Pompeu Fabra leads the U-Ranking 2022 for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies
Contra el genocidi i contra la violació dels drets humans, a Gaza i arreu del món
Peace comes when you talk to the person you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes.
Desmond Tutu (1931-2021), first recipient of an honorary doctorate from UPF
These words, spoken by Desmond Tutu, the first person ever to be awarded an honorary doctorate by UPF, are more applicable today than ever. The UPF condemns, and will always condemn, the use of violence to settle disputes. At UPF, we advocate approaching political or territorial conflicts based on dialogue and respect for all peoples and minorities.
As a university, we also want to show our support to the academic community in countries at war. Universities and scientific institutions are more necessary than ever in these regions. Access to education and the promotion of critical thinking, in the context of strong independent institutions, are the way to ensure the informed debate and reflection that can open the door to new avenues for finding solutions.
At UPF, we are aware of the university community’s concern for the human rights violations we are seeing in the conflicts around us. That is why on this website you will find information about campaigns and actions related to current conflicts, as well as opinion pieces and institutional statements. We also offer a dedicated e-mail address – [email protected] – to contact the university and let us know about your interests and concerns.
Pompeu Fabra leads the U-Ranking 2022 for both undergraduate and postgraduate studies
UPF, which has led the previous ten editions of the classification published to date by the BBVA Foundation and the IVIE, shares top place this year with Carlos III of Madrid and the Polytechnic of Catalonia. The University leads the sub-ranking for Research and Innovation alone, as well as the general classification for postgraduate training included in the 2022 edition, in which it tops the lists for Social and Legal Sciences and for Health Sciences.
UPF, for the tenth year in a row, has come first in the overall U-Ranking 2022 classification remaining the leading university in Spain for its academic performance. UPF, which tops the overall ranking jointly with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Carlos III University of Madrid, leads the sub-ranking for Research and Innovation.
U-Ranking is a project driven by the BBVA Foundation and the IVIE, and it classifies Spanish universities on the basis of their teaching performance and innovative and research activities. In its 2022 edition, it analyses 72 Spanish universities, 48 public and 24 private, representing 98% of the Spanish University System, and it compares over 3,500 official bachelor’s degrees of these institutions in its classification of degrees.
UPF, for the tenth year in a row, has come first in the overall U-Ranking 2022
In the global performance ranking, UPF achieves a global index of 1.5, the same as UPC and UC3M. They are followed by the Polytechnic University of Valencia and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with an index of 1.3.
In the Research and Innovation sub-ranking, UPF stands top alone, achieving an index of 1.9, followed by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia with 1.8. In the Teaching sub-ranking, there is a top block of seven universities, with an index of 1.3, and a second block of nine universities, which includes UPF, with an index of 1.2.
The U-Ranking, which includes data from public information systems and statistical sources, analyses twenty indicators, grouped into two dimensions (teaching, and research and innovation), related to quality, internationalization, output and resources, based on which a synthetic index is obtained for each institution.
UPF, also first in the ranking of postgraduate training
In its annual report, the tenth edition of U-Ranking includes an analysis of the situation of master’s and doctoral training in Spanish universities and the differences in the practice of each institution in these postgraduate degrees. The report addresses the evolution of these studies in the last decade and their differentiated structure according to the ownership of the university and the branch of teaching.
With the elaboration of a synthetic index based on 12 indicators that evaluate the performance of universities in the areas of the training process, quality, internationalization and employability of their postgraduate programmes, six rankings are built that rank Spanish universities based on performance within the postgraduate studies in five branches of education and in all branches.
UPF leads the overall postgraduate ranking and lists in the areas of Social and Legal Sciences and Health Sciences
The general postgraduate ranking is headed by UPF, with an index of 1.5, followed by the universities of Navarra, Ramon Llull and the UAB (all three with an index of 1.4). With regard to the lists corresponding to the five areas of study, UPF leads the Social and Legal Sciences and Health Sciences, the latter together with the UAB. UPF comes in second position for Arts and Humanities (an area led by Rovira i Virgili University) and third for Architecture and Engineering, which is headed by a block formed by Ramon Llull, Rovira and Virgili, Carlos III of Madrid, Navarra, Girona and Comillas universities. In the Sciences, led by the UPC, UPF does not score.
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