study abroad in barcelona with ciee

Reinvent yourself while studying language, humanities, business, architecture, design, or contemporary culture in a city with a proud identity and a passion for both debating the past and inventing the future.

If your Spanish skills are intermediate to advanced, your options are many. Take a combination of CIEE language courses, CIEE electives, and host university electives and courses for your major (that you’ll take in Spanish, alongside Spanish students). Advanced programs—which require you to enroll directly at the university for more of your courses—are available in Barcelona. In Barcelona, choose classes in fields like anthropology, art history, education, history, international relations, philosophy, political science, and psychology.
Architecture or design majors can continue those studies in Barcelona, a city fast becoming a showcase for both. Let yourself be influenced by your new environment—its colors, its history, its values—and design with a new perspective.
If you’re enticed by the idea of learning how international, multinational, and Spanish business works, choose one of our business-focused programs. On our Business and Culture program in Barcelona, you can follow a course of study that includes business, economics, finance, management, and marketing. Company visits to local Spanish companies are a part of all our business programs. In Barcelona, you might do a field visit to the Cavas Codorniu winery, the Port, the Stock Exchange, City Hall, MANGO, or La Vanguardia newspaper.