Summer in Barcelona: Business
Host Institution
Founded
in 1968, the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona is one of Europe's best public
academic institutions, known throughout the region for its exceptional teaching
and research capabilities.
The university
currently offers 77 undergraduate courses, 90 doctoral programs and 328
postgraduate and continuing education classes in a wide array of
disciplines such as humanities, social sciences, medicine, health
sciences, experimental sciences and engineering. Overall enrollment
exceeds 43,000 students and the staff consists of 4,200 faculty members
and administrative staff.
The UAB consists of three separate
campuses: the Sant Pau in downtown Barcelona; the Bellaterra in
Cerdanyola del Valles, roughly 30 minutes outside of Barcelona, and;
the Sabadell campus, home to the Business and Computer Science schools.
Study abroad students will take their courses at either the Sant Pau or
Bellaterra campus.
The Sant Pau campus, only a stone's throw away from Gaudi's Templo de la Sagrada
Familia in downtown Barcelona, is home to the UAB's study abroad programs for
visiting international students. Courses are held at the Casa Convalescencia
within the grounds of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and which represents
one of Catalonia's latest samples of the region's Art Nouveau and Modernist movements.
Here, visiting students will take courses in Spanish language and electives taught
in English on business, Spanish culture and civilization, and art history, to
name a few. Starting in January of 2009, the EUSS Sarria campus, which
is located in a wealthy neighborhood of the city only five minutes away from Plaza
Catalunya by train, will also host many business content courses taught in English.
Located among nature, the Bellaterra campus hosts most of the UAB's regular students.
Visiting students with an intermediate-to-advanced level of Spanish may opt to
take courses here in a wide array of academic disciplines with regular Spanish
students. Designed as a US-style campus with integrated academic, cultural and
social activities, Bellaterra also offers everyone a full range of services and
facilities; libraries, a language-learning center, cultural and sports activities,
restaurants, gyms, bookshops, and other retail establishments are available to
its students.
Accreditation
The Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona is one of Europe's best public academic
institutions. It is recognized by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
as a degree granting institution of higher learning.
