Universitat de Barcelona

Founded in November 1450, the University of Barcelona is the first public university in Catalonia in terms of number of students, 64,000, and in the formative offer. It is the first place in scientific production of the State, which makes it the leading university research center in Spain and one of the best 200 in the world. In addition, it is the only State university that is part of the elite of the top 200 universities in the world in 25 of the 30 areas of knowledge, according to the QS World University Rankings 2014 by Subject. Member of the most relevant international networks of excellence at the international level, such as the European Research University League (LERU), the University of Barcelona has been distinguished with two international campus of excellence (CEI): the Barcel