Press notes 26/11/2019

URV has ten disciplines ranked among the best in the world according to Times Higher Education 2020

This ranking weighs the results of 13 indicators corresponding to the areas of teaching; research, citations, internationalisation and transfer

Lecturer Bernd Theilen with a student from the United States.

Times Higher Education (THE) has released the rankings of the best universities in the world in 11 disciplines. The URV is present in ten of these. Different universities are ranked depending on each discipline. Therefore, while in Physical Sciences there are 1,054 universities, in Education there are only 477 universities.

Area	Global position	Total number of universities in the ranking	Position in Spain
Arts and Humanities	251-300	536	7th
Social Sciences	251-300	720	4th
Economics and Business	401-500	632	11th
Education	401+	477	20th
Computer Science	401-500	749	8th
Engineering and Technology	301-400	1008	4th
Life Sciences	251-300	821	3rd
Physical Sciences	251-300	1054	2nd
Psychology	401+	494	8th
Clinic, Preclinical and Health	501-600	775	12th

*The table is ordered by the ranking publication date.

Compared to other universities in Spain, the best-positioned disciplines are Physical Sciences, where the URV is in second place with five other universities (Autonomous University of Madrid, Balearic Islands, Barcelona, Pablo de Olavide and Laguna); Life Sciences, in third place, with the Autonomous University of Madrid; and Engineering and Technology, in fourth place with five other universities.

This ranking by knowledge areas uses the same system of weighting as the general THE ranking, which is based on 13 indicators corresponding to five main areas: Teaching, Research, Citations, Internationalisation and Transfer.

To see the URV’s position in these five areas, click here.

To see all the rankings by area click here.