Polytechnic University of Catalonia

The Polytechnic University of Catalonia, commonly known as BarcelonaTech, is Catalonia's major engineering university. Other subjects, such as mathematics and architecture, are also available. Because it is one of Europe's technical universities with the most international PhD students and the university with the biggest share of international master's degree students, UPC's goals are centered on internationalization. UPC is a university that strives for engineering/technical excellence and has bilateral connections with a number of top-ranked European universities.

The Polytechnic University of Catalonia was created in March 1971 as a merging of engineering and architectural institutions founded in the nineteenth century. It has 25 schools in Catalonia as of 2007, including those in Barcelona, Castelldefels, Manresa, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Terrassa, Igualada, Vilanova I la Geltr and Mataró. The UPC has approximately 30,000 students and over 3,000 teaching and research staff, 65 undergraduate programs, 73 graduate programs, and 49 PhD programs as of the 2017-18 academic year.

UPC is a member of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network, which facilitates student exchanges among the best engineering schools in Europe. It is also a member of the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER) and UNITECH, among other university federations. The Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals is a subsidiary of UPC (IBEI).

Established: 1971