Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona

At the University Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), like in the others University of Catalonia, the catalan and the castilian (Spanish) are the official languages. The UAB has many international projects around the world, this means that there are many interchanges with other universities of the world and that the UAB is more and more plurilanguage. For that reason the languistic politics on the University is to guarantee the use and the promotion of the Catalan, sea to promote the kwnoledge of others languages.

How to reach the university

The campus of UAB is 20 km far from Barcelona. The site is Bellaterra, in the Municipality of Cerdanyola del Vallès, between Sabadell and Sant Cugat del Vallès. It's at 3 km far from Cerdanyola, 4 from Sabadell and 5 from Sant Cugat.

By car

The easier way to arrive to the UAB is by Highway. You can get the Highway A-7 to Tarragona-Lleida, exit Bellaterra, if you come from North, or to Girona if you come from Barcelona.
Highway C-58 Barcelona-Sabadell-Terrassa (exit Bellaterra).
Then there are many roads that arrive near to Bellaterra.

LEGENDA PER LA MAPPA:
1 Campus de Bellaterra
2 Campus de Sabadell
3 Hospital Vall d'Hebron
4 Hospital de Sant Pau
5 Hospital del Mar
6 Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol

By train

Renfe – the State's Trains Company (Red Nacional de Ferrocarriles Españoles):
Tel.: 902 24 02 02 http://www.renfe.es/

Ticket prices:
Single ticket € 1,55
10 tickets € 11,70
T-JOVE 3 months € 149,20
T-MES 1 month € 54,20

from Barcelona – station of Sants, Plaça Catalunya, Arc de Triomf and Sant Andreu– to Cerdanyola-Universitat (direction: Manresa). Time to get: more ore less 30 minutes, there's a train every half an hour.
From the station to the University there's a free bus service. For detailed bus stops location and time table all the stations or call the telephone number 902 24 02 02
Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya. Catalonia's Trains Company.
Tel.: 93 205 15 15 http://www.fgc.net

Line Barcelona / Sabadell – The stations in the city of Barcelona are: Catalunya, Provença, Gràcia, Muntaner y Sarrià, con destino a la Universitat Autònoma o Sabadell. All the trains stop at UAB.
Time to get: more ore less 30/45 minutes, it depends on the station you leave. There's a train every 10 minutes, more or less.
Tickets prices:
single ticket-
1 Zone € 1,05
2 Zones € 1,55
3 Zones € 2,2
4 Zones € 2,9
5 Zones € 3,65
6 Zones € 4,3
You can have discouts if you buy Card of 10 tickets or of 30/50 tickets, Monthly Ticket, Quaterly ticket....

By Bus

You can take a bus of the SARBUS, direction: Barcelona–Fabra i Puig– Cerdanyola (that leaves every 30 minutes) and from the UAB (from 7 to 9.30 every 30 minutes). Time to get: between 20 and 30 minutes. To get information, call the telephone number 93 727 92 92. Also there's a direct connection with Sabadell and Terrassa.

By taxi

From the airport of El prat to the UAB costs 30 euro (approximate)
From Barcelona, 18 euro (approximate).

When you arrive.
Go to the International Relations Office (Oficina de Relaciones Internacionales), Building N at the Civic Square (Plaça Cívica).
It's open from monday to friday, in the morning (from 10 a.m to 1:30 pm). There you'lll register your arrive and you'll find these services:
– Carnet de Estudiante Internacional (International Student Card), with which you'll have access to all the services of the University and to many discounts.
You'll need 2 photos, your passporto or you identified card and a document that attest the program of interchange.
– Informations about the UAB
– Accomodation.
– Informationes on Barcelona life
– Help for problems
– Student Card

To get contact with the Office:
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Oficina de Relacions Internacionals
Edifici N Plaça Cívica (hemeroteca General)
08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès)
Telèfons: 93 581 22 10 / 93 581 27 53
Fax: 93 581 32 64
e.mail: ori@magno.uab.es
of.rel.internacionals@uab.es

The office is closed on august for holidays.
Then, you couldo formalize the matriculation in the secretariat of your faculty. For it you will need to take the matriculation forms (that you could get in respective porter's lodge), some document that credits your stay in the UAB and other two photographies.

Students of Interchange Programs
Every faculty has an office that welcome the foreign students. The staff will inform you about your Faculty or your School and will help you in administrative proceedings (matriculation, schedules...) and will put to you in contact with the coordinator.
If there isn't this office, you should go personally to the coordinator of the interchange program.