Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Pompeu Fabra University is a public university in Barcelona, Spain. It was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia in 1990, and was named after the linguist Pompeu Fabra, an expert on the Catalan language.

Together with the University of Barcelona, Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Complutense University of Madrid, it is considered one of the most prestigious universities in Spain and it is one of the seven young universities that progress most rapidly worldwide. It is the most efficient Spanish university and the most productive according to different national and international rankings. In 2020, it was ranked the 10th best young university in the world and the best university in Spain by Times Higher Education

Pompeu Fabra University occupies the first place in the national ranking of scientific productivity since 2009. In recent years, the university has begun to excel in some international rankings. The studies in the field of Economics at UPF have been ranked among the top 50 worldwide, occupying the 20th place in Economics and Econometrics in the QS World University Rankings by subject in 2016 and 40th place in Economics & Business in the Times Higher Education Rankings.

The university's Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences is the first and only faculty in Spain (public or private and for any discipline) to be awarded the Certificate for Quality in Internationalization granted by a consortium of 14 European accreditation agencies. The UPF is also a degree-awarding body of the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI).

UPF was designated as an "International Excellence Campus" by the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2010.