UB welcomes international students

International students who attended the welcoming event.
International students who attended the welcoming event.
Institutional
(18/10/2013)

At midday, the Paranymph Hall of the Historic Buiding hosted an event to welcome 2,600 international students from 97 different countries who stay at UB in 2013-2014 academic year. Thirty-six members of our international teaching staff were invited too. The rector of the UB, Dr Dídac Ramírez, chaired the event accompanied by the vice-rector for International Policy, Dr Maria Callejón, and the vice-rector for Students and Language Policy, Dr Gemma Fonrodona.

International students who attended the welcoming event.
International students who attended the welcoming event.
Institutional
18/10/2013

At midday, the Paranymph Hall of the Historic Buiding hosted an event to welcome 2,600 international students from 97 different countries who stay at UB in 2013-2014 academic year. Thirty-six members of our international teaching staff were invited too. The rector of the UB, Dr Dídac Ramírez, chaired the event accompanied by the vice-rector for International Policy, Dr Maria Callejón, and the vice-rector for Students and Language Policy, Dr Gemma Fonrodona.

 
This year more than one thousand exchange students will study at UB, thanks to different mobility and exchange programmes, such as Erasmus, bilateral agreements, Erasmus Mundus, specific agreements with the United States, and other ones agreed by means of individual application. International students come from more than fifty worldwide countries, most of them European and American. Regarding countries, many of them come from Italy, United States, Germany, France and Brazil. International students are present in most Bachelorʼs degrees and masterʼs degrees offered by the University, but the faculties that receive more international students are: Economics and Business, Philology, Geography and History, Law, Medicine, Biology and Psychology.
 
Furthermore, this year around 1,500 international students, from 94 different countries, enrolled on a Bachelorʼs degree of masterʼs at the UB. They mainly come from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, China and Chile.
 
The welcoming event proves the strategic role that the UB has been performing for the last years in order to attract international students. It also aims to encourage UB studentsʼ mobility. In this sense, about one thousand agreements with worldwide universities have been signed. The objective is to improve the academic quality by promoting international relations with other universities.