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 available on the U-Ranking website and are analyzed in depth in this report.

The 9th edition of U-Ranking provides information on a total of 72 Spanish universities, all of the public ones and 24 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, the results obtained in the 2020 and 2021 editions are compared and the differences in performance of the university systems of the different Spanish regions are analyzed.

U-Ranking 2021 also includes a specific analysis of the changes experienced over the last decade in the degrees offered at Spanish universities.