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Observatory·July 2026 edition·Updated monthly

AI visibility ranking of Spanish universities

Which universities AI recommends when someone asks where to study in Spain. We measure real mentions and run 60+ queries against ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity with web search, every month.

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52
universities tracked
4
AI models
60+
queries per edition
From this edition

CITABLE FIGURES

Four data points from the July 2026 edition of the Observatory, ready to cite. If you use them, link the source.

12,294
AI-answer mentions for Universidad Europea, the most-cited university in Spain
13%
of its appearances are actual recommendations: the most mentioned is almost never the most recommended
73%
of the times AI names UNED, it is recommending it — the best mention-to-recommendation conversion
10,141
mentions for UNIR, the most-cited online university

Source: Volcanz AI Visibility Observatory · July 2026 edition

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