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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC)
Barcelona-North Diagonal campus, Barcelona Spain

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC)

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC)

UPC is a prestigious technical university located in Barcelona, Spain, offering a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in various fields of engineering, architecture, and technology.

Faculty

UPC has a renowned faculty consisting of experienced professors and researchers who are experts in their respective fields. They provide students with high-quality education and guidance to help them succeed in their academic and professional careers.

Key disciplines

UPC is known for its strong focus on key disciplines such as civil engineering, computer science, telecommunications engineering, and industrial engineering. These programs are designed to meet the needs of the industry and provide students with practical skills and knowledge.

Research achievements

UPC has made significant contributions to the field of research, with numerous groundbreaking projects and collaborations with industry partners. The university's research output is highly regarded both nationally and internationally.

Notable programs

Some of the specific programs offered at UPC include Aerospace Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies, and Sustainable Architecture. These programs are known for their rigorous curriculum and hands-on learning experiences.

Strengths and specialties

UPC is recognized for its strong emphasis on innovation, entrepreneurship, and sustainability in all its programs. The university's commitment to producing skilled professionals who can contribute to society has earned it a solid reputation in the academic and professional world.

Programmes

Bachelor(73) / UG(73)

Arts and Humanities(5)

  • Bachelor's degree in Architectural Technology and Building Construction
  • Bachelor's degree in Architecture Studies
  • Bachelor's degree in Architecture Studies
  • Bachelor's degree in Design, Animation and Digital Art
  • Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture

Business and Management(2)

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Innovation and Technology
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Innovation and Technology-Marketing, Innovation and Technology (double degree)

Engineering and Technology(56)

  • Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Systems Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Systems Engineering and Telecommunications Sytems Engineering or Network Engineering (double degree)
  • Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Technology Engineering + master's degree in Aerospace Engineering. Sequential academic programme (PARS): Aerospace Engineer
  • Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Vehicle Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Artificial Intelligence
  • Bachelor's degree in Automotive Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics (interuniversity UPF-UPC-UB degree)
  • Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Biosystems Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Data Science and Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering and Telecommunications
  • Bachelor's degree in Energy Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics
  • Bachelor's degree in Enviromental Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Food Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Geoinformation and Geomatics Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in ICT Systems Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design and Product Development
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Design and Product Development
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Electronics and Automatic Control Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Electronics and Automatic Control Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Electronics and Automatic Control Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Electronics and Automatic Control Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Marine Technologies
  • Bachelor's degree in Materials Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Mineral Resource Engineering and Mineral Recycling
  • Bachelor's degree in Naval Systems and Technology Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Systems Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Textile Technology and Design Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Video Game Design and Development
  • Bachelor's degree in Video Game Design and Development (English taught)
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Technology Engineering + master's degree in Industrial Engineering. Sequential academic programme (PARS): Industrial Engineer
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Technology Engineering + master's degree in Industrial Engineering. Sequential academic programme (PARS): Industrial Engineer
  • Bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering · Majors: Information Technologies
  • Bachelor's degree in Nautical Science and Maritime Transport · Majors: On-Board Practicals / Maritime Business and Port Logistics
  • Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Systems Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering + master's degree in Civil Engineering. Sequential academic programme (PARS): Civil Engineer
  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Railway Systems
  • Bachelor's degree in Industrial Technologies and Economic Analysis (interuniversity UPC-UPF degree) + master's degree in Industrial Engineering. Sequential academic programme (PARS): Industrial Engineer and Economic Analysis
  • Bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering + master's degree in Informatics Engineering. Sequential academic programme (PARS)
  • Bachelor's degree in Informatics Engineering · Majors: Computing / Computer Engineering / Software Engineering / Information Systems / Information Technologies
  • Bachelor's degree in Network Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Satellite Engineering
  • Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Technologies and Business Management (interuniversity UPC-UB)
  • Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Technologies and Services Engineering + master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering. Sequential academic programme (PARS)
  • Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Technologies and Services Engineering · Majors: Audiovisual Systems / Telecommunications Systems / Network Systems

