Universidade gaúcha conquistou a 152ª posição. No Brasil, a USP ocupa a melhor colocação.
A Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) foi avaliada entre as 200 melhores instituições de Ensino Superior do mundo. Em um ranking semestral organizado pelo Ministério da Educação da Espanha com 17 mil participantes, a universidade gaúcha conquistou a 152ª posição. No Brasil, a Universidade de São Paulo ocupa a melhor colocação (38ª).
O índice leva em conta itens como a qualidade das pesquisas acadêmicas e o prestígio em âmbito internacional. Também avalia o comprometimento dos professores, a relação da instituição com a comunidade e a qualidade do diálogo entre a universidade e setores da economia.
O ranking promovido desde 2004 pelo governo espanhol foi liderado em sua última edição pelas universidades americanas, que ocuparam as 10 primeiras posições. O Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts (MIT, na sigla em inglês) angariou o posto de melhor universidade, seguido por Harvard e por Stanford.
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1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2 Harvard University
3 Stanford University
4 University of California Berkeley
5 Cornell University
6 University of Wisconsin Madison
7 University of Minnesota
8 California Institute of Technology
9 University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
10 University of Michigan
11 University of Texas Austin
12 University of Washington
13 University of Chicago
14 Carnegie Mellon University
15 University of Pennsylvania
16 Columbia University New York
17 Texas A&M University
18 University of Maryland
19 University of California Los Angeles
20 Purdue University
21 Johns Hopkins University
22 University of Cambridge
23 Pennsylvania State University
24 University of Tokyo
25 University of Arizona
26 National Taiwan University
27 University of Florida
28 University of Toronto
29 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
30 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
31 Michigan State University
32 New York University
33 North Carolina State University
34 Rutgers University
35 University of California San Diego
36 Yale University
37 University of Pittsburgh
38 Universidade de São Paulo
39 Princeton University
40 University of Virginia
41 University of British Columbia
42 University of Oxford
43 Duke University
44 Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
45 Georgia Institute of Technology
46 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich
47 University of Southern California
48 University of Colorado Boulder
49 Kyoto University
50 University of California Davis
51 University College London
52 University of Helsinki
53 Florida State University
54 Norwegian University of Science & Technology
55 University of Oslo
56 University of California Santa Barbara
57 Simon Fraser University
58 University of California Irvine
59 Ohio State University
60 University of Nebraska Lincoln
61 University of Utah
62 University of Georgia
63 University of New Mexico
64 Washington University Saint Louis
65 University of Oregon
66 Iowa State University
67 Arizona State University
68 Universität Wien
69 Universidad Complutense de Madrid
70 Boston University
71 University of Edinburgh
72 Università di Bologna
73 University of Alberta
74 University of Southampton
75 George Mason University
76 University of Iowa
77 Australian National University
78 University of Calgary
79 Utrecht University
80 Uppsala University
81 Université Catholique de Louvain
82 Vanderbilt University
83 Brigham Young University
84 Freie Universität Berlin
85 Oregon State University
86 Rice University
87 University of California Santa Cruz
88 Université de Geneve
89 University of Missouri Columbia
90 University of Massachusetts Amherst
91 University of Hong Kong
92 Linkoping University
93 Université de Montreal
94 University of Groningen
95 University of Tennessee Knoxville
96 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
97 Charles University
98 University of Tsukuba
99 Universität Hamburg
100 University of Delaware
101 National Cheng Kung University
102 University of South Florida
103 Royal Institute of Technology
104 Peking University
105 University of Waterloo
106 Technische Universität Wien
107 McGill University
108 Lund University
109 University of Queensland
110 Northwestern University
111 University of Amsterdam
112 Louisiana State University
113 Rheinisch Westfalische Technische Hochschule Aachen
114 University of South Carolina
115 Universidade Estadual de Campinas
116 Masaryk University
117 Brown University
118 Washington State University Pullman
119 University of Connecticut
120 York University
121 State University of New York at Buffalo
122 Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
123 University of Warwick
124 National Sun Yat-Sen University
125 University of Kentucky
126 University of Notre Dame
127 Chinese University of Hong Kong
128 University of Copenhagen
129 Université Paris 6 Pierre and Marie Curie
130 Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
131 University of Glasgow
132 Universität Leipzig
133 Università di Pisa
134 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Brasil
135 University of Bergen
136 Colorado State University
137 Monash University
138 University of Oklahoma
139 University of Twente
140 University of Melbourne
141 École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
142 Kansas State University
143 University of Rochester
144 City University of New York
145 University of Houston
146 National Chiao Tung University
147 Tsinghua University China
148 Technische Universität München
149 Universidade do Porto
150 Technische Universität Berlin
151 University of Sydney
152 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
153 Nagoya University
154 Université du Quebec Montreal
155 University of Illinois Chicago
156 Osaka University
157 Texas Tech University
158 University of Kansas
159 Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg
160 University of Manchester
161 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
162 National University of Singapore
163 University of New South Wales
164 University of California San Francisco
165 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
166 Universität Karlsruhe
167 University of Leeds
168 Universität Munster
169 University of Dublin Trinity College
170 Keio University
171 Hebrew University of Jerusalem
172 West Virginia University
173 National Taiwan Normal University
174 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
175 Prince of Songkla University
176 University of Victoria British Columbia
177 Emory University
178 Universität Freiburg
179 Tohoku University
180 Technische Universität Dortmund
181 Syracuse University
182 University of North Texas
183 Utah State University
184 Goteborg University
185 Seoul National University
186 Universidad del País Vasco
187 University of Birmingham
188 Lomonosov Moscow State University
189 Rochester Institute of Technology
190 Auburn University
191 Stockholm University
192 Universitat de Barcelona
193 Tufts University
194 University of Saskatchewan
195 Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen Nurnberg
196 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
197 King Saud University
198 Università degli Studi di Padova
199 University of California Riverside
200 Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza
Fonte: Zero Hora