Pompeu Fabra University


Pompeu Fabra University is a public university in Barcelona, Spain. It was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia in 1990, and was named after the linguist Pompeu Fabra, an expert on the Catalan language.
Together with the University of Barcelona and the Complutense University of Madrid, it is considered one of the most prestigious universities in Spain and it is one of the seven young universities that progress most rapidly worldwide. It is the most efficient Spanish university and the most productive according to different national and international rankings.
Pompeu Fabra University occupies the first place in the national ranking of scientific productivity since 2009. In recent years, the university has begun to excel in some prestigious international rankings. The studies in the field of Economics at UPF have been ranked among the top 50 worldwide, occupying the 20th place in Economics and Econometrics in the QS World University Rankings by subject in 2016 and 40th place in Economics & Business in the Times Higher Education Rankings.
The university's Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences is the first and only faculty in Spain 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.

Teaching

The university offers its studies around three areas of knowledge, each one developed in a different campus:
Specifically, teaching is organized in seven colleges and one engineering school:
Finally, the University also has five higher education affiliated centers:
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:
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, located at Mar campus.

University institutes and research centres

The Research Centre for International Economics is a research institute sponsored by the government of Catalonia 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, which collaborates in many research and teaching fields.
The research activities are focused on international economics and macroeconomics. 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 and Josep Joan Moreso. The current rector, Jaume Casals, was reelected for a second term in April 2017.

Campuses

The UPF is located in three separate campuses, each associated to its own area of knowledge:
The position of UPF is presented in the following international rankings: , , the one published by , , and , which is focused on research.
RANKINGSpainEuropeWorld
THE 2019 "General"158135
THE 2019 "150 Under 50"1611
QS 2020 "General"6120285
QS 2020 "50 Under 50"11132
ARWU 2018top 3n/ctop 250
U-Multirank 2019 223n/c
Leiden 2019 "% of Top 1% publications"14395
Leiden 2019 "% of interinstitutional collaborative publications"11619
Leiden 2019 "% of international collaborative publications"23853

Notable alumni