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The philosopher Marina Garcés delivered the inaugural lecture of the academic year 2018-2019

Entitled “From knowledge production to ignorance production”

Inauguration of Thinx | 5GBarcelona, an open laboratory for testing 5G technologies

A facility designed to test and validate new services with 5G technology

UPC cements position as leading Spanish university in Horizon 2020 funding

Since the launch of the programme, the University has participated in 147 projects

ETSEIB Motorsport and Dynamics UPC reach Formula Student podium

The rest of the UPC teams – UPC ecoRacing, e-Tech Racing and Vilanova Formula Team – also took part

The UPC from the sky

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Kip S. Thorne, doctor ‘honoris causa’

Acceptance speech and oration

UPC movement

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The UPC, a university with a global outlook

Internationalization views

Research

The UPC in the rankings

Among the world's top 300 universities in the QS Ranking, the top 500 in the THE Ranking and the top 700 in the Shanghai Ranking.

Among the world's 50 best universities in disciplines such as Architecture, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Instruments Science and Technology and Remote Sensing in the QS and Shanghai rankings by subject.

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The UPC today

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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