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Shanghai Ranking’s. Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2021 ranks the world’s top institutions in 54 subjects across 5 fields: natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences and social sciences. The total number of institutions included in the ranking varies by subject. In the case of Dentistry and Oral Sciences, for example, the ranking lists the world’s top 300 institutions.

This ranking analyse roughly 4,000 higher education institutions.

Each subject is assessed using five indicators:

• (Q1): number of papers authored by an institution in the same subject during the period 2015-2019.
• (CNCI): impact of the normalised citations in the subject during the period 2015-2019.
• (IC): international collaboration on publications during the period 2015-2019.
• (TOP): number of papers published in top journals in the academic subject during the period 2015-2019.
• (Award): total number of staff at the institution who have won an award in the academic subject since 1981.

Methodology

With regards to UIC Barcelona, the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2021 ranks the at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in the subject “Dentistry and Oral Sciences” as follows:

• World rank: 101-150 out of 300
• National rank: 2 out of 7

Times Higher Education World University Rankings provides a ranking of the best universities in the world, assessing their performance using the following indicators that are grouped into five areas: teaching (the learning environment); research (volume, income and reputation); citations (research influence); international outlook (staff, students and research); and industry income (knowledge transfer), as well as academic reputation.

Now in its seventeenth year, Times Higher Education World University Rankingscontinues to be the leading international ranking that underpins excellence in higher education. This year, the ranking includes 1,527 institutions from 93 countries, based on the participation of 1,993 higher education and research institutions from around the world.

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The Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC Barcelona) has been ranked in the following positions in the THE World University Rankings 2021:

• World ranking: 601-800 out of 1527
• National ranking: = 9 out of 50

Times Higher Education World University Rankings by subject provides a ranking of the best universities in the world by subject, covering eleven subjects and providing a general description of the best places in the world for studying a particular discipline. This year, 1,512 universities have been ranked by eleven different fields (arts and humanities; business and economics; clinical and health; computer science; education; engineering; law; life sciences; physical sciences; psychology and social sciences).

The methodology used to compile the World University Rankings by subject is based on thirteen performance indicators, which are grouped into five areas: Teaching, research, citations, international outlook, industry income and academic reputation, which are recalibrated to suit each subject individually.

UIC Barcelona has been included in the Clinical and Health ranking, which includes fields such as medicine, dentistry and others related to health (physiotherapy, nursing, bioengineering and biomedical sciences).

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UIC Barcelona has been ranked in the following positions in the THE World University Rankings by subject 2021:

• World ranking: 501-600 out of 856
• National ranking: = 12 out of 39

Times Higher Education Young University Rankings list the world’s best universities founded after 1971. It is based on the same 13 performance indicators as the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which are grouped into five pillars: teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income, but the weightings have been adjusted to give less weight to reputation. 

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UIC Barcelona has been ranked in the following position in the THE Young University Rankings 2021:

• World ranking: =193 out of 475 
• National ranking: 10 out of 33

U-Multirank has published the results of their 7th ranking of around 1800 universities from 92 countries, which compares both institutional performance and performance in the 28 areas of knowledge that have been assessed this year.

This year marks the publication of the 7th U-Multirank project, which is promoted and funded by the European Union, the Bertelsmann Foundation and Santander Bank and developed by a Consortium led by the professor Dr Frans van Vught of Vuhold BV, the professor Dr Frank Ziegele from the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) and other organisations that make up the Consortium such as the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) and the CYD Foundation, and is based on 36 indicators divided into the following dimensions: Teaching and learning; Research; Knowledge Transfer; International Orientation and Regional Engagement.

The CYD Foundation collaborates in the collection of data from the Spanish university system and uses some of these indicators to create their own ranking.

The U-Multirank methodology is multi-dimensional and compares the quality of higher education institutions and ranks the performance and satisfaction level of each university from A (very good), B (good), C (average), D (below average) and E (weak).

U-Multirank is based on different sources of data provided by the institutions themselves, bibliometric databases such as the Web of Science and international patent databases, as well as national databases such as the SIIU.

