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MareNostrum 4 POWER9 racks begin operation

With high expectation for Artificial Intelligence - based research

The UPC maintains its position in the QS WUR

It is also the top European university in Mathematics and Computer Science in the Leiden Ranking

Launch of CYBERCAT

The first interuniversity research centre for cybersecurity and data privacy.

Donald R. Korb, honorary doctor of the UPC

The American optometrist, an international reference in the fields of contact lenses and ocular surface

Lifelong Learning at the UPC

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Kip S. Thorne, doctor ‘honoris causa’

Acceptance speech and oration

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What moves you?

The UPC, a university with a global outlook

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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, Telecommunications and Computer Science in the QS and Shanghai rankings by subject.

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The UPC today

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  • 30,864 students
  • 3,066 teaching and research staff
  • 1,942 UPC staff
  • 70 bachelor's degrees
  • 73 master's degree
  • 48 doctoral programmes
  • 21 schools
  • 238  lifelong learning programmes 
  • 51 patents last year
  •  283  million euros 2018 budget
  • 58.8  million euros R&D income
  • 5,440 Alumni