Universitat De Barcelona

HISTORY

It was founded in 1449 , by king Martin I Of Aragon , forced to move to Cervera in the 18th Century for some 150 years, and relocated to Barcelona again in the 19th Century .

The reason of this move was to reward the people of Cervera having supported Philip V Of Spain on the War Of Spanish Succession , whose citizens asked port rights for the city. Philip V of Spain denied them, but in exchange moved to Cervera the University of Barcelona.

It was the only University in Catalonia and the Balearic Islands until the segregation process, started on 1968 and ended on the 90's, that resulted in the creation of other Catalan public universities ( Universitat De Girona , Universitat De Lleida and Universitat Rovira I Virgili in Tarragona) and the University Of The Balearic Islands . On this date, also started an expansion that took it to enlarge the University (until then only in the reduced building of the University square) with the new campus of Diagonal, Sants, Bellvitge and Mundet, all of them located within the city of Barcelona.

UB TODAY

As of 2005, is comprised of 100 departments grouped in 11 faculties and two university schools, one school and 8 attached schools.

Faculties

--- Odontology Faculty

--- Fine Arts Faculty

--- Library And Information Science Faculty

--- Biology Faculty

--- Economy and Business Studies Faculty

--- Law Faculty

--- Pharmacy Faculty

--- Philology Faculty

--- Philosophy Faculty

--- Teaching Faculty

--- Physics Faculty

--- Geography and History Faculty

--- Geology Faculty

--- Mathematics Faculty

--- Medicine Faculty

--- Pedagogy Faculty

--- Psychology Faculty

--- Chemistry Faculty

University Schools

--- University School of Business studies

--- University School of Nursery

--- School of Gemmology

Attached schools

--- Center of Higher Education in Nutrition and Dietetics

--- Higher School of Cinema and Audio-visual

--- Higher School of Prevention of Labour Accidents

--- Higher School of Public Relations

--- University School of Hotel management and Tourism

--- University School of Nursery - Sant Joan de Deu

--- University School of Nursery - Santa Madrona

--- Catalan National Institute of Physical Education (INEFC)

The UB offers 75 Undergrad programs, 353 graduate programs and 96 Doctorate programs to over 63.700 students. It also has 30 research centers.

OTHER THINGS

The University of Barcelona is a member of the Coimbra Group .

The great halls of the University contain numerous national treasures of Spanish painting and sculpture.

EXTERNAL LINKS

University of Barcelona

Coimbra Group (a network of leading Europe an universities)

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Universitat De Barcelona