The results of UIC Barcelona in QS World University Rankings: Europe 2025 rank the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in the following positions:
- European Position: 374 of 684
- Spain position: 32 of 44
 

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QS World University Rankings by Subject ranks the best institutions in the world in 54 subjects distributed in five areas: “Arts and Humanities”, “Engineering and Technology”, “Life Sciences and Medicine”, “Natural Sciences” and “Social Sciences and Management”. The total of the best institutions varies according to the subject, in the case of "Dentistry" it classifies the 80 best institutions in the world.

In the QS-WUR by subject ranking, the different areas and disciplines are analysed through the reputation indicators between academics and employers, and the amount and impact of their research. These are individually recalibrated to adapt to each area and discipline, seeing as research and publication vary significantly between different academic disciplines. 

The indicators used in this ranking to measure “academic and employer reputation” and “research” are: 

• Reputation:
  • Academic reputation: academic assessment of the different areas of universities. 
  • Employer reputation: assessment of employers on the different universities through their hired employees. 
• Research:
  • Citations: research citations per article over a period of five years.
  • H-index: The index is based on the total number of most cited articles of the academic, and the number of citations they have received in other publications. 
• International outlook:
  • IRN ( International Research Network): It reflects the ability of universities to diversity the geography of their international research networking by establishing sustainable research partnership with other higher education institutions.  

Since research and publication rates vary significantly across academic areas and disciplines, the QS World University Rankings by Subject apply a different weighting of the above indicators in each subject.

The results of UIC Barcelona in QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024 classify the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in the following positions in the subject of “Dentistry”:

- World Ranking: 46 of 100
- National Ranking: 2 of 3

Methodology

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QS World University Rankings: Sustainability, ranking specifically designed to evaluate universities based on Social Impact, Environmental Impact and Governance.

The methodology of the QS WUR: Sustainability, analyzes the university through three areas: “Environmental Impact”, which is measured through the indicators of environmental education, environmental research and environmental sustainability; “Social Impact” which measures the impact of a university's commitment to indicators such as equality, employability and partnerships with industry and improving Health and Wellbeing  and finally, “Governance” which assesses whether the university has strong governance through of transparency in decision-making, ethical organizational culture, student representation in university bodies and financial transparency among others.

The results of UIC Barcelona in QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2024 rank the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in the following positions:

• World ranking: 751-760 of 1.397
• National ranking: =30 of 38

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ShanghaiRanking’s Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2024 ranks the world’s top institutions in 55 subjects across 5 fields: natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences and social sciences. The total number of institutions included in the ranking varies by subject. In the case of Dentistry and Oral Sciences, for example, the ranking lists the world’s top 300 institutions.

This ranking analyse roughly 5,000 higher education institutions.

Each subject is assessed using nine indicators, split into five categories:

 

Methodology

With regards to UIC Barcelona, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2024 ranks the at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in the subject “Dentistry and Oral Sciences” as follows:

• World rank: 101-150 out of 300.
• National rank: 3 out of 8.

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U-Multirank has published the results of their 9th ranking of around 2,200 universities from 96 countries, which compares both institutional performance and performance in the 30 areas of knowledge that have been assessed this year.

This year marks the publication of the 9th U-Multirank project, which is promoted and funded by the European Union, the Bertelsmann Foundation and Santander Bank and developed by a Consortium led by the professor Dr Frans van Vught of Vuhold BV, the professor Dr Frank Ziegele from the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) and other organisations that make up the Consortium such as the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) and the CYD Foundation.

U-Multirank is based on indicators divided into the following dimensions: Teaching and learning; Research; Knowledge Transfer; International Orientation and Regional Engagement.

The CYD Foundation collaborates in the collection of data from the Spanish university system and uses some of these indicators to create their own ranking.

The U-Multirank methodology is multi-dimensional and compares the quality of higher education institutions and ranks the performance and satisfaction level of each university from A (very good), B (good), C (average), D (below average) and E (weak).

