Pompeu Fabra University

Pompeu Fabra University
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Type Public University
Established 1990
Rector Jaume Casals
Administrative staff
 592 professors (full time equivalent) and 670 administration staff
Students Around 10,000 undergraduate and 4,000 postgraduate students
Address Plaça de la Mercè, 10-12, 08002 Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Campus Urban
Affiliations Europaeum
Website www.upf.edu

Pompeu Fabra University (Catalan: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, pronounced [uniβəɾsiˈtat pumˈpɛw ˈfaβɾə]; UPF) is a public university in Barcelona, Spain. The Universitat Pompeu Fabra is a highly regarded Catalan and Spanish university, created by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia in 1990, named after the linguist Pompeu Fabra, an expert on the Catalan language, credited with standardising this once-disused language and revising it, giving it the status it holds today.

It was designated as an “International Excellence Campus” by the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2010. The university is a modern institution based on the model of the high-powered American research university with controlled admissions and an emphasis on rigorous instruction and research.

An internationally renowned institution, UPF has recently been rated as the top Spanish university by the (London) Times Higher Education Supplement, and it is firmly in the upper echelon of Spanish universities in other rating schemes. Academically, it is the only Spanish and Catalan university along with the Autonomous University of Barcelona among the top 150 best in the world according to Times Higher Education academic classification of universities (140th and 147th place respectively) and it is one of the 7 fastest-rising young universities in the world, according to the same ranking. It ranks first in the national ranking of scientific productivity since 2009.

The university has begun to figure prominently in many international rankings. Its studies on the Economics field have been ranked among the top 50 worldwide, 23rd for Economics and Econometrics in the QS World University Rankings by Subject and 40th for Business & Economics in the Times Higher Education Rankings.

The university's Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences is the first and only faculty in Spain (public or private and for any discipline) to be awarded the Certificate for Quality in Internationalization granted by a consortium of 14 European accreditation agencies.

In 2010, the university was awarded as Campus of International Excellence.

Teaching

UPF's teaching model is based on comprehensive education and student-centred learning. Nowadays, the success of this model is proved by different indicators as, for example, the high demand of UPF studies, the rates of achievement among its students or the excellent rates of graduates employment and satisfaction.

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

  • the social sciences and humanities (Ciutadella campus)
  • the health and life sciences (Mar campus)
  • the ICT and communication sciences (Poblenou campus)

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

  • Humanities
  • Health and Life Sciences
  • Economics and Business
  • Political and Social Science
  • Communication
  • Law
  • Translation and Languange Sciences
  • Engineering School

Higher education affiliated centers

Finally, the University also has five higher education affiliated centers:

Research

‘Dipòsit de les Aigües’ Library, located at UPF Ciutadella Campus, Barcelona
Ciutadella Campus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona

The University model is primarily based on a policy of being an institution that is open to the world, incorporating prominent national and international researchers. This commitment is reflected in excellent indicators in research, such as the volume of funds coming from Europe or indicators of scientific production.

Research is organized in eight departments:

  • Economics and Business
  • Law
  • Political and Social Science
  • Humanities
  • Experimental Sciences and Health
  • ICT
  • Communication
  • Translation & Language Sciences

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

  • Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI)(interuniversity research institute)
  • Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) (attached research university institute)
  • Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) (attached research university institute)
  • Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) (attached research university institute)
  • Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) (attached research university institute)
  • Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE)(joint research institute)
  • Research Centre for International Economics (CREI) (participated research centre)
  • Institute for Political Economy and Governance (IPEG) (participated research centre)
  • BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Center (participated research centre)
  • Phonos Foundation (associated research centre)

Research Centre for International Economics

The Research Centre for International Economics (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.

Its aim is to promote research with the highest academic standards, as well as to be a center of education and dissemination of new ideas, contributing a better understanding of the functioning of the economy in contemporary society.

Governance

Enric Argullol served as rector from the founding until June 2001, followed by M. Rosa Virós i Galtier (2001-2005) and Josep Joan Moreso (2005-2013). The current rector, Jaume Casals, was reelected for a second term in April 2017.

Campuses

Poblenou Campus, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona
PRBB, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona

The UPF is located in three separate campuses, each associated to its own area of knowledge:

  • Social Sciences and Humanities (Ciutadella Campus)
  • ITC and communication sciences (Poblenou Campus)
  • Health and Life Sciences (Mar Campus)

International rankings

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. More information on rankings (global position and results by subjects) can be found at UPF website.

Global position in international rankings
RANKING Spain Europe World
THE 2018 "General"160140
THE 2018 "150 Under 50"1511
QS 2019 "General"8153298
QS 2019 "50 Under 50"3929
ARWU 2018 top 3 n/c top 250
U-Multirank 2018 (EU ranking)15n/c
Leiden 2018 "% of Top 1% publications"13788
Leiden 2018 "% of interinstitutional collaborative publications"11519
Leiden 2018 "% of international collaborative publications"23952

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

References

  1. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-10. Retrieved 2015-02-10.
  2. ↑ http://specs.upf.edu/home

Coordinates: 41°22′45″N 2°10′47″E / 41.37917°N 2.17972°E / 41.37917; 2.17972

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