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The UC3M is ranked among the three best Spanish public universities according to U-Multirank

2/26/20

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) ranks among the three best public higher education institutions in Spain, according to the latest U-Multirank report, an international ranking of the performance of universities promoted by the European Union (EU).

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The UC3M is placed behind the Pompeu Fabra University and the University of Barcelona and ahead of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, among the public institutions. If taking the private institutions into account, Mondragon University and ESIC Business & Marketing School appear among the best institutions in Spain. In total, this report has analysed the data from 77 universities in the country.

This ranking assesses the performance of the universities in five categories: teaching and learning, research, transfer of knowledge, international position and contribution to regional development. Within this framework, the performance of the institutions is compared using 36 indicators which are graded from “A” (Very good) to “E” (Weak).

In this sixth edition, the UC3M has ostensibly improved the number of indicators in which it has received the highest performance rating, having received 10 “A” grades (3 more than last year). They are distributed over the different categories in the following way: three in international position (student mobility, foreign language study programmes, international doctorate degrees); three in transfer of knowledge (entries coming from private resources, entries of continuous professional development, industrial co-patents); two in research (entries in external research, post-doctorate posts); and two in regional commitment (graduates working in the region, joint regional publications).

This international ranking includes the results of 1,711 universities from 96 countries worldwide (22 more than the previous edition) and analyses more than 12,500 study programmes. Based on empirical data, the U-Multirank compares institutions with similar profiles and allows the user to produce personalised rankings by selecting the indicators according to their interests and priorities.  The data included in U-Multirank come from different sources: the universities themselves, bibliometric data banks and international patents, ministries and surveys from more than 100,000 students from the participating universities.

U-Multirank, promoted by the European Commission, is supported by the Fundación Bertelsmann, the EU Erasmus+ Programme and the Santander Group. It is developed through an independent committee led by the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) in Germany, the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) of the University of Twente, the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of the University of Leiden (both in the Netherlands) and the Fundación Conocimiento y Desarrollo (CYD) in Spain. This organisation, in charge of gathering the data sent to U-Multirank, publishes the CyD ranking as well as the CyD report.

U-Multirank report on the Spanish universities