Introduction - The Universitat de Barcelona

The Universitat de Barcelona is the only Spanish university to appear on the list of the world’s 200 best universities published by The Times Higher Education Supplement.

The UB has recently celebrated its 555th anniversary and can lay claim to being the leading public university in Spain. It is the university with the most students, the one that offers the widest and most complete range of courses including undergraduate degrees (first and second cycle), its own specially tailored courses and postgraduate, masters and doctorate programs, as well as being the leading centre for university research in Spain and one of the largest in Europe, both in terms of the number of research programs that it runs and the excellence of its results.

Thanks to this rich offer, the UB has made a decisive contribution to the democratization of knowledge of many generations of citizens in Catalonia and the rest of Spain. Our campuses also play host to a large representation of students from around the world who choose to complete their studies with us at a time in history when learning has become one of the most trans-national of all activities.

We are proud to claim that the UB is able to count among its numerous alumni a broad represenattion of Catalan society today.

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