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"> <a href="../educationalsystem/school.html">Educational System</a> | <a href="../universitylife/living.html"> University Life</a> | <a href="../work/internship.html">Work</a> | <a href="../madrid/geography.html"> Madrid</a> | Valencia | <a href="../authors.html">Authors</a></div> </div>  <div id="content"> <h2 id="pageName"> Universidad Politecnica de Valencia - UPV</h2> <div id="breadCrumb"> <a href="#camp">Campuses</a> | <a href="#edu">Education and Campus Life</a> | <a href="#gan">Language Course in Gandia</a> </div> <div class="feature"> <img src="images/upv.jpg" alt="Universidad Politecnica de Valencia" width="200" height="200" /> <h3> Universities in Valencia </h3> <p> In Valencia there are two bigger universities. The Universitat Politecnica de Valencia and the Universitat de Valencia. As the name says the first one is a more tecnical oriented university. The Universitat de Valencia offers 59 degrees, which include teacher, languages, medicine, law and other subjects in the most social and economic area. The Universitat de Valencia has three Campuses. These are Blasco Ibanez, where the faculties, Medicine and Densistry, Psychology, Geography and History, Philosophy and Educational Science, Philology, Translation and Communication, School of Nursing and School of Physiotherapy are located, and Burjassot-Paterna, where you can find the School of Enginnering and the faculties of Biological Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Pharmacy and the Campus Tarongers, which includes the faculties of Economics, Law and Social Sciences. </p> </div> <div class="story"> <a name="camp"> <h3> Campuses</h3> </a> <p> The Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, which is a quite young institution, founded in 1968-1969, is comprised of three campuses. The Alcoy Campus is situated in the town Alcoy in the south of Valencia, in the province of Alicante. The Gandia Campus is situated in the town of Gandia also in the south of Valencia and there is a nice beach-side. The Campus Vera is the biggest one situated in the city of Valencia itself. This campus is a really nice campus with a good infrastructure. There are many green spaces with trees, where you can learn or read and there are cafeterias all over the campus, where you can eat different food. There is also a doctor and a hearcutter as-well as a bookstore and a bank. Of course there is one big library, but there are also in some faculties small libraries, where you get the technical literature of the according branch of study, and where you can learn and read in it. And on the campus there is a big areal for all kind of sport activities, with two small soccer fields with artificial gras and one big field with natural grass. You can find also tennis courts and squash fields and much more. </p> </div> <div class="story"> <a name="edu"> <h3> Education and Campus Life</h3> </a> <p> The education on the UPV is in three languages. The following explanation is refered to the subjects of computer science, because the author participated in these personally. All subjects are given in the valencian language and in the spanish language. And some are even given in english. So that every student can attend the subjects in his prefered language. Most of the subjects have theorectical and practical classes, where the theoretical classes are given in normal teaching rooms with about 30 to 80 places and the practical classes are mostly given in computer rooms in smaller groups of 15 to 30 students. So that all the acquired knowledge is being practised in exercises. In some of the subjects there are also homeworks which have to be done until a certain deadline. The final grade is achieved in different ways depending on the subject. In most cases there is a final exam, but in many of them there are also some homeworks (trabajo) which have to be handed in to participate on the final exam. In some cases the final-exam is replaced by a final work, which mostly is done in groups of 2 or 3 people. </p> <p> The campus life is different than at german universities. The students are more living at the university, and therefore they have all the things you need to life, like doctor and hairdresser and so on. There are many places to do sports and other free-time activities. At the UPV for example there is a Casa De Alumnos (House of the students), which is a buidling where there are sofas and TVs to relax and watch films and also a pool table and tables to play tabletop soccer. In this house there are also computerrooms where you can play games, but also quiet rooms to read or to learn. The sport activity programm at the UPV is enormous. There are excellent sport facilities like the indoor swimming pool, football and rugby pitches, five-a-side football, three basketball courts, four tennis courts, two racket ball courts and two squash courts. There is the possibility to play handball, volleyball and table tennis. In most team sports there are campus leagues in which you can compete with other students. Also martial arts like Tae Kwon-do, Karate, Judo, Aikido can be learned and trained. To keep fit there is a gym for weight training and some courses of Aerobics, Step, Rithms and Aerobox. You can also join sailing courses and motor boating as-well as diving or climbing. </p> </div> <div class="story"> <a name="gan"> <h3> Language Course in Gandia</h3> </a> <p> The Language Course in Gandia is a special offer for the exchange students and is provided before every semester. In this 2 weeks long language course you can learn the spanish language in courses depending on your spanish-level, from beginner to advanced. The groups are not to big, from 20 to 30 people. Most of the teachers don't speak english. But that's not a disadvantage but helpful to learn the language really fast. With this language course there are offered appartments, where you live with other exchange students between the beach and the campus. The beach in Gandia is really nice, the water is clear and a good place to go swimming and doing other watersport activities. In this course which is held in the morning, between 9 and 13 o'clock there is also offered a sports programm on the afternoon. The most recommendable activity there is the wind surfing course. This course is advisable for all exchange students, because you learn the language from a native speaker and you meet many young people from different countries, which you will remember and see the whole stay of your abroad study. Also the beach there is great, if you come home at 13 from the course you come home and eat doing the homework and than you can enjoy the day on the beach, lying in the sand and learning words or just enjoying the nice sea and go swimming. </p> </div> <div id="breadCrumb"> <em>Author: Stefan Edbauer</em></div> <b></b> </div>  <div id="navBar"> <div id="sectionLinks"> <h3> The City of Valencia</h3> <ul> <li><a href="valencia.html">General Information</a></li> <li><a href="sight.html">Sightseeing</a></li> <li><a href="events.html">Events</a></li> <li>Universidad Politecnica de Valencia</li> </ul> </div> <div class="relatedLinks"> <h3> Related Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.upv.es" target="_blank">Universidad Politecnica de Valencia</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.fiv.upv.es" target="_blank">Facultat de Informatica</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.uv.es/" target="_blank">Universitat de Valencia</a></li> <li><a href="images/campus.jpg" target="_blank">Plan of the Campus (jpg)</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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