Why choose Barcelona for your undergraduate, postgraduate or master’s degree? Barcelona is an innovative and socially inclusive city with an open spirit. It’s an easy city for people looking to start a new project, build a new company, or dive into a lifestyle with a Mediterranean flavour.
Design is part of Barcelona’s DNA; the discipline permeates its urban spaces, in its public facilities (Design Hub), museums (Design Museum), art galleries, associations (FAD, BcD, etc.), exhibition halls and showrooms, as well as restaurants, bookstores, and establishments with their own unique identity. The city is a real magnet for creatives and designers from all over the world, who are drawn by the latest trends.
Elisava is located on La Rambla, in the heart of Barcelona, just a short stroll from the Mediterranean Sea, in one of the most emblematic parts of the city, recognized internationally for its historical and cultural relevance, and also for its vitality. La Rambla, the Gothic Quarter, buildings, museums, shops and many of the city’s sights are accessible on foot from the university.
Cosmopolitan, urban, with internationally recognized architecture, culture and gastronomy, fantastic quality of life… it’s a vibrant city. This fact is acknowledged and admired from afar: the European Commission recently ranked Barcelona in third place in the ranking of cultural and creative cities in a continental study.