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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
TypePublic University
Established6 June 1968
Budget€321.5 million (2019)[1]
RectorFrancisco Javier Lafuente
Administrative staff
3,660
Students43,175
Address
Campus UAB Bellaterra, 08193,Cerdanyola del Vallès
,
Cerdanyola del Vallès
,
Catalonia,Spain
CampusUrban
Colours
Pantone355 C &Process black[2]
AffiliationsVives Network
ECIU
EUA
CRUE
Venice International University
Websitewww.uab.catEdit this at Wikidata
University rankings
Global – Overall
ARWUWorld[3]301-400(2023)
CWTSWorld[4]247(2022)
QSWorld[5]149(2024)
THEWorld[6]183(2023)
USNWRGlobal[7]143(2023)
The UAB Columns, monument of the university.

TheAutonomous University of Barcelona(Catalan:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona;IPA:[uniβəɾsiˈtatəwˈtɔnuməðəβəɾsəˈlonə];UAB) is a public university mostly located inCerdanyola del Vallès,near the city ofBarcelonainCatalonia,Spain.

As of 2012,the university consists of 57 departments in the experimental, life, social and human sciences, spread among 13 faculties/schools. All these centers together award a total of 85 qualifications in the form of first degrees, diplomas, and engineering degrees. Moreover, almost 80 doctoral programs, and more than 80 other postgraduate programs are offered. UAB has more than 40,000 students and more than 3,600 academic and research staff. UAB is a pioneering institution in terms of fostering research. There are many research institutes in the campus, as well as other research centers, technical support services, and service-providing laboratories, and theALBA (synchrotron)located in theBarcelona Synchrotron Parkis very close to UAB.

UAB is the best university in Spain according to the 2023QS World University Rankings,[8]which ranked the university 178th overall in the world. Its subject rankings were: 27th in Veterinary Science, 72nd in Education & Training, 73rd in Linguistics, 78th in Sociology and 88th in Economics & Econometrics.[9]The UAB is also a degree-awarding body of theInstitut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals(IBEI).

Location[edit]

Most UAB academic activity takes place on the main campus at Cerdanyola del Vallès. Several centres exist inManresa,Sabadell,Terrassa,Sant Cugat del Vallèsand Barcelona.

The UAB campus is about 20 km (12 mi) away from the centre of Barcelona. It is accessible by air (flights to Barcelona,Girona,orReus), by train (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat,Renfe), by coach (SARBUS), or by car (AP-7andC-58motorways).

History[edit]

The Autonomous University of Barcelona was officially created by legislative decree on 6 June 1968. Previously, during theSecond Spanish Republic,there had been plans for constituting a second university in Barcelona, but theCivil Warand the following years of poverty under the earlydictatorshipdid not allow these plans to become a reality until that year.

On 27 July a disposition to the decree was added, starting the creation of the Faculty of Literature, Language, Art and the Humanities, the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Science, and the Faculty of Economical Sciences. Around ten weeks later, on 6 October, the first course of the Faculty of Literature, Language, Art and the Humanities was inaugurated at Sant Cugat del Vallès Monastery. During the same month, the Faculty of Medicine was created at theHospital de Sant Pauin Barcelona.

In 1969, an agreement was signed for the acquisition of the land where the university campus is currently located. During that year, the Faculty of Sciences and the Faculty of Economical Sciences started running. During the following three years, several faculties and professional schools were created, and the construction works on the campus land took place. At the end of this period, most existing faculties and schools are settled in the campus.

At the end of the dictatorship in 1976, the university introduced a plan to create a model of a democratic, independent university, described in a document known asBellaterra Manifesto,which included a declaration of principles. Two years later, after the approval of theCatalan Statute,the University Council agreed to recourse to theGeneralitat de Catalunya.

During the period between 1985 and 1992, the university underwent several faculty reforms and the creation of several new faculties. In 1993, the University Ville was inaugurated as a student residence integrated inside the campus complex.

Rankings[edit]

University rankings
Global – Overall
ARWUWorld[10]301–400 (2023)
QSWorld[11]=149 (2024)
THEWorld[12]201–250 (2024)
USNWRGlobal[13]=143 (2023)

Autonomous University of Barcelona has consistently been ranked in several academic rankings. The 2021Academic Ranking of World Universitiesranked the UAB 201–300 in the world and 2nd in Spain.[14]The 2024QS World University Rankingsranked the university 149th in the world and 1st in Spain.[15]The 2023Times Higher Education World University Rankingsplaced the university 183th in the world, and 2nd in Spain.[16]InU.S. News & World Report2022 global university rankings, the university placed 144th in its world rankings, and 2nd in Spain.[17]In U-Ranking 2021, the university was ranked 2nd in Spain based on their performance in teaching, research and innovations.[18]

Autonomous University of Barcelona also placed in numerous rankings that evaluates the employment prospects of graduates. In QS's 2022 graduate employability ranking, the university ranked 151–160 in the world, and sixth in Spain.[19]In the Times Higher Education's 2021 global employability ranking, the university placed 132nd in the world, and 3rd in Spain.[20]

Residence[edit]

Vila Universitària is the residential complex of the university, located on its campus, which has 812 apartments with a total accommodation capacity for 2,193 people. The apartments at Vila Universitària enjoy a privileged setting: they are located between the campus and the forest and have beautiful views, good train and bus connections and are about 45 minutes from thePlaça Catalunyatrain station in Barcelona.[21]