Life Sciences and Medicine(2)

  • Bachelor's degree in Optics and Optometry
  • Bachelor's degree in Agronomic Science Engineering · Majors: Horticulture and Gardening / Agricultural Production

Natural Sciences(3)

  • Bachelor's degree in Economics-Statistics (interuniversity UB-UPC double degree)
  • Bachelor's degree in Marine Sciences and Technologies
  • Bachelor's degree in Mathematics

Social Sciences and Management(5)

  • Bachelor's degree in Statistics (interuniversity UB-UPC degree)
  • Bachelor's degree in Video Game Design and Development
  • Bachelor's degree in Digital Design and Multimedia Technologies
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Innovation and Technology
  • Bachelor’s degree in Management and Digitalisation in Sport

Master(117) / PG(117)

Arts and Humanities(10)

  • Master's degree in Advanced Building Construction
  • Master's degree in Advanced Studies in Architecture-Barcelona (MBArch)
  • Master's degree in Advanced Studies in Design-Barcelona (MBDesign)
  • Master's degree in Building Construction Management
  • Master's degree in Diagnosis and Intervention Techniques in Building Construction
  • Master's degree in Landscape Architecture-Barcelona (MBLandArch)
  • Master's degree in Architectural Design Ecology in the Digital Age
  • Master's degree in Architecture
  • Master's degree in Architecture
  • Master's degree in Real Estate Development and Management

Business and Management(4)

  • Master's degree in Marketing Technologies
  • Master's degree in Business Administration and Management
  • Master's degree in Financial Innovation and Fintech
  • Master's degree in Technology Talent Management

Engineering and Technology(77)

  • Doctoral Program in Engineering, Science and Technology Education
  • Doctoral Program in Nautical and Marine Engineering and Naval Radio-Electronics
  • Doctoral program in Computing
  • Doctoral program in Geotechnical Engineering
  • Erasmus Mundus Master in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering (AMASE)
  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Decentralised Smart Energy Systems (DENSYS)
  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Photonics Engineering, Nanophotonics and Biophotonics (Europhotonics)
  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Coastal and Marine Engineering and Management (CoMEM)
  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Communications, Engineering and Data Science (CoDaS
  • Master's degree in Advanced Telecommunication Technologies
  • Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering
  • Master's degree in Aerospace Science and Technology (MAST)
  • Master's degree in Applications and Technologies for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (Drones)
  • Master's degree in Applied Telecommunications and Engineering Management (MASTEAM)
  • Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence
  • Master's degree in Automatic Control and Robotics
  • Master's degree in Automatic Systems and Industrial Electronics Engineering
  • Master's degree in Automatic Systems and Industrial Electronics Engineering
  • Master's degree in Automotive Engineering
  • Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering
  • Master's degree in Chemical Engineering
  • Master's degree in Civil Engineering
  • Master's degree in Computer Vision
  • Master's degree in Cybersecurity
  • Master's degree in Data Science
  • Master's degree in Electric Power Systems and Drives
  • Master's degree in Electronic Engineering (MEE)
  • Master's degree in Engineering Physics
  • Master's degree in Environmental Engineering
  • Master's degree in Geotechnical Engineering
  • Master's degree in Industrial Engineering
  • Master's degree in Industrial Engineering
  • Master's degree in Informatics Engineering
  • Master's degree in Innovation and Research in Informatics (MIRI)
  • Master's degree in Interdisciplinary and Innovative Engineering
  • Master's degree in Management Engineering
  • Master's degree in Management Engineering
  • Master's degree in Mining Engineering
  • Master's degree in Natural Resources Engineering
  • Master's degree in Nautical Science and Maritime Transport Management
  • Master's degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
  • Master's degree in Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation
  • Master's degree in Paper and Graphics Technology
  • Master's degree in Photonics
  • Master's degree in Quantum Science and Technology
  • Master's degree in Research in Mechanical Engineering
  • Master's degree in Space and Aeronautical Engineering
  • Master's degree in Structural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Constructions (SAHC)
  • Master's degree in Structural and Construction Engineering
  • Master's degree in Technology and Engineering Management
  • Master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering (MET)
  • Master's degree in Textile Design and Technology
  • Master's degree in Thermal Engineering
  • Master's degree in Urban Mobility
  • Master's degree in the Management and Operation of Marine Energy Facilities
  • Master's degree in Agronomical Engineering
  • Master's degree in Machine Learning and Cybersecurity for Internet-Connected Systems
  • Master's degree in Machine Learning and Cybersecurity for Internet-Connected Systems
  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Data Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (DEAI)
  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Dynamics of Renewables-based Power Systems
  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Hydrogen Systems and Enabling Technologies (HySET)
  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Risk Assessment and Management of Civil Infrastructures (NORISK)
  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Science in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE)
  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Sustainable Systems Engineering (EMSSE)
  • Master's degree in Advanced Biomedical Technologies
  • Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence for Connected Industries (AI4CI)
  • Master's degree in Computational and Data-Assisted Engineering
  • Master's degree in Groundwater Hydrology
  • Master's degree in Health Data Science
  • Master's degree in Industrial Facility Design and Management
  • Master's degree in Mechanical Technologies
  • Master's degree in Nuclear Engineering (linked to the InnoEnergy EIT programme)
  • Master's degree in Polymers and Bioplastics
  • Master's degree in Renewable Energy Engineering
  • Master's degree in Semiconductor Engineering and Microelectronic Design
  • Master's degree in Technologies for Distributed Energy Systems
  • Master's degree in Water Engineering

