How To Make A University Successful

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September 2012

Quality, innovation,

internationalisation

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A young university

A public university founded in 1990 and called to become one of

the leading European universities based on its own identity

founded on quality teaching, its proximity to the students, the

maximum degree of internationalisation and a categorical

leaning towards research and innovation

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A quality university

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International Campus of Excellence awarded by the Ministry of Education (2010)

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Ranking Times Higher Education (2014):

1st Spanish university (position 165 worldwide and 72 in Europe) 12th highest ranked university in the world among those under 50 years of age (2015)

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Ranking 2012 in research production and productivity in the

Spanish university public system (2013):

1st Spanish university in scientific productivity since 2010

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U-Ranking (BBVA Foundation & Ivie, 2015): Most productive university in Spain

 Outstanding research: 46 ERC Grants (UPF Group)

1st Spanish university and in the Top 20 in Europe (ERC, 2015)

Ranking de 2012 en producción y productividad en investigación

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Facts & figures*

• Undergraduate students: 9.783 (UPF Group: 13.738)

• Official Master's students:

959 (UPF Group: 2.643)

• Doctoral students: 1.247

• UPF Master's student: 1.817

• Number of academic staff: 594 FTE

• Number of permanent professors: 339

• Number of administrative and service staff: 684

• 2015 Budget: 124 M€

(*) 2014-2015 academic year

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A university that revolves around people

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Three areas of knowledge

, closely interconnected, that place

people and their relation with the polis at the centre of our

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An urban university in the heart of Barcelona

Ciutadella campus:

social sciences and humanities

Mar campus:

health and life sciences

Poblenou campus:

communication and information technologies

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Ciutadella campus: degrees offered

Economics, finance and business

Business Management and Administration Business Sciences - Management

Economics

International Business Economics Double bachelor’s degree in Law and

Business Management and Administration or Economics* International Trade and Marketing (ESCI)

Business Administration and Innovation Management (EUM) Tourism and Leisure Management (EUM)

Research in Economics, Finance and Business Economics and Finance (Barcelona GSE) Specialized Economic Analysis (Barcelona GSE)

Banking and Finance (BSM)

Business and Financial Accounting Management (BSM) Health Economics and Pharmaeconomics (BSM)

MSc in Sciences of Management (BSM) Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EUM) Economics, Finance and Business

Master’s degrees Doctorate Bachelor’s degrees Master’s degrees Doctorate Bachelor’s degrees

Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought World History

Chinese Studies Literary Creation (IDEC) Humanities History Humanities Humanities Law Law Bachelor’s degrees Master’s degrees Doctorate

Advanced in Legal Studies Criminology and Criminal Justice System

Professional Legal Practice (IDEC)

Criminology and Public Prevention Policies Law

Labour Relations

Double bachelor’s degree in Law and

Business Management and Administration or Economics*

Politics and society

Current Democracies: Nationalism, Federalism and Multiculturality

Sociology and Demography Research in Political Sciences

Inmigration Management Political Philosophy International Relations (IBEI)

Public Policy and International Development (IBEI) International Business (ESCI)

Public and Social Policies (IDEC) Political and Administration Sciences

Philosophy, Politics and Economics (A4U, UPF coord.)

Political and Social Sciences

Master’s degrees

Doctorate

Bachelor’s degrees

* Jointly conducted by the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences

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Health and life sciences

Bachelor’s degrees Master’s degrees Doctorate Human Biology Medicine

Nursing (Mar University School of Nursing)

Bioinformatics for Health Sciences Pharmaceutical Industry and Biotechnology

Biomedical Research Clinical Laboratory Occupational Health

Public Health

Biomedicine

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Poblenou campus: communication

and information technologies

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Linguistic communication and multilingual mediation

Doctorate

Applied Languages Translation and Interpretation

Translation Studies Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Forensic Linguistics (IDEC) Translation and Languages Sciences Information and communication technologies

Information and Communication Technologies

Doctorate

Sound and Music Computing

Interdisciplinary in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media Intelligent Interactive Systems

Digital Arts (IDEC) ITC Strategic Management (IDEC)

Audiovisual Systems Engineering Telematic Engineering Engineering in Computer Science

Biomedical Engineering Industrial Design Engineering (Elisava)

