Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, branded UIC Barcelona and known in English as the International University of Catalonia, is a private university in Catalonia, Spain, with campuses in Barcelona and Sant Cugat del Vallès.加泰罗尼亚国际大学（Universitat Internacional de Catalunya，通用品牌名 UIC Barcelona，英文称 International University of Catalonia）是西班牙加泰罗尼亚的一所私立大学，校区分设于巴塞罗那与 Sant Cugat（全称 Sant Cugat del Vallès）。

It was recognised as a private university by the Parliament of Catalonia through Law 11 of 1997, dated 1 October 1997, and in the 2024-2025 academic year it reported 9415 enrolled students.该校经加泰罗尼亚议会 1997 年 10 月 1 日第 11 号法律认可为私立大学，2024 至 2025 学年在册学生 9415 人。

Teaching runs from business, communication, law, education and architecture in Barcelona to medicine, nursing, physiotherapy and dentistry in Sant Cugat, and its dentistry area was ranked 36th worldwide by QS in 2026.教学分工明确，巴塞罗那校区承担管理、传播、法学、教育与建筑，Sant Cugat 校区承担医学、护理、物理治疗与牙科，其牙科领域被 QS 在 2026 年列为全球第 36 位。

History

• The creation of the university was promoted by the Catalan Family Foundation, the Fundació Familiar Catalana, which began the process of establishing a new private university in Catalonia in the mid-1990s.创办该校由加泰罗尼亚家庭基金会（Catalan Family Foundation，原文 Fundació Familiar Catalana）推动，这一家族基金会在 1990 年代中期启动在加泰罗尼亚设立新私立大学的程序。

• In 1996 the neuropathologist Jordi Cervós Navarro was presented as the future rector of the project, a year before the Parliament of Catalonia passed the recognition law.1996 年，神经病理学家 Jordi Cervós Navarro 被推举为这一计划的未来校长，比加泰罗尼亚议会通过认可法律早一年。

• The Parliament of Catalonia approved recognition of the university through Law 11/1997, of 1 October 1997, which authorised the new institution to start academic activity once administrative requirements were met.加泰罗尼亚议会通过 1997 年 10 月 1 日第 11 号法律认可该校，准许新机构在办妥行政要件后开始教学活动。

• Jordi Cervós Navarro became the first rector of the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya in 1997, the year recognition took effect.Jordi Cervós Navarro 于 1997 年成为加泰罗尼亚国际大学首任校长，即认可生效之年。

• The founding law provided from the outset for several teaching centres, a Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences, a Faculty of Health Sciences, a Faculty of Humanities, a Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and a Technical School of Architecture.创办法律从一开始就设多个教学单位，即法律与政治科学学院、健康科学学院、人文学院、经济与社会科学学院以及建筑技术学院（Technical School of Architecture）。

• Jordi Cervós Navarro was succeeded as rector by Josep Argemí i Renom, a professor of paediatrics, in 2001.2001 年，儿科教授 Josep Argemí i Renom 接替 Jordi Cervós Navarro 出任校长。

• Pere Alavedra Ribot, an industrial engineer by training, took the rectorate in 2010 as the third head of the institution.工业工程师出身的 Pere Alavedra Ribot 于 2010 年接任校长，成为该校第三位负责人。

• Xavier Gil Mur, a professor of materials engineering, became rector in 2015, extending the technical background of the university's leadership.材料工程教授 Xavier Gil Mur 于 2015 年出任校长，令该校领导层的技术背景得以延续。

• Alfonso Méndiz Noguero, a professor of audiovisual communication and advertising, has been rector since 2021, the fifth person to hold the office since 1997.视听传播与广告学教授 Alfonso Méndiz Noguero 自 2021 年起任校长，是 1997 年以来第五位担任此职者。

• The university received its first honorary doctorate in 2005, when Ramon Guardans i Vallès was invested as doctor honoris causa.该校首枚荣誉博士学位于 2005 年授予 Ramon Guardans i Vallès。

• In 2018 the European Commission awarded the university its "HR Excellence in Research" recognition, linked to the European human resources strategy for researchers.2018 年，欧盟委员会授予该校「研究人力资源卓越」（HR Excellence in Research）认可，与欧洲研究人员人力资源战略挂钩。

