UPF is offering 2,415 places for new students in its integrated studies in the 2020-2021 academic year. It received 4,794 applications, yielding a demand-to-supply ratio of 1.98, or almost two applications per available place.

In all, 21 of the 29 bachelor’s degree programmes offered at UPF (72.5%) have a cut-off mark higher than 9 (the maximum score is 14), two more than last academic year. This reinforces the idea that students must increasingly earn better marks to gain admission to the university. Two of these bachelor’s degree programmes are amongst the top ten with the highest cut-off marks in the Catalan university system: Medicine, offered jointly with the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), with a cut-off mark of 13.042, ranks sixth, and Philosophy, Politics and Economics, with a mark of 13.018, ranks seventh.

Two bachelor’s degree programmes are amongst the top ten with the highest cut-off marks in the Catalan university system: Medicine, offered jointly with the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), with a cut-off mark of 13.042, ranks sixth, and Philosophy, Politics and Economics, with a mark of 13.018, ranks seventh.

Notably, the bachelor’s degree programme in Philosophy, Politics and Economics is the only degree from the field of humanities and political and social sciences to make the top ten highest cut-off marks for the Catalan university system.

Nine other UPF bachelor’s degree programmes have cut-off marks over 12: 

• International Business Economics – 12.778
• Global Studies – 12.660
• Biomedical Engineering - 12.570
• Double degree in Law and Business Management and Administration or Economics - 12.486
• Human Biology - 12.350
• Open Bachelor’s Degree - 12.082
• Double degree in Law and Criminology and Public Prevention Policies - 12.058
• Audiovisual Communication - 12.044
• Industrial Technologies and Economic Analysis (UPC-UPF) - 12.516

In general, first-choice applications for UPF programmes have noticeably increased (489 more applications, 11% more than the last academic year) in a fairly even way. The degree programmes for which the most first-choice applications were received were:

• Medicine (526)
• Law (497)
• Business Management and Administration (402)
• International Business Economics (338)
• Advertising and Public Relations (328)
• Audiovisual Communication (309)
• Economics (238)
• Double degree in Law and Business Management and Administration or Economics (224)
• Journalism (188)
• Business Sciences-Management (174)
• Global Studies (153)

Applications outstripped places for 83% of the programmes offered at UPF (24 of the 19 bachelor’s degree programmes), and in 11 cases the ratio was greater than two.

Applications outstripped places for 83% of the programmes offered at UPF (24 of the 19 bachelor’s degree programmes), and in 11 cases the ratio was greater than two:

• Medicine (8.77 applications per available place)
• Advertising and Public Relations (4.05)
• Audiovisual Communication (3.86)
• Global Studies (3.82)
• International Business Economics (3.75)
• Philosophy, Politics and Economics (3.67)
• Double degree in Law and Criminology and Public Prevention Policies (2.65)
• Double degree in Law and Business Management and Administration or Economics (2.49)
• Business Management and Administration (2.36)
• Journalism (2.35)
• Biomedical Engineering (2.22).