University of Barcelona

The University of Barcelona (UB) was founded in 1450. The present central buiding was inaugurated in 1871. Today the university has four campuses, in different parts of the city. The UB is the oldest and largest university compared to the six universities in Barcelona and the ten universities in Catalonia. There are 76,000 students -- over half of Catalonia's total student population -- studying here. The UB has the second largest student population in Spain. UB students have access to an extensive range of services. Ten thousand bachelor?s degrees and 450 PhD's are awarded each year. The university has 4,152 faculty members and 1,828 other personnel. It manages around 2,073 million pesetas in research and technology related activities. The UB is divided into five divisions that are made up of related areas of teaching; twenty university schools; 97 departments; and 78 degree courses. Postgraduate and graduate school programs are also offered, as well as a large number of continuing education courses. Based on numbers of books, the UB library is the second largest in Spain after the National Library in Madrid. More than two-million books and about 36,000 journals are available in 17 sections in the schools, campuses and about.

 

WEBSITE:  http://www.ub.edu/