Pompeu Fabra University
Pompeu Fabra University is considered to be a public university of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was established in 1990 and was named in honor of the Catalonian grammarian Pompeu Fabra. The creation of the university was inspired by the feelings of freedom, democracy, and proletariat. The first lectures were taking place in the Blames Building. The first amount of students numbered 300, which were aimed on getting the degrees in the fields of Law, Economics, and Business Science.
If have a look back to the year of 2007, one should mention that the total amount of students reached the figure of 8,500. The number of lectures was 1,008.
The university has the first national rank in terms of Political Sciences, Business, Economics, and Law programs. The educational institution, despite of the fact that it is rather small and young one, occupies the third place within the best universities of Spain.
The lectures within the faculty of Economics are given by the following famous businessmen – Xavier Sala-i-Martin, Jaume Ventura, Jordi Gali, and Andre Mas-Colell. That is why the faculties of Business and Economics are always in a great success with all the applicants and students. This university has reached great achievements and it is not going to stop developing.