Type Public University Campus Urban Phone +34 935 42 20 00 Total enrollment 17,600 (2014) | Established 1990 Website www.upf.edu Province Province of Barcelona Rector Jaume Casals | |
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Administrative staff 592 professors (full time equivalent) & 670 administration staff Students Around 10.000 undergraduate and 4.000 postgraduate students Address Plaça de la Mercè, 10, 08002 Barcelona, Spain Founded 18 June 1990, Catalonia, Spain Undergraduate tuition and fees 2,287.12 EUR (2016), International tuition: 8,500 EUR (2016) Notable alumni Gabriel Rufián, Oliver Laxe, Carlos Marques, Pol Antràs, Javier Beltrán Similar Autonomous University of Barcel, University of Barcelona, Open University of Catalo, Polytechnic University of Catalo, Barcelona Graduate School of Profiles | ||
Pompeu Fabra University (Catalan: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, [uniβərsiˈtat pumˈpɛw ˈfaβɾə]; UPF) is a public university in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Founded in 1990, it is named after the Catalan philologist Pompeu Fabra. According to Times Higher Education it is one of the 7 fastest-rising young universities in the world.
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Organization
UPF offers its studies around three areas of knowledge: the social sciences and humanities, the health and life sciences, and the ICT and communication sciences.
Teaching is organized in seven colleges: Humanities, Health and Life Sciences, Economics, Political and Social Sciences, Communication, Law, Translation and Interpretation as well as one polytechnic school focused on engineering and ICT.
Research is organized in eight departments: Economics and Business, Law, Political and Social Sciences, Humanities, Experimental Sciences and Health, ICT, Communication and Translation & Language Sciences.
The University also has five affiliated centers (UPF Barcelona School of Management, International Trade Business School -ESCI-, Elisava School of Design, Tecnocampus and Mar University School of Nursing -ESIM) and partnerships in different inter-university postgraduate platforms such as the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals -IBEI- or the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics -Barcelona GSE-).
Research
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.
UPF has also been participating in a set of institutions and centers specializing in teaching, research and transfer that have their own legal personality and which comprise the UPF Group, and which often exist in collaboration with other institutions and universities. Thus, in the field of research and transfer, plus the three science parks include the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM) - Hospital del Mar, Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) (CSIC-UPF), the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) or the Research Centre for International Economics (CREI).
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 is Jaume Casals.
Campuses
The UPF is located in three separate campuses, each associated to its own area of knowledge:
International rankings
The position of the UPF is presented in the following international rankings: Times Higher Education (THE), Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), the one published by Shanghai University (ARWU) and the Leiden ranking, which is focused on research.
More information on rankings can be found at UPF website.