U-Multirank is based on different sources of data provided by the institutions themselves, bibliometric databases such as the Web of Science and international patent databases, as well as national databases such as the SIIU.

UIC Barcelona is ranked 121st out of the 1,103 participating universities across Europe, and 12th of of the 76 Spanish universities.

UniRank is the leading international higher education directory and search engine featuring reviews and rankings of over 13,900 officially recognised universities in 200 countries. uniRank includes higher education institutions from across the world which satisfy the following requirements:

• They are officially recognised, licensed and/or accredited by national or regional bodies.
• They are officially authorised to grant at least four-year bachelor's degrees and/or postgraduate degrees.
• They provide higher-education programmes predominantly in a traditional, on-site, non-distance education format.

The uniRank University Ranking which, according to the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, is included in the world ranking of universities and is not an academic ranking, but rather a university ranking based on online data. Their objective it is to provide an approximate global ranking of world universities based upon their web presence and popularity in terms of estimated traffic, trust/authority and quality link popularity. This is especially intended to help international students and academic staff to understand how popular a specific higher education institution is in a foreign country.

uniRank University Ranking’s data sources based upon an algorithm including five unbiased and independent web metrics extracted from four different web intelligence sources:

• Moz Domain Authority
• Alexa Global Rank
• SimilarWeb Global Rank
• Majestic Referring Domains
• Majestic Trust Flow

Web metrics data are collected on the same week to minimize temporal fluctuations and maximize comparability.

uniRank offers rankings per country, which for Spain includes a ranking of 76 national universities.

Number of ranked institutions: 200 across the world and 76 in Spain

UIC Barcelona Ranking 2024

Global position: 2.616
National position: 61

Since 2018, uniRank has published four new university rankings aimed at appraising the social media presence and popularity of higher education institutions in the two main social platforms:

uniRank Twitter University Ranking

This uniRank page provides some information on the adoption of the social platform Twitter among higher education institutions and leads to the most comprehensive list of Universities and Colleges with an official presence on Twitter. The aim is to provide a popularity index for each university on Twitter, based on the total number of followers, not to rank the higher education institutions for the educational quality or academic level of the services provided.

Currently 8,399 out of a total of 13,888 higher education institutions in the world, included in the uniRank database, have adopted an official institutional Twitter page.

Results from the 2024 Ranking Universitat Internacional de Catalunya National position 52 out of the 76 Spanish universities with 16,245 followers

uniRank Facebook University Ranking

This Ranking provides some information on the adoption of the social platform Facebook among higher education institutions and leads to the most comprehensive list of universities with an official presence on Facebook. The aim is to provide a popularity index for each university on Facebook, based on the total number of likes, not to rank the higher education institutions for the educational quality or academic level of the services provided.

Currently 10,531 out of a total of 13,888 higher education institutions in the world, included in the uniRank database, have adopted an official institutional Facebook page.

Results from the 2024 Ranking Universitat Internacional de Catalunya National position
31 out of the 76 Spanish universities with 35,599 followers

July 2024*

Ranking Web of Universities promote academic presence on the Internet, supporting open access initiatives that increase the transfer of the scientific and cultural knowledge generated by universities.

Its methodology is based on the following indicators: presence (discontinued), impact (50%), openness (10%) and excellence (40%). It is published twice a year, in January and July.

Total number of ranked institutions: 11.996.

Number of ranked institutions in Spain: 279.

Number of ranked institutions in Europe: 5.990.

University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) aims to help universities identify potential areas of progress through 6 specific indicators of academic performance based on the quality, quantity and internationality of the publications. The weight of each indicator is distributed as follows.

