In all categories, the discount will be deducted from the total calculated price of enrolment, not including services. The total figure of the discount will be determined by the extent to which the degree program in which the applicant wishes to enrol is experimental.

According to its annual budget and the provision of its statutes, the UB establishes a system of enrolment grants for first-time applicants for those credits carried by official degree programs when and where applicants meet the requirements outlined in the Enrolment Regulations :

Applicants should consider the following points:

• The grant shall not include the administrative overhead that is to be paid for enrolment, the academic insurance, if this is needed, the cost of specific services and learning resources or any extra-academic services provided.
• Grants shall not be given to students applying to study the same credits for a second or third time or for any further times than this.
• Students in this category may apply for the benefits of members of general category large families for the price of credits they wish to enrol in for a second or third time, if they are able to meet the relevant requirements as outlined above.
• In compliance with the Social Security's current tax and price regime, enrolment grants awarded to such persons and their families shall be paid as returns in the taxation of the worker and in the contributions paid in the general regime of the Social Security.

2) Students from other Catalan public universities wishing to enrol at the UB

Those students applying for grants awarded by another Catalan public university or universities will not need to pay the enrolment fee for those credits they wish to study for the first time, when and where this complies with the regulations stipulated by the universities in question and is so outlined in all documents issued to this effect.

To apply for such grants, at the moment in which they enrol applicants will need to present accredited certificates issued by the Personnel Service Office at each of the universities in question.

Applicants should consider the following points:

• The grant shall not include the administrative fee that is to be paid for enrolment, the academic insurance, if this is needed, the cost of specific services and learning resources or any extra-academic services provided.
• Grants shall not be given to students applying to study the same credits for a second or third time or for any further times than this.
• Students in this category may apply for the benefits of members of general category large families for the price of credits they wish to enrol in for a second or third time, if they are able to meet the relevant requirements as outlined above.

Students of less than 28 years of age must pay the price of academic insurance. Independently of this, all students may apply for the voluntary insurance policy in compliance with the conditions established. Students of over 28 years of age who do not wish to take out an academic insurance policy must explicitly declare that they forgo this option.

Once the student has officially submitted their enrolment application form and has chosen one of the voluntary services offered (UB Sports, the cooperative l'Economista, the UB Insurance Policy or Solidaritat UB), subsequently forgoing these services will not entitle the student to any kind of refund.

Applicants for those study courses for which enrolment is paid on a monthly basis should consult the additional regulations stipulated by the centres where this enrolment is made.

The following are considered to constitute specific services and learning resources:

• support services for the operation of the UB Virtual Campus;
• access to the UB network and the Internet on all campuses and UB installations offered via its computer rooms and WiFi;
• teaching software, including commercial licenses and open access;
• teaching materials in digital and electronic formats and complete texts;
• digital library resources, online journals, databases and e-books;
• loans service for laptops and e-readers.

Any enrolment application which has not been totally paid for by the end of the period outlined by the UB will be declared null and void, and students who fail to pay enrolment or one instalment of the enrolment fee within the period or periods determined by the UB will forego their student's rights as detailed in Article 31 of the Enrolment regulations .

The banks collaborating with the UB are the Banco Santander, la Caixa de Catalunya and la Caixa de Pensions.

Students will need to follow one of the payment procedures outlined below.

1. Single payment in cash

The student pays the total sum of the enrolment fee in one cash payment in compliance with the deadlines and conditions outlined in the form provided by the Secretary's Office at the centre where he or she enrols (seven calendar days —including both working and non-working days— counting from the date on which enrolment is formalized). The student must keep his or her copy of the receipt of payment for the duration of the period of enrolment.

Following this payment procedure, the student can choose one of the following options:

• An over the counter cash payment made at any branch of one of the banks collaborating with the UB.
• An ATM cash payment with a validation code —CPR— or bar code (only for online enrolment).
• An online bank payment with a bank-assigned personal user's code using one of the following electronic banking facilities:
  
  • Línia Oberta (Caixa de Pensions)
  • Línia Total (Catalunya Caixa)
  • Supernet (Banco Santander)
    

This payment procedure will be mandatory for students in the following circumstances:

a) Those students who are eligible to complete exemption from academic service fees.
b) Those students who have in some way changed their enrolment procedure and must therefore begin payment again.
c) Those students enrolling for thesis tutorials.
d) Those students who have chosen to pay enrolment in eleven instalments via a bank loan but who have not submitted, within a period of two days following enrolment, the papers authorising their bank loan.
e) Those students who have not made the payment in compliance with the conditions and within the period established by other payment procedures outlined in these regulations.
f) Those students who have chosen exemption from fees because they have applied for a grant and have subsequently been denied status as grantholders entitled to an exemption from the payment of enrolment fees, and those students who have chosen to apply as large family member applicants who have not presented the relevant papers before December 31, 2011.

