The Valencian institution has improved internationally in all six fields of knowledge that have been analysed. It is listed 126^th in Agriculture, 136^th in Natural Sciences, 237^th in Clinical Medicine, 298^th in Social Sciences, 301-350 in Life Sciences and 351-400 in Engineering. It maintains its academic positions among Spanish universities and has even advanced in Medicine from the 4^th to the 3^rd position.

The NTU Ranking analyses 14 subjects. In the Spanish ranking, the Universitat de València is listed the 1^st in agricultural sciences (47^th in the world) and 2^nd in Physics (144^th in the world). In addition, it is the third in Chemistry (132^nd in the world), Environmental Sciences and Ecology (160^th in the world), Pharmacology and Toxicology (188^th in the world). Both Pharmacology and Toxicology have improved their position in comparison with the previous year.

The Universitat the València has internationally improved most subjects that have been analysed by the NTU Raking: Agricultural Sciences, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Environment and Ecology, Earth Sciences, Mechanical Engineering, Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Thus, the Universitat de València is listed 215^th in the global ranking (232^nd in 2017) and 87^nd in the European ranking (93^rd in 2017). Harvard University, Stanford University and Johns Hopkins University are at the top of the ranking. The NTU Ranking was published in August. The Universitat the València is only surpassed in Spain by the University of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

The NTU Ranking, whose bibliometric data provider is Essential Science Indicators – Clarivete Analytics, is updated every year. It uses 3 main indicators. The first indicator is researching performance (25%). It includes the number of published papers in the last year and in the past 11 years. The second indicator is the impact of research (35%). It encompasses the number of citations in the past 2 and 11 years, as well as the average of the longest period. The third main indicator is excellence research (45%). It assesses the h-index of the last two years, the number of cited articles and the number of articles that have been included in prestigious academic magazines.