The University of Barcelona (Officially in Catalan: Universitat de Barcelona, UB; in Spanish: Universidad de Barcelona) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. It is a member of the Coimbra Group and Joan Lluís Vives Institute. With its close historical ties to Barcelona and to Catalonia, the University of Barcelona recently celebrated 555 years of its own history and the academic service to the community that has made it Catalonia’s most important public university.
In all Catalonia, the UB is the university that caters to the greatest number of students and offers the broadest and most comprehensive series of higher education qualifications in its first- and second-cycle degrees and the widest range of UB-endorsed programs and studies in postgraduate degrees , master’s programs and doctorates. The University is also the principle academic institution promoting university research at a national level in Spain and has become one of the finest research institutions in Europe, in terms of both the number and quality of its research programs.
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History
The University was founded under the royal prerogative granted by Alfonso V of Aragon, in Naples, on 3 November 1450. For forty-nine years prior to this, however, the city had had a fledgling medical school (or Estudi General, as the universities were known at that time), founded by King Martin of Aragon, but neither the Consell de Cent (Barcelona's Council of One Hundred) nor the city’s other leading institutions had given it their official recognition, considering it an intrusion on their respective jurisdictions. Alphonse the Magnanimous’ prerogative, though, was granted at the petition of the Consell de Cent, and so the council was always to consider the Estudi General created in 1450 as the city’s true university, since it was very much under its control and patronage.
The process that culminated in the foundation of the Estudi General of Barcelona can be traced back to the end of the fourteenth century, with the opening of a number of schools under the patronage of the City Hall, the cathedral schools and the Dominican convent of Santa Caterina, which established itself as a major cultural centre.
It was King Martín the Humane who set in motion the process that would result in the foundation of the University of Barcelona. In his letter written 23 January 1398 and addressed to the councillors of Barcelona, he informed them that he had sought the Pope’s permission to found a university in the city.
The natural growth of the University of Barcelona has given rise to the need to undertake large-scale building work to meet the growing demands made by student numbers that were unthinkable in the nineteenth century. In response to this growth, the university district of Pedralbes was begun in 1952. The first building to be completed on this new city campus was the Faculty of Pharmacy in 1956 alongside the Sant Raimond de Penyafort and the Verge de Montserrat Halls of Residence.
This was followed by the Faculty of Law in 1958, the University School of Business Studies in 1961, and the Faculty of Economics between 1957 and 1968. Today this district is known as the Pedralbes Campus, while in the nineties the university added the Vall d'Hebron Campus housed in some of the buildings in Llars Mundet. In 2006, the Faculties of History and Geography and the Faculty of Philosophy were moved from the Pedralbes Campus to the historic centre of the city (Ciutat Vella district), in the El Raval neighborhood, and just a short walk from the Historic Building of the University.
The University of Barcelona was the only university in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands until 1971, when the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, comprising the more technical Faculties and University Schools, became an independent entity. In 1968 the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona became the first of several new universities to be set up in Catalonia.
Research
The University of Barcelona (UB) is Spain’s leading research university, publishing more research than any other Spanish institution with the exception of CSIC, the national research council (Third European Report on ST Indicators, 2003).
The UB has 109 departments and more than 5,000 full-time researchers, technicians and research assistants, most of whom work in the UB’s 249 research groups as recognized and supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government). In 2004 the UB was awarded 169 national research grants and 18 European grants and participated in over 500 joint research projects with the business sector, generating an overall research income of 40 million Euros
The work of these groups is overseen by the UB’s Research Centres and Institutes which collaborate with the leading research institutions and networks in Spain and abroad. The UB is also home to three large Research Foundations: the Fundació Parc Científic de Barcelona, (Barcelona Science Park, PCB), which includes the Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona (Institute of Biomedical Research of Barcelona, IRBB); the Fundació Clínic-Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques Agust Pi i Sunyer (Clinic Foundation/ August Pi i Sunyer Institute for Biomedical Research IDIBAPS); and the Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL) (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, IDIBELL).
Library
The University of Barcelona, through its 19 libraries, ensures to its users:
- A unitary contribution of all its services and access to all resources of information.
- An extense schedule of opening, 360 days a year from Monday to Sunday.
- Individual as well as collective points of study, of work and of self-learning, endowed with the necessary computer equipment.
- Some historical and current bibliographical and documental collection in any support that allow the development of the tasks of teaching, research and learning.
- A staff with knowledge and experience to help you to satisfy your needs for information, research and teaching.
- Personalized attention 24 hours and 7 days a week.
Faculties
Faculty of Biology
Faculty of Chemistry
Faculty of Odontology
Faculty of Economic and Business Studies
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Fine Arts
Faculty of Geography and History
Faculty of Geology
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Mathematics
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Library Sciences and Documentation
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Philology
Faculty of Philosophy
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Psychology
Faculty of Teacher Training
University Schools
University School of Business studies
University School of Nursing
Attached schools
Center of Higher Education in Nutrition and Dietetics
Higher School of Cinema and Audio-visual
Higher School of Prevention of Labour Accidents
Higher School of Public relations
University School of Hotel management and Tourism
University School of Nursing - Sant Joan de Deu
University School of Nursing - Santa Madrona
Catalan National Institute of Physical Education (INEFC)
Universitat de Barcelona or University of Barcelona was ranked 186th in the 2008 THES-QS World University Ranking.
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