Pompeu Fabra University is ranked third in Spain with regard to the field of the Arts and Humanities in the 2018 World University Rankings by Subject, released this week by Times Higher Education (THE), and is in the 126-150 bracket for the whole world.

For the second year, UPF appears in the classification in the field of Arts and Humanities, including humanities and language sciences. The University obtained an overall score of 39.6 points, increasing in practically all areas assessed. The list reviews 500 institutions, while the last edition included 400 universities.

The University obtained an overall score of 39.6 points, increasing in practically all areas assessed

The University comes level in the ranking with the Complutense University of Madrid, while the first institutions for the State are the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Barcelona (tied in the 101-125 bracket).

This ranking by subjects uses the same weighting system as the general THE ranking based on thirteen performance indicators from five major areas in which UPF has obtained the following scores: Teaching (34.9), Research (29.8), Citations in publications (67), Internationalization (56.7) and Transfer (42.8).

The results of the ranking reward interdisciplinary research and teaching around specific areas. The table is led by Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), two U.S. universities recognized for their strength in technology that connect their departments of arts and humanities with scientific and technical disciplines.