• By the 2024-2025 academic year the institution reported 9415 enrolled students, 704 academic and research staff and 498 administrative and service staff.到 2024 至 2025 学年，该校报告在册学生 9415 人、教研人员 704 人、行政与后勤人员 498 人。

• It has the legal personality of a private foundation, with its own legal capacity and its own assets, and the Board of Trustees is its highest governing body.它以私立基金会身份取得法人资格，拥有完全法律能力与自有财产，董事会（Board of Trustees）是最高治理机构。

• The Board of Trustees appoints the rector, vice-rectors, secretary general, general manager and the deans and directors of schools and institutes, a structure set with the university's first statutes.董事会任命校长、副校长、秘书长、总经理以及各学院与研究所的院长和主任，这一架构随学校最初章程一并确立。

• Since its recognition the university has defined its institutional philosophy in terms of Christian humanism and an integral conception of university education.自获认可以来，该校以基督人文主义与整全大学教育理念界定自身的机构理念。

• By the 2024-2025 academic year the degree offer had grown from the handful of centres planned in 1997 to 43 official degrees, 16 bachelor's, 23 university master's and four doctoral programmes.到 2024 至 2025 学年，学位供给已从 1997 年设想的少数几个教学单位增至 43 个正式学位，含学士 16 个、校颁硕士 23 个、博士课程 4 个。

• Research capacity grew with teaching, and institutional data for 2024-2025 count 24 research groups, 167 active projects and 14 corporate or institutional chairs.研究能力随教学同步扩张，2024 至 2025 学年的校方数据计有 24 个研究团队、167 项在研项目与 14 个企业或机构讲席。

• The two-campus pattern recorded in 2024-2025, one site in Barcelona and one in Sant Cugat del Vallès, developed out of the single institution authorised by the 1997 recognition law.2024 至 2025 学年记录的两校区格局，一处在巴塞罗那、一处在 Sant Cugat，是由 1997 年认可法律授权的单一机构逐步扩展而成。

Academics

• The academic organisation groups faculties, schools and institutes, covering economic and social sciences, communication, law, education, humanities, medicine and health sciences, dentistry and architecture.学术单位由学院、学校与研究所构成，涵盖经济与社会科学、传播、法学、教育、人文、医学与健康科学、牙科以及建筑。

• In the 2024-2025 academic year the official offer comprised 43 degrees, 16 bachelor's degrees, 23 university master's degrees and four doctoral programmes.2024 至 2025 学年，正式学位共 43 个，其中学士 16 个、校颁硕士 23 个、博士课程 4 个。

• Its bachelor's degrees cover business administration and management, architecture, bioengineering, biomedicine, communication, law, education, physiotherapy, humanities, nursing, medicine, dentistry and psychology.本科课程覆盖管理与商务、建筑、生物工程、生物医学、传播、法学、教育、物理治疗、人文、护理、医学、牙科与心理学。

• Teaching in business, communication, law, education, humanities and architecture is concentrated at Campus Barcelona, while medicine, nursing, physiotherapy and dentistry are taught at Campus Sant Cugat.管理、传播、法学、教育、人文与建筑的教学集中在巴塞罗那校区，医学、护理、物理治疗与牙科则在 Sant Cugat 校区。

• The plenary Governing Board brings together the deans of the faculties, the director of the Architecture School, department directors and the heads of the university institutes.全校治理委员会由各学院院长、建筑学院（Architecture School）院长、各系主任以及大学研究所负责人组成。

• Beside its faculties and schools the university maintains a Doctoral School and several university institutes and professional centres dedicated to research, knowledge transfer and specialised training.除学院与学部外，该校还设有研究生院（Doctoral School）以及多个专注于研究、知识转移与专门培训的大学研究所与专业中心。

• Practice-based teaching is supported by university clinics, and the institution names three main ones, Cuides UIC Barcelona, the University Dental Clinic and SUPPORT, the University Psychology and Psychiatry Clinic.实践教学由大学诊所支撑，校方列出的三个主要诊所是 Cuides UIC Barcelona、大学牙科诊所（University Dental Clinic）以及心理与精神科诊所 SUPPORT。

