February 2011

Quality, innovation, internationalisation

A young university

A public university founded in 1990 and called to become

one of the leading European universities based on its

own identity founded on quality teaching, its proximity

to the students, the maximum degree of

internationalisation and a categorical leaning towards

research and innovation

A quality university

International Campus of Excellence awarded by the Ministry

of Education (2010)

Times Higher Education ranking (2011):

The only Spanish university in the Top 200

(position 186 worldwide and 77 in Europe)

Shanghai Ranking (2011):

In the top 400 universities in the world and

In the top seven Spanish universities

El Mundo ranking (2011):

10 out of 15 degree courses evaluated in the Top 5

Outstanding research: 26 ERC Grants (UPF Group)

1st Spanish university and in the Top 20 in Europe

The 18% of the Spanish grants and the 37% of Catalan

Facts & figures*

• Undergraduate students: 9.115 (UPF Group: 11.209)• Official Master’s students: 993 (UPF Group: 1.468)• Doctoral students: 1.127• UPF Master’s student: 1.934

• Number of academic staff: 556 FTE • Number of permanent professors: 324• Number of administrative and service staff: 670• 2012 Budget: 121 M€

(*) 2011-2012 academic year

A university that revolves around people

Three areas of knowledge, closely interconnected, that place people and their relation with the polis at the centre of our university project:

An urban university in the heart of Barcelona

Ciutadella campus:social sciences and humanities

Mar campus: health and life sciences

Poblenou campus:communication andinformation technologies

Ciutadella Campus: social sciences and humanities Ciutadella campus: social sciences and humanities

Ciutadella campus: degrees offered

Economics, finance and business

Business Management and AdministrationBusiness Sciences

EconomicsInternational Business Economics

International Trade and Marketing (ESCI)Business Administration and Innovation Management (EUM)

Tourism and Leisure Management (EUM)

Research into Economics, Finances and BusinessSpecialised Economic Analysis (BGSE)

Economics and Finance (BGSE)Teacher Training for Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Language Training

Business Financial and Accounting Management (IDEC)Banking and Finance (IDEC)

Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EUM)

Economics, Finance and Business

Master’s degrees

Doctorate

Bachelor’s degrees

* Multidisciplinary

Master’s degrees

Doctorate

Bachelor’s degrees

Literary CreationComparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought

Comparative Literature and Literary TranslationWorld History

Chinese Studies

HumanitiesHistory

Humanities

Humanities

Law

Law

Bachelor’s degrees

Master’s degrees

Doctorate

Advanced in Legal StudiesPolitical Philosophy

Analytical Philosophy

Criminology and Public Prevention PoliciesLaw

Labour Relations

Politics and society

Political and Social SciencesImmigration Management

Research in Political SciencePublic Management

Latin American StudiesSocial Sciences in Development:

Cultures and Development in AfricaInternational Relations (IBEI)

Public Policies and International Development (IBEI)Erasmus Mundus in Public Policies (IBEI)

Political and Administration Sciences

Political and Social Sciences

Master’s degrees

Doctorate

Bachelor’s degrees

UPF Research Park – Social Sciences and Humanities (I)

Entities present

Pompeu Fabra University Department of Economics and Business Department of Law Department of Political and Social Sciences Department of Humanities Jaume Vicens i Vives University Institute of History (IUHJVV) University Institute of Culture (IUC)

Mixes research centres and institutes Research Centre for International Economics (CREI) Economy and Health Research Centre (CRES) Centre for Research on the Economies of the Mediterranean (CREMed) Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) Pasqual Maragall Foundation for Research into Alzheimer’s

UPF Research Park – Social Sciences and Humanities (II)

A project for the futureBoth the current ‘UPF25 Years’ strategy and the International Campus of Excellence project hinge

around developing the Social and Human Sciences Park to its full:

Academic, research and innovation potential: UPF is the top Spanish university in the

Times Higher Education social sciences ranking (2010) Infrastructure potential: the 60,000 m2 of land not built upon offer a great opportunity

for expansion Potential for international scope

Goal: To consolidate highly competitive research groups and take part in unique research and

transfer initiatives in order to bring university knowledge closer to society

Resarch Park development (3 phases)

Mar campus: health and life sciences

Mar campus: degrees offered

Health and life sciences

Bachelor’s degrees

Master’s degrees

Doctorate

Human BiologyMedicine

Nursing (EUIM)

Bioinformatics for Health SciencesPharmaceutical Industry and Biotechnology

Biomedical ResearchClinical Laboratory

Occupational HealthPublic Health

NeurosciencesRespiratory Medicine

Occupational Safety and HealthOccupational Hazards Prevention

Biomedicine

Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (I)

