• Rankin The best universities in Spain

Five Spanish universities

- Barcelona, ​​Barcelona Autonomous, Granada, Valencia and Madrid Complutense

- appear this year among the

200 best in the world

in the Shanghai "ranking", considered the most prestigious worldwide classification of college campuses.

The

Academic Ranking of World Universities

(ARWU), better known as the Shanghai classification, has been published since 2003 and is updated every year by the Jiao Tong University, located in that Chinese city.

The campuses are ordered one by one up to number one hundred

and from there they do it by blocks.

Ranking

Ranking.

These are the best universities in Spain in 2022

  • Editorial: EL MUNDOMadrid

These are the best universities in Spain in 2022

In this 2022 edition,

Harvard tops the

ranking list for the 20th year,

Stanford remains in second place

, and

the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(MIT) climbs to third position in this edition.

Other "top 10" campuses are

Cambridge

(4th),

Berkeley

(5th),

Princeton

(6th),

Oxford

(7th),

Columbia

(8th),

Caltech

(9th), and

Chicago

(10th).

In

Europe

, the

University Paris-Saclay

(16th) remains in the best position, followed by

ETH Zurich

(20th), while in Asia the

University of Tokyo

(24th) leads this "league".

The academic list classifies the centers according to the

number of articles published in scientific journals

-especially in

Nature

and

Science-

, the performance "per capita" with respect to the size of the institution or the number of

Nobel Prize winners

who have studied there or teach classes.

In this edition,

Spain has five universities among the 200 best in the world

, one more than in 2021, with the University of Barcelona standing out for another year as the only one that manages to rank in the bracket that goes from position 151 to 200.

Immediately after, between the 201st and 300th best campuses in the world, are the

Autonomous University of Barcelona

, ​​the

Complutense University of Madrid

,

Granada

and

Valencia

.

Among the Spanish universities that improve with respect to the classification obtained in 2021, the

University of Valencia

stands out, which makes a leap by going from the 301-400 bracket to that of 201-300, and the same thing happens to the

Pompeu Fabra

, which passes from position 401-500 to the range from 301 to 400.

In this aspect, the improvement registered by the

Pablo de Olavide University of Seville

stands out, which in 2022 is among the 601-700 best higher education centers worldwide (801-900 in 2021).

At the other extreme, with falls in their academic assessment compared to the previous year, are the

Polytechnic of Valencia

, the Polytechnic of

Salamanca

, the

Polytechnic of Madrid

, the

Rovira i Virgili

and the universities of the

Balearic Islands

and

Las Palmas de Gran Canary

.

As a novelty in relation to 2021, the

Cádiz campus

(901-1000) and the

Miguel Hernández University of Elche

(801-900) appear in this edition.

The "ranking" of the Chinese university classifies two thousand centers annually, although

it only publishes the best thousand

every August 15.

Table with the 2022 classification corresponding to Spain

University of Barcelona 151-200

Autonomous of Barcelona 201-300

Complutense of Madrid 201-300

University of Granada 201-300

University of Valencia 201-300

Autonomous of Madrid 301-400

Pompeu Fabra 301-400

University of the Basque Country 301-400

Polytechnic of Valencia 401-500

University of Santiago de Compostela 401-500

University of Seville 401-500

University of Navarra 501-600

University of Salamanca 501-600

University of Vigo 501-600

University of Zaragoza 501-600

Polytechnic of Madrid 601-700

U. Pablo de Olavide 601-700

U. Jaume I 601-700

University of Alicante 601-700

University of Extremadura 601-700

Rovira i Virgili 601,700

Polytechnic of Catalonia 701-800

University of Lleida 701-800

University of Castilla-La Mancha 701-800

University of Jaen 701-800

University of La Laguna 701-800

University of Malaga 701-800

University of Murcia 701-800

University of Oviedo 701-800

University of the Balearic Islands 701-800

U. Miguel Hernández of Elche 801-900

University of Alcalá (Madrid) 801-900

University of Cordoba 801-900

University of Girona 801-900

Charles III of Madrid 901-1000

King Juan Carlos of Madrid 901-1000

University of Cadiz 901-1000

University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 901-1000

University of Cantabria 901-1000

University of Valladolid 901-1000

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