The University, the fourth best in Spain according to the Times Higher Education 2025 ranking.

The University of Navarra is among the 251-300 best universities in the world, according to the latest edition of THE World University Rankings published in Manchester. It is also fourth in Spain behind the three major Catalan universities (Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra and Autónoma de Barcelona).

According to this year's Times Higher Education ranking, the University of Navarra is first in Spain in transfer knowledge for obtaining the best score in the country in the pillar of "partnership with industry"(Industry). This area values both the income of research from companies and the patents obtained. In addition, it is second in Spain in international orientation, third in terms of the quality of its research and fifth in teaching and for its environment researcher.

Overall, the University of Navarra is ranked 251-300 in the world, according to THE World Ranking 2025. The final score comes from five groups of indicators: teaching, environment researcher, quality of research, partnership with industry and international orientation. In all of them the academic center is above 75% of the universities, standing out in quality of research (it is 222nd in the world), partnership with industry (225th in the world) and international orientation (339th in the world).

This international ranking is the one that currently has the widest coverage: it analyzes a total of 2,857 universities, 59 of which are Spanish, of which 2,092 are classified, from 133 countries. To calculate its indicators, Times Higher Education uses, among others, more than 93,000 responses from academics around the world and 157 million citations from 18 million articles, in addition to 400,000 data provided by the universities themselves.