• Teaching facilities include the Simulation Laboratory used for clinical practice at Sant Cugat and other practice-based learning spaces, while the clinics are linked to teaching, care and professional practice.教学设施包括 Sant Cugat 用于临床实践的模拟实验室（Simulation Laboratory）及其他实践学习空间，诊所则同时承担教学、医疗服务与职业训练。

• Research is organised through groups, institutes, chairs and both competitive and non-competitive projects, and institutional data for 2024-2025 count 24 research groups.研究以团队、研究所、讲席以及竞争性与非竞争性项目组织，2024 至 2025 学年校方的数据显示有 24 个研究团队。

• In the 2024-2025 academic year the university reported 167 active research projects and 14 corporate or institutional chairs.同一学年，该校报告在研项目 167 项，企业与机构讲席 14 个。

• Its 2024-2025 publication data record 320 articles in indexed journals, of which 242 are indexed in Web of Science and 157 appear in first-quartile journals.2024 至 2025 学年发表数据为入选期刊论文 320 篇，其中 242 篇被 Web of Science 收录、157 篇发表于第一分区期刊。

• The academic and research body of 704 staff included 90 international professors during the 2024-2025 academic year.2024 至 2025 学年，704 人的教研队伍中含外籍教授 90 人。

• The university had 497 mobility agreements with foreign universities and institutions in the 2024-2025 academic year, the backbone of its exchange teaching.2024 至 2025 学年，该校与国外大学和机构签有 497 项交流协议，构成交换教学的主干。

• Its 16 bachelor's degrees are complemented by 23 university master's degrees, a set that reflects the professional orientation of a private institution founded in 1997.16 个本科专业由 23 个校颁硕士配套，体现这所 1997 年创办的私立大学的职业取向。

• Health-sciences degrees at Campus Sant Cugat combine classroom teaching with clinical work in the university clinics and simulation laboratories of the same campus.Sant Cugat 校区的健康科学学位把课堂学习与该校区大学诊所、模拟实验室的临床训练结合。

• Dentistry is taught as a bachelor's degree and through the University Dental Clinic, and the area reached 36th in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026.牙科既设本科专业又有大学牙科诊所（University Dental Clinic）实训，该领域在 2026 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中位列第 36。

Campus

• Campus Barcelona lies in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district of Barcelona and had 30628.56 m2 of built space in the 2024-2025 academic year.巴塞罗那校区位于巴塞罗那市的 Sarrià-Sant Gervasi 区，2024 至 2025 学年建筑面积 30628.56 平方米。

• Campus Sant Cugat, in the municipality of Sant Cugat del Vallès, is mainly devoted to health sciences and reported 23067 m2 of built space for the same academic year.Sant Cugat 校区设在同名市镇 Sant Cugat，主要用于健康科学，同一学年建筑面积 23067 平方米。

• The University Dental Clinic works with Cuides UIC Barcelona and the SUPPORT psychology and psychiatry clinic as the three clinics the institution names for teaching and patient care.大学牙科诊所（University Dental Clinic）与 Cuides UIC Barcelona、SUPPORT 心理与精神科诊所并列为校方指定的三家教学与医疗诊所。

• The two campuses together give the university close to 54000 m2 of built teaching space in the Barcelona metropolitan area.两校区合计为该校在巴塞罗那都市圈提供约 54000 平方米的建筑教学空间。

• The Sarrià-Sant Gervasi site concentrates business, communication, law, education, humanities and architecture teaching, with the clinics and simulation laboratories placed in Sant Cugat.Sarrià-Sant Gervasi 校区集中管理、传播、法学、教育、人文与建筑教学，诊所与模拟实验室则设在 Sant Cugat。

• Its Barcelona position is recorded at about 41.39 degrees north and 2.16 degrees east, and the second campus lies a short distance to the northwest in Sant Cugat del Vallès.其巴塞罗那校区坐标约北纬 41.39 度、东经 2.16 度，第二校区位于西北方向的 Sant Cugat。

