The United States and the United Kingdom lead the ranking of the best universities in the world

The importance of having a good educational center is paramount both in the levels of compulsory education and in higher education. Going to a good university is the goal of many students, who aspire to the best training in the chosen field or specialty. But do our campuses have a high quality? Spain has a name among the 200 best universities in the world according to him ranking of Center for World University Rankings. Its about Barcelona campus what is ranked 122 from this list.

You have to advance to position 122 of this list to find a faculty with a Spanish name: University of Barcelona. Although this position seems very distant, in fact it is, this center advances to others of reference like the university of Iowa or the Technological Institute of Tokyo. However, it must be borne in mind that this position represents a setback compared to last year when this center I was in 116th place.


41 Spanish universities among the first 1,000 in this ranking

U.S the highest positions in the ranking of the best universities in the world where the Harvard, Standford and Massachusetts universities. In the fourth and fifth positions are British centers: Cambridge and Oxford. The rest of the top 10 of the most reputable campuses in the world continues to dominate the US where the universities of Columbia, California Berkeley, Chicago, Princeton and Yale.

By number of universities present among the 1,000 best faculties in the world, Spain occupies the eighth place with a total of 41 campuses. Countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, China, Japan and obviously the United States outperform our country in this regard. However, this also assumes that Spain surpasses other countries such as Portugal or Russia.


Improvement in levels of compulsory education

The most positive aspect for Spain refers to the increase in educational quality in the levels of compulsory education. In this sense, or Spain it is worthy of praise since in the last PISA report 2015, their schools were ahead of the average of Japan, Finland and South Korea, countries that usually hold the top positions of this ranking .

By communities, these are the 15 schools that have outperformed Japan, Finland and South Korea in the latest PISA 2015 report:

- In Madrid, the schools of Ágora International School, Alameda de Osuna, Arcángel Rafael, Brains, Los Sauces, Mirabal, Ramón y Cajal, Saint Patrick and Virgin of Europe.
- In Valencia, Ágora Lledó International School (Castellón).
- In Andalucia, The English Center (Cádiz) and San Francisco de Paula (Seville).
- In Catalonia, Agora Sant Cugat International School (Barcelona).
- In Galicia, Colexio M. Peleteiro (Santiago).
- In the Balearics, Ágora Portals International School (Palma de Mallorca).


Damián Montero

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