Systems of Higher Education in an international Comparison: Spain<title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../CSS/2col_leftNav.css" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div id="masthead"> <h1 id="siteName"> Systems of Higher Education in an international Comparison: Spain</h1> <h1 id="subTitle"> Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad Carlos III, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia</h1> <div id="globalNav"> Educational System | <a href="../universitylife/living.html">University Life</a> | <a href="../work/internship.html">Work</a> | <a href="../madrid/geography.html">Madrid</a> | <a href="../valencia/valencia.html">Valencia</a>| <a href="../authors.html">Authors</a></div> </div>  <div id="content"> <h2 id="pageName"> University</h2> <div id="breadCrumb"> <a href="#access">Access</a> | <a href="#type">Types</a> | <a href="#struc">Structure</a> | <a href="#cos">Costs</a> </div> <div class="feature"> <img src="images/uni.jpg" alt="University in Spain" width="280" height="200" /> <h3> History of Universities in Spain</h3> <p> The oldest university in spain is the University of Salamanca (Universidad de Salamanca), which was founded in the year 1228. The university in Valladolid, founded in 1346 and the university un Barcelona, founded in 1450 are two other old universities in spain. In the year of 1965 there have been 18 universities, in 1980 there have been 30 and in the year 2000 there have been already 68. The number of students raised from 170.000 (1960) to 1.600.000 in the year 2000. Right now there are 72 universities spread over the whole spanish country, from which 51 are public and 21 are private. The three cities with the most universities are Madrid with 13, Barcelona with 8 and Valencia with 4. </p> </div> <div class="story"> <a name="access"> <h3> Access to the University</h3> </a> <p> To be able to enter a spanish university you have to have finished the Bachillerato. But that's not enough to get into a university, because every university applies a test which the future students have to pass. This test consists of common subjects and two specific subjects, which can be choosen by the student. Every student can repeat this test up to three times. After passing this test every student gets a university access grade, which is combined by the grade of the Bachillerato and the grade of this admission test. This grade is an important election criterion for the access to a university or a study course. </div> <div class="story"> <a name="type"> <h3> Types of Universities</h3> </a> <p> In spain there are mainly 3 different types of universities. The first ones are the universidades (universitities). There are also escuelas tecnicas superiores (technical universities). And finally escuelas universitarias, which are comparable with the german Fachhochschulen. </p> </div> <div class="story"> <a name="struc"> <h3> Structure of the studying</h3> </a> <p> The university courses are structured in cycles. They have the credit as a measure for the lessons. There are three different models existing. </p> <p> There are first cycle or short cycle courses (ciclo corto), which last mainly three years. It can be accessed by pre-enrollment. At the end of this short cycle course the student can obtain the titles Diplomado, Maestro, Arquitecto Tecnico or Ingeniero Tecnico. This also allows to access to the second cycle. </p> <p> Studies of two cycles with no intermediate title are taking four to five years. If you finish these 2 cycles you can get the titles Licenciado, Arquitecto o Ingeniero. The passing of the first cycle of this course don't result in getting any title. But it allows to the incorporation into other studies of the second cycle. </p> <p> There are studies of two cycles with intermediate title, too. After the first cycle students can get the titles Diplomado, Ingeniero Tecnico o Arquitecto Tecnico. And if they are going to continue the second cycle, they can obtain the titles Licenciado, Ingeniero or Arquitecto. This type of studies normally takes from five to six years. </p> <p> Studies of the third cycle can access only students which have the Licenciado, Ingeniero or Arquitecto degree. But that's not the only precondition, that have to be fullfilled. Every university regulates the access by the so called Doctorate Commission (Comision de Doctorado). This third cycle normally takes two more years. And after it the students gets the doctorate (Doctorado) title. </p> </div> <div class="story"> <a name="cos"> <h3> Costs</h3> </a> <p> In general every student has to pay for going to university. But it's different as in germany, where every student pays 500 Euros. In spain the students have to pay depending on the subjects they choose, so for every subject they pay money. That means that every student pays between 500 and 850 Euros every year, depending on how many subjects he chooses. That means that every student, who don't pass the exam at the end of a semester, has to pay again for this subject in the next semester. This fairly arises ambition of most students. So that at the end of a study a student paid between 2300 and 3200 Euros. </p> <div id="Div1"> <em>Author: Stefan Edbauer</em></div> </div> </div>  <div id="navBar"> <div id="sectionLinks"> <h3> The Spanish Educational System</h3> <ul> <li><a href="school.html">School</a></li> <li>University</li> <li><a href="statistics.html">Statistics</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="relatedLinks"> <h3> Related Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.mec.es/">Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.oei.es/quipu/espana/index.html#sis2">Education System</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.spain-online.de/costablanca/auswandern/htdocs/bildungssystem.htm"> www.spain-online.de</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.dija.de/wai1/showcontent.asp?ThemaID=1240">www.dija.de</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div id="siteInfo"> (C) 2008, Stefan Edbauer, Arno Scherhorn, <a href="http://www.juergentreml.de/">Jürgen Treml</a> </div> <br /> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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