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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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Country: Spain

City: Barcelona

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Type of school: Public Universities

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The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is known for its excellence in research and quality in teaching, and is a reference centre in Europe. The main campus is located in Bellaterra, only 25 minutes in public transport from Barcelona’s city centre. The university is placed in an area of outstanding natural beauty: 263 Hectares of campus surface area with 70% covered in woodlands and green areas.

The UAB caters to all aspects of universitylife. The campus is organised as a true city, it contains all the necessary services for the university community: residence halls, specialised libraries, language learning centre, sport facilities, healthcare centre, restaurants, stores and cafés.

The UAB is a sustainable university. It strives to improve the health of the university community, promote healthy environments and lifestyles and, moreover, is committed to responsible consumption and has pioneered the implementation of sustainable actions.

Our university promotes innovation, employability and entrepreneurship.It strives to foster research and transfer in all areas of knowledge and works closely together with the surrounding business and industrial community.

We facilitate participation in mobility programmes and works to attract students from abroad (3,546 international mobility students). Its most important projects are Erasmus Mundus, Comenius, Leonardo Da Vinci and Erasmus K2. It also has specific programmes which welcome and aid international students once they arrive at the UAB. Under the Erasmus programme alone, the UAB has 1,308 bilateral agreements with more than 500 universities in Europe.

The UAB offers top-level graduate programmes in the following areas of knowledge:

-Arts and Humanities

-Health Sciences

-Sciences

-Social Sciences and Law

-Technological Sciences

Bachelor's Degrees, known for their quality and international character, as well as for the amount of practical experience students acquire.

Master’s Degrees and Graduate’s Diplomas that provide students with advanced training aimed both at professional specialization and at introduction to research.

PhD programmes categorised in 5 areas of interest: Arts and Humanities, Sciences, Social and Juridical Sciences, Health Sciences and Engineering.

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The UAB offers a wide range of extracurricular activities to complement academic learning. Our university rounds off the educational offer with cultural and sports activities such as language learning center, physical activity services or social actions as well as other activities that you will find in Barcelona.

Barcelona is the capital and most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain. It is located on the Mediterranean coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besós and is limited to the west by the Serra de Collserola ridge.

Barcelona has many venues for live music and theatre, including the world-renowned Gran Teatre del Liceu opera theatre, the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, the Teatre Lliure and the Palau de la Música Catalana concert hall. Barcelona also is home to the Sónar Music Festival which takes place around June every year, and to the Barcelona and Catalonia National Symphonic Orchestra (Orquestra Simf?nica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, usually known as OBC) is the largest symphonic orchestra in Catalonia.

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