Entities present

Pompeu Fabra University Department of Experimental and Health Sciences (DCEXS)

Mixed research centres and institutes Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM) Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) (CSIC - UPF) Centre of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona (CMRB) Hospital del Mar Research Institute Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL) Occupational Health Research Centre (CISAL)

Spin offs Qgenomics

Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (II)

ProjectThe PRBB is the result of a joint initiative between the Catalan Government, Barcelona City

Council and UPF to create one of the biggest biomedical research centres in southern

Europe

Main features Directly associated with Hospital del Mar Annual expenditure on research: €70 M 1,200 people from 50 countries Over 100 research groups with renowned international researchers (30% are foreign) Groups at the forefront coming from Harvard, Salk and EMBL, among other More than 600 scientific articles published in international journals in 2008

Poblenou campus: communication and information technologies

Poblenou campus: degrees offered

Linguistic communication and multilingual mediation

Bachelor’s degrees

Master’s degrees

Doctorate

Applied LanguagesTranslation and Interpretation

Translation StudiesTheoretical and Applied LinguisticsCognitive Science and Language

Training of Teachers of Spanish as a Foreign LanguageLearning and Teaching of Spanish in Multilingual and International Contexts

Linguistic Communication and Multilingual Mediation

Information and communication technologies

Information, Communication and Audiovisual Media Technologies

Bachelor’s degrees

Master’s degrees

Doctorate

Sound and Music TechnologiesInterdisciplinary in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media

Advanced Sciences of Modern TelecommunicationsDesign and Communication (Elisava)

Audiovisual Systems EngineeringTelematic Engineering

Engineering in Computer ScienceBuilding Engineering (Elisava)

Industrial Design Engineering (Elisava)Design (Elisava)

Social communication

Bachelor’s degrees

Master’s degrees

Doctorate

Audiovisual CommunicationJournalism

Advertising and Public Relations

Social Communication

Advanced Studies in Social CommunicationContemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies

Television Innovation and Quality (TV3)Digital Contents Management

Theatre StudiesYouth and Society

Barcelona Media Park (I)

Entities present

Pompeu Fabra University Department of Information and Communication Technologies Department of Communication Department of Translation and Language Sciences University Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA)

Technology centres Barcelona Media – Innovation Centre Barcelona Digital

Spin offs Barcelona Music & Audiovisual Technologies (BMAT) Reactable Systems Voctro Labs S.L.

Companies and institutions Field of the media: MEDIAPRO, Lavínia, Cromosoma, RBA, RNE, CAC, BTV, Media-TIC

centre Field of ICT: T-SYSTEMS, INDRA, Orange, CMT, etc.

ProjectA joint initiative of the Generalitat (Government) of Catalonia, Barcelona City

Council (via municipal company 22@Barcelona), UPF and companies in the media

sector with the aim of providing an integral service of all areas supplied by this

industry, ranging from the contents to the technology on which it relies.

Main features An area of research and collaboration between the business and teaching

sectors with more than 70.000 m2 for productive activities and

equipments linked to the

audiovisual sector and an increasing potential of 30.000 m2

Networks and spaces for social and economic relations and promotion such as

the Barcelona Activa business incubator or 22@Network Continuing education centres in the field of technology and contents:

IDEC/UPF, IL3/UB, FUPC and the UOC And major infrastructures at the service of the Park such as, for example, the

Audiovisual Production Centre (CPA) or the Learning and Research

Resource Centre (CRAI/UPF)

Barcelona Media Park (II)

The UPF model

The UPF model

Quality teaching

Excellence in research

An international outlook

Quality teaching

Quality teaching indicatorsMore than two students apply for every UPF place available (2011-2012 academic year)

Highest rate of performance in the Spanish system: 86% (2010-2011 academic year)

Graduate employment: 87% (Catalan Quality Assurance Agency, 2011)

Satisfaction rate: 93% of UPF graduates would choose the same university again (Catalan Quality Assurance Agency, 2011)

External reports The institutional report prepared by the European University Association (EUA,

July 2008) highlights the “high degree of attention to teaching quality”

Position in the rankings Remarkable position in both Times Higher Education and Academic Ranking of

World Universities of the University of Shanghai* (2011)

First Spanish University in teaching quality and ability to attract students (CyD Report, 2010)

Always among the top ten universities in Spain in national rankings (University Quality Assessment, El Mundo) (2011)

First university library in Spain (Atlas digital de la España universitaria: bases para la planificación estratégica de la enseñanza superior, 2007)

* Even though Shanghai does not weight the indicators in respect of the size of the institution and that UPF is the seventh public Spanish university with the least students (Spanish National Statistics Institute, 2009).

