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The Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Catalan: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, currently referred to as BarcelonaTech, and commonly known 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.
UPC is a member of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network, which allows for student exchanges between leading European engineering schools. It is also a member of several university federations, including the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER) and UNITECH. UPC is also a parent institution of the prestigious Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI).
The university was founded in March 1971 as the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona through the merger of engineering and architecture schools founded in the 19th century. As of 2007, it has 25 schools in Catalonia located in the cities of Barcelona, Castelldefels, Manresa, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Terrassa, Igualada, Vilanova I la Geltrú and Mataró. As of the academic year 2017-18, the UPC has over 30,000 students and over 3,000 teachings and research staff, 65 undergraduate programs, 73 graduate programs and 49 doctorate programs.
Head: Francesc Torres
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Aerospace engineering, Agriculture, Analytical chemistry, Astrophysics, Automotive engineering, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Biology, Biophysics, Biotechnology, Botany, Cell biology, Chemical biology, Chemical engineering, Chemical physics, Chemistry, Climate science, Clinical research, Computational biology, Computational chemistry, Computational physics, Computer science, Developmental biology, Drug discovery, Ecology, Economics, Education, Electrical engineering, Environmental science, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Geography, Geology, Geophysics, History, Hydrology, Immunology, Information technology, Inorganic chemistry, Linguistics, Marine biology, Materials science, Mathematics, Mechanical engineering, Medical imaging, Medical physics, Medical technology, Meteorology, Microbiology, Molecular biology, Molecular imaging, Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Optics, Organic chemistry, Other, Other engineering, Other technology, Particle physics, Physical chemistry, Physics, Public health, Renewable energy, Software engineering, Statistics, Virology
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