Position in university rankings

Ranking: U-Multirank

Result: Public University of Navarre is more solid on regional commitment. Its general profile shows higher performance in several indicators, with 8 “A” (very good) scores in general.
 
Detail ranking: U-Multirank, ranking born from a European Commission initiative, it offers an image of the diversity of university results through five dimensions: teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, international focus and regional commitment.

U-Multirank does not provide an only classification, but it allows users to identify strengths and weaknesses in a university, or the aspects they are more interested in from the indicators included in said dimensions. The results are offered classifying each indicator in a specific performance group. 1/A: Very good, 2/B: Good, 3/C: Average, 4/D: Lower to average and 5/E: Weak.

In June 2022 it published its seventh yearly data publication ( www.umultirank.org ) which classifies almost 1594 universities from 86 countries. It presents data of 76 Spanish universities, covering almost the whole offer of our university system.

Sorting the search by universities which teach degrees, master’s degrees, or doctorates, and taking into account the assessment in all the indicators used by the U-Multirank tool, Public University of Navarre is defined as “Public University of Navarre is strongest in Regional Engagement. Its overall profile shows top performance across various indicators, with 8 ‘A’ (very good) scores overall”. 

Result UPNA
Methodology 

Ranking: CyD

Result: Position spanish universities: 13
 
Detail ranking: The  Ranking CYD  2024 has been developed together with U-Multirank. Fundación CYD has been its interlocutor in Spain. The Ranking CYD shares the same methodological principles as U-Multirank and adopts them to its elaboration, incorporating other indicators which are appropriate for the Spanish education system. The ranking does not offer numerical values of each university or any complex indicator. It presents the results according to 5 performance areas (Dimensions) and 30 knowledge areas.

The 2024 edition, number 11, offers results of 81 Spanish universities. They represent 91% out of the 89 teaching degree studies included in the RUCT (Universities, Centres and Degrees Registry). Out of those, 48 are public (which corresponds to 100% of public universities) and 33 are private (80% of private universities). 

In the institutional ranking Public University of Navarre counts on 15 (42%) indicators with high performance, 18 (50%) with intermediate performance and 3 (8%) with low performance.

On a global institutional level, UPNA stands at position 13 out of a total of 81 Spanish universities and 9 out of the 48 public universities.

Result UPNA 
Methodology

Ranking: The World University Rankings

Result: Position world univ.: 1.001-1.200
 
Detail ranking: Worldwide university rankings of Times Higher Education (THE) 2023 include over 1799 universities in 104 countries and regions. The table is based on 13 performance indicators carefully weighed which measure the performance of an institution in four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international perspective.

The methodology to create this ranking can be checked here.

To check in detail the evaluation carried out by THE according to their criteria on UPNA, for 2023 you may do so here.

Ranking Impact. Since 2019, THE assesses universities according to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). It does so through 17 tables.

Evaluation carried out by Ranking Impact, carried out by THE according to their criteria

Result UPNA 
Methodology

Ranking: U-Ranking universidades españolas

Result: Public University of Navarre, in the 2024 edition productivity global index is ranked in a higher-to-intermediate level, 5 out of 11; 20 universities are in higher levels, and UPNA is part of a group of 17 universities in the same level and 33 universities appear in lower levels.
 
Detail ranking: U-Ranking. This ranking comes of the total volume of teaching, research and technological innovation and development results of 70 Spanish universities - 48 of them public and 22 private, in 2023. In this report four rankings are presented. Two more general: one about the total volume of results (U-Ranking Volumen), another one about performance in relation with its size (U-Ranking), and other two about more specific classifications: one of the orders the results of each university in two dimensions (teaching and research)  (U_Ranking Dimensiones) and the other one, new, which orders and compares the degrees offered by universities (U-Ranking Titulaciones)

The positioning in the ranking is carried out according to the value of the synthetic indicator obtained by each University. Those universities which obtain the same index present the same position and are gathered in the same level.

Public University of Navarre, in the 2024 edition productivity global index is ranked in a higher-to-intermediate level, 5 out of 11; 20 universities are in higher levels, and UPNA is part of a group of 17 universities in the same level and 33 universities appear in lower levels.

Besides, it includes a labour insertion ranking which analyses labour insertion in the 4 years following graduation, from 2019 to 2022. The analysis is carried out using Social Security membership data of the degree graduates (formerly licenciatura and diplomatura) during the academic year 2017-2018 published by the Ministry of Universities on the Report on labour insertion of University Graduates, of 2022. Indicators are: membership rate, contracts as university graduates and average base for social security payment.

Public University of Navarre stands over the average values of the Spanish University System (SUE) in all three indicators of labour insertion of the 2023 edition.

It also includes an analysis of adaptation to the offer change of universities.  It does so by measuring the percentage of changes in degrees and double degrees of the current offer created from the academic year 2010-2011.

