U-Ranking 2026

The objective of U-Ranking is to analyze the performance of Spanish universities and offer comparable and synthetic images of these higher education institutions.

It describes the methodology developed for constructing the indicators and indices used to create the various rankings, based on the study of the universities’ activities in teaching, research and innovation, and their labor market results.

The 14th edition of U-Ranking analyzes 71 Spanish universities—all public and 23 private—and ranks them according to the different perspectives considered by the project: Performance, Volume, Dimensions, and Areas of Study. The report includes all the rankings, examines performance and volume results in detail, and compares them with other well-known rankings to evaluate their similarities and differences. The report shows the teaching, research and innovation and labor market results of the universities and provides an analysis of the sensitivity of the results to changes in the importance given to these activities. It compares the results achieved by public versus private universities and, finally, analyzes the differences in performance of the university systems of the different Spanish regions are analyzed.

The U-Ranking website features the results of the most recent edition and allows customized queries for all classifications developed by the project.