UAB-approved research institutes[edit]

  • Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals(IBEI)
  • Institute of Employment Studies (IET)
  • Institute of Government and Public Policy (IGOP)
  • Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM)
  • Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (IBB)
  • Institute of Educational Sciences (ICE)
  • Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies (ICTA)
  • Institute of Neuroscience (INc)
  • Sports Research Institute (IRE)

Library[edit]

The UAB has nine university libraries, eight of which are on the Bellaterra Campus, and the other on the Sabadell Campus.[22]

  • Science and Technology Library
  • Social Sciences Library
  • Humanities Library
  • General Map Library
  • European Documentation Center
  • Communication Library and General Newspaper and Periodicals Library
  • Library of Medicine
  • Veterinary Library
  • Sabadell University Library

Computer Vision Center[edit]

Computer Vision Center is acomputer visionresearch centerbased at UAB.[23][24]It was established in 1994 by theGeneralitat de Catalunyaand UAB.[citation needed]In 2002, the commenced publication ofElectronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis.[citation needed]It participated in thePascal Challengein 2009.[25][26]

Port d'Informació Científica (PIC)[edit]

The Port d'Informació Científica (Catalan for "Scientific Information Port" ) is a research center and institution at the campus of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Founded in 2003, its activity has been closely related to the development and exploitation of computing resources for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). A collaboration of IFAE (High Energy Physics Institute of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) andCIEMAT(Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales and Tecnológicas), it is supported by regional (Catalan) and national (Spanish) research governing authorities.

The main scientific project PIC is associated to, in terms of utilization of computing resources, is the deployment, operations and maintenance of the Spanish Tier 1 site for the WLCG, supporting theATLAS,CMSandLHCbexperiments of theLHCatCERN.PIC researchers and computing experts hence contribute to the development of Grid Computing technologies, as required by the computing needs of these experiments. Other projects in which PIC researchers are involved include computing support for Astrophysics and Cosmology experiments (such as MAGIC, PAU and DES) and computing techniques for medical imaging.

Notable faculty[edit]

Notable alumni[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^Pressupost[Budget] (in Catalan), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019,archivedfrom the original on 6 Jun 2023
  2. ^Identitat corporativa- website of the Autonomous University of Barcelona
  3. ^"ShanghaiRanking-Univiersities".www.shanghairanking.com.
  4. ^"CWTS Leiden Ranking 2019".Retrieved2022-10-13.
  5. ^"QS World University Rankings - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona".Top Universities.Retrieved2023-07-02.
  6. ^"World University Rankings - Autonomous University of Barcelona".THE World University Rankings.13 October 2022.Retrieved2022-10-13.
  7. ^"Best Global Universities - Autonomous University of Barcelona".U.S. News Education (USNWR).Retrieved2022-07-15.
  8. ^"QS World University Rankings".Topuniversities. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-09-17.Retrieved2022-02-16.
  9. ^"UAB Ranking by Subject QS".Topuniversities. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-09-17.Retrieved2022-02-16.
  10. ^"ARWU World University Rankings 2034".www.shanghairanking.com.Retrieved26 August2022.
  11. ^"QS World University Rankings 2024".topuniversities.com.19 June 2023.Retrieved26 August2023.
  12. ^"World University Rankings".timeshighereducation.com.6 August 2023.Retrieved26 August2023.[permanent dead link]
  13. ^"U.S. News Education: Best Global Universities 2022-23".Retrieved23 November2023.
  14. ^"Academic Ranking of World Universities - Autonomous University of Barcelona".Shanghai Ranking.Archived fromthe originalon 2020-01-30.Retrieved2022-02-16.
  15. ^"QS World University Rankings".Topuniversities. Archived fromthe originalon 2012-09-17.Retrieved2023-07-02.
  16. ^"World University Rankings - Autonomous University of Barcelona".THE World University Rankings.13 November 2022.Retrieved2022-07-15.
  17. ^"Best Global Universities - Autonomous University of Barcelona".U.S. News Education (USNWR).Retrieved2022-01-15.
  18. ^"U-Ranking 2021".BBVA.BBVA. 2021. Archived fromthe originalon 25 February 2021.Retrieved16 February2022.
  19. ^"Graduate Employability Ranking 2022".QS Top Universities.QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. 2022.Retrieved16 February2022.
  20. ^"Global University Employability Ranking 2021".24 November 2021.Retrieved2022-01-15.
  21. ^Vila Universitària de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  22. ^"Servicio de Bibliotecas - UAB Barcelona".www.uab.cat.
  23. ^Francisco Viñals Carrera, María Luz Puente Balsells (2003).Análisis de escritos y documentos en los servicios secretos.Herder.ISBN84-254-2319-8.
  24. ^Generalitat de Catalunya, ed. (1999).Recerca a Catalunya: centres de recerca, grups de recerca, departaments universitaris, serveis cientificotècnics.University of Michigan.
  25. ^"Premien un lector d'imatges de la UAB"(PDF).ADN.2009-11-24. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2011-10-03.
  26. ^"Eight gold medal from" The Pascal Challenge "for the Computer Vision Center of the UAB".Global Talent.21 October 2009.[permanent dead link]
  27. ^Bonanno, A.; Busch, L. (2015).Handbook of the International Political Economy of Agriculture and Food.Handbooks of Research on International Political Economy series. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 10.ISBN978-1-78254-826-3.Retrieved28 Aug2023.

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