UNAB Ranks Among the Top 5 Universities in Chile According to the Scimago 2025 Ranking

Universidad Andrés Bello ranked among the top 50 universities in Latin America and 5th in Chile in the 2025 edition of the renowned Scimago Ranking. This ranking evaluates universities and educational institutions based on their performance in research (50%), innovation (30%), and social impact (20%, measured by institutional web visibility).

This year, the ranking evaluated 5,051 academic institutions and research centers worldwide, including 430 in Latin America and 44 in Chile.

Commenting on UNAB’s ranking and position, Carolina Torrealba, Dean of Research and Doctoral Studies at Universidad Andrés Bello, stated: «We are very proud that UNAB has once again been recognized by international institutions for the depth, scope, and impact of its research and development.»

«These results are the fruit of the collective effort of our researchers, who are persistently working to advance knowledge, generating increasingly complex, associative, and far-reaching research projects, thus providing new knowledge that contributes to the understanding of our environment,» said Dean Torrealba.

Scimago Ranking Results by Discipline

To present results by field of study, the Scimago Ranking categorizes institutions’ scientific output into 19 disciplinary areas. Based on this classification, UNAB ranks among the top 10 universities in Chile in 11 fields and among the top 50 in Latin America in 7.

Among the most outstanding fields, Energy ranks 2nd in Chile and 18th in Latin America. Veterinary Medicine holds 4th place nationally and 50th in Latin America, while Dentistry ranks 5th in Chile and 43rd in the region.

In the case of Engineering, UNAB ranked 5th in Chile and 31st in Latin America, while in Medicine, Mathematics, and Computer Science, UNAB ranked 6th in the country.

In the field of specific disciplines, the university ranked in the national top 10 in 14 of them and in the Latin American top 50 in 11. Industrial Manufacturing Engineering ranked first in the country and fourth in Latin America.

In addition, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine ranked 2nd in Chile and 9th in Latin America; Anatomy, 3rd and 12th, respectively; Geriatrics and Gerontology, 4th and 15th; Otorhinolaryngology, 4th and 30th; Education, 2nd and 22nd, and Surgery, 5th in the country.

Scimago Research Methodology

Scimago Institutions Rankings (SIR) is a classification of academic and research-related institutions, which allows comparing their contribution to the generation of knowledge. These are ranked using a composite indicator that combines three different sets of indicators, based on research performance, innovation results, and social impact as measured by their visibility on the web.

The first of these is measured in terms of the volume, impact, and quality of the institution’s research output, including openness (open access), scientific leadership, international collaboration, and high-quality publications, among others. This information is provided by data from Scopus, the database of bibliographic references and scientific citations.

The innovation ranking is calculated based on the number of patent applications, the generation of innovative knowledge, and the impact of the institution on the industry.

Finally, social impact metrics consider visibility on social networks together with more specific parameters, such as sustainable development objectives, the participation of women in research processes, and the impact on public policies.