ABSTRACT
COVID19 has been the topic that has occupied the most space in the media around the world. We could say that there has been unprecedented media saturation. The mass media have had the challenge of reporting rigorously and searching for the truth in a situation of confusion and crisis never seen in recent times. This article aims to show an analysis of the information offered by the media about the Spanish university reality, during the state of alarm. We were interested in determining the informational treatment that the Spanish digital press made on the Universities in Spain and what was the image reflected on the strengths and weaknesses of Higher Education during the pandemic. To achieve this objective, an attempt was made to find out the degree of importance that the media gave it in their agendas and whether there was a dominant discourse on the part of the Spanish newspapers. It was also analyzed whether the information provided by the most widely circulated newspapers corresponded to the reality of the University situation and its essential issues. This study helped us to conclude the relevance that Higher Education obtained in a crisis such as the one we have experienced and how the media transmitted that reality to us.