Pompeu Fabra University Explained

Pompeu Fabra University
Established:18 June 1990
Administrative Staff:592 professors (full-time equivalent) and 670 administration staff
Students:9,945 undergraduates (2015/2016) and 2,613 graduates[1] (2014/2015)
Campus:Urban
City:Barcelona, Catalonia
Language:Catalan[2]
Address:Plaça de la Mercè, 10-12, 08002 Barcelona
Native Name:Catalan; Valencian: Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Affiliations:Europaeum, The Guild, TPC, Vives network, EUA, EUTOPIA, ACUP, A4U
Budget:€150.5m (2020)[3]
National Europe World
THE 2022 General
THE 2022 Under 50
QS 2023 General
QS 2021 Under 50
ARWU 2021
U-Multirank 2022
More info on the UPF rankings website
Pompeu Fabra University (Catalan; Valencian: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, '''UPF''', in Catalan; Valencian pronounced as /uniβəɾsiˈtat pumˈpɛw ˈfaβɾə/; Spanish; Castilian: link=|Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. Established in 1990 by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia and named after Pompeu Fabra, it is known for its competitiveness in research and commitment to transforming education for future challenges.

UPF has been recognized as the best university in Spain since 2015 and was ranked the 16th best young university globally in 2022 by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. It is renowned for its academic prestige and selective admissions, with many of its degree programs requiring high entrance grades.

The university excels in economics, political science, and law, with its Economics program ranked among the top 50 worldwide. The Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences is the only faculty in Spain to receive the Certificate for Quality in Internationalization. In 2010, UPF was designated an "International Excellence Campus" by the Spanish Ministry of Education.

Campuses

The university offers its studies around three areas of knowledge, each one developed on a different campus:

Teaching

Specifically, teaching is organized in seven faculties and one engineering school:

Higher education affiliated centers

Finally, the university also has several higher education affiliated centers:

Research

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

Research Centre for International Economics

The 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.

Governance

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.[4]

Rankings

Arwu W:301–400
Arwu W Year:2023
Arwu W Ref:[5]
Qs W:=310
Qs W Year:2024
Qs W Ref:[6]
The W:201–250
The W Year:2024
The W Ref:[7]
Usnwr W:=196
Usnwr W Year:2023
Usnwr W Ref:[8]

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), U-Multirank (promoted by the EU), and the Leiden ranking, which is focused on research.

RANKING! scope="col"
SpainEuropeWorld
THE 2021 "150 Under 50" 1 7 15
QS 2021 "50 Under 50" 1828
U-Ranking 2021 (national) 1--
U-Multirank 2021 14-
Leiden 2021 "% of Top 10% publications" 1 2978

Notable alumni

journalist, photographer and filmmaker

Notable faculty

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UPF in figures . Pompeu Fabra University. 31 January 2021.
  2. Web site: Regulation and promotion of the use of Catalan at Pompeu Fabra University. Universitat Pompeu Fabra. 31 January 2021.
  3. Web site: Pressupost 2020 Aprovat en sessió de 19.12.2019 del Consell Social Sumari . December 19, 2019 . July 13, 2024.
  4. Web site: Laia de Nadal toma posesión como rectora de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra . 6 March 2023 .
  5. Web site: ARWU World University Rankings 2034. www.shanghairanking.com. 26 August 2022.
  6. Web site: QS World University Rankings 2024. 19 June 2023. topuniversities.com. 26 August 2023.
  7. Web site: World University Rankings. 6 August 2023. timeshighereducation.com. 26 August 2023.
  8. Web site: U.S. News Education: Best Global Universities 2022-23. 23 November 2023.
  9. Web site: Paul F.M.J. Verschure | SPECS - Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems group . 2015-02-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150210072821/http://specs.upf.edu/people/331 . 2015-02-10 .
  10. Web site: Understanding mind, brain and behavior through constructing synthetic perceptive, emotive and cognitive systems. | SPECS - Synthetic, Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems group . 10 February 2015 . 10 February 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150210074100/http://specs.upf.edu/home . dead .

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