Hotel Management School in Spain

The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona School of Tourism and Hotel Management:
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) was founded in 1968, and today has over 65,000 students, taking undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and continuing education programs. We are one of the few universities in Spain to have a university campus. The UAB's infrastructure was created exclusively for university life and the campus provides all the services you need for your academic, leisure and everyday life.

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The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona School of Tourism and Hotel Management (EUTDH - Escola Universitària de Turisme i Direcció Hotelera) is situated on the university's Bellaterra Campus, which provides all of the services and facilities expected of one of the country's leading universities. Tourism education is conceived as a combination of theoretical knowledge and its application to the realities of the tourism sector.

EUTDH offers students the chance to be educated as future hotel and food service managers, with residential practical training in the Hotel-School located on the UAB campus, in which the academic installations and the hotel are located in close juxtaposition, integrated in the same block of buildings.

Accreditation
The Degree in Hotel Management is accredited by AQU Catalunya (Agency for the Quality of the University System in Catalonia, Spain). EUTDH school is accredited by Applus+ (which is accredited by ENAC, the National Entity of Acreditation in Spain), according to the rules of teaching and management quality (UNE-EN ISO 9001-2000 and UNE-EN ISO 14.001-2004).

Undergraduate Course
Degree in Hotel Management (in English) - a 3 year study program designed by UAB, with a clear basis towards management level and incorporating the most innovate trends in hotel management. It is structured into two main career branches: Hospitality, Catering.

Practical training focuses on departmental management with rotations by departments (food service, cooking, accommodation) and by area (banquets, flats, reception). This training is guided by professional support tutors and instructors from the hospitality industry, academic tutors and lecturers.

Undergraduate Course: Accredited Degree in Hotel Management (in English) - a 3 year study program designed by UAB, with a clear basis towards management level and incorporating the most innovate trends in hotel management. It is structured into two main career branches: Hospitality, Catering.

Although all tuition is in English, Spanish is taught as a second language to a level of fluency, and students must also learn a third language (French or German). In their final year students will spend several months working in Spanish hotels, and those who wish to perfect their Spanish language skills further will be given the opportunity of taking a limited number of specialised, optional courses in Spanish.

The programme provides a highly multidisciplinary education, applying modern pedagogical methods and conforming to the ECTS system. Theory is combined with practice, which includes resident internships at the adjoining four-star Hotel Campus as well as at a wide range of renowned hotels of the country. Studies are completed with the writing of a business plan dissertation.

Further Studies
Students who have completed the Hotel Management Degree can also acquire a Diploma in Tourism qualification at EUTDH, by completing complementary studies. Hotel Management graduates, who enrolled through the university application procedures, are eligible to acquire a Diploma in Tourism, and are required to take a further 57 credits in order to fulfil the requisites.

Students who have completed the Hotel Management Degree course, may continue their studies at the School of Business Studies of the Coastal Carolina University (CCU), for an additional academic year, and obtain a North American Degree in Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Management and concentration in International Tourism Management. The program requires students to spend a total of 15 months at CCU, combining theoretical study (63 credits) with two periods of industrial placement (9 credits).

Students have three options for obtaining lodging during each academic year:

- Reserve on-campus lodging in the university village, a series of residential blocks that consist of apartments for one or two occupants, known as the Vila Universitària.

- Reserve off-campus lodging or shared apartment accommodation in the surrounding towns or in Barcelona city through the Vila office.

- Find accommodation personally.