Ramon Llull University ranked 6th in Spain according to CYD Ranking

27.05.2020

In the specific ranking by fields of knowlege, URL is ranked 1st in Law and 3rd in Political Sience in Catalonia

Wednesday, 27th May 2020. Ramon Llull University (URL) has been placed 6th in terms of performance in Spain and 4th in Catalonia, according to CYD Ranking. The ranking, which is promoted by Fundación CYD, has published its 7th edition. It has ranked 76 higher education institutions, corresponding to 94% of the Spanish university system.

The institutions have been evaluated based on 37 indicators grouped into 6 dimensions: Teaching and Learning, Research, Knowledge Transfer, International Orientation, Contribution to Regional Development and, as a novelty, Job Placement. URL has achieved 24 highest-performance indicators, 7 medium-performance indicators and 6 low-performance indicators. With these results, URL has improved two positions with respect to the previous edition and it has become consolidated as one of the top 10 Spanish universities.

Regarding the analysis of the dimensions, URL has achieved 6 (out of 7) indicators with highest performance in International Orientation. With these results, the University is ranked 4th in Spain in this dimension.

In the Teaching & Learning dimension, URL has obtained 6 (out of 9) indicators with highest performance rate. Regarding the Research dimension, 5 indicators (out of 9) are in highest performance. In the Knowledge Transfer dimension, 5 indicators (out of 8) are also above the average. Finally, in the Regional Engagement dimension, 2 of them (out of 4) are also in better performance than the universities’ average.

Specific ranking by fields of knowlege

Apart from the institutional ranking that evaluates the universities as a whole, Ranking CYD also presents subject areas rankings. These rankings classify universities according to the subject areas in which they offer degrees. In this edition, 2 of the subject areas of the URL have been ranked: Law and Political Science.

Particularly noteworthy are the results of the University in Law, which is placed 2nd in Spain and 1st in Catalonia. In this ranking, Esade-URL has obtained very outstanding results in the Teaching & Learning, International Orientation and Job Placement dimensions.

With respect to Political Science, the University is ranked 8th in Spain and 3rd in Catalonia. Blanquerna-URL has achieved excellent results in the International Orientation dimension where it has achieved 4 (out of 7) highest-performing indicators.