Pompeu Fabra University
| Universitat Pompeu Fabra | |
 | |
| Type | Public University |
|---|---|
| Established | 1990 |
| Rector | Jaume Casals |
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, 10-12, 08002 Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website |
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Pompeu Fabra University (Catalan: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, pronounced [uniβərsiˈtat pumˈpɛw ˈfaβɾə]; UPF) is a public university in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Founded in 1990, the university is named for the linguist Pompeu Fabra, an expert on the Catalan language, credited with standardising this once-disused language and revising it, giving it the status it holds today.
Academically, it is the Spanish university along with the Autonomous University of Barcelona among the top 200 best in the world according to Times Higher Education academic classification of universities (175th and 163rd place respectively) and it is one of the 7 fastest-rising young universities in the world, according to the same ranking.
In recent years, the university has begun to figure prominently in some international rankings. Its studies on the Economics field have been ranked among the top 50 worldwide, 23rd for Economics and Econometrics in the QS World University Rankings by Subject and 48th for Business & Economics in the Times Higher Education Rankings.
The university's Faculty of Economic 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.
In 2010, the university was awarded as Campus of International Excellence.
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:
- Social Sciences and Humanities (Ciutadella Campus)
- ITC and communication sciences (Poblenou Campus)
- Health and Life Sciences (Mar Campus)
International rankings
The Pompeu Fabra University is well-known as one of the best Catalan and Spanish public universities, and its studies on Economics have been ranked among the top 50 worldwide.
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.
| RANKING | Spain | Europe | World | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QS Ranking by Subject for Economics and Econometrics | 1 | 8 | 34 | |
| THE 2017 "Business & Economics" | 1 | 13 | 48 | |
| THE 2016 "Social Sciences" | 1 | - | 95 | |
| THE 2017 "150 Under 50" | - | - | 15 | |
| THE 2016 "General" | 2 | 83 | 175 | |
| THE 2016 "100 Under 50" | 2 | 11 | 15 | |
| QS 2016 "General" | 7 | 129 | 283 | |
| QS 2016 "50 Under 50" | 4 | 8 | 22 | |
| Leiden 2016 "% of Top 10% publications" | 1 | 33 | 93 | |
| Leiden 2016 "% of interinstitutional collaborative publications" | 1 | 12 | 15 | |
| Leiden 2016 "% of international collaborative publications" | 2 | 47 | 58 | |
Research Centre for International Economics
The Research Centre for International Economics (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.
Its aim is to promote research with the highest academic standards, as well as to be a center of education and dissemination of new ideas, contributing a better understanding of the functioning of the economy in contemporary society.
Notable alumni
- Pol Antràs, economist and professor at Harvard
- Lluís Galter, cinema director
- Neus Munté, politician
- Gabriel Rufián, politician
- Sandra Sabatés, journalist
Notable faculty
- Jaume Casals, philosopher
- Josep Joan Moreso, legal scholar
- Vicenç Navarro, sociologist
- Xavier Sala-i-Martin, economist
- Eugenio Trías Sagnier, philosopher
- Teun A. van Dijk, linguist
- Xavier Serra, music technology scholar
- Andreu Mas-Colell, economist
- Jordi Galí, economist
- Sergi Jordà, music technology scholar
- Paul Verschure, cognitive systems and neuro-robotics[1][2]
- Lydia Zimmermann, filmmaker
- Gøsta Esping-Andersen, sociologist
- Guillem López Casasnovas, economist
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