Get to know the UOC

Student Profile

Other highlights:

• The UOC has over 56,000 students enrolled in its courses, 46,612 of whom are studying officially recognised qualifications.
   
• According to the 2010  Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, the UOC is one of the top world universities, with a rank of 558, rising 26 places from the rank held the year before. This ranking of world universities compares 20,000 universities from all over the world, and only the top 5,000 make the list. 
   
• The UOC has 234 faculty and 2,804 teaching collaborators.
   
• The UOC has created a net-based community of over 200,000 students, graduates, professors, researchers and collaborators in more than 87 countries.
   
• The UOC offers 1,907 courses in various master’s degree, postgraduate and extension programmes.
   
• The UOC has 3,741 virtual classrooms.
   
• More than 1,721,958 articles, studies and teaching materials have been downloaded from the Virtual Campus.
   
• 107 new books were published by Editorial UOC in 2008-2009.
   
• 12,847 readers subscribe to the UOC's digital publications.
   
• More than 125 firms form part of the network of UOC associate companies.
   
• The UOC has signed over 600 agreements with universities, institutions and companies around the world. 
   
• Over 42,000 final marks are sent to mobile phones each semester.
   
• Every 6 months the UOC sends out more than 30,000 parcels to students with material to be studied at home.
   
• The UOC's YouTube channel receives more than 563,013 channel views.
   
• The UOC receives more than 44,000 visits to its Flickr photo galleries each month.
   
• The UOC has 3,610 followers on Twitter and 4,389 followers on Facebook.

[Data from academic year 2009-2010]