Gap Year Programme

Fall 2024

• Start date: 5th September 2024
• End date: 12th December 2024

Check and download the calendar here

Academic skills (6 ECTS) 

Barcelona through art and architecture (6 ECTS)

Contemporary Spain: politics and society (6 ECTS)

Developing intercultural intelligence (6 ECTS)

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (6 ECTS) (NEW)

Introduction to Business (6 ECTS)

Introducció a la llengua catalana (6 ECTS)

Llengua espanyola (6 ECTS) 

Understanding your brain for a better life (6 ECTS) (NEW)

• 18 ECTS 2,634€
• 24 ECTS 3,383€
• 30 ECTS 4,100€

Tuition fees for all UAB Study Abroad programmes 2025

Enrolment Period 

• Fall Term 2025: from 10^th March to 27^th June 2025.

Enrolment requirements

• Students must be 18 years of age or older on the 31/12/2025.
• Students must have successfully completed their secondary education: baccalaureate or equivalent (EQF 4).
• Students must have a B2 level of English if they are not native speakers.
• Students may choose between 12 and 30 ECTS.
• For full-time students who need a study visa there is a minimum requirement of 24 ECTS.

Academic accommodations
It is important that you provide us your academic accommodations before the start of the programme, so we are able to ensure you have the resources needed. Please note that we cannot guarantee you will have access to the accommodations requested if you don’t submit these prior the beginning of the programme. You can send your accommodations to study.abroad@uab.cat once you have completed your enrolment.

Study Abroad Gap Year Programme Regulations

Check all the enrolment information in this link. 

Any foreign student coming to a Catalan university must have medical insurance cover.

If you are from outside of the European Economic Area, you should check whether there is an agreement for healthcare between the Social Security of your country and the Social Security of Spain. If there is such an agreement, you should submit the necessary documents in your country so that you can have free access to Spanish public healthcare.

In the case of renewing your Residence Card (NIE, TIE) you have to check if the above mentioned document replaces the obligation to present a private medical insurance regarding illness and accidents (Social Security does not include the repatriation to your home country). For more information, contact the ISS.

If your country has no healthcare agreement with the Spanish Social Security system, you should take out private insurance cover for the whole time of your stay in Spain.

The private medical insurances need to ensure no less than 100.000 euros in the basic services (hospitalization, cover for repatriation to home country, cover for COVID-19, etc.), without gaps of coverage or co-payments.