Design (Elisava) Social communication Bachelor’s degrees Master’s degrees Doctorate Audiovisual Communication Journalism

Advertising and Public Relations

Communication

Advanced Studies in Social Communication Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies

Design and Communication (Elisava)

Leadership and Management in Science and Innovation (IDEC)

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The UPF model

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Quality teaching

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Excellence in research

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Quality teaching

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Admission

Two students apply for every UPF place available (2014-2015 academic year)

15% of new students finished high school with honours (2014-2015 academic year)

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An own teaching model

Highest rate of performance in the Spanish system: 90% (2013-2014 academic year)

1st Spanish university in productivity in the area of teaching (BBVA Foundation & Ivie, 2014)

MOOCs: partnership with Miríada X, FutureLearn

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Results

Graduate employment rate: 83% (AQU Catalunya, 2014)

One out of four graduates found a job through the university (AQU Catalunya, 2014)

PhD employment rate: 96% (Analysis of the employment rate for UPF doctorates, 2012)

Satisfaction rate: 90% of UPF's graduates would choose the same university again (AQU Catalunya, 2014)

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External reports

 The institutional report prepared by the European University Association (EUA, July 2008) highlights

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Excellence in research

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Quality and international impact

1st Spanish university in the normalised impact of its scientific publications (Scimago, 2014)

1st Spanish university in percentage of papers produced in collaboration with foreign institutions

(Scimago, 2014)

2nd Spanish university in percentage of articles published in the most influential scholarly journals of the world, those ranked in the first quartile (Q1) (Scimago, 2014)

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Competitiveness

1st Spanish university in projects within the Spanish R&D National Plan (for 100 lecturers) (Granada & IUNE, 2012)

1st Spanish university in projects within the EU Programme (for 100 lecturers) (IUNE, 2012).

1st Spanish university in Starting, Advanced & Consolidator Grants funded(European Research Council, 2014)

2nd Spanish university in capacity to attract European funding in absolute terms (2007-2013) (CDTI , 2013)

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Training capacity

1st Spanish university in FPU scholarships (for 100 lecturers) (Granada & IUNE, 2012)

1st Spanish university in doctoral dissertations (for 100 professors) (Granada & IUNE, 2012)

64% of doctoral dissertations were written and defended in English (2013)

Eight out of nine PhD programmes have been awarded the Mention of Excellence by the Spanish ministry (2012)

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Recruitment and retention of talent

38 ICREA, 28 ICREA Academia, 18 Marie Curie, 18 Juan de la Cierva, 14 Ramón y Cajal, 13 CIBER, 8 Beatriu de Pinós (2014)

46 ERC grants (UPF & UPF Group) (ERC, 2015). This represents 16% of the ERC grants obtained in Spain

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UPF Research Park (1/2)

Entities present

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

 Dep. of Economics and Business  Dep. of Law

 Dep. of Political and Social Sciences  Dep. of Humanities

 Dep. of ITC

 Dep. of Communication

 Dep. of Translation and Language Sciences  Jaume Vicens i Vives University Institute

of History (IUHJVV)

 University Institute of Culture (IUC)

 University Institute for Applied Linguistics (IULA)

Mixes research centres and institutes

 Research Centre for International Economics (CREI)  Economy and Health Research Centre (CRES)

 Centre for Research on the Economies of the Mediterranean (CREMed)

 Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

 Pasqual Maragall Foundation for Research into Alzheimer’s

Technology centres

Barcelona Media – Innovation Center  Barcelona Digital

Together with the Government of Catalonia and the Barcelona City Council, UPF participates in the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), one of the largest biomedical centers in southern Europe.

The park consists of independent research centers closely connected:

 Dep. of Experimental and Health Sciences (DCEXS)

 Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM)  Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)

 Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE)(CSIC-UPF)  Centre of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona (CMRB)  Hospital del Mar Research Institute

 Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL)

 Occupational Health Research Centre (CISAL)

Fields of knowledge:

 Social sciences and humanities

 Communication and information technologies;

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UPF Research Park (2/2)

Spin off

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Barcelona Music & Audiovisual Technologies

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Reactable Systems

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Voctro Labs S.L.

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Qgenomics

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Logim

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Eodyne Systems S.L.

