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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 2020
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 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 9,920 out of a total of 13,723 higher education institutions in the world, included in the uniRank database, have adopted an official institutional Facebook page.
Results from the 2020 Ranking Universitat Internacional de Catalunya National position
25 out of the 75 Spanish universities with 33,940 likes
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 7,867 out of a total of 13,723 higher education institutions in the world, included in the uniRank database, have adopted an official institutional Twitter page.
Results from the 2020 Ranking Universitat Internacional de Catalunya National position
46 out of the 71 Spanish universities with 15,744 followers
uniRank Instagram University Ranking
This Ranking provides some information on the adoption of the social platform Instagram among higher education institutions and leads to the most comprehensive list of Universities and Colleges with an official presence on Instagram. The aim is to provide a popularity index for each university on Instagram, 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 6,472 out of a total of 13,723 higher education institutions in the world, included in the uniRank database, have adopted an official institutional Instagram page.
Results from the 2020 Ranking Universitat Internacional de Catalunya National position
35 out of the 67 Spanish universities with 7,097 followers and 441 publications
uniRank YouTube University Ranking
This Ranking provides some information on the adoption of the social platform YouTube among higher education institutions and leads to the most comprehensive list of Universities and Colleges with an official presence on YouTube. The aim is to provide a popularity index for each university on YouTube, based on the total number of subscribers, not to rank the higher education institutions for the educational quality or academic level of the services provided. Currently 8,381 out of a total of 13,723 higher education institutions in the world, included in the uniRank database, have adopted an official institutional YouTube page.
Results from the 2020 Ranking Universitat Internacional de Catalunya National position
30 out of the 72 Spanish universities with 3,830 subscribers

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