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In the 2016 edition of the NTU Rankings, published on 10 October, the UPC occupies 98th place in the world in engineering. It has been the leading Spanish university in this field since 2011. By subject, the UPC is in 39th place in Telecommunications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, in 59th place in Civil Engineering, in 79th place in Computer Science, in 79th place in Mathematics, in 106th place in Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering, in 163rd place in Chemical Engineering, in 182nd place in Materials Science and in 218th place in Geoscience. The UPC leads the Spanish national rankings in Telecommunications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Civil Engineering and Materials Science.

Published by the National Taiwan University (NTU), this ranking evaluates the productivity, impact and excellence of scientific publications of universities based on bibliometric data obtained from the Science Citation Index (SCI) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) of the Web of Science. Publications in the humanities are therefore not included.

In addition to the overall ranking, which includes the top 500 institutions, the Taiwan Ranking has also published rankings of the top 300 universities by field since 2008 and by subject since 2010. The UPC has been included in the general ranking since 2014, when it stood in 445th place. In 2015 it rose to 439th place and this year it is again in 445th place.

In the field of Engineering, from 2013 to 2016 the UPC improved its score regarding the number of articles in the last 11 years (up 5.1 points), articles in high impact journals in the current year (up 4.1 points), citations in the last two years (up 2.9 points), citations in the last 11 years (up 2.8 points), Highly Cited Papers (up 1.4 points) and articles in the current year (up 1.2 points). In the same period it obtained a worse score for average number of citations in the last 11 years (down 2 points, though it recovered 0.6 points from the previous year's result) and in the h-Index (down 1.5 points).

Overall, the UPC has shown steady progress in the field of Engineering during the period 2013-2016, rising from 54.7 to 56.5 (up 1.8 points).

Click on the following links to consult the grouping criteria followed in the classifications by field and subject, respectively.

Table I shows the UPC's results in the subjects in which it has been positioned in the 2016 edition of the Ranking.