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The UPC, Spain’s leading university for European patent filings

The UPC is the Spanish university that filed the highest number of European patent applications in 2024, according to data from the European Patent Office. The UPC’s filings rose by more than 30% compared to the previous year.

Citizen science and numerical modeling to combat marine pollution

The UPC's LIM participates

Sustainable 3D printing resins from plant sources

Developed by a team from the UPC and the ICIQ

The Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Architecture is presented

A pioneering initiative in the university system

In the world's top 25 in Architecture and top 50 in Space and Planetary Sciences

According to the Scimago World Institutions Rankings

In the world’s top 50 for Architecture and Art History

According to the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject

Virtual mines for safer mining education

With MineXR, a project led by the UPC and funded by the Unite! Seed Fund

Five new master’s degrees for the 2025-2026 academic year

They will train professionals specialized in emerging areas

The Roald Amundsen cruise ship from HX Hurtigruten Expeditions is one of the vessels where the project’s technologies will be tested. Photo: HX Hurtigruten Expeditions

Protecting marine ecosystems from noise pollution

A project involving the Laboratory of Applied Bioacoustics

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The UPC today

31,327 bachelor's and master's degree students
3,677 teaching and research staff
2,143 administrative and service staff
67 bachelor's degrees
96 master's degrees
46 doctoral programmes

18 schools
141 lifelong learning programmes
10patents last year
410
million euros 2025 budget
121,6 million euros R&D income
91,278 alumni

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