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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 March 2015, the results of the 3rd Edition of this project were presented together with an updated version of the data on the U-Ranking website, where the results of the project are uploaded. The most significant new development of this edition was the inclusion, for the first time, of eleven private universities. These centers provided sufficient information of a high enough quality for the data treatment to be homogeneous with respect to public universities in the calculation of synthetic indicators.