TECNIO centers at UPF

(ACC1Ó)

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GRIB

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GTI

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Neurophar

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Nets

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MTG

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BAPP

Enterprises and institutions close to the park

MEDIAPRO, Lavínia, Cromosoma, RBA, RNE, CAC, BTV, Media-ITC center,

T-SYSTEMS, INDRA, Orange, CMT, and so on.

Transfer activities and relationship with the environment:

To enhance transfer activities and a greater collaboration with its social and business environment, in 2011, it was launched the Almogàvers Business Factory (Almogàvers, 165) that houses the Areas of Incubation UPF Business Shuttle, that already house eight companies arising from research at the UPF.

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International vocation

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Community

36% of official master's students and 52% of doctoral students are international (2014-2015 academic year)

30% of graduates have studied abroad (2013-2014 academic year)

22% of UPF faculty is international (2014)

1st Spanish university in international outlook (THE, 2014)

1st Spanish university in the proportion of international faculty (QS, 2014)

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Projects

Agreements with 27 of the Top 50 universities in the world (THE, 2013)

Summer School Programme with UCLA (from summer 2012)

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TOTAL: 350 agreements

(260 concerning

student exchange)

Map of international relations

USA & Canada (40 universities) Europe (203 universities) + Spain (24) Latin America (64 universities) MEXICO Tec de Monterrey UNAM, El Colegio ARGENTINA Torcuato di Tella, Belgrano... BRAZIL Getulio Vargas, USP CHILE Diego Portales, Pontificia Católica... CANADA British Columbia, Montreal, Toronto, Simon Fraser... USA (Ivy League) Boston College, Bentley, Harvard, Pennsylvania,

Richmond, Pittsburgh, NYU, UCLA, Barnard College…

Austria: Vienna

Belgium: Brussels Free, Louvain Catholic...

Czech Republic: Charles University in Prague Denmark: Aarhus, Copenhagen, Roskilde... Finland: Helsinki...

France: ENSAE, Sciences Po, Pierre et Marie Curie,

Toulouse...

Germany: Berlin Free, Berlin Humboldt, Munich, Konstanz... Hungary: CEU Budapest Iceland: Reykjavik

Italy: Roma III, Roma La Sapienza, Bologna, Trento, Florence…

Netherlands: Maastricht, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Tilburg... Norway: Oslo, Bergen

Poland: Warsaw Portugal: New Lisbon Sweden: Stockholm, Linköping...

Switzerland: Zurich, Geneva, Lausanne...

United Kingdom: Oxford, Warwick, King’s College, Saint Andrews, Essex...

Asia (20 universities)

CHINA: City University and The Chinese

University in Hong Kong

INDIA: Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

JAPAN: TUFS, Keio KOREA: Seoul National, Korea University SINGAPORE: Singapore Management University THAILAND Chulalongkorn Australia (4 universities) AUSTRALIA Adelaide, New South Wales, Queensland, Sydney Technology

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Strategic alliances

Autónoma de Madrid Autònoma de Barcelona Carlos III de Madrid Pompeu Fabra Oxford, Leiden,

Bologna, Bonn, París 1 Panteón-Sorbona, Carlova de Praga, Helsinki, Jagiellonian de Cracovia Brown Chicago Northwestern Stanford Columbia Cornell Harvard Barcelona Autònoma de Barcelona Pompeu Fabra A4U, Bremen, Konstanz, Ulm, Antwerpen, Southern Denmark, Eastern Finland, Paris

Dauphine, Dublin City University, Roma Tor Vergata, Maastricht, Nova de Lisboa, Brunel, Essex, Linköping YERUN Young European Research Universities Network

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UPF Group

Barcelona GSE, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics

BMAT, Barcelona Music & Audio Technologies

BSM, Barcelona School of Management

CREAL, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology

CREI, Research Centre for International Economics

CRES, Centre for Research in Health and Economics

CRG, Centre for Genomic Regulation

Elisava School of Design

ESCI, School of International Trade

EUIM, Mar University School of Nursing

EUM, Maresme University School of Business Studies

IBE, Institute of Evolutionary Biology

IBEI, Barcelona Institute of International Studies

IDEC, Continuing Education Institute

IMIM, Municipal Institute of Medical Research

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