The governing council of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) has given the green light to the project of rector Daniel Crespo to promote a medical degree, intensive in technology knowledge, in Terrassa, which was already reported by La Vanguardia.
For now, the rector has presented the university’s desire to promote it, with 50 students, and begin teaching it in the 2026-2027 academic year. It would be the first Spanish polytechnic university to enter a healthcare field. In Europe there are already two campuses that teach it.
However, the study plan, the location, the partners to finance the reforms and the laboratories are missing, as well as the authorization of the quality agency (AQU), that of the Generalitat and that of the Ministry of Sciences and Universities.
The project must also go through the perceptual process of the Interuniversity Council of Catalonia, where the 12 Catalan campuses are located, some of which already teach medicine.
Crespo, who justified the need for doctors in the future, indicated that they are looking, together with the Terrassa city council, for a building built with a minimum size of 4,000 m2 that can be renovated to become a faculty. The UPC already has a school in the city.
The rector indicated that a working group has been formed with the municipality and the Consorci Sanitari de Terrassa, where future students could do internships. It is a hospital that already has a university character by serving students from the International University of Catalonia (UIC) who, according to the rector, will now have to look for another health center. He stressed that it was an anomaly for a private campus to use public resources for its degree.
