Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a

public university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in state ownership, owned by the state or receives significant government spending, public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private unive ...

located in the city of

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the nort ...

in Spain. The university was created by the

Autonomous Government of Catalonia The Generalitat de Catalunya (; oc, label= Aranese, Generalitat de Catalonha; es, Generalidad de Cataluña), or the Government of Catalonia, is the institutional system by which Catalonia politically organizes its self-government. It is formed ...

in 1990 and was named after

Pompeu Fabra Pompeu Fabra i Poch (; Gràcia, Barcelona, 20 February 1868 – Prada de Conflent, 25 December 1948) was a Spanish engineer and grammarian. He was the main author of the normative reform of contemporary Catalan language. Life Pompeu Fabra w ...

. UPF has been ranked the best university in Spain since 2015 and 16th best young university in the world in 2022 by the

Times Higher Education World University Rankings The ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' (often referred to as the THE Rankings) is an annual publication of university rankings by the ''Times Higher Education'' (THE) magazine. The publisher had collaborated with Quacquarelli ...

. Pompeu Fabra University is considered one of the most prestigious universities in Spain. It has occupied first place in the national ranking of scientific productivity since 2009. Academically, the university is known for its selective student admission as more than half of the degrees offered by it have among the highest university entrance grades (''selectivitat'') in the Catalan university system. The university excels in national and international rankings especially in the studies of economics, political science, and law. The studies in the field of

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analyzes ...

at UPF have been ranked among the top 50 worldwide, occupying the 20th place in Economics and

Econometrics Econometrics is the application of statistical methods to economic data in order to give empirical content to economic relationships. M. Hashem Pesaran (1987). "Econometrics," '' The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics'', v. 2, p. 8 p. 8 ...

in the

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by subject in 2016 and 40th place in Economics & Business in the

Times Higher Education ''Times Higher Education'' (''THE''), formerly ''The Times Higher Education Supplement'' (''The Thes''), is a British magazine reporting specifically on news and issues related to higher education. Ownership TPG Capital acquired TSL 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. UPF was designated as an "International Excellence Campus" by the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2010.

Campuses

Universitat Pompeu Fabra - panoramio (1)

The university offers its studies around three areas of knowledge, each one developed on a different campus: * the social sciences and humanities (Citadels Campus, next to

Parc de la Ciutadella The (; "Citadel Park") is a park on the northeastern edge of Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. For decades following its creation in the mid-19th century, this park was the city's only green space. The grounds include the city zoo (o ...

) * the health and life sciences (Mar Campus, next to the Port Olímpic) * the ICT and communication sciences (Poblenou Campus, next to the Can Framis Museum)

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: *

Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals The Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) (Spanish: ''Instituto Barcelona de Estudios Internacionales'', English: ''Barcelona Institute of International Studies'') is an interuniversity research institute and postgraduate education c ...

(IBEI) * Tecnocampus * UPF Barcelona School of Management * International Trade Business School (ESCI) * Mar University School of Nursing (ESIM)

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

(IBEI) ''(interuniversity research institute)'' * UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics (UPF-CAE) ''(think tank)'' * Institut Universitari de Cultura (IUC) ''(research institute)'' *

Music Technology Group The Music Technology Group (MTG) is a research group of thDepartment of Information and Communication Technologiesof the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. It was founded in 1994 by its current director, Xavier Serra, and it specializes in sou ...

(MTG) ''(research group)'' *

Science Communication Observatory {{External links, date=April 2022 The Science Communication Observatory ( ca, Observatori de la Comunicació Científica, es, Observatorio de la Comunicación Científica, OCC) is a Special Research Centre attached to the Department of Communicatio ...

(OCC) ''(special research centre)'' * Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) ''(attached research university institute)'' * Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) ''(attached research university institute)'' * Barcelona School of Economics (BSE) ''(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 (''Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional'' (CREI)) is a research institute sponsored by the government of Catalonia (

Generalitat de Catalunya The Generalitat de Catalunya (; oc, label= Aranese, Generalitat de Catalonha; es, Generalidad de Cataluña), or the Government of Catalonia, is the institutional system by which Catalonia politically organizes its self-government. It is formed ...

) and the UPF led by the economist

Jordi Galí Jordi Galí (born January 4, 1961) is a Spanish macroeconomist who is regarded as one of the main figures in New Keynesian macroeconomics today. He is currently the director of the Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI, the Center fo ...

. 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) and Jaume Casals (2013-2021). The current rector, Oriol Amat, was elected in May 2021.

Rankings

The position of UPF is presented in the following international rankings
Times Higher Education (THE)Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)
the one published b

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

Notable alumni

Rita Almeida Rita K. Almeida (born 1974) is a Portuguese economist who joined the World Bank in 2002 as a research economist. After serving as a senior economist with responsibilities for lending and analysis in support of education in Latin America, Eastern Eu ...

