Pompeu Fabra University (Catalan: Universitat Pompeu Fabra [uniβəɾsiˈtat pumˈpɛw ˈfaβɾə], 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.
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Campuses
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 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 (IBEI)
Tecnocampus
UPF Barcelona School of Management
International Trade Business School (ESCI)
Mar University School of Nursing (ESIM)
Barcelona School of Economics
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
Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) (interuniversity research institute)
UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics (UPF-CAE) (think tank)
Institut Universitari de Cultura (IUC) (research institute)
Music Technology Group (MTG) (research group)
Science Communication Observatory (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)
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) Archived 11 March 2019 at the Wayback Machine, U-Multirank (promoted by the EU), and the Leiden ranking, which is focused on research.
Notable alumni
Rita Almeida, economist
Pol Antràs, economist and professor at Harvard
Elsa Artadi, economist, academic and politician
Meritxell Batet, 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
Xeito Fole, transmedia artist and researcher
Lluís Galter, cinema director
Berta García Faet, poet, translator, and scholar of Hispanic literature
Teresa Garcia‑Milà, professor of economics at UPF and director of the Barcelona School of Economics
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
Notable faculty
Josep Acebillo, research professor in architecture, former city planner of Barcelona; RIBA Gold Medalist
Gøsta Esping-Andersen, sociologist
Maria Teresa Cabré, linguist
Jaume Casals, philosopher
Guillem López Casasnovas, economist
Teun A. van Dijk, linguist
Jordi Galí, economist
Xavier Freixas, economist
Antoni Ivorra, associate professor in biomedical electronics; neuroprosthetics
Sergi Jordà, music technology scholar
Jorge Lobo, professor in ICT; wireless sensor networks, Java programming
Xavier Cuadras-Morató, professor in Economics & Business; expertise in banking and international economics
Josep Joan Moreso, legal scholar
Vicenç Navarro, sociologist
Javier Díaz Noci, digital journalism researcher
Xavier Sala-i-Martin, economist
Andreu Mas-Colell, economist
Eugenio Trías Sagnier, philosopher
Xavier Serra, music technology scholar