Pompeu Fabra University — Local services in Barcelona

++GOOD THINGS The design of the buildings, ease of access to library and documents, some teachers are really good at their job and it has a long-standing reputation for economics. It's not true that this is a "political" university, most of the subjects for BSc in Economics are taught in english. There are a lot of people from different places of the world. It's accessible (metro, tram, train).

--BAD THINGS Schedule and timetables are horrible, especially for those who don't live nearby. Sometimes you will have four empty hours between a lecture and a seminar. Forget about working and studying at the same time, since the university itself discourages students from doing so. A lot of subjects have become increasingly demanding with regards to the tuition received in previous years, e.g., asking students to compute complex calculus problems without having been taught how to do so in the past. The quality in teaching (subjective; perceived by me) seems to be decreasing at an alarming rate, which is a trend overall; instead, most of the focus is placed on research. This way, professors are encouraged to work more on their research than on their students, when the latter should be their first priority. It has gone down in terms of global rankings, it used to be the #1 economics faculty, now it seems as though it's no...

The UPF campus is publicly accessable and worth a visit. Situated in the Vila Olímpica neighbourhood, next to Ciutadella Park and Barcelona Zoo, it was set up in this area as a result of the urban regeneration that came to the city in the wake of the Olympic Games, and breathed new life into three historical buildings that had fallen into disuse. Two of these three buildings, known as Jaume I and Roger de Llúria, owe their origin to the military barracks constructed in 1887. The third, the Dipòsit de les Aigües, had been built some years before and inaugurated in 1880 to regulate the flow of water to the waterfall in Ciutadella park and irrigate the gardens. Designed by architect Josep Fontserè the construction is identical to a Roman prototype, comprising a maze of 14-metre-high parallel arches, which intersect in a barrel vault and spread out with a mirror effect along its 65 metres. Antoni Gaudí, then a young architecture student, contributed to the project by doing the calculations for the support elements. Now transformed into a public library with enormous reading rooms for students. No public WiFi unless you have a student account. The cafeteria sells resonable food at...

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. The UPF campus is publicly accessable and worth a visit. Situated in the Vila Olímpica neighbourhood, next to Ciutadella Park and Barcelona Zoo, it was set up in this area as a result of the urban regeneration that came to the city in the wake of the Olympic Games, and breathed new life into three historical buildings that had fallen into disuse. Two of these three buildings, known as Jaume I and Roger de Llúria, owe their origin to the military barracks constructed in 1887. The third, the Dipòsit de les Aigües, had been built some years before and inaugurated in 1880 to regulate the flow of water to the waterfall in Ciutadella park and irrigate the gardens. Designed by architect Josep Fontserè the construction is identical to a Roman prototype, comprising a maze of 14-metre-high parallel arches, which intersect in a barrel vault and spread out with a mirror effect along...