Times Higher Education, the most prestigious magazine on higher education in the United Kingdom, has published its ranking of the most prestigious universities in the world in 2024. Renowned institutions such as Oxford, Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology appear in the top positions. However, you have to go down to position 152 to find the first Spanish university, the University of Barcelona. Only four others have been ranked among the 500 most prestigious.
The University of Barcelona is the first of the Spanish higher education institutions to appear in the ranking, with an overall score of 61.9 points. Approximately fifty positions lower in the range that includes the positions 201 and 250 There are two other educational centres: the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Pompeu Fabra University, with an overall score of between 59.9 and 58.6 points.
In the section that includes positions 301 and 350 The University of Navarra is ranked with a score of 51.1 points. The last university to overcome the 500 cut best universities in the world is the Autonomous University of Madrid, located in the strip that includes the positions 351 and 400with a score of between 49.1 and 51 points.
The Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Granada, the Rovira i Virgili University, and the University of Valencia are located in the section between the 501 and 600 positions with a score between 41.9 and 45.3 points. While the University of Cordoba, the Opera University of Catalonia, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Ramon Llull, Santiago de Compostela, located in the range of 601 and 800 positions with scores between 37 and 41.8 points.
Breaking the cutoff for the top 1000 Universities of the world include the universities of Alcalá, the Balearic Islands, Carlos III of Madrid, Castilla La Mancha, Deusto, Girona, International of Catalonia, Jaén, Jaume I with scores between 32.7 and 36.9 points.
To make the ranking, the magazine takes into account 18 indicators that measure the performance of universities in five main areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry and international perspective. This ranking includes: 1,907 universities from 108 countries and regions.
Source: Lasexta
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