Fifteen UB undergraduate students will be able to study at the University of California from next academic year
The rector of the University of Barcelona (UB), Dídac Ramírez, and the vice-rector and executive director of International Mobility of the University of California, Jean-Xavier Guinard, have signed an agreement that allows fifteen UB undergraduate students to make a stay at the University of California, for a semester or an academic year. In order to submit their application, interested students must have completed a minimum of two academic courses and have an excellent academic CV. The agreement takes effect on 15 September and it will be valid for two years. It is important to highlight that the University of California is one of the most prestigious higher education institutions in the world; its campuses (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego) rank in the top fifteen positions on the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
The rector of the University of Barcelona (UB), Dídac Ramírez, and the vice-rector and executive director of International Mobility of the University of California, Jean-Xavier Guinard, have signed an agreement that allows fifteen UB undergraduate students to make a stay at the University of California, for a semester or an academic year. In order to submit their application, interested students must have completed a minimum of two academic courses and have an excellent academic CV. The agreement takes effect on 15 September and it will be valid for two years. It is important to highlight that the University of California is one of the most prestigious higher education institutions in the world; its campuses (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Diego) rank in the top fifteen positions on the Academic Ranking of World Universities.
Moreover, the University of Barcelona, the University of Illinois and the University of California have agreed the renewal of the programme Study Abroad, a project started four decades ago. It was the first exchange programme created in Barcelona. The renewal of the agreement will allow that, every year, eighty students from both American institutions take a course at the University of Barcelona. Students attend seminars about intercultural communication, social and political history, language contact, contemporary art, Barcelona and its cultural context, Spanish cinema, the Quixote, among many other issues, and they participate in Catalan language courses and cultural activities.