my-server
← Wiki Redirected from University Pompeu Fabra

Pompeu Fabra University

Pompeu Fabra University ( , UPF) is a public university located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Established in 1990 by the Government of Catalonia, the university is named after Catalan philologist Pompeu Fabra.

The university offers numerous English-taught programs, joint degrees, and partnerships with institutions such as Sciences Po, LSE, and UCLA.

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:

  • Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
  • Faculty of Economics and Business
  • Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
  • Faculty of Communication
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Translation and Language Sciences
  • Engineering School

Higher education affiliated centers

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

Research

Research is organized in eight departments:

  • Department of Experimental and Health Sciences
  • Department of Political and Social Sciences
  • Department of Communication
  • Department of Law
  • Department of Economics and Business
  • Department of Humanities
  • Department of Information and Communications Technologies
  • Department of Translation and 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

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.

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.

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

References

External links