Institutional level
UIC Barcelona is ranked 185th out of the 1070 participating universities across Europe, and 11Th of of the 79 Spanish universities, as well as being ranked highest in terms of “Regional Engagement” out of the Spanish, European and international universities included in the ranking.

Area of knowledge, Business Administration and Management
UIC Barcelona is ranked 13th out of the 55 participating Spanish universities and 56th out of the 407 participating European universities.

UniRank is the leading international higher education directory and search engine featuring reviews and rankings of over 13,800 officially recognised universities in 200 countries. uniRank includes higher education institutions from across the world which satisfy the following requirements:

• They are officially recognised, licensed and/or accredited by national or regional bodies.
• They are officially authorised to grant at least four-year bachelor's degrees and/or postgraduate degrees.
• They provide higher-education programmes predominantly in a traditional, on-site, non-distance education format.

The uniRank University Ranking which, according to the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, is included in the world ranking of universities and is not an academic ranking, but rather a university ranking based on online data. Their objective it is to provide an approximate global ranking of world universities based upon their web presence and popularity in terms of estimated traffic, trust/authority and quality link popularity. This is especially intended to help international students and academic staff to understand how popular a specific higher education institution is in a foreign country.

uniRank University Ranking’s data sources based upon an algorithm including five unbiased and independent web metrics extracted from four different web intelligence sources:

• Moz Domain Authority
• Alexa Global Rank
• SimilarWeb Global Rank
• Majestic Referring Domains
• Majestic Trust Flow

Web metrics data are collected on the same week to minimize temporal fluctuations and maximize comparability.

uniRank offers rankings per country, which for Spain includes a ranking of 75 national universities.

Number of ranked institutions: 200 across the world and 75 in Spain

UIC Barcelona Ranking 2021

Global position: 2277
National position: 60

Since 2018, uniRank has published four new university rankings aimed at appraising the social media presence and popularity of higher education institutions in the four main social platforms:

uniRank Twitter University Ranking

This uniRank page provides some information on the adoption of the social platform Twitter among higher education institutions and leads to the most comprehensive list of Universities and Colleges with an official presence on Twitter. The aim is to provide a popularity index for each university on Twitter, based on the total number of followers, not to rank the higher education institutions for the educational quality or academic level of the services provided.

Currently 8,150 out of a total of 13,798 higher education institutions in the world, included in the uniRank database, have adopted an official institutional Twitter page.

Results from the 2021 Ranking Universitat Internacional de Catalunya National position
48 out of the 72 Spanish universities with 15,944 followers

uniRank Facebook University Ranking

This Ranking provides some information on the adoption of the social platform Facebook among higher education institutions and leads to the most comprehensive list of universities with an official presence on Facebook. The aim is to provide a popularity index for each university on Facebook, based on the total number of likes, not to rank the higher education institutions for the educational quality or academic level of the services provided.

Currently 10,076 out of a total of 13,798 higher education institutions in the world, included in the uniRank database, have adopted an official institutional Facebook page.

Results from the 2021 Ranking Universitat Internacional de Catalunya National position
25 out of the 75 Spanish universities with 34,160 likes

June 2021*

Ranking Web of Universities promote academic presence on the Internet, supporting open access initiatives that increase the transfer of the scientific and cultural knowledge generated by universities.

Its methodology is based on the following indicators: presence (discontinued), impact (50%), openness (10%) and excellence (40%). It is published twice a year, in January and July.

Total number of ranked institutions: 11,992

Number of ranked institutions in Spain: 265

Number of ranked institutions in Europe: 5.771

The Scimago Institutions Rankings (SIR) is a classification of academic and research-related institutions from around the world ranked by a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators based on research performance, innovation outputs and societal impact measured by their web visibility. This ranking is based on data from Scopus.

The 2021 ranking is based on results from the five-year period 2015-2019.

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Scimago ranks UIC Barcelona:

• Global: = 535 out of 4.126
• Western Europe: = 317 out of 707
• National: 52 out of 69

UI GreenMetric World University Ranking on Sustainability is a Universitas Indonesia initiative first launched in 2010.