Life Sciences and Medicine(4)

  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Bio and Pharmaceutical Materials Science (BIOPHAM)
  • Master's degree in Occupational Health and Safety
  • Master's degree in Optometry and Vision Sciences
  • Master's degree in Vision Science Research

Natural Sciences(9)

  • Erasmus Mundus master's degree in Flood Risk Management
  • Master's degree in Advanced Materials Science and Engineering
  • Master's degree in Advanced Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering (MAMME)
  • Master's degree in Aquaculture
  • Master's degree in Atomistic and Multiscale Computational Modelling in Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Master's degree in Enabling Technologies for the Food and Bioprocessing Industry (KET4FOOD+BIO)
  • Master's degree in Oceanography and Marine Management
  • Master's degree in Pure and Applied Logic
  • Master's degree in Sustainable Intervention in the Built Environment (MISMeC)

Others(7)

  • Doctoral program in ERASMUS MUNDUS IN ENVIRONOMICAL PATHWAYS FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SERVICES (SELECT+)
  • Doctoral program in ERASMUS MUNDUS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE (IT4BI – DC)
  • Master's degree in Electronic Engineering (MEE)
  • Master's degree in Natural Resources Engineering
  • Master's degree in Secondary and Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Foreign Language Teaching
  • Master's degree in Secondary and Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Foreign Language Teaching (Mathematics specialisation)
  • Master's degree in Women's, Gender and Citizenship Studies

Social Sciences and Management(6)

  • Master's degree in Secondary and Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Foreign Language Teaching
  • Master's degree in Secondary and Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Foreign Language Teaching (Mathematics specialisation)
  • Master's degree in Statistics and Operations Research
  • Master's degree in Sustainability and Strategies for a Just Global Transition
  • Master's degree in Women's, Gender and Citizenship Studies
  • Master's degree in Technology and Innovation Communication

PHD(42)

Arts and Humanities(8)

  • Doctoral Program in Design
  • Doctoral program in Architectural, Building Construction and Urbanism Technology
  • Doctoral program in Architectural, Civil and Urban Heritage and Refurbishment of Existing Buildings
  • Doctoral program in Architecture, Energy and Environment
  • Doctoral program in Theory and History of Architecture
  • Doctoral program in Urban and Architectural Management and Valuation
  • Doctoral program in Urbanism
  • Doctoral programme in Architectural Design