Article: 21%

Total Document: 10%

Citation: 21%

Article Impact Total: 18%

Citation Impact Total: 15%

International Collaboration: 15%

Outcome UIC Barcelona by indicator:

Outcome UIC Barcelona at the national rank: 50/64 universities

Outcome UIC Barcelona world rank: 1826/3000 universities

Outcome by subject:

Dentistry

Outcome UIC Barcelona by indicator:

Outcome UIC Barcelona at the national rank: 3/6 universities

Outcome UIC Barcelona world rank: 119/250 universities

Medical and Health Sciences

Outcome UIC Barcelona by indicator:

Outcome UIC Barcelona at the national rank: 34/63 universities

Outcome UIC Barcelona world rank: 817/2000 universities

Methodology

URAP - University Ranking by Academic Academic Performance

The Nature Index is an open database of author affiliations and institutional relationships. The Index tracks contributions to research articles published in 82 high-quality natural-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers.

The Nature Index provides absolute Count and fractional Share counts of article publication at the institutional and national level and, as such, is an indicator of global high-quality research output and collaboration.

The data in the Nature Index is updated regularly, and refers to the period from January 1 to December 31 of the year preceding each year of publication available under a license Creative Commons at nature.com/nature-index/.

Spain results

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UIC Barcelona results

Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) | Productos de la institución | Índice de la Naturaleza (nature.com)

The Scimago Institutions Rankings (SIR) is a classification of academic and research-related institutions from around the world ranked by a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance, innovation outputs and societal impact measured by their web visibility. This ranking is based on data from Scopus.

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The calculation is generated each year from the results obtained over a period of five year ending two years before the edition of the ranking.

Scimago ranks UIC Barcelona:

• World position: = 1.889/4.762
• Western Europe position: 551/754
• Spain position: 59/76

Scimago Institutions Rankings (SIR) by subject

Dentistry

World Rank: 111/627

Western Europe Rank: 41/151

National Rank: 6/17

Medicine

World Rank: =1.762/2.758

Western Europe Rank: 463/561

National Rank: 54/67

Psychology

World Rank: =1147/1956

Western Europe Rank: =436/557

National Rank: 57/67

Arts and Humanities

World Rank: 1159/1975

Western Europe Rank: 442/558

National Rank: 58/66

Business, Management and Accounting

World Rank: =1599/2.514

Western Europe Rank: 502/603

National Rank: 60/65

Enviroment Science

World Rank: =2.592/3.546

Western Europe Rank: 572/617

National Rank: 69/71

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

World Rank: 1.572/2946

Western Europe Rank: 444/533

National Rank: 53/59

Social Sciences

World Rank: 1.426/3.224

Western Europe Rank: 474/667

National Rank: 59/73

The Best Global Universities is an international ranking prepared by the U.S. magazine News & World Report that analyzes Higher Education institutions in more than 100 countries and based on 13 indicators that measure the global research performance of each of them. The data provider is Clarivate.

UIC Barcelona results:

World ranking: 1,801 out of 2460 universities

European ranking: 585 out of 715 universities

Spain ranking: 54 out of 59 universities

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UI GreenMetric World University Ranking on Sustainability is a Universitas Indonesia initiative first launched in 2010.

The aim of this ranking is to assess the current conditions and policies related to green campuses and sustainability in universities all over the world, by conducting an online survey that gathers information from six indicators:

1. Setting and infrastructure (SI) (15%)
2. Energy and climate change (CE) (21%)
3. Waste (WS) (18%) 
4. Water (WR) (10%)
5. Transport /TR) (18%)
6. Education and research (ED) (18%)

The Universitat Internacional de Catalunya has been ranked 260st out of 1183 universities from around the world and 13 out of 29 Spanish universities.  

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A total of 81 Spanish universities (48 of which are public, and 33 are private) have participated in this 11th edition of the CYD Ranking.

The CYD Ranking has a multidimensional focus and offers indicators that measure and compare universities’ performance in their different activity areas by analysing a total of 36 institutional indicators classified by performance groups (high, intermediate and low), which are grouped into six dimensions: Teaching and Learning; Research; Knowledge Transfer; International Outlook; Contribution to Regional Development and Employability (the latter in the field ranking).

