University in Barcelona, Spain
Pompeu Fabra University Type Public university Established 18 June 1990 Budget €150.5m (2020)[1] Rector Laia de Nadal i ClanchetAdministrative staff
592 professors (full-time equivalent) and 670 administration staff Students 9,945 undergraduates (2015/2016) and 2,613 graduates[2] (2014/2015) AddressPlaça de la Mercè, 10-12, 08002 Barcelona
, Barcelona, Catalonia
, Spain Campus Urban Language Catalan[3] Colours Affiliations Europaeum, The Guild, TPC, Vives network, EUA, EUTOPIA, ACUP, A4U Website www.upf.eduUniversity Ranking
International Global
National Europe World THE 2022 General3
69
156
THE 2022 Under 501
7
16
QS 2023 General5
97
233
QS 2021 Under 501
8
28
ARWU 2021top 9-12
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top 400-500
U-Multirank 20221
4
-
More info on the UPF rankings websitePompeu Fabra University (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF; pronounced [univəɾsiˈtat‿pumˈpɛw ˈfaβɾə]; Spanish: Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Established in 1990 by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, the university is named after renowned Catalan philologist Pompeu Fabra. UPF is recognized for its academic excellence, strong research output, and commitment to innovation in higher education.[4]
UPF has consistently ranked among the top universities in Spain, earning the title of the best university in the country since 2015. It also ranked 16th among the world’s best young universities in 2022, according to the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The university is especially known for its selective admissions process and academic rigor, with many programs requiring high entrance scores.[5]
UPF excels in the fields of economics, political science, and law, with its Economics program ranked among the global top 50. The Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences is the only faculty in Spain to have received the Certificate for Quality in Internationalization. In recognition of its growing academic prestige, UPF was designated as an "International Excellence Campus" by the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2010.
The university maintains a strong international orientation, offering numerous English-taught programs, joint degrees, and partnerships with prestigious institutions such as Sciences Po, LSE, and UCLA. Its urban campus in Barcelona offers access to vibrant cultural life and industry connections, particularly in the fields of media, technology, and biomedical research.
Dipòsit de les Aigües (library), Ciutadella Campus Roger de Llúria building, Ciutadella Campus Poblenou CampusThe university offers its studies around three areas of knowledge, each one developed on a different campus:
Specifically, teaching is organized in seven faculties and one engineering school:
Finally, the university also has several higher education affiliated centers:
Research is organized in eight departments:
Moreover, in order to promote research and transfer activities undertaken by university researchers and provide them with greater international visibility, the university is developing the UPF Research Park in the fields of social sciences, humanities, communication and information technologies. The UPF Research Park, which develops its activity at Ciutadella and Poblenou Campuses, coordinates its activities in the fields of health and life sciences with the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), located at Mar Campus.
University institutes and research centres[edit] The Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) is located in the Merce Rodoreda Building, Ciutadella CampusThe Research Centre for International Economics (Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI)) is a research institute sponsored by the government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya) and the UPF led by the economist Jordi Galí. Its headquarters is on the campus of UPF in Barcelona, near the Department of Economics and Business at UPF (Ciutadella Campus), which collaborates in many research and teaching fields.
The research activities are focused on international economics and macroeconomics (including growth, business cycles, monetary economics, macroeconometrics, trade and international finance, economic geography, etc.). It tries to emphasize these fields of studies in the European dimension.
Enric Argullol served as rector from the founding until June 2001, followed by M. Rosa Virós i Galtier (2001–2005), Josep Joan Moreso (2005–2013), Jaume Casals (2013–2021) and Oriol Amat (2021–2023). The current rector, Laia de Nadal, was elected in May 2023.[6]
The position of UPF is presented in the following international rankings: Times Higher Education (THE), Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the one published by Shanghai University (ARWU) Archived 11 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine, U-Multirank (promoted by the EU), and the Leiden ranking, which is focused on research.
UPF's position in university rankings RANKING Spain Europe World THE 2021 "150 Under 50" 1 7 15 QS 2021 "50 Under 50" 1 8 28 U-Ranking 2021 (national) 1 - - U-Multirank 2021 1 4 - Leiden 2021 "% of Top 10% publications" 1 29 7841°22′45″N 2°10′47″E / 41.37917°N 2.17972°E / 41.37917; 2.17972
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