Pompeu Fabra University


Pompeu Fabra University is a public university located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Established in 1990 by the Autonomous 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:

Teaching

Specifically, teaching is organized in seven faculties and one engineering school:

Higher education affiliated centers

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

Research

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

Research Centre for International Economics

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, Josep Joan Moreso, Jaume Casals and Oriol Amat. The current rector, Laia de Nadal, was elected in May 2023.

Rankings

The position of UPF is presented in the following international rankings:,, the one published by,, and, which is focused on research.
RANKINGSpainEuropeWorld
THE 2021 "150 Under 50"1715
QS 2021 "50 Under 50"1828
U-Ranking 2021 1--
U-Multirank 202114-
Leiden 2021 "% of Top 10% publications"12978

Notable alumni

Notable faculty