Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, has always encourage closer contact between cities and international projection at all levels. Barcelona is a beautiful Mediterranean city, with 2,000 years of history behind it, open and friendly to visitors. Its commercial, productive and creative talent has given the city its dynamic and modern character
Barcelona, the Southern Gate to Europe, hosts one of the largest university communities in Europe, made up of 196,604 students and 12,344 professors in seven universities offering 317 degree programmes. In its 500 years of university life, Barcelona has committed itself to provide a high quality education offer, without forgetting our history and traditions.
The Catalan university system depend on the Ministry of Education and Universities, according to the legal framework in Spain which allows the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, the Generalitat, to take full responsibility for education at all levels in Catalonia.
The main aspects over which the Ministry has jurisdictional power, regarding the universities, are university programming; the creation of new public universities and the recognition of private universities; the approval of the public universities statutes; the programming and implementation of new studies and research activities and the elaboration, approval and control of the universities’ budgets.
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