UC passes A3ES Institutional Assessment with flying colours
This result confirms the strong performance of the institution, which had already achieved the highest accreditation in 2019. UC continues to excel, with a rating of 'very good' in four performance indicators and a rating of 'good' in the remainder.
The University of Coimbra has again achieved the best possible result in the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES) institutional evaluation: full and unconditional accreditation for six years, with a rating of Very Good in most performance indicators assessed.
The result, announced to the UC this Thursday (18), confirms the good performance of the institution, which had already received the maximum accreditation in 2019 and continues to improve its performance in all areas - achieving the maximum rating of "very good" in four of the performance indicators assessed and "good" in the remaining three. According to the A3ES External Assessment Committee in its overall evaluation, "the University of Coimbra is an institution with a strong reputation and strengths and a drive for continuous improvement".
This assessment highlights strengths such as the commitment to intensive research (with an innovation ecosystem that includes important incubation and acceleration facilities) and UC's strong international reputation (which contributes to student recruitment and numerous collaborations on projects with institutions worldwide). It also recognises the institution's efforts to become a leading university, with successive advances in strategy, teaching, research, infrastructure, and internationalisation.
"Achieving the highest distinction in the A3ES Institutional Assessment process is another important seal of quality for the work we've been doing at the University of Coimbra", said the Rector of UC, Amílcar Falcão, adding that "It's great to receive this recognition, but it's also an incentive for us to continue working every day to become an even better university."
The Institutional Assessment process is carried out every six years by A3ES to evaluate the quality of performance of national higher education institutions. The University of Coimbra also recently received the highest rating ('5 stars') in eight categories of the QS Stars Rating, a system for classifying higher education institutions by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The University of Coimbra has been consistently ranked among the top 500 universities in the world in the most important international rankings and has been ranked as the best national higher education institution in the area of sustainability in several of them.