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Type
  
Public

Academic staff
  
3,346

Students
  
52,513

Province
  
Province of Barcelona

Founded
  
6 October 1995

Established
  
1994

Administrative staff
  
477

Phone
  
+34 934 81 72 72

Total enrollment
  
52,513 (2013)

Open University of Catalonia

Rector
  
Josep A. Planell i Estany

Address
  
Rambla del Poblenou, 156, 08018 Barcelona, Spain

Similar
  
Pompeu Fabra University, Polytechnic University of Catalo, University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcel, Barcelona Graduate School of

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The Open University of Catalonia (Catalan: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, UOC; [uniβərsiˈtat uˈβɛrtə ðə kətəˈɫuɲə]) is an Internet-centered open university based in Barcelona, Spain.

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The UOC offers graduate and postgraduate programs in Catalan, Spanish and English in fields such as Psychology, Computer Science, Sciences of Education, Information and Knowledge Society and Economics. Also, an Information and Knowledge Society Doctoral Program is available that explores research fields such as e-law, e-learning, network society, education, and online communities. It has support centers in a number of cities in Spain, Andorra, Mexico and the traditionally Catalan-speaking city of Alghero in Sardinia.

Open university of catalonia


Educational offer

  • Postgraduate courses
  • Business Intelligence
  • Societal and Business Conflicts
  • Armed conflicts and crisis management
  • Conflictology
  • Crisis management
  • Social and Family Conflicts
  • Workplace and Commercial Conflicts
  • Armed conflicts
  • Food Security Programme Management
  • Food Security Management and The Right to Food
  • Food, culture and locality
  • Food, society and international food governance
  • Food, culture and territory
  • International agri-food policy
  • Geographic indications
  • Food systems analysis
  • Food Security: Assessment and Action
  • Impact Assessment on Food Security Programs
  • Right to food
  • Food and Society
  • E-Learning Design and Development. UOC-UNM (University of New Mexico, USA) – Joint Certificate
  • E-learning course design and teaching – European certificate
  • Faculties

    The UOC's course offering is divided into these Faculties:

  • Faculty of Arts and Humanities
  • Faculty of Economics and Business
  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences
  • Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications
  • Faculty of Law and Political Science
  • Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences
  • Graduates

  • 2000 – 118
  • 2001 – 142
  • 2002 – 431
  • 2003 – 954
  • 2004 – 2,185
  • 2005 – 2,956
  • 2006 – 3,248
  • 2007 – 4,242
  • 2008 – 5,890
  • 2009 – 6,138
  • 2010 – 5,926
  • 2011 – 6,547
  • 2012 - 7,905
  • 2013 - 6,450
  • Institutional repository

    The UOC makes O2, their institutional repository, available to provide open access to digital publications produced by the UOC community in the course of its research, teaching and management activities.

    References

    Open University of Catalonia Wikipedia