Spanish universities

Spain has a long history of higher education, with its oldest university, Universidad de Salamanca, dating back to 1218. Its higher education system was overhauled in 2007 to embrace the three-cycle system of the Bologna Process, ensuring compatibility with the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).

There are a total of 78 universities in Spain. 51 of them are run and founded by the state while 27 are private or run by the Catholic Church.

In Spain universities allow you to earn a bachelor’s, master’s or doctorate degree, depending on your personal preferences. There are requirements that you must meet in order to attend universities in Spain when you are an international student, including those related to admissions into the country as well as the particular university.

Admission to the Spanish university system is determined by the "nota de corte" that is achieved at the end of the two-year Bachillerato. The "nota de corte" is a combination of the mark achieved from the Bachillerato exams and the average mark obtained from the university selection exam, which is commonly known as "Selectividad".

If you pass selectivity you will enter the university and when you finish it, you will get your ''diploma''.

In addition to these official degrees or ''diplomas'', each university offers a wide range of unofficial degrees (MASTERS) as well as graduate programmes with a wide range of subjects which qualify for the award of the degree of Doctor.

COSTS: The price of public universities is between 2000 and 3500 euros for the whole education. Tuition in private universities is much higher. However, Spain is one of the cheapest countries in Europe.

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