Research Areas

The purpose of this project financed by the BBVA Foundation is to build a system of performance indicators of Spanish universities of wide coverage, rigorous in its approach and properly framed in the international initiatives in this area: the Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education (IMHE) led by the OECD, the International Ranking Expert Group (IREG) founded by the UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education (UNESCO-CEPES) and the EUA Rankings Review Report.

The research is approached from the careful analysis of the information provided by the simple and synthetic indices used, assessing the criteria for aggregation of simple indicators, the sensitivity of the synthetic indices and the rankings resulting from changes in the aggregation procedures.

During 2013, the Ũ-Ranking website with the results of the project was launched, the two main sections being: ISSUE Rankings of Spanish Universities, which details the results of the aggregates; and Select a University, an interactive tool with which students can construct their own personalized rankings of universities according to their study choices, geographical and academic. The website also provides the information used to build the rankings, as well as a summary of the methodological approach applied and links to the main national and international rankings.