Times Higher Education (THE) has published its World University
Rankings for 2022. In this year’s edition CEU Universities are
ranked ninth in Spain and are among the top 600 universities across the world.
The number of universities participating has increased this year from 1527 to
more than 2100, although only 1662 institutions were able to meet the minimum
standards to appear in the ranking.
The THE World University
Rankings assesses universities from all over the world and ranks them in terms
of performance in five areas: teaching, research, citations, international
outlook and industry income. In total, thirteen performance indicators are
examined, and survey responses from 22,000 academics are also monitored.
Regarding research, the THE World University Ranking has analysed 14.4 million
publications and more than 108 million citations over five years.
Leaders in research influence
and internationalization
Besides achieving ninth
position in Spain for its overall score and ranking between 501 and 600
internationally, CEU Universities achieved impressive results in two categories
examined in the THE World University Rankings. One of these is research
influence, which is chiefly measured on the basis of data taken from Elsevier’s
Scopus database, with research quality measured by means of the number of
citations studies receive. In citations, CEU Universities are ranked second in
Spain and in 109th position internationally.
The international outlook of
CEU Universities also received renewed recognition, coming in at 5th
position for the proportion of international students here. International
students make up more than 20% of the student body and this plays a great role
in our internationalization.
CEU Universities – including
the CEU San Pablo University in Madrid, the CEU Cardenal Herrera University in
Valencia, Elche and Castellón, and the Abat Oliba CEU University in Barcelona –
forms part of the San Pablo CEU University Foundation. This is the largest
privately-run education institution in Spain, covering every stage of development,
from pre-school education through to postgraduate programmes.