The CYD Ranking makes it possible to measure and compare universities’ performance on two levels:

Institutional
Offers an overall analysis of the University.

Field of knowledge
Offers an analysis of all bachelor's and master’s degrees, which due to their level of homogeneity constitute a particular thematic area. For this edition, UIC Barcelona has participated in the fields of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Psychology and Physiotherapy.

Although it doesn’t provide a unique position for each university, the CYD Ranking ranks universities according to the number of indicators that have obtained a high, intermediate or low performance.

Institutional level, UIC Barcelona ranks =13th out of 81 Spanish universities and stands out in the dimension of "Contribution to Regional Development".
Overall results

Field of Knowledge level, UIC Barcelona:

• Subject of Dentistry it is ranked 1st out of 17 Spanish universities
• Subject of Medicine it is ranked 9th out of 38 Spanish universities
• Subject of Nursing it is ranked 2nd out of 47 Spanish universities

Overall results by field of knowledge.

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The U-Ranking of Spanish universities (synthetic indicators of the Spanish university system) is a joint project of the BBVA Foundation and the IVIE (Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas). At the 12th edition 2024 a total of 70 universities are analyzed, 48 public and 22 private, covering 98% of the Spanish University System in terms of number of undergraduate students and analyzes more than 3,500 official degrees. The results are presented in two different formats:

• The U-Ranking, which classifies universities according to their performance - teaching and research and innovation - according to the size of the institution in order to make them comparable.
• The U-Ranking Volum, which classifies universities according to the total volume of results-teaching and research and innovation of Spanish universities-and, therefore, the size of the university plays a role in it along with the performance of each institution.

The two dimensions analyzed in this ranking are: teaching and research and innovation.

U-Ranking UIC Barcelona overall result 

⁽¹⁾ Distinguishing 11 levels

U-Ranking UIC Barcelona results by dimensions

⁽¹⁾ Distinguishing 6 levels
⁽²⁾ Distinguishing 17 levels

U-Ranking Volume UIC Barcelona, overall result

⁽¹⁾ Distinguishing 32 levels

U-Ranking Volume UIC Barcelona by dimensions 

⁽¹⁾ Distinguishing 29 levels
⁽²⁾ Distinguishing 34 levels

Report U-Ranking 2024
 

The Fundación HAZ aims to promote the good governance, transparency, accountability and social impact of institutions, ensuring that the information on their websites is:

• Visible: the information should be presented simply
• Accessible: the information should be easily seen without the need for permissions
• Updated: the information must be up-to-date
• Integral: the information must be complete

The Foundation uses 25 indicators, for private universities, to assess transparency and divide the universities into three categories with the following scores:

• Transparent: private universities that comply with at least 38 of the 50 transparency points, which should include the financial statement indicaotrs and audit report.
• Translucent: private universities that comply with at least 25 of the 50 transparency points.
• Opaque: private universities that comply with fewer than 25 transparency points.

UIC Barcelona is classed as transparent, as it complies with 50 of the 50 transparency points and obtains the T seal for Transparent ***.

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  Dynamic Transparency Index (Dyntra) aims to measure public information from governments, public authorities, political parties, elected representatives and the various stakeholders in a dynamic, efficient, transparent, open way. A study has been conducted to assess the public transparency of Spanish universities based on an assessment of their transparency level using the Dyntra methodology.

Methodology
An analysis of universities’ transparency using 169 indicators in five different groups: 1. Institutional transparency; 2. Public communication; 3. Citizen participation and collaboration; 4. Economic-financial transparency; 5. Transparency when contracting services.

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The Universitat Internacional de Catalunya joins the Forbes list: Best Universities 2024, according to the Spanish edition of Forbes magazine.

In this edition, 86 universities registered by the Integrated University Information System (SIIU) of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport were included, of which only 25 have stood out on this list.

This list evaluates the academic content of the courses, diversity, the balance between research and preparation of students for working life, career opportunities, prestige perceived by students, networking and internationalisation.