Business and Management(2)

  • Doctoral program in Business Administration and Management
  • Doctoral program in Supply Chain and Operations Management

Engineering and Technology(24)

  • Doctoral program in Aerospace Science and Technology
  • Doctoral program in Artificial Intelligence
  • Doctoral program in Automatic Control, Robotics and Vision
  • Doctoral program in Biomedical Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Chemical Process Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Civil Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Computational and Applied Physics
  • Doctoral program in Computer Architecture
  • Doctoral program in Construction Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
  • Doctoral program in Electric Energy Systems
  • Doctoral program in Electrical Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Electronic Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Environmental Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Materials Science and Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Mechanical Engineering, Fluids and Aeronautics
  • Doctoral program in Network Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Nuclear and Ionizing Radiations Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Optical Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Polymers and Biopolymers
  • Doctoral program in Signal Theory and Communications
  • Doctoral program in Structural Analysis
  • Doctoral program in Textile and Paper Engineering
  • Doctoral program in Thermal Engineering

Life Sciences and Medicine(2)

  • Doctoral program in Agri-food Technology and Biotechnology
  • Doctoral program in Bioinformatics

Natural Sciences(5)

  • Doctoral program in Applied Mathematics
  • Doctoral program in Marine Sciences
  • Doctoral program in Natural Resources and Environment
  • Doctoral program in Photonics
  • Doctoral program in Sustainability

Social Sciences and Management(1)

  • Doctoral program in Statistics and Operations Research

University Information

Students & Staff

Total students

24,955

UG students: 76%PG students: 24%

International students

3,332

UG students: 31%PG students: 69%

Total faculty staff

2,530

Domestic staff: 91%Int'l staff: 9%

Cost of Living

Accommodation

$8,220

(Approx. amount)

Food

$2,970

(Approx. amount)

Transport

$380

(Approx. amount)

Utilities

$2,720

(Approx. amount)

Rankings

Sustainability Rankings

Rank: #257

University Rankings by Region

Rank: #131

World University Rankings

Rank: #392

World University Rankings by Subject

Rank: #38

Campus Locations

Barcelona-North Diagonal campus Campus

Primary Campus

Jordi Girona, 1

City: BarcelonaCountry: SpainCode: ESRegion: EuropeSubregion: Southern Europe

Baix Llobregat campus Campus

Esteve Terrades ,10

City: CastelldefelsCountry: SpainCode: ESRegion: EuropeSubregion: Southern Europe

Barcelona-Nautical campus Campus

Pla de Palau, 18

City: BarcelonaCountry: SpainCode: ESRegion: EuropeSubregion: Southern Europe

Barcelona-South Diagonal campus Campus

Avenida Diagonal, 647

City: BarcelonaCountry: SpainCode: ESRegion: EuropeSubregion: Southern Europe

Barcelona/Sant Adrià de Besòs-Diagonal-Besòs campu

Eduard Maristany, 10

City: BarcelonaCountry: SpainCode: ESRegion: EuropeSubregion: Southern Europe

Manresa Campus Campus

Av. de les Bases de Manresa, 61

City: ManresaCountry: SpainCode: ESRegion: EuropeSubregion: Southern Europe

Sant Cugat del Vallès campus Campus

Pere Serra, 1-15

City: Sant Cugat del VallèsCountry: SpainCode: ESRegion: EuropeSubregion: Southern Europe

Terrassa campus Campus

Colom 1

City: TerrassaCountry: SpainCode: ESRegion: EuropeSubregion: Southern Europe

Vilanova i la Geltrú campus Campus

Víctor Balager, 1

City: Vilanova i la GeltrúCountry: SpainCode: ESRegion: EuropeSubregion: Southern Europe