2. Direct debit single payment

This can only be paid through one of the UB collaborating banks and must be paid within seven days of the application.

In the moment when completing the application, the applicant must present the original and one copy of the first page of his or her savings bank book or the copy of the cheque if the student is in possession of a current account.

As the repercussions of non-payment outlined in Article 31 in the Enrolment regulations make clear, it shall be the student's responsibility to verify that the account to which the charge is made is fully operable, that the bank has been authorized to make this direct debit payment for the academic year in question and that the bank has effected the payment. In such cases where a direct debit payment is to be made from an account of which the student is not the official holder, the student must authorise the payment of the receipt of enrolment to his or her bank account.

3. Payment in cash in two instalments

This is only possible when the minimum fee to be paid is 300 euros or more than 400 euros. The following conditions must be met:

• The enrolment fee must be paid by 24 October.
• The payment shall be divided in two instalments. The first payment shall be made to one of the banks listed in the enrolment form within a period of seven days (including both working and non-working days) counting from the date on which the enrolment is made and shall include the payment of 50% of the fee for credits in which the student enrols, the total fee for the administrative overhead for the student’s transcript, teaching materials and infrastructure and contracted voluntary services. The second payment shall be made to one of the banks listed in the enrolment form within the following deadlines:
• July enrolment: 4 September
• September enrolment and enrolment completed up to 24 October: 14 November
• This procedure may only be chosen by students enrolling on an annual basis.

The student must take responsibility for the payment of the two instalments. Students failing to do so shall be subject to the legislation outlined in Article 31 of the Enrolment regulations. Students may not apply for the refund of instalments already paid.

4. Monthly instalment loan (PFM) with the Agency for the Administration of University and Research Grants (AGAUR)

The Catalan Institute for Finances and the Generalitat have established an agreement with the Agency for Management of University and Research Grants (AGAUR) to facilitate the enrolment procedure for university students meeting the following requirements:

• Students must be enrolled in EHEA bachelor's degrees, or in first- or first- and second-stage llicenciatura degree courses taught annually or by semester (this is the outgoing Spanish degree qualification generally awarded for a 4- to 6-year course of higher educational study and entitling the holder to begin doctoral studies), or in university master's degree programs and doctoral programs. Students in university master's degree programs and doctoral programs must have Spanish nationality to be eligible for the grant.
• Students must pay a total enrolment fee of at least 300 euros for enrolment for one academic year and 150 euros for one semester.
• Students must choose an AGAUR loan in the moment when they enrol and providing certification of a current account with one of the UB collaborating banks. Students choosing this option need not complete any further paperwork: once it has confirmed the student's payment of the first instalment, AGAUR will send a copy of the contract by post or electronic mail to the applicant's address and the applicant must, within ten days of its receipt, sign this contract and return it to the Agency together with a photocopy of the applicant's national identity number. AGAUR will then send the applicant a final copy of the contract, signed by both the student and the Agency.

The conditions of this instalment payment procedure are the following:

• The loan will be divided in ten instalments in the case of enrolment for an academic year and in five instalments for enrolment for one semester, depending upon the date on which the applicant formalizes enrolment and bearing in mind that the last month shall be May 2011 (enrolment for one academic year or for the second semester) or January 2011 (enrolment for the first semester).
• The UB will apply the public prices for academic services and the prices for non-academic services as well as the prices for other enrolment expenses the University considers appropriate. The bill for the first instalment will be sent on the fifth day of the month after the month in which the student enrolled and will include the non-academic fee, the proportional part of the academic fee, and the interest and commission fee charged by the bank in question. Once the first instalment has been paid, the student will receive a letter detailing the different expenses in order to have a record of which have been effective. The second instalment will be payable on the fifth day of the following month and this procedure shall continue until the end of the loan period, which shall include the cost of the first bill without the non-academic fee.
• The student will not be required to present a bank or family guarantee of payment.
• Should the student wish to enrol in more credits than those covered by the loan, he or she shall do so using Procedure 1 outlined above (a single payment in cash), without altering in any way the sum of money described in the loan already granted.
• Should the student wish to enrol in fewer credits than those covered by the loan, the UB will inform AGAUR of the difference in order for the Agency to adjust the figures and re-establish the total price of the loan.
• Enrolment will be considered fully paid when the student has paid the last instalment on the Agency's loan.
• Should the student fail to pay the first instalment, the loan will be declared null and void and after the failure to pay two instalments the Agency will write to the student to require a financial explanation for this failure and to begin legal proceedings to reclaim the outstanding payment. After the Agency has formally notified the student of their position, failure to pay the debt within the period established will leave the loan contract null and void. The UB will be entitled to cancel the student's enrolment and the student will forgo his or her rights to recover any moneys paid in enrolment.
• In those cases where a student is a beneficiary of a general or mobility grant, the University will process that student’s change in enrolment type and will inform AGAUR of this change so that all paid moneys can be returned. The student shall be required to pay the administrative overhead for this change.

For further information, consult the pages at www.gencat.net/agaur.

The University reserves the right to immediately withdraw student rights in all those situations where a student fails to pay enrolment or any part of any instalment, and to suspend these rights, if it deems fit, for the period of the academic year.

The temporary suspension of rights will end when the student pays the University in a single cash payment the total figure of his or her outstanding payments as well as a percentage of the total cost of unpaid instalments excluding non-academic services to cover the expenses required in the administration of outstanding payment.

The surcharge for fees paid late will be 5 % of the total cost of fees if payment is made within the month following the deadline date for fee payment, and will increase by a further 5 % for every month or fraction in which payment remains outstanding, to a maximum figure of a 50% increase in the original cost of the fees.The month of August shall not be counted in periods considered to be outstanding.

Any modification to an enrolment or any cancellation of an enrolment may only be made when the fees or fractions payable for that enrolment have been made.

Should the student's payment remain outstanding beyond the end of the academic year, the UB reserves the right to cancel the student's enrolment definitively. This cancellation will leave null and void all academic qualifications the student may have been awarded during that study period.

Without altering the conditions set out in the paragraph above, when and where a student has outstanding payments to make on fees from previous academic years in official degree courses, the University can demand that the student simultaneously pays all these fees, from all the different degree courses, before he or she can enrol in any further degree course or receive any kind of academic certificate. In the case of the outstanding payment of fees from previous academic years in UB-specific first- and second-stage llicenciatura degree courses, the student will be required to pay the outstanding fees for each degree course separately.

Payment of enrolment once the academic year has finished only covers those subjects recorded before the cancellation of enrolment.

Important: The student is responsible for attending to outstanding payments, without any previous requirement.

Students whose grants have been terminated but who are still in possession of money to which they are not entitled must return such moneys to the University of Barcelona following the procedures established.

Within the framework of their particular call, student beneficiaries of a predoctoral grant who have been awarded a grant to complete a research period must return the money previously advanced to them by the UB, in due recognition of the change in the conditions that had initially entitled them to this grant.

Students failing to return such money within the deadlines may face the cancellation of their enrolment as established in paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 of Article 31 of the University’s Enrolment regulations

1. Changing enrolment

Within the deadlines annually established by each UB centre, students may apply to cancel a subject, replace it with another or add a new subject to the list of subjects they have chosen. At the same time they will need to complete any payment procedure that is necessary for the change they wish to make, either paying for a new subject or, in the case of the cancellation or the addition of a subject, either paying or being refunded the difference of the total fees.

Once this period has finished, students will be able to apply for the cancellation of a subject or the addition of a new subject according to the individual calendar established for the academic year for each of the degree courses offered at the UB. In all cases, they will also need to have paid for their enrolment before requesting any change and this change will be recorded in a new payment procedure that will replace or complement their original payment of enrolment.  Students will then need to pay the fees for the new subject or subjects they wish to do but will not be eligible for the refund of any fees paid for subjects that they wish to cancel or modify. The student will be required to pay the administrative fee required for the modifications to their academic transcript as these are stipulated in the Generalitat of Catalonia’s Decree on fees regarding partial modification in enrolment procedures.
Once the seven-day period following the formalization of enrolment has passed, the deadlines for applying for changes in the list of subject’s the student has enrolled in will be the following:

• First-semester and annual subjects: until 31 October 2011
• Second-semester subjects: until 31 March 2012

In the case of those degree courses that are organized annually and that allow for students to request the addition of new subjects in the second semester, students shall be required to pay the administrative overhead as this is stipulated in the Generalitat of Catalonia’s Decree on fees.