• The university publishes results, staffing and ranking data through a transparency portal, a requirement attached to its status as a private foundation recognised by Catalonia.该校通过透明度门户网站公布办学、人事与排名数据，这是加泰罗尼亚认可的私立基金会身份所附带的义务。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027, UIC Barcelona is placed in the 901-950 band worldwide and tied for 25th among Spanish universities in the ranking.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，UIC Barcelona 位列全球 901-950 位区间，并在上榜西班牙大学中并列第 25 位。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university in the 801-1000 band worldwide, an improvement on the 1001-1200 position it held in the 2026 edition.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校置于全球 801-1000 位区间，较 2026 年版的 1001-1200 位有所上升。

• In the US News global ranking for 2026-2027 the institution stands at 1853 in the world.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列世界第 1853 位。

• The university does not appear in the ShanghaiRanking Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026, a list built on prizes, highly cited researchers and publication counts.该校未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名，该榜以重大奖项、高被引学者与论文数量为依据。

• Its strongest subject result is dentistry, ranked 36th worldwide and 2nd in Spain in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026.其最强学科名次是牙科，在 2026 年 QS 世界大学学科排名中列全球第 36、西班牙第 2。

• In the Times Higher Education subject rankings of 2026 the university appears in the 401-500 band for Education Studies and in the 601-800 band for both Medical and Health and Social Sciences.在 2026 年泰晤士高等教育学科排名中，该校教育学列 401-500 位区间，医学与健康、社会科学均列 601-800 位区间。

• In the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2025 the university was placed in the 301-400 band worldwide, its position measured against United Nations sustainability goals.在 2025 年泰晤士高等教育影响力排名中，该校列全球 301-400 位区间，名次以联合国可持续发展目标衡量。

• OpenAlex attributes 8531 scholarly works to the institution and records 567033 citations of those works.OpenAlex 归给该校的学术产出为 8531 项，记录被引 567033 次。

• In Spain, the 2026 CYD Ranking placed the university 6th among 84 Spanish universities by the number of high-performance indicators and 1st in the country in Education, and Forbes España listed it among twenty leading Spanish universities in 2026.在国内，2026 年 CYD 排名按高效能指标数量把该校列为 84 所西班牙大学中的第 6 位，并在教育学一项列全国第 1，Forbes España 于 2026 年把它列入西班牙 20 所领先大学。

• No Nobel Prize, Turing Award or Fields Medal laureate is recorded among its students or academic staff, the university's main institutional honour instead being the "HR Excellence in Research" label granted in 2018.其学生与教研人员中未查到诺贝尔奖、图灵奖或菲尔兹奖得主，该校最主要的机构性荣誉是 2018 年获得的研究人力资源卓越标签。

Student life

• Of the students enrolled in the 2024-2025 academic year, 65.89 per cent were women and 34.11 per cent were men, while 1,979 international undergraduate and postgraduate students from 109 countries were also on the roll.2024 至 2025 学年在校学生中女性占 65.89%、男性占 34.11%，同时有来自 109 个国家的 1979 名国际本科与研究生注册。

• Among academic and research staff in the same year, 51.42 per cent were women and 48.58 per cent were men.同一学年的教研人员中女性占 51.42%、男性占 48.58%。

• Mobility is organised through 497 agreements with foreign universities and institutions, the framework within which students spend terms abroad.校际流动依托与国外大学和机构签订的 497 项协议运作，学生赴外修读学期即在此框架内进行。

• Religious and spiritual services are offered by the university chaplaincy to members of the community who freely wish to use them, and pastoral care is entrusted to priests of the Prelature of Opus Dei.大学礼拜堂向自愿使用的师生提供宗教与灵修服务，牧民关怀工作委托给主业会（Prelature of Opus Dei）的司铎。

• The institution reports a cumulative 30753 alumni, of whom 15524 finished bachelor's, licentiate or diploma courses, 4465 university master's degrees, 2473 institutional master's degrees, 592 doctoral programmes and 7420 postgraduate courses.该校累计校友 30753 人，其中学士、旧制学士或文凭课程 15524 人，校颁硕士 4465 人，机构硕士 2473 人，博士 592 人，研究生课程 7420 人。

