Polytechnic University of Catalonia

Continente:: Europe
Country:: Spain
Address:: Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Campus Nord, Calle Jordi Girona, 1-3, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Web Site:: www.upc.edu

About Polytechnic University of Catalonia:

Polytechnic University of Catalonia, currently referred to as BarcelonaTech and commonly named just as UPC, is the largest engineering university in Catalonia, Spain. It also offers programs in other disciplines such as mathematics and architecture. UPC's objectives are based on internationalization, as it is one of Europe's technical universities with the most international PhD students and the university with the largest share of international master's degree students. UPC is a university aiming at achieving the highest degree of engineering/technical excellence and has bilateral agreements with several top-ranked European universities. The university was founded in March 1971 as the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona through the merger of engineering and architecture schools founded during the 19th century. As of the academic year 2017-18, UPC has over 30,000 students and over 3,000 teaching and research staff, 65 undergraduate programs, 73 graduate programs and 49 doctorate programs.

World University Rankings

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
World University Rankings	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	440	445	473	501-550	445	438	487	487

By Fields

Field	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Agriculture	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Engineering	153	143	175	131	94	103	92	93	98	108	122	138	154	146	178	301-350	301-350
Life Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Medicine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Natural Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	301-350	301-350	351-400	351-400	258	250	244	237
Social Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

By Subjects

Subject	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Agricultural Sciences	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Biology & Biochemistry	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Chemistry	-	-	-	-	-	-	401-450	401-450	401-450	401-450	451-500	401-450	-	-
Chemical Engineering	115	87	143	150	150	163	168	176	154	179	178	195	238	301-350
Civil Engineering	31	21	47	59	50	59	59	77	76	96	79	92	120	233
Clinical Medicine	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Computer Science	61	62	66	46	59	79	75	87	89	95	101	142	185	259
Economics & Business	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Electrical Engineering	86	58	47	46	40	39	47	65	75	90	104	135	171	247
Environment / Ecology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Geosciences	249	267	275	274	248	218	181	209	241	265	-	170	186	196
Immunology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Materials Science	-	286	296	228	204	182	207	256	173	231	190	184	213	280
Mathematics	131	105	97	92	61	79	69	67	71	77	70	88	142	137
Mechanical Engineering	90	88	115	102	92	106	106	110	121	146	94	114	217	213
Microbiology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Molecular Biology & Genetics	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Neuroscience & Behavior	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Pharmacology & Toxicolog	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Physics	-	-	-	297	262	-	301-350	301-350	351-400	301-350	191	151	186	170
Plant & Animal Science	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Psychiatry / Psychology	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Social Sciences, General	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Space Science	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Energy Science & Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	195	-	-	238
Environmental Science & Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	212	-	289	-
Biomedical Engineering	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-