Result UPNA 
Methodology

Ranking: CWTS Leiden Ranking

Result: Publications indexed in the Web of Science: 980
 
Detail ranking: The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2024 offers important information on the scientific performance of 1506 relevant universities all over the world. It is made by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies of Leiden University (Netherlands).

This ranking classifies universities according to their bibliometric data. Bibliometry is the discipline that can be used to get to know and improve the impact and visibility of scientific production. Among the goals of bibliometric analysis are the study of the size, growth and distribution of scientific documents, as well as the structure and dynamics of the groups that produce and use said documents and the information contained therein.

In order to be included in this ranking, more than 800 publications indexed in the Web of Science for the analysed period - in this case 2019-2022 - must have been published.

It provides various ranking lists according to geographic area, scientific area, and type of indicators.

For example, in terms of scientific impact, in scientific areas as a whole, UPNA ranks 1st place among Spanish universities in the PP indicator (top 1%). This indicator shows the proportion of publications - out of the total - which are among the 1% most quoted in their fields. If this indicator focuses on the “Mathematics and Computer Science” area or on the “Biomedical and Health Sciences” area, UPNA ranks 1st place among Spanish universities and 37 and 35 respectively worldwide.

When the chosen indicator is PP (top 10 %) (the proportion of publications out of the total which are among the 10% most quoted in their fields), UPNA ranks 4th place, among Spanish universities and in scientific areas as a whole.

Alternatively, looking at the international collaborative publications indicator (it shows the proportion of publications out of the total written in collaboration with other organisations of two or more countries), UPNA ranks 3rd place among Spanish universities in the “Biomedical and Health Sciences” area, and 5th in the “Mathematics and Computer Science” area.

Result UPNA 
Methodology

Ranking: Center for World University Rankings

Result: Position spanish univ.: 43; position world univ.: 1.305
 
Detail ranking: It is a universities global performance ranking focused on measuring the quality of the education and training of students, as well as the prestige of scholars and the quality of researchers, independently of surveys or data provided by the universities.

In its 2024 edition, it published the ranking with the 2000 most valued universities all over the world. Public University of Navarre stands at position 43 among Spanish universities and position 1305 worldwide.

Result UPNA 
Methodology

Ranking: Scimago Institutions Ranking

Result: Publications indexed in the Web of Science: 980
 
Detail ranking: SCImago Research Group develops the SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) which provides an institutions ranking through establishing a complex indicator combining three different indicators groups based on the research performance, innovation results and social impact measured by their its visibility on the website.

This calculation is generated on a yearly basis from the results obtained throughout almost five years which ends two years prior to the ranking publication.

In order to generate the complex indicator SIR World, a total of 117 indicators are used: 11 for the factor Research, 3 for the factor Innovation and 3 for the Social Impact. Some of them depend on the size of the organisation.

In the 2024 edition, UPNA ranks 37 out of the 76 Spanish Higher Education Institutions considered, and 986 worldwide, with a total of 4762 universities ranked.

The following table summarises the percentile SIR has placed UPNA in, in relation with worldwide and Spanish universities.

They also publish the SIR IBER, which shows exclusively scientific activity of Spain, Portugal and Latin American countries  SIR IBER ranks higher education institutions according to the number of projects indexed in the database Scopus© between 2014 and 2018, and analyses their performance basing on three main factors: research, innovation and social impact. By 2020 an impact indicator has been included: Weighted Citation Normalized (WCN), and a characterisation of the research activity development carried out in the higher education sector, in the first 16 Ibero American countries.

In SIR IBER 2020 with 3119 published documents, UPNA ranks 116 in Ibero America  and 44 in Spain.

Result UPNA 
Methodology

Ranking: University Ranking by Academic Performance

Result: Position spanish univ.: 44; position world univ.: 1.330
 
Detail ranking: They define themselves as a “non-profit organisation which got established at the IT Institute of the Middle East Technical University in 2009. The URAP team members are METU researchers who take part voluntarily in the URAP Research Laboratory as a public service. URAP’s main goal is to develop a classification system for the universities of the world based on academic performance indicators which show the quality and quantity of academic publications.

URAP classification system approach is based on academic quality. URAP has developed data on 3000 higher education institutes (HEI) trying to classify these organisations according to their academic performance.

URAP classification system is fully based on objective data obtained from reliable open sources. Since 2017, URAP used a new filter for the articles and quotes indicators in order to foster the quality of the publication by focusing on the articles published in journals ranked within the first, second and third tiers according to their Journal impact factor within their respective theme areas.

It is based on 6 academic performance indicators. Since URAP is a ranking based on academic performance, publications are the basis of the classification methodology. Both the quality and the quantity of publications are used as indicators, as well as the performance of international collaboration in research.

According to these mentioned criteria, URAP ranks UPNA at position 44 among Spanish universities and 1330 worldwide. 

The data are gathered from Web of Science and InCites, which provide HEI lists.

Result UPNA 
Methodology