Its international orientation is one of the distinguishing features of UPF, a university with "its feet in Barcelona and its head in the world".

With an outsanding position in international rankings as one of the top Spanish universities, the internationalisation of UPF was acknowledged by the Spanish Ministry of Education through the award of the International Campus of Excellence seal (2010) and is reinforced and confirmed as vision for the future by the participation of UPF in the EUTOPIA project of European University. 

The International Community

With the highest percentage of international faculty in Spain and one of the most international in Europe, every year UPF also hosts a high number of international students. In the 2022-23 academic year, international students represented 35% of MA and 55% of PhD students, attracted by the opportunity to study and carry out research with globally renowned faculty and researchers, 27% of whom are international themselves.

Mobility

Through an extensive and selected network of exchange agreements with universities worldwide, Pompeu Fabra University's mobility programmes enrich the campus with 2.415 students from 50 different countries (2022-23) and have allowed 38% of UPF graduates to expose to an exchange abroad (2019-20) as a differentiating factor on their résumés.

A Global Network

It is precisely these international links and projects with the best universities in the world that constitute one of Pompeu Fabra University's most important assets. At present, UPF has collaboration agreements with 28 universities ranked among the world's Top 50 according to the Times Higher Education ranking.

This selection allows us to develop innovative projects of collaboration within the UPF International Programs (BaPIS and BISS) or launching double and joint degrees at bachelor and master level. 

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