The aim of this ranking is to assess the current conditions and policies related to green campuses and sustainability in universities all over the world, by conducting an online survey that gathers information from six indicators:

1. Setting and infrastructure (SI) (15%)
2. Energy and climate change (CE) (21%)
3. Waste (WS) (18%) 
4. Water (WR) (10%)
5. Transport /TR) (18%)
6. Education and research (ED) (18%)

The Universitat Internacional de Catalunya has been ranked 589th out of 912 universities from around the world.  

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A total of 77 Spanish universities (48 of which are public, and 29 are private) have participated in this 8th edition of the CYD Ranking.

The CYD Ranking has a multidimensional focus and offers indicators that measure and compare universities’ performance in their different activity areas by analysing a total of 37 institutional indicators classified by performance groups (high, intermediate and low), which are grouped into six dimensions: Teaching and Learning; Research; Knowledge Transfer; International Outlook; Contribution to Regional Development and Employability (the latter in the field ranking).

The CYD Ranking makes it possible to measure and compare universities’ performance on two levels:

Institutional
Offers an overall analysis of the University.

Field of knowledge
Offers an analysis of all bachelor's and master’s degrees, which due to their level of homogeneity constitute a particular thematic area. For this edition, UIC Barcelona has participated in the field of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing and Psychology.

Although it doesn’t provide a unique position for each university, the CYD Ranking ranks universities according to the number of indicators that have obtained a high, intermediate or low performance.

Institutional level, UIC Barcelona ranks 12th out of 77 Spanish universities and once again stands out in the dimension of "Contribution to Regional Development".
Overall results

Field of Knowledge level, UIC Barcelona:

• In the field of Dentistry, it is ranked 1st out of 16 Spanish universities
• In the field of Medicine, it is ranked 5st out of 39 Spanish universities
• In the field of Nursing, it is ranked 12th out of 44 Spanish universities

Overall results by field of knowledge

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The U-Ranking of Spanish Universities (Synthetic Indicators of Spanish Universities) is a joint initiative of the BBVA Foundation and the Valencian Institute of Economic Research (IVIE). In the 9th edition 2021, a total of 72 universities, 48 publics and 24 private, are analyzed, covering 98% of the Spanish University System in terms of number of undergraduate students and analyzing more than 3,300 degrees and double degrees.

The results are presented in two formats:

• U-Ranking Volume, which ranks universities based on their total volume of results- teaching and research and innovation of Spanish universities- and, therefore, the size of the university plays a role in it along with the performance of each institution.
• U-Ranking, which ranks universities based on performance- teaching and research and innovation- by size of the institution to make them comparable.

The two dimensions analysed by this ranking are: teaching, research and innovation.

U-Ranking UIC Barcelona global result

(1) Divided into 12 levels

U-Ranking UIC Barcelona results by dimensions

⁽¹⁾ Divided into 7 levels
⁽²⁾ Divided into 18 levels

U-Ranking Volume UIC Barcelona, global result

⁽¹⁾ Divided into 33 levels

U-Ranking Volume UIC Barcelona results by dimensions

⁽¹⁾ Divided into 32 levels
⁽²⁾ Divided into 38 levels

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U-Ranking includes a synthetic indicator for employment, based on a detailed study of graduates’ employability and eventual employment by teaching field and university.

The data, according to the report of Ministerio de Universidades about employment, reflect the situation in 2018, four years after students’ graduation from the 2013-2014 academic year. 

The three indicators taken into consideration to measure graduate employment are:

• Students registered as employed
• Students employed in a graduate-level job
• Average salary for National Insurance contribution calculation

UIC Barcelona’s ranking in the synthetic indicator for employment

⁽¹⁾ Of 67 universities that were analysed

UIC Barcelona results from the three indicators that make up the synthetic employment indicator

UIC Barcelona’s ranking in the fields: Social and Legal Sciences and Health Sciences

⁽¹⁾ Of 67 universities that were analysed
⁽²⁾ Of 56 universities that were analysed

The Fundación Compromiso y Transparencia (Commitment and Transparency Foundation) aims to promote the good governance, transparency, accountability and social impact of institutions, ensuring that the information on their websites is:

• Visible: the information should be presented simply
• Accessible: the information should be easily seen without the need for permissions
• Updated: the information must be up-to-date
• Integral: the information must be complete

The Foundation uses 27 indicators to assess transparency and divide the universities into three categories with the following scores:

• Transparent: private universities that comply with at least 36 of the 48 transparency points, which should include the financial statement indicaotrs and audit report.
• Translucent: private universities that comply with at least 25 of the 48 transparency points.
• Opaque: private universities that comply with fewer than 25 transparency points.

