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The Department of Political and Social Sciences at UPF, recognized as a María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence

With this recognition, together with those earned in previous calls for Medicine and Life Sciences and Engineering, the University now has three departments accredited with the María de Maeztu distinction. According to the vice-rector for Research, Cristina Pujades, these results “validate UPF’s strategy of using a distinctive model within the university sector for attracting and retaining talent.”

UPF awards the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to Helga Nowotny and Maria Leptin, key figures in the consolidation of a European research model

Laia de Nadal: “Leptin and Nowotny’s work reminds us that there is no world without science and no science without the world”

UPF places economics, communication and linguistics in the top 100 worldwide in the 2026 Shanghai ranking by disciplines

Economics and econometrics ranks 31st in the world and first in Spain. Linguistics also climbs and is ranked 54th worldwide. Communication and media studies breaks into the 51-100 bracket. The University gets a further seven disciplines (law, accounting and finance, archaeology, modern languages, philosophy, politics and international studies, and sociology) in the top 200 in the world.