The URL, ranked in the top 10 with the best performance in the Spain, according to CYD Ranking

URL institutions are among the top 10 in all the subject rankings in which they have participated. Particularly noteworthy is the 2nd position in Spain of the Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations-URL
 

Wednesday, May 9th, 2018. The Ramon Llull University (URL) is ranked as the 10th university with the best performance in Spain according to the CYD Ranking, and the first private Catalan university.

The ranking, promoted by Fundación CYD, and which is now in its fifteenth year, has attracted the participation of 73 higher education centres (87% of the Spanish higher education system).

To develop the ranking, the universities have been evaluated based on 34 indicators grouped into 5 dimensions: teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, international orientation and contribution to regional development. The URL has 18 indicators of high performance, 9 of average performance and 7 of low performance.

Following the positive trend of the last years in the ranking, the URL has improved in 2 indicators in comparison with the previous edition, going from having 16 in high performance to 18. The two indicators that have experienced this improvement are "highly cited publications" and "income from licences".

In addition, in the international orientation, URL stands out once again for the results obtained – 5 of the 7 indicators assessed are in high performance – and these results place the University among the best in the State. In the dimension of teaching and learning, the University has improved 1 indicator in this edition, and also in the dimensions of research and knowledge transfer. In regional development, the URL achieved the same results as in the previous edition.

URL institutions stand out in the subject rankings

In addition to the institutional ranking that evaluates universities as a whole, the CYD Ranking also presents subject rankings, which allow students to identify the performance of the universities in the different fields of knowledge in which they offer degrees. In this edition, CYD Ranking has evaluated three URL subjects: Social Work, Political Science and Psychology.

In Psychology, Blanquerna Faculty of Psychology, Education Sciences and Sport-URL, has obtained outstanding results in the indicators of "doctoral thesis", " highly cited publications" (in research), "income from private sources" (knowledge transfer), and "international publications" (international orientation). These results allow the Faculty to position itself to 8th in the Spanish university system.

In the field of Social Work, Pere Tarrés Faculty of Social Education and Social Work-URL ranks among the top 10 universities in the State. Compared with other universities participating in the ranking, the Faculty stands out in “external research income (liquidated)", "external research income (earned)" (of the research dimension), "income from private sources" (in knowledge transfer), and "regional research income" (in regional development).

Finally, in the field of Political Science, Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations-URL has achieved excellent results as it has 12 indicators placed in high performance, which positions the Faculty as the second in Spain in this field. As in Social Work, in Political Science the University has also obtained results above the average in “external research income (liquidated)" and "external research income (earned)". The Faculty also stands out in the international orientation indicators for "compulsory subjects in foreign languages (GRAU)" and "international students (GRAU)".

For further information:
Mireia Córcoles
Rankings Manager
Tel. (34) 936 022 208
mcorcoles@rectorat.url.edu