Overall results 

  • Times Higher Education ranking (2016): 15th highest ranked university in the world among those under 50 years of age
  • Times Higher Education ranking (2015): 2nd Spanish university (position 164 worldwide and 79 in Europe) 
  • U-Multirank (2016): ranked 12th in Europe 
  • Shanghai university ranking (2015): among the 300 top universities in the world
  • U-Ranking (BBVA Foundation & Ivie, 2016): the most productive university in Spain
  • CyD Ranking (2016): the most efficient university in Spain
  • Ranking 2013 in research production and productivity in the Spanish public university system, published by researchers from the Granada University (2014): 1st Spanish university in scientific productivity since 2009
  • El Mundo ranking (2016): 10 of the 15 undergraduate courses evaluated are ranked among the Top 5 
  • Leiden ranking (2016): 1st Spanish university in percentage of articles published in the most influential scholarly journals , 1st Spanish university in percentage of papers produced in collaboration with national institutions and 2nd Spanish university in percentage of papers produced in collaboration with foreign institutions
  • Scimago ranking (2014): 1st Spanish university in quality output (excellence rate). It is also the 1st Spanish university in normalized impact, the 1stin percentage of papers produced in collaboration with foreign institutions and the 2nd Spanish university in percentage of articles published in the most influential scholarly journals of the world, those ranked in the first quartile (Q1)

 

Results by fields of knowledge

  • Times Higher Education ranking (2015): 67th highest ranked university in the world in Social Sciences (1st in Spain and 19th in Europe)
  • QS ranking (2015): 119 in the world in Social Sciences and 235 in Humanities. This ranking also offers results by subject: 
  • 23rd highest ranked university in the world in Economics and Econometrics
  • among the 150 top universities in the world in Linguistics
  • among the 200 top in Accounting and Finance, Communication and Media Studies, Law and Legal Studies, and Politics and International Relations
  • among the 250 top in Modern Languages
  • among the 350 top in Medicine and Biological Sciences
  • Shanghai university ranking (2015): among the 150 top universities in the world in Social Sciences. This ranking also offers results by subject: 
  • among the 75 top universities in the world in Economics
  • among the 200 top in Computer Science
  • Ranking 'El Mundo' (2015):
  • 1st in Economics, Labour Relations, Finance and Accounting and Audiovisual Communication
  • 2nd in Business Management and Administration
  • 3rd in Political and Administration Sciences
  • 4th in Law, Journalism, Advertising and Public Relations