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The Dipòsit de les Aigües building, designed by architect Josep Fontserè in 1874, hosts the main library on the Ciutadella campus
As a public university, UPF fulfils its commitment to tackling the major challenges of the 21st century by leadership.andoftheknowledgemultidisciplinarytransferringtransmittingcreating,andnewtoguideimplementationdiscerningpoliciesinspiring
Mention should likewise be made of the bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technologies and Economic Analysis (launched in the 2018-2019 academic year, in coordination with UPC). The programme, which is taught entirely in English, combines industrial engineering subjects with the fundamentals of economics.
TEACHING
— Horizon 2020:1 €15 million / 19 —projects10ERC grants
— 5 Marie Curie a ctions
1 Data refer to the 2014-2020 period only. They include individual and consortia projects.
RESEARCH
Over 40% of the Faculty’s courses are taught in English and its students have a markedly international profile (with exchange students from 70 countries). The Faculty also attracts the best students from Catalonia and beyond, according to the admission grades. For instance, the lowest mark of the students admitted to the bachelor’s degree in International Business Economics (IBE), a programme taught entirely in English, was a 13 (out of 14) in the 2021-2022 academic year.
— Spanish R&D and Innovation Plan:2 €1.4 million / 25 projects
In the management area, the University created the UPFBarcelona School of Management. The School trains professionals who are capable of managing companies and institutions and leading projects with a global vision. Also, with the financial backing of the Catalan government, the University, together with the Institute for Economic Analysis and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, created the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE), ranked among the top 8 international research centres in Spain (Severo Ochoa accreditation).
— 95% of official master’s degree students are international (2021-2022)
Since UPF’s founding in 1990, the Department has evolved into a leading centre for research and teaching. It ranks among the most outstanding departments in Europe (see the Section 4 below) and brings together an international community of more than 20 different nationalities.
— Internship agreements with more than 370 companies, such as Deloitte, EY, MGS, Seat and PwC.
Intellectual life in the Department is centred on a variety of weekly research seminars in the Department’s areas of research. In addition, the Department hosts a large number of visiting scholars and lecturers. As a result, students and teaching staff are exposed to a continuous flow of new researchers working at the frontiers of knowledge in their fields.
— ICREA research professors:4 11
— 84% of doctoral students are international (2021-2022)
*Lower than usual because of the pandemic.
Key figures:
The Faculty of Economics and Business was the first faculty in Spain (public or private and for any discipline) to be awarded the Certificate for Quality in Internationalization (CeQUINT). Granted in 2015 by a consortium of 14 European accreditation agencies, this certificate recognizes the incorporation of an international dimension into higher education.
Key figures:
4 The Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) offers permanent tenured positions at Catalan host institutions to top researchers from around the world.
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3 Data as of January 2022.
— International teaching staff:3 45%
— 1 Severo Ochoa accreditation (BSE)
— Theses defended in English: 100% (2020-2021)
— 40% of graduates have studied abroad (2020-2021)*
2 Data refer to the 2015-2021 period.
The UPF education model offers students a global vision for them to get prepared for their future professions autonomously and proactively
— Operations, Analytics and Technology
— Statistics, Econometrics and Quantitative Methods
— Science Po and Toulouse universities (France), including a double degree in Economics with the latter
— Economic and Business History
— Behavioural and Experimental Economics
— Tilburg, Amsterdam and Maastricht universities and Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands)
— Fundaçao Getulio Vargas (Brazil) and Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico), in Latin America
AGREEMENTSINTERNATIONAL
— Macroeconomics and International Economics
— Management and Organization Studies
Every year, the Faculty also receives more than 300 students interested in its courses for international students. Likewise, domestic students can choose from a network of 142 universities in 38 countries to study abroad.
To this end, the Faculty has agreements with top universities in Europe and beyond:
— Singapore School of Management University(Thailand)Chulalongkorn(Singapore),UniversityandHongKong(HongKong)in Asia
— Business Economics and Industrial Organization
— Higher School of Economics (Russia)
— UCL and KU Leuven Universities (Belgium)
— Finance and Accounting
— Bocconi University (Italy)
Most of these universities rank among the top 100 in the QS ranking by subject (Economics), in which the UPF Faculty of Economics and Business ranks 24th in the world.
— Universities of Maryland, Texas, Boston College, Michigan Ross and Wharton School of Business (United States)
— Copenhagen Business School (Denmark)
Research areas
Internationalization is one of the Faculty’s core values. The teaching staff is highly international (45%) as a result of an open recruitment strategy that capitalizes on the reputation of Economics and Business at UPF and enables 40% of the Faculty’s classes to be taught entirely in English.
— University of British Columbia and HEC Montréal (Canada)
— Mannheim and LMU universities (Germany)
— Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
— Zurich, St. Gallen and Lausanne (Switzerland)universities
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— Warwick, Edinburgh and Aston universities (United Kingdom)
— Microeconomic Theory
GLOBAL RANKINGS AND RESULTS BY SUBJECT 4
UPF appears on some of the most influential global rankings:
— 72th in the world in economics and business (Times Higher Education ranking, 2022)
As an institution committed to its students, above and beyond academic life, UPF promotes their participation in associations, volunteer programmes and sports and cultural activities
The University also ranks high in economics and business:
— 1st Spanish university, 156th worldwide and 69th in Europe (Times Higher Education ranking, 2022)
— 16th university in the world among universities aged 50 and under (Times Higher Education Young Universities Ranking, 2022)
— 24th in the world in economics (QS ranking, 2022)
— 1st university in Spain and 4th in Europe (U- Multirank, 2022)
— 40th in the world in economics (Shanghai ranking, 2021)
— Among the top 75 in the world in statistics (Shanghai ranking, 2021)
— 129th in the world in economics and business (U.S. News & World Report, 2022)
— Among the top 150 in the world in accounting and finance (QS, 2022)
— With the double bachelor’s degree in Law and Business Management and Administration or Economics students can earn a bachelor’s degree in Law and a second bachelor’s degree in either Business Management and Administration or Economics over a period of five years and one term.
— Postgraduate education is organized in two tracks. The PhD track, consisting of the research master’s (MRes) and PhD programmes, aims to train scholars for careers in either academia or business or government. The master’s track consists of more applied programmes that are less oriented towards careers in academia and offer four different paths (Economics, Finance, Management, and Finance and Banking).
— The bachelor’s degree in International Business Economics is designed to produce graduates with a special ability to interrelate content, methods and perspectives regarding the complexity of business and economics in a multicultural context.
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— The bachelor’s degree in Business Management and Administration provides students with the necessary knowledge of economics and skills to manage the different areas (finance, sales, human resources, etc.) of a business, from multinationals to SMEs.
— The interuniversity bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics approaches social sciences from a variety of angles, giving students the tools they need to analyse today’s increasingly global, complex and connected world. Students follow the programme at three universities: UPF (Barcelona), UC3 (Madrid) and UAM (Madrid). Study abroad is encouraged.
— The bachelor’s degree in Business Sciences provides quality training that enables graduates to swiftly find employment.
— The bachelor’s degree in Economics provides theoretical and practical knowledge to enable accurate analysis of the economic situation.
— The bachelor’s degree in Industrial Technologies and Economic Analysis (a joint programme with UPC to begin in 2018-2019) is taught entirely in English. It combines industrial engineering subjects with the fundamentals of economics in order to provide the high-level interdisciplinary training needed to produce new industrial leaders with both a thorough understanding of innovation and technology and detailed knowledge of economics.
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