Polytechnic University of Catalonia

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About

instance of	university polytechnic open-access publisher
inception	March 1971
official name	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (ca)
short name	UPC (mul)
language used	Catalan Spanish

Location and contact

country	Spain
located in the administrative territorial entity	Barcelona Province · located in the administrative territorial entity: Catalonia
headquarters location	Barcelona · postal code: 08034 · coordinate location: 41.3887, 2.1160 · street address: Jordi Girona Salgado, 31 (ca) Vilanova i la Geltrú Manresa Sant Cugat del Vallès Terrassa
coordinate location	41.3893, 2.1132
elevation above sea level	87 metre
official website	https://www.upc.edu · language of work or name: Catalan · language of work or name: English · language of work or name: Spanish

People and numbers

count of students	29,812 · 2023 Earlier figures (2) 22,397 · 2019 22,673 · 2018
employees	5,000
position held by head of the organization	Rector of UPC
rector	Francesc Torres · since June 2025

Rankings and recognition

ranking	392 · QS World University Rankings · 2026
award received	Honorary Prize of the Night of Telecommunications and IT · 2021

Finances

budget	€282,700,000 · 2018

Structure and memberships

child organization or unit	ETSEIB · since 1971 School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa · since 1971 Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona · since 1971 Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering · since 1971 Barcelona East School of Engineering · since 2016 7 more Castelldefels School of Technology Barcelona School of Building Construction Escola Politècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Manresa Escola Politècnica Superior d'Enginyeria de Vilanova i la Geltrú Barcelona school of agricultural engineering Institute of Education Sciences of the UPC Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura del Vallés
member of	Mediterranean Universities Union Top International Managers in Engineering Xarxa Vives d'Universitats · since 1994 Catalan Association of Public Universities · since 2002 AUiP 11 more Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research CLUSTER European University Association World Wide Web Consortium Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities · May 2022 Spanish Association of University Presses Open Education Global Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment Centro Interuniversitario de Desarrollo Unite!

child organization or unit

ETSEIB · since 1971
School of Industrial and Aeronautic Engineering of Terrassa · since 1971
Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona · since 1971
Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering · since 1971
Barcelona East School of Engineering · since 2016

7 more

member of

Mediterranean Universities Union
Top International Managers in Engineering
Xarxa Vives d'Universitats · since 1994
Catalan Association of Public Universities · since 2002
AUiP

11 more

Other facts

exact match	https://w3id.org/scholarlydata/organisation/universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya

Images and media on Wikimedia Commons (2)

image	Nexus I (Barcelona).jpg
logo image	Logo UPC.svg

Wikimedia and technical details (9)

Commons category	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
topic's main category	Category:Polytechnic University of Catalonia
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:Polytechnic University of Catalonia alumni
category for employees of the organization	Category:Academic staff of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
on focus list of Wikimedia project	Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher
IPv6 routing prefix	2001:720:811::/48 2001:40b0:7500::/48
IPv4 routing prefix	147.83.0.0/16
Commons Institution page	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
social media followers	35,438 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 80625624 · 3 February 2023 12,300 · YouTube channel ID: UC8bnBbUtFYcJVnWhsTyCCgg · 23 March 2025 Earlier figures (6) 34,003 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 80625624 · 28 February 2022 32,298 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 80625624 · 5 January 2021 30,685 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 80625624 · 22 April 2020 11,600 · YouTube channel ID: UC8bnBbUtFYcJVnWhsTyCCgg · 24 February 2024 10,700 · YouTube channel ID: UC8bnBbUtFYcJVnWhsTyCCgg · 17 February 2023 9,250 · YouTube channel ID: UC8bnBbUtFYcJVnWhsTyCCgg · 11 October 2021

Identifiers in other databases (66)

ACM Digital Library institution ID	60007592
ARWU university ID	Polytechnic-University-of-Catalonia
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID	12131250k
BIBSYS ID	99036990
Canadiana Name Authority ID	ncf12087463
CANTIC ID	981058515103106706 · subject named as: Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona 981058514983206706 · subject named as: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
CCAB ID	000415108
CiNii Research ID	1140845216641719040
Crunchbase organization ID	polytechnic-university-of-catalonia
Dialnet author ID	819102
DIR3 ID	U02400001
DOI prefix	10.5821 · subject named as: Editorial Cuadernos de Sofia
EU Participant Identification Code	999976202
EU VAT number	ESQ0818003F
Facebook username	universitatUPC
Freebase ID	/m/0h3xj
Gateway to Research organization ID	B0DA50CA-D11E-4251-9678-4AA2F93DB545
GeoNames ID	10302938
GitHub account	UPC
GND ID	2138778-3 · subject named as: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · since 1984 19349-5 · subject named as: Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona · 1971–1984
Google Maps Customer ID	1929668424180457746
Google Scholar organization ID	15919159503148751864
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID	universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)	0068519
GRID ID	grid.6835.8
HAL structure ID	301684
IdRef ID	029757479
Instagram username	la_upc
ISNI	0000000121701808 000000041937028X
J9U entity ID	987007583365605171 987007451777305171
Libraries Australia ID	35885586
Library of Congress Authorities ID	n86106152 n81072953
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)	9617848
NACSIS-CAT author ID	DA07741132
National Library of Chile ID	000135756
National Library of Israel ID (old)	002097176
National Library of Poland MMS ID	9812080571705606
National Library of Portugal ID	1626487 266879
National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID	XX131300 XX133664
NL CR AUT ID	ko2009480905 · subject named as: Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya ko2009480906 · subject named as: Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona
NLA Trove people ID	1131113
NUKAT ID	n2005054791
Open Funder Registry funder ID	501100014374 · subject named as: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
OpenAlex ID	P4310321129 · subject named as: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
openMLOL author ID	32214 164427
QS World University ID	universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya
Quora topic ID	Polytechnic-University-of-Catalonia Université-Polytechnique-De-Catalogne
RERO ID (legacy)	A004008110 A005467521
Ringgold ID	16767
ROR ID	03mb6wj31
SBN author ID	VEAV470143 · subject named as: Casanovas, Xavier
Scopus affiliation ID	60007592
SHARE Catalogue author ID	735600
SNARC ID	Q47055
Tabakalera ID	47309 63108
Threads username	la_upc
Times Higher Education World University ID	polytechnic-university-catalonia
U-Multirank university ID	universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya
Uni24k ID	14307
University of Barcelona authority ID	981058515103106706 · subject named as: Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona 981058514983206706 · subject named as: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
VIAF cluster ID	169401069 134877648
Wellcome Collection concept ID	p26w4jks
X (Twitter) username	la_UPC · number of subscribers: 30,685 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 80625624 · 22 April 2020
YouTube channel ID	UC8bnBbUtFYcJVnWhsTyCCgg · subject named as: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - UPC · number of works: 417 · number of subscribers: 7,850 · number of viewers/listeners: 1,687,990 · 10 December 2020
‎Scilit organization ID	378
‎Yale LUX ID	group/a642a167-693f-4d2a-9081-e7fea0567963

Campuses and colleges

UPC Campus North · Campus
UPC Campus South · Campus