Quality, innovation and internationalization January 2019
A young university UPF is a public, international and research-intensive university. Founded in 1990, it has quickly earned a place for itself among the best universities in Europe
A quality university International Campus of Excellence awarded by the Ministry of Education (2010) Ranking Times Higher Education: 1st Spanish university (position 135 worldwide and 58 in Europe) (2019) 11th highest ranked university in the world among those under 50 (2018) U-Ranking (BBVA Foundation & Ivie, 2018): 1st Spanish university since 2013 Outstanding research: +46 million and participation in 77 projects of the European programme (H2020) in the 2014-2017 term European Research Council: 1st Spanish university and among the top 20 in Europe
Facts & Figures Undergraduate studies: 10,364 students in 27 programmes (UPF Group: 15,555 students in 48 programmes) Official Master's studies: 1,173 students in 33 programmes (UPF Group: 3,263 students in 58 programmes) Doctoral studies: 1,168 students in 9 programmes Number of teaching and research staff: 592 FTE (Number of permanent professors: 308) Number of administrative and service staff: 678 2018 Budget: 140,1 M€ Main facilities: 3 campuses and 2 scientific research parks
with three campuses at the heart of Barcelona An urban university, with three campuses at the heart of Barcelona Communication Engineering & ICT Translation and Language Sciences Poblenou Campus Economics & Business Humanities Political & Social Science Law Ciutadella Campus Health & Life Sciences Mar Campus
International vocation The UPF model Quality teaching Outstanding research International vocation
Learning Architecture Quality teaching: the Edvolution project EDvolution, the new education model designed by UPF, revolves around six key topics and the following sub-topics UPF Identity Cross-competencies Role of the Teacher Teaching hours Teaching assessment Professional development Teacher training Student Support Tutoring and mentoring University admission Landing and takeoff University and Industry Learning Architecture Student passport Ppen pogrammes Internationalisation Multidisciplinarity and programme transversality Project-based work Spaces and Resources Physical learning spaces Virtual spaces Collaborative environments Resource and service-oriented spaces Teaching Formats Face-to-face learning Blended and e-learning Learning methodologies Project-based learning Assessment
Access An own teaching model Results Quality teaching: some indicators Two students apply for every UPF place available (2017-2018 academic year) 16% of new students finished high school with honours (2017-2018 academic year) Access New and innovative degrees: Open Bachelor's Degree Programme, Global Studies, Bioinformatics... Highest rate of performance in the Spanish system: 89% (2016-2017 academic year) MOOCs: partnership with Coursera, FutureLearn, Miríada X, UcatX, Kadenze Internship agreements with 1.240 companies (2016-2017 academic year) An own teaching model Graduate employment rate: 90% (AQU Catalunya, 2017) 30% of UPF graduates found a job through the university (AQU Catalunya, 2017) Satisfaction rate: 91% of UPF's graduates would choose the same university again (AQU Catalunya, 2017) Results
Outstanding research: success in competitive funding Highest competitiveness in EU: 1st. Spanish university in grants funded by the European Research Council 7PM results: + 75M€ (this is the 10% of all the funding obtained by Spanish universities with only the 1% of the total system’s teaching staff) H2020 (first data): +46M€ (data by 2017)
Scientific production: Quality and international impact Outstanding research: some indicators 1st Spanish university in percentage of articles published in the most influential scholarly journals of the world (Leiden, 2018) 1st Spanish university in percentage of papers produced in collaboration with national institutions (Leiden, 2018) 2nd Spanish university in percentage of papers produced in collaboration with foreign institutions (Leiden, 2018) Scientific production: Quality and international impact 70% of doctoral dissertations were written and defended in English (2016-2017 academic year) 26 Industrial PhD projects funded by the regional government (2013-2017) Eight out of nine PhD programmes have been awarded the Mention of Excellence by the Spanish ministry Training capacity UPFVentures Innovation & knowledge transfer
International community International vocation: some indicators 44% of master's and doctoral students are international (2017-2018 academic year) 45% of UPF graduates have studied abroad (2016-2017 academic year) 19% of UPF faculty is international (2016) 1st Spanish university in international outlook (Times Higher Education ranking, 2018) 1st Spanish university in the proportion of international faculty (QS ranking, 2018) Agreements with 30 of the Top 50 universities in the world (Times Higher Education ranking, 2018) International community Barcelona International Summer School (BISS) Center in Public Policy with Johns Hopkins Univ. (since 2013) Strategic alliances: A4U, Europaeum, YERUN y CASA (with Ivy League) Innovative projects
Internacional vocation: international agreements