The URL, among the best Spanish universities in teaching, according to U-Ranking

Thursday, 17 June 2021. The Ramon Llull University (URL) is ranked in the 1st group of universities with the highest performance in Spain. This is set by the teaching indicators of U-Ranking that evaluates the performance of Spanish universities.

Regarding to the teaching indicators, the "percentage of students in international mobility programmes", the "percentage of international students", the "non-dropout rate" and the "success rate" especially stand out above the average of universities, among others.

Apart from analysing the teaching performance of the universities, the universities are also evaluated and classified according to their research and innovation activity, in which the URL is located in the group of the 9th best universities of Spain, which means that has improved one position from the previous edition. According to research and innovation indicators, the URL is above average in the "percentage of publications in international collaboration", in the "percentage of publications in Q1" and in the "average impact factor", among others.

In the global ranking, which considers both teaching and research and innovation indicators, the URL is ranked 4th in Spain in the group of universities with the best performance.

This year, the U-Ranking, an initiative of the BBVA Foundation and the Institut Valencià d'Investigacions Econòmiques (IVIE), has evaluated 72 universities based on the analysis of 20 indicators. Once again, the Catalan university system is the one that obtains the highest average performance with an index of 19%.