Excellence in research First Spanish university and among the 20 in Europe in grants funded by the

European Research Council (January 2012):

11 UPF Grants (the 8% of the grants given to Spain, the 16% in Catalonia) 26 Grants for the UPF Group (the 18% in Spain, the 37% in Catalonia)

Second spanish university and fifth spanish institution in terms of EC contribution granted to the FP7 research projects) (Innovation Union Competitiviness Report, European Commission 2011)

Recruitment and retention of talent: 28 Ramón y Cajal, 22 Juan de la Cierva, 36 ICREA and 18 ICREA Academia (January 1st, 2011)

The 78% of doctoral dissertations written and defended in English (2010-2011 academic year)

Position in the rankings First Spanish university for international collaboration and field normalised citation score (Scimago

Institutions Rankings, SIR World Report, 2011) First Spanish university in research productivity, being the most productive in three indicators: journals

articles indexed in the JCR, research + development projects (2010) and doctoral dissertations (2004

and 2009) (Ranking 2010 in research production and productivity in the Spanish university public

system) First university in Spain and Latin America for international collaboration and average in scientific

quality; and for social sciences, health sciences and life sciences in terms of the percentage of

publications in journals listed in the first quartile of the most influential journals in the world

(Scimago Institutions Ranking Latin America, 2010)

An international outlook

Foreign presence

6% of undergraduate students are foreigners

30% of official master’s students are foreigners

49% of doctoral students are foreigners

869 students from the United States within the Study Abroad Programm

12% of lecturers are foreign

25% of research support staff is foreign

Internacional experience

First Spanish university in the “International Faculty” indicator (Times Higher

Education ranking, 2011)

Agreements with 27 of the Top 50 universities in the world (Times Higher

Education ranking, 2011)

29% of graduates have spent stages abroad

40% of teaching and research staff has studied, researched or taught in

a foreign university

TOTAL: 350 agreements(260 concerning

student exchange)

Map of international relations

USA & Canada(40 universities)

Europe(203 universities)

+ Spain (24)

Latin America(64 universities)

MEXICOTec de MonterreyUNAM, El Colegio

ARGENTINATorcuato di Tella, Belgrano...BRAZILGetulio Vargas, USP CHILEDiego Portales, Pontificia Católica...

CANADABritish Columbia, Montreal, Toronto, Simon Fraser...USA (Ivy League)Boston College, Bentley, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Richmond, Pittsburgh, NYU, UCLA, Barnard College…

Austria: ViennaBelgium: Brussels Free, Louvain Catholic...Czech Republic: Charles University in Prague Denmark: Aarhus, Copenhagen, Roskilde...Finland: Helsinki...France: ENSAE, Sciences Po, Pierre et Marie Curie, Toulouse...Germany: Berlin Free, Berlin Humboldt, Munich, Konstanz...Hungary: CEU BudapestIceland: ReykjavikItaly: Roma III, Roma La Sapienza, Bologna, Trento, Florence…Netherlands: Maastricht, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Tilburg...Norway: Oslo, BergenPoland: Warsaw Portugal: New LisbonSweden: Stockholm, Linköping... Switzerland: Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne...United Kingdom: Oxford, Warwick, King’s College, Saint Andrews, Essex...

Asia(20 universities)

CHINA: City University and The Chinese University in Hong KongINDIA: Indian Institute of Foreign TradeJAPAN: TUFS, KeioKOREA: Seoul National, Korea UniversitySINGAPORE: Singapore Management UniversityTHAILANDChulalongkorn

Australia(4 universities)

AUSTRALIA Adelaide, New South Wales, Queensland, Sydney Technology

Strategic alliances

Autònoma de Madrid Autònoma de BarcelonaCarlos III de MadridPompeu Fabra

MaastrichtToulouseUniversity College DublinCEU BudapestPompeu Fabra

BrownChicagoNorthwesternStanfordColumbiaCornellHarvardBarcelonaAutònoma de BarcelonaPompeu Fabra

UPF Group

Barcelona GSE, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

BCN Media, Barcelona Media - Innovation Centre

BIArch, Barcelona Institute of Architecture

BMAT, Barcelona Music & Audio Technologies

BSM, Barcelona School of Management

CREAL, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology

CREI, Research Centre for International Economics

CRES, Centre for Research in Health and Economics

CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation

Elisava School of Design

ESCI, School of International Trade

EUIM, Mar University School of Nursing

EUM, Maresme University School of Business Studies

IBE, Institute of Evolutionary Biology

IBEI, Barcelona Institute of International Studies

IDEC, Continuing Education Institute

IET, Institute of Regional Studies

IMIM, Municipal Institute of Medical Research

INSIGNEO, Barcelona Institute of Biomedical Imaging & Modeling