Adrián Hurtado Bermúdez, a graduate of the Universidad Católica de Murcia, has been ranked as the best academic record in Spain in the 2021 ranking of the Spanish Society for Academic Excellence (Sociedad Española de Excelencia Académica or SEDEA) in the Degree of Dentistry. In addition, UCAM, with a total of nineteen selected graduates, is at the top of the rankings in the degrees of Medicine, Business Administration, Telecommunications Engineering, Early Childhood Education, Computer Science and Nursing.  

SEDEA selected 1-2% of the university graduates from each of the degrees. After their selection, their CVs were evaluated taking into account the average mark of the degree, honours, prizes and distinctions, scholarships obtained for academic merit, courses, languages, presentations at conventions, publications, student representation, volunteering and social commitment. Adrián Hurtado, who was a student of the second graduating class of Dentistry at UCAM, is already working as a dentist in a clinic in Murcia and is continuing with his training, studying a master’s degree, and preparing his PhD.  

The complete list of UCAM graduates in the SEDEA ranking with their respective degrees is as follows: 

• Adrián Hurtado Bermúdez (ranked 1st in Dentistry) 
• Julia Fornieles García (ranked 5th in Medicine) 
• Belén Encarnación Gómez López (ranked 5th in Nursing) 
• Inés Sieres Alberola (ranked 9th in Medicine) 
• Ana Cristina Asensio Valverde (ranked 10th in Early Childhood Education) 
• Lucía Vera Bernal (Medicine) 
• Inés Romera Martínez (Early Childhood Education) 
• Antonio Martínez Meca (Early Childhood Education) 
• Ainhoa Sánchez Sánchez (Early Childhood Education) 
• Miguel Ángel Gragera García (Early Childhood Education) 
• Raúl Martín Torrecillas (Computer Science) 
• María Del Carmen Cascales Martínez (Business Management) 
• Gustavo Daniel Afonso Hernández (Computer Science) 
• Raúl Flores Muñoz (Computer Science) 
• Jorge Fernández Ortihuela (Computer Science) 
• María De Los Ángeles Perona Gómez (Early Childhood Education) 
• Javier Trenchs Soto (Medicine) 
• Camila Yane Gauffin (Medicine)
• Pablo Del Arco Ortiz (Telecommunications Engineering)