Universitat de Barcelona (UB)

I would´ve want to know about the courses and teaching methods more. I also didn´t know that catalan plays such a big role in this city.

Teachers and other school staff treat well internacional studends even though promblems may accure when you don´t speaks spanish good enough and and the theacher doesn´t speak english, but overall there was a warm atmosphere

More about the different universities in the city.

Go there and be wise. But remember to become wise you need to STUDY and this on your own and not at the university. In other word the university is a good framework, but the materia you need to learn by yourself.

No

I really can recommand this university to study abroad. The only thing which is negative in my opinion are the computers (really bad) and the Catalan language.

No real recommendations - we were allowed to take classes outside of the program specially designated for the U of I/U of C students. This posed a problem sometimes as the classes were in Catalan and not Castellano - but people also learned Catalan in order to take some of the classes .....I really enjoyed the classes within our program as they were interesting and geared for the foreign student - (but still all in Spanish)

Computers were hard to come by and the ones that were available didn't always work that great - but I understand that they don't always have the facilities we do in the US in other countries....

The thing is that the method of evaluation is very diffrent from my home country. In Spain they don´t have tests, homework, projects, essays, presentations throught out the semester course. They just have one closed multiple choice final exam and depending in what you get in the test is what your grade is. I personally dont think the a single closed test can evaluate everything you learned through out the course.

I would suggest that there should be homework, projects, presentations, tests through out the course that evaluate in different percentages what we learn, instead of only one single closed exam at the end.

that classe were given in the catalan language

Teachers are lovely; structures a bit old; campus-life almost inexsistant; spot-structures excellent!