Any cancellation of enrolment must fully observe the current legislation on continuance.

If a student is obliged to make a new payment to the University as the result of a modification in his or her enrolment, this payment shall be made in full and in cash within seven calendar days of the date of the modification.

2. Cancelling the enrolment

Within the time deadlines established by the University of Barcelona, students may apply for the total cancellation of the enrolment in the following circumstances:

a) Cancellation due to illness, duly certified. The student shall be entitled to a refund of the fees for the credits in which they have enrolled. A first-year student cancelling enrolment because of a serious illness may apply for the reservation of his or her place in the course of studies and will not need to repeat the pre-enrolment procedure.
b) Cancellation when the student enrols in another university centre or centres, when a place on a study program has been reassigned by general university pre-enrolment. The student will be entitled to a total refund of the fees paid.
c) Cancellation for personal reasons. The student will need to have paid the fee for enrolment in order to apply for cancellation. The student will not be entitled to any kind of refund, and the cancellation shall be authorized by the dean of faculty or centre director. When and where the student has formalized his or her enrolment as a general grant holder and mobility student, it shall be necessary for him or her first to pay the fees for enrolment and then to apply for the cancellation of the grant.

Enrolment that has been totally cancelled shall have no financial repercussions on the student’s academic record and shall have only those academic effects established by the regulations on continuance as these apply to students terminating studies before the studies have been completed.
In all cases, the deadline for applying for the cancellation of enrolment shall be:

• First-semester and annual subjects: until 31 October 2011
• Second-semester subjects: until 31 March 2012

In serious an exceptional cases or in applications made outside the deadlines established by the University but deemed justifiable, and by recommendation of the dean of faculty or centre director in the university centre where the program is to be studied, the Rector or Rector's delegate may accept the application to cancel.

The student needs to have paid the fees for enrolment before applying to cancel this outside the deadlines established by the University of Barcelona, and the University will not consider the applications of students not meeting this requirement.

Any cancellation of enrolment must fully observe the current legislation on continuance.

In those study programs applying a system of enrolment by semester, students must consult the additional regulations provided by the departments or centres responsible for the program.

The Ministry of Education awards grants to students enrolling in official master's degree programs. The call for grants and the requirements for students applying for these grants are published in the Ministry's Official Spanish Gazette (the BOE) during the months of June and July.

1. GENERAL AND MOBILITY GRANT

Consult requirements and procedures at the UB webpage .

Students must meet the following academic requirements:

• First-year students in a university master's degree program must enrol in at least 60 credits and need to have been awarded an average mark of 6 in the study program leading to this university master's degree. However, when and where a student cannot enrol in this number of credits (possibly because they cannot meet the admission requirements for some subjects in the course curriculum) he or she may still be eligible for a grant but will need to enrol in at least 30 credits and provide a reasoned explanation for the problem.
• Second-year students in a university master's degree program must enrol in all those credits remaining that lead to having successfully completed 100 % of the credits enrolled in during the first year of the master's degree.
• Grant applicants with a disability of 65% can reduce their study load to 30 credits but must successfully complete all these credits.

Students who enrol in a university master's degree program may apply for a grant.

The application for this grant can only be completed online. Those interested should consult the form and grant deadlines at www.ub.edu/monub/beques.

If, after application, the grant is denied or the enrolment is cancelled, the student shall be obliged to pay the total fee for the enrolment applied for and to pay this fee in cash.

Any change of study program within the UB, transfer to ranother university or enrolment modification shall require the student to update the application data on the grant application, and the student must inform the Secretary's Office for Students and Teaching Staff at the centre where he or she has enrolled.

In those cases where the partial modification or partial cancellation of enrolment will result in the student forgoing his or her right to the grant, then before formalizing this change the student must inform the UB office Student Services and Programs (Travessera de les Corts, 131-159 08028 Barcelona).

