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.

In May 2014, the results of the 2nd edition of this project were presented and the new data was uploaded to the U-Ranking website which displays the research results. The website has two main sections: ISSUE Rankings of Spanish Universities, which details the results of the aggregates; and Select a University, an interactive tool with which students and the interested public can construct their own personalized rankigns 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.