The evaluation criteria for this ranking have been analysed by an international committee of experts in higher education.

The criteria are divided into 5 blocks: Price and accessibility (10%); student experience (30%); preparation for working life (30%); quality of research and teaching staff (15%) and international perspective (15%). 

Forbes based the analysis of the Forbes list: The 25 best universities 2024 on data from the Barometer of University Employability and Employment, from the Observatory of University Employability and Employment, statistics and indicators from the SIIU, as well as the data collected by the universities themselves through a survey with more than 50 questions.

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The ranking analyses the most popular fifty degree programmes among students and the five best universities to study them at.  To write this report, the newspaper analysed 25 selection criteria in detail, the opinion of 2.000 lecturers and also external studies (international rankings and reports for the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation, etc.).

UIC Barcelona has once more appeared in the best Spanish universities ranking in the El Mundo newspaper.  Specifically, the Bachelor's Degree in Dentistry is ranked among the best in Spain for another year.

El Mundo particularly highlights the University Dental Clinic in the Faculty of Dentistry and its facilities that are equipped with the most cutting-edge technology. 

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The El Mundo ranking of best master’s degree programmes analyses 250 master's programmes of different universities and business schools in 50 specialisations. Each category includes the top five universities that teach the best master’s degrees, and includes a comprehensive MBA guide of the best business schools that offer them.

25 selection criteria have been analysed in the research: among them the demand of the master's degree, human resources, curriculum, results and material resources.

Actions

The Alumni & Careers department of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya aims to build the bridges necessary to allow our graduates to join the job market, which is why it organises different initiatives throughout the academic year:

Alumni Community

• Lifelong learning, continuing education
• Mentorship

Professional careers

• Career Center: We have a job portal where we publish job offers from different professional levels to our students and Alumni, facilitating their integration into the national and international job market.
• Guidance for searching for a job: Advice is provided on how to improve job search tools through personalised sessions.
• Career coaching: One-to-one coaching to help achieve professional objectives, job transition and to improve employability.
• Training for employment: Talks, conferences, training to improve job searches and employability at all levels.
• Continuous guidance: (legal, other.)

Results

The Universitat Internacional de Catalunya is also collaborating with the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU Catalunya) in carrying out an employment survey to obtain reliable data and evidence on the employability of graduates of higher education programmes (bachelor's, master's degrees and doctorates), which will enable us to take decisions that help improve teaching.

AQU Catalunya has conducted the employment survey of the entire Catalan university system every three years since 2001, and in its twenty years of existence it has already accumulated more than 100,000 records, with a response rate of approximately 50%. These data confirm the validity of the survey, the reliability of the data and consolidate the survey as one of the most representative, comprehensive and important surveys in Europe. The population surveyed are graduates who completed their studies at least three years ago, which provides an accurate picture of their progression and integration into the labour market, providing information on the timescale, quality and pathway they have followed, as well as their degree of satisfaction with the education they have received.

UIC Barcelona has participated in this study since 2014, given that the results and conclusions drawn from the survey are considered representative. At the same time, the fact of being able to obtain comparative data with the rest of the universities in Catalonia is highly valued.

The most up-to-date data are those corresponding to the 8th edition of the survey. The fieldwork was carried out between November and December 2022 in the electronic phase and between January and May 2023 in the telephone phase.

Almost 41.000 people were surveyed in this latest study: almost 23.000 bachelor's degree and higher artistic education graduates, more than 15,000 master's degree graduates and almost 2,500 doctoral degree graduates, figures that represent half of the reference population (bachelor's degree graduates between 2018 and 2019, except for medicine graduates from the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 graduating cohort, and higher artistic education, master's degree and doctoral degree graduates from the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 academic years). In the case of Degrees, only the 2017-2018 promotion was considered if the population of this promotion was equal to or greater than 65 graduates.

The general results of all studies carried out by AQU Catalunya can be viewed via this link.

Employability