The objective of U-Ranking is to analyze the performance of Spanish universities and offer comparable and synthetic images of these higher education institutions. Based on the study of the universities’ activities in teaching, research and innovation, the project develops different rankings that are analyzed in depth in this report.

The 3rd edition of U-Ranking provides information on a total of 59 Spanish universities, all of the public ones and for the first time, 11 private. The report analyzes the position of these universities in each classification and also compares the U-Ranking results with those of other well-known rankings to evaluate their similarities and differences. The report shows the teaching, research and innovation results of the universities and also provides an analysis of the sensitivity of the results to changes in the importance given to these activities. Finally, it compares the results of the 2014 and 2015 editions.