, economist * Pol Antràs, economist and professor at Harvard *

Elsa Artadi Elsa Artadi i Vila (born 19 August 1976) is a Spanish economist, academic and politician from Catalonia. Artadi is a member of the Parliament of Catalonia and was previously Minister of the Presidency and Government Spokesperson of Catalonia. B ...

, economist, academic and politician *

Meritxell Batet Meritxell Batet Lamaña (born 19 March 1973) is a Spanish jurist and politician member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia, currently serving as President of the Congress of Deputies. Prior to this, she served as Minister for Territorial Poli ...

, jurist and politician * Javier Beltrán, film and theatre actor * Genís Boadella, lawyer and politician * David Bonneville, London-based filmmaker * Gloria Aura Bortolini; journalist, photographer and filmmaker * Antonio Briceño, photographer * Javier Calvo, writer * Diego Comin, economist * Lluís Galter, cinema director * Berta García Faet, poet, translator, and scholar of Hispanic Literature * Uri Giné, musician * Míriam Hatibi, data analyst and activist * Joan Herrera i Torres, lawyer and politician * Teresa Colom i Pich, poet and novelist * Tatiana Huezo, film director of Salvadoran and Mexican nationality *

Isaki Lacuesta Isaki Lacuesta (born 1975, Girona) is a Spanish film director from Catalonia. His work includes documentary film, narrative film and video art. Lacuesta was born into a family of Basque origin. He studied audiovisual communication at the Autonomo ...

, film director * Oliver Laxe, film director, screenwriter and actor * Sergi Miquel, politician * Carles Mundó, lawyer and politician * Neus Munté, politician * Mónica Ojeda, Ecuadorian writer *

Marta Pascal Marta Pascal Capdevila (born 10 April 1983) is a Spanish politician, a Senator of the Parliament of Catalonia. From July 2016 to July 2018, she was general coordinator of the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT). From October 2012 to Februar ...

, politician * Marta Rosique, politician *

Gabriel Rufián Gabriel Rufián Romero (born 8 February 1982) is a Spanish politician. In the Spanish general election of 2015 he led the Republican Left of Catalonia, a pro-independence electoral party. He is also a member of the secretariat of the Assemblea ...

, politician * Sandra Sabatés, journalist * Uwe Sunde, German economist * Roger Torrent, politician and urban planner * Nicole Vanden Broeck, filmmaker * Mireia Vehí, sociologist and politician * Alexia Putellas, footballer * Valeria Zalaquett, Chilean photographer and portraitist * Kenmochi Hideki, inventor of

Vocaloid is a singing voice synthesizer software product. Its signal processing part was developed through a joint research project led by Kenmochi Hideki at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, in 2000 and was not originally intended to b ...

Notable faculty

* Jaume Casals, philosopher * Josep Joan Moreso, legal scholar * Vicenç Navarro, sociologist *

Xavier Sala-i-Martin Xavier X. Sala i Martín (also ''Sala-i-Martin'' in English) is a Spanish-born Catalan-American economist and professor of economics at Columbia University. Sala i Martin is one of the leading economists in the field of economic growth.http://w ...

, economist *

Eugenio Trías Sagnier Eugenio Trías Sagnier (31 August 1942 – 10 February 2013) was a Spanish philosopher. Critics have likened his work to Ortega y Gasset in the philosophical literature written in Spanish. Biography Trías was born in Barcelona. After obtaini ...

, philosopher * Teun A. van Dijk, linguist *

Xavier Serra Xavier Serra (born September 10, 1959) is a researcher in the field of Sound and Music Computing and professor at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona. He is the founder and director of the Music Technology Group at the UPF. Life and ...

, music technology scholar *

Andreu Mas-Colell Andreu Mas-Colell (; born 29 June 1944) is an economist, an expert in microeconomics and a prominent mathematical economist. He is the founder of the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and a professor in the department of economics at Pompeu ...

, economist *

, economist * Sergi Jordà, music technology scholar * Paul Verschure, cognitive systems and neuro-robotics *

Lydia Zimmermann Lydia Martina Zimmermann Kuoni (born 30 December 1966 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain) is a Spanish Catalan actress and film director.Aroca, María Victoria. Lydia Zimmermann, sencillez escogida�Archive. ''S Moda El País'' (in Spanish). 7 Janua ...

, filmmaker *

Gøsta Esping-Andersen Gøsta Esping-Andersen (; born 24 November 1947) is a Danish sociologist whose primary focus has been on the welfare state and its place in capitalist economies. Jacob Hacker describes him as the "dean of welfare state scholars." Over the past ...

, sociologist * Guillem López Casasnovas, economist * Xavier Freixas, economist *

Ricardo Baeza-Yates Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates (born March 21, 1961) is a Chilean- Catalan computer scientist that currently is a Research Professor at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University in the Silicon Valley campus. He is also part-time profe ...

, computer scientist

References

External links

The university's English-language web site

UPF's International Excellence Campus official website
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