UIC Barcelona is classed as transparent, as it complies with 41 of the 48 transparency points.

  Dynamic Transparency Index (Dyntra) aims to measure public information from governments, public authorities, political parties, elected representatives and the various stakeholders in a dynamic, efficient, transparent, open way. A study has been conducted to assess the public transparency of Spanish universities based on an assessment of their transparency level using the Dyntra methodology.

Methodology
An analysis of universities’ transparency using 137 indicators in five different groups: 1. Institutional transparency; 2. Public communication; 3. Citizen participation and collaboration; 4. Economic-financial transparency; 5. Transparency when contracting services.

The ranking analyses the most popular fifty degree programmes among students and the five best universities to study them at.  To write this report, the newspaper analysed 25 selection criteria in detail, the opinion of 2.000 lecturers and also external studies (international rankings and reports for the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation, etc.).

UIC Barcelona has once more appeared in the best Spanish universities ranking in the El Mundo newspaper.  Specifically, the Bachelor’s degree in Dentistry is ranked among the three best in its category.

El Mundo particularly highlights the University Dental Clinic in the Faculty of Dentistry and its facilities that are equipped with the most cutting-edge technology. 

Actions

The Alumni & Careers department of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya aims to build the bridges necessary to allow our graduates to join the job market, which is why it organises different initiatives throughout the academic year:

Alumni Community

• Lifelong learning, continuing education
• Mentorship

Professional careers

• Career Center: We have a job portal where we publish job offers from different professional levels to our students and Alumni, facilitating their integration into the national and international job market.
• Guidance for searching for a job: Advice is provided on how to improve job search tools through personalised sessions.
• Career coaching: One-to-one coaching to help achieve professional objectives, job transition and to improve employability.
• Training for employment: Talks, conferences, training to improve job searches and employability at all levels.
• Continuous guidance: (legal, other.)

Results

The Universitat Internacional de Catalunya is also collaborating with the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency (AQU Catalunya) in carrying out an employment survey to obtain reliable data and evidence on the employability of graduates of higher education programmes (bachelor's and master's degrees), which will enable us to take decisions that help improve teaching.

AQU Catalunya has conducted the employment survey of the entire Catalan university system every three years since 2001, and in its twenty years of existence it has already accumulated more than 100,000 records, with a response rate of approximately 50%. These data confirm the validity of the survey, the reliability of the data and consolidate the survey as one of the most representative, comprehensive and important surveys in Europe. The population surveyed are graduates who completed their studies three years ago, which provides an accurate picture of their progression and integration into the labour market, providing information on the timescale, quality and pathway they have followed, as well as their degree of satisfaction with the education they have received.

UIC Barcelona has participated in this study since 2014, given that the results and conclusions drawn from the survey are considered representative. At the same time, the fact of being able to obtain comparative data with the rest of the universities in Catalonia is highly valued.

The most up-to-date data are those corresponding to the 7th edition of the survey, carried out in early 2020 and completed by graduates who finished their studies in the 2015-2016 academic year.

More than 35,000 people were surveyed in this latest study: 17,500 bachelor's degree and higher artistic education graduates, 12,000 master's degree graduates and 2,500 doctoral degree graduates, figures that represent half of the reference population (bachelor's degree graduates between 2015 and 2016, except for medicine graduates from the 2012-2013 graduating cohort, and higher artistic education, master's degree and doctoral degree graduates from the 2014-2015 and 2015-2016 academic years).

The general results of all studies carried out by AQU Catalunya to date can be viewed via this link.

Employability

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