The UPF, UB and UAB among the 300 best universities in the world according to the THE 2016 ranking

The Universitat de Barcelona (UB), the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) are among the top 300 universities in the world according to the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016. The UAB appears in the position 163 (last year was at 146) and UPF at 175 (the previous year appeared at 164). The UB positions among the top 250 sites.

This year, there are also two more Catalan public universities between the first 500: the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona (UPC) and the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). In the ranking there are a total of 980 universities around the world, headed by the University of Oxford, the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University.