Our University is young, modern, and unequivocally public. As you browse this website, you will find information on an institution that the Catalan government founded in 1990 to offer the highest quality training, which has seen its research activity increase substantially since then.
The result today is a specialized university that has interconnected a unique approach to teaching with cutting-edge research, revolving around three closely linked spheres of knowledge, namely social sciences and humanities (at the Ciutadella campus), information and communication sciences and technologies (at the Poblenou campus) and health and life sciences (at the Mar campus). The University is organized into seven faculties, a polytechnic school, and eight departments to carry out all that activity. In recent years, meanwhile, the University has also been part of the UPF Group, a network of institutions and centers specializing in education, research, and transfer, each of which has its legal personality and brings added value to our university project.
To boost the impetus and raise the international profile of research and transfer activities initiated within UPF, the University has developed the UPF Research Park, which works in social sciences, humanities, communication, and IT. Located on the Ciutadella and Poblenou campuses, the UPF Research Park operates in coordination with the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, which is based on the Mar campus and works in health and life sciences.
UPF is a public, international, and research-intensive university that, in just twenty-five years, has earned a place for itself among the best universities in Europe. Awarded with a CEI label (International Excellence Campus) by the Spanish Ministry of Education, the University also figures in some of the most influential rankings.
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