2. GRANT FOR ENROLMENT IN A UNIVERSITY MASTER'S COURSE OR UB-SPECIFIC MASTER'S COURSE WHEN THE APPLICANT IS LEGALLY UNEMPLOYED

This grant is offered by the Ministry of Education to students who can accredit their status as unemployed beneficiaries of state social security support during the year 2011, and it is offered on a competitive concurrence scheme. If the sum of money applied for is greater than the total quantity described in Article 2 of the call, the money shall be awarded in such a way as is inversely proportional to the applicant's per capita income, calculated according to the procedure outlined in Article 7. Preference will be shown to student beneficiaries for the academic year 2010-2011 and students that enrol in the second year of the same master's course.
Grant value: the official public price set by the academic services and leading to the award of the university or UB-spcific master's degree certificate.

Information on requirements, procedures and deadlines can be consulted at the following page: www.ub.edu/monub/beques/

Students who are admitted to a master’s degree and who then plan to go on to third-cycle studies may apply for a trainee research grant (APIF and FPI).

Information about conditions and procedures is available at www.ub.edu/beques/3rcicle

1. University of Barcelona collaboration grants

Information about conditions and procedures is available at http://www.ub.edu/beques/col.laboracio/

The university offers students enrolled in official UB studies the opportunity to complete collaboration activities in different UB faculties, schools or offices, or in institutions that have learning agreements with the UB. In return, students will receive financial aid in the form of a collaboration grant as support for both academic and personal training.
In order to be eligible for one of these grants, applicants must meet the following requirements:
- they must be UB students or students in UB-affiliated institutions enrolled in an official first-, second- or third-cycle course of study or in a UB-specific study program (note that enrolment in a UB university extension course does not entitle a student to application for one of these grants);
- they should not have received any other grant from the UB or external institution to which they are applying for this grant for a period of at least two consecutive academic years prior to the collaboration grant call;
- they must either have successfully completed a total of 30 credits and be enrolled in a total of 30 credits or else meet those conditions outlined in the section on exceptional circumstances set forth in the university’s Regulations for Collaboration Grants.

The specific requirements for each grant shall be made available in the details accompanying each individual grant call.

2. Aid for specific activities

Information is available at the link Scholarships and study grants

The DRAC program

Aid for specific activities is available in the DRAC program, organised by the Vives University Network, which publishes a grant call three times a year, in January, May and September and which offers two kinds of student grant: Advanced training and the Winter grant (for shorter and longer periods of study in other institutions).

During the month of September the UB will publish the DRAC-MASTER financial aid call for those master’s degree students who have completed the degree that qualifies them for admission at another university in the Vives University Network and whose UB enrolment requires them to change their home address.

During May, the UB also publishes its call DRAC-VERANO for students wishing to attend the summer courses delivered by the Vives University Network.

EXCHANGE GRANTS ORGANIZED WITH UNIVERSITIES OUTSIDE SPAIN

During October, the UB publishes a series of exchange grant calls with universities outside Spain with which it holds general student exchange agreements.  These calls are for students coursing a UB-specific undergraduate degree (graduat), an undergraduate diploma (diplomatura), a llicenciatura degree (the outgoing Spanish degree qualification generally awarded for a 4- to 6-year course of higher educational study and entitling the holder to begin doctoral studies), an engineering or technical engineering degree, or else a university master’s degree or doctoral degree. In order to be eligible for these grants, undergraduates and students in engineering degrees need to have successfully completed at least 60 credits of their degree, students in undergraduate diplomas and technical engineering degrees must be enrolled in at least 60 credits, and students in second-stage llicenciatura degrees or in master’s degree courses must be enrolled in at least 30 credits. Finally, all applicants must have at least 15 credits remaining for future study.

THE UB’S ‘JULIOLS’ PROGRAM

During April, the university also publishes grant calls for its summer program, ‘Els Juliols’. As above, these are addressed to students coursing UB-specific degrees, the undergraduate diploma, the llicenciatura degree, engineering or technical engineering degrees, and university master’s degrees and doctoral degrees. In all cases, students must be enrolled in the academic year for which the grant is being announced.

FINANCIAL AID FOR PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY PROGRAMS

Towards the beginning of May, the university publishes a series of grant calls for UB students in international exchange programs.
These grants are addressed to students who have been accepted in the Erasmus and Coimbra Group exchange programs with international universities holding general or specific learning agreements with the UB.
There are two kinds of grant:
Type A:  200-euro grant program for a period of study in a European university;
Type B: 1,000-euro grant program for a period of study in a university outside the EU.