New entrance registrations at UVic-UCC increase by 12% for bachelor's degree programmes and 8% for all studies in an unusual academic year

The number of new entrance registrations for official study programmes at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) has increased by 8% in the 2020-2021 academic year, to a total of 3,216 students. The overall registration figures, which include new and continuing students, have risen by 5% and place the University at the threshold of 10,000 students, including the UVic and UManresa bachelor's degrees, the bachelor's degree in Medicine, the official master's degrees and doctorates from UVic-UCC, the Professional Campus and the training given at the BAU, EADA and ESERP affiliated centres. In bachelor's degree studies on the Vic campus, the Manresa campus and in the Faculty of Medicine, the increase in new entrants is 12% compared to last year.

UManresa grows by 4% in both new and continuing students registered

The Manresa campus registered a total of 1,990 students in official higher education qualifications for the 2020-2021 academic year: 1,833 on university degree courses, 121 on advanced vocational training cycles and 36 on university master's degrees. This is the first time that the campus has exceeded the threshold of 1,800 undergraduate students, with a growth of 4% compared to the previous year, both in terms of the addition of new students and in all four year groups of the six degree courses taught there: Nursing, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, Speech Therapy, Business Management and Administration (ADE) and Pre-School Teaching.

New entrance registrations for the bachelor's degree courses on the Vic campus increase by 13%

Degree courses on the Vic campus have experienced significant growth in recently admitted students, with registration increasing by 13%. 1,200 new students have joined this year, compared to 1,060 last year. The total number of undergraduate students has stabilised, and is now 4,276. In addition to these figures, there are 164 new students on the Translation, Interpretation and Applied Languages bachelor's degree course taught jointly with the Open University of Catalonia, which includes 705 registrations. Striking figures include the fact that 80% of the registrations are first preference; 89% of the total places offered were filled (10 percentage points more than a year ago); and 5 degree courses (Physiotherapy, Physical Education and Sports Sciences, Nursing, Human Nutrition and Dietetics and Psychology) now have a minimum entrance mark for admission.

Furthermore, in the case of Nursing, the high demand for places and the request by the Catalan government for more graduates in the near future have led UVic to open a third group in the first year. Registration on this course has increased by a total of 36%.

The Faculty of Medicine enters its fourth year, and now has almost 400 students

This year, the third year in the bachelor's degree in Medicine and the second in which the teaching of the clinical cycle has been distributed between the teaching units in Manresa and Vic, the Faculty has had 162 new entrance registrations, 25% more than the previous year, and now has 390 students taking all four years into account. In total, 1,021 people applied for a place on this degree course (the equivalent last year was 700) and 110 of them made it their first preference. The minimum entrance mark for the degree course has risen, from 11.798 last year to 12.194 this year.

The Faculty's projects for this new year include the launch of a preparation programme for the MIR (Resident Internal Physician) examination, which is mandatory for access to the field, aimed at all undergraduate students.

Strategic projects on the two campuses

As the Manresa campus of UVic-UCC, the Bages University Foundation (FUBages) plans to move forward in adapting its range of training to the new needs of the market. As a result, during this academic year, it will complete the part-time courses in the bachelor's degrees in Podiatry and Pre-School Teaching, so that teaching can begin in the 2021-2022 academic year. It will also begin to publicise a new master's degree in Accounts Auditing that is due to begin next year.

The investment and equipment projects of the Balmes University Foundation are growing in Vic, based on the city campus or university city model. These projects include the inauguration in early 2021 of the new facilities of the BETA Technology Center at Can Baumann, which is the first part of the future Science and Technology Park, which is conceived as an ecosystem with its own facilities for UVic and local companies in the fields of research, transfer and innovation.

Finally, the federation contract with the Elisava Foundation has been formalised this year, under the terms of which UVic-UCC incorporates the Barcelona university school of design and engineering as its own centre, which will become the Faculty of Design starting in the next academic year.