• An alumni community maintains links between graduates and the university with an emphasis on alumni relations, employability and professional contacts.校友社群负责维系毕业生与学校的联系，工作重点在校友关系、就业能力与职业网络。

• Students of medicine, dentistry, nursing, physiotherapy and psychology carry part of their training inside the three university clinics, which serve patients as well as teaching.医学、牙科、护理、物理治疗与心理学学生在校内三家大学诊所完成部分训练，这些诊所既服务患者也承担教学。

• The university takes part in European cooperation initiatives, and the EduCare 5.0 European University alliance to which it belongs received the European Commission's Seal of Excellence under a European Universities call.该校参与欧洲合作计划，其加入的 EduCare 5.0 欧洲大学联盟在欧洲大学计划征集里获得欧盟委员会颁发的卓越印章。

Notable people

• Jordi Cervós Navarro, a neuropathologist, was presented as the project's future rector in 1996 and served as the first rector of the university from 1997.神经病理学家 Jordi Cervós Navarro 于 1996 年被推举为计划的未来校长，并自 1997 年起出任该校首任校长。

• Josep Argemí i Renom, a professor of paediatrics, led the university from 2001, linking its medical profile to its own clinical speciality.儿科教授 Josep Argemí i Renom 自 2001 年起执掌该校，把学校的医学布局与自身临床专长相连。

• Pere Alavedra Ribot, an industrial engineer, and Xavier Gil Mur, a professor of materials engineering, held the rectorate in 2010 and 2015 respectively.工业工程师 Pere Alavedra Ribot 与材料工程教授 Xavier Gil Mur 分别于 2010 年和 2015 年出任校长。

• Alfonso Méndiz Noguero, rector since 2021, is a professor of audiovisual communication and advertising, a field taught at Campus Barcelona.自 2021 年起任校长的 Alfonso Méndiz Noguero 是视听传播与广告学教授，这一学科在巴塞罗那校区授课。

• Promoters of the university include the Fundació Familiar Catalana, the family foundation that started the founding process in the mid-1990s, and the university itself is constituted as a private foundation.学校的推动者包括加泰罗尼亚家庭基金会（Fundació Familiar Catalana），这家族基金会在 1990 年代中期启动建校程序，而学校本身也以私立基金会形式构成。

• Among those invested as doctors honoris causa are Rivka Oxman and Pierpaolo Donati in 2017, Verónica Boix-Mansilla and Paul Levi in 2021, Eduardo Bruera in 2023, and Aldo Roberto Boccaccini and Janne Haaland Matláry in 2025.获授荣誉博士学位者包括 2017 年的 Rivka Oxman 与 Pierpaolo Donati，2021 年的 Verónica Boix-Mansilla 与 Paul Levi，2023 年的 Eduardo Bruera，以及 2025 年的 Aldo Roberto Boccaccini 与 Janne Haaland Matláry。

• Eduardo Bruera, oncologist and palliative-care specialist invested in 2023, and Paul Levi, invested in 2021, are among the international figures linked to the university by honorary degree.2023 年获授的肿瘤与安宁疗护专家 Eduardo Bruera、2021 年获授的 Paul Levi，都是经荣誉学位与该校相连的国际人物。

• Graduates with public profiles include singer Alfred García, historian and politician Santi Vila, dentist and politician Ignacio Garriga, historian Fernando Sánchez Costa and Argentine politician Sandra Pettovello.具公众知名度的校友包括歌手 Alfred García、历史学家兼政治人物 Santi Vila、牙医兼政治人物 Ignacio Garriga、历史学家 Fernando Sánchez Costa 与阿根廷政治人物 Sandra Pettovello。

• Santi Vila, a historian trained in Catalonia, and Sandra Pettovello, who entered Argentine national politics, illustrate the spread of a graduate body of 30753 people recorded in 2024-2025.在加泰罗尼亚受训的历史学家 Santi Vila 与进入阿根廷国家政治的 Sandra Pettovello，反映出该校 2024 至 2025 学年记录的 30753 名校友的分布广度。