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A nanosatellite developed at the NanoSat Lab of the UPC has been placed in orbit

With funding from the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC)

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Barcelona will be the European capital of urban mobility, with the UPC as one of the key technological partners

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has chosen the MOBILus consortium, led by the city of Barcelona and co-partnered by the UPC, to develop one of its innovation communities in the field of urban mobility.

Innovation for sustainable development

Students from the UPC, the IED and ESADE have presented their projects

NASA’s InSight probe with UPC technology on board lands successfully on Mars

Researchers from the UPC participated in the design of InSight’s wind sensor

Strategic alliance with Shaoxing University

For the creation of a technology transfer centre at the Chinese university

The UPC scores well in Computer Science and Engineering in the 2019 Best Global Universities Rankings

The University is ranked 36th in the world in the field of Computer Science and 60th in Engineering.

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30,155 students
3,093 teaching and research staff
1,967 UPC staff
70 bachelor's degrees
73 master's degree
48 doctoral programmes

20 schools
234 lifelong learning programmes
52 patents last year
283 million euros 2018 budget
61.5 million euros R&D income
58,200 Alumni

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275QS Ranking
<600THE Ranking
<700Shanghai Ranking
<50QS and Shanghai rankings by subject*

*Architecture, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Instruments Science and Technology and Remote Sensing