Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Technical University of Catalonia
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
TypePublic
Established1971
Endowment€317 million
RectorDaniel Crespo Artiaga
Academic staff
3,000+
Students30,000+
Location
Barcelona
,
Catalonia
,
Spain
AffiliationsVives Network, UNITE!, SSU
Websitewww.upc.edu/en
University rankings
Global – Overall
ARWU World[1]701–800 (2023)
QS World[2]354 (2024)
THE World[3]601–800 (2024)
USNWR Global[4]=385 (2023)
Barcelona North Campus
Nexus building, in North campus of UPC
Nexus 2 building, North Campus
UPC Library
School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB)
Vertex Building
K2M Building

The Technical University of Catalonia (Catalan: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, pronounced [uniβəɾsiˈtat puliˈtɛŋnikə ðə kətəˈluɲə], Spanish: Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña; UPC), currently referred to as BarcelonaTech, is the largest polytechnic university in Catalonia, Spain.

UPC's objectives are based on internationalization, as it is one of Europe's technical universities with the most international PhD students and the university with the largest share of international master's degree students.[5] UPC is a university aiming at achieving the highest degree of engineering/technical excellence and has bilateral agreements with several top-ranked European universities.[6]

UPC is a member of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe[7] network, which allows for student exchanges between leading European engineering schools. It is also a member of several university federations, including the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER) and UNITECH.[8] UPC is also a parent institution of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI).

The university was founded in March 1971 as the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona through the merger of engineering and architecture schools founded in the 19th century.[9] As of 2007 it has 25 schools in Catalonia located in the cities of Barcelona, Castelldefels, Manresa, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Terrassa, Igualada, Vilanova i la Geltrú and Mataró. As of the academic year 2017–18, the UPC has over 30,000 students and over 3,000 teaching and research staff, 65 undergraduate programs, 73 graduate programs and 49 doctorate programs.[10]

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  2. ^ "QS World University Rankings 2024". topuniversities.com. 19 June 2023. Retrieved 26 August 2023.
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