International University of Catalonia is a private, non-profit, liberal arts and co-educational university founded in 1997 with the aim of serving society.

The university provides individualized academic education with an international approach, focus on research and hands-on professional experience.

We are committed to providing quality and personalized education. Our teacher-to-student ratio of 1:10 ensures all our students receive individualized attention.
Students’ education focuses on what will become their professional careers. We aim to increase their skills and knowledge so that they can easily adapt to new challenges of today’s world.
The university maintains close relationships with the business community through internship programs across Europe.
This enables our students not only to gain hands-on professional experience as interns abroad but also to learn foreign languages in a professional context and study part of their programme in foreign universities. After graduating our students join the professional world with guarantees. Our prestige in this field is reflected in the way the business community values our graduates as shown by the high percentage of graduates who find their first employment right after graduation.

The range of studies offered by our university is complemented by various Master and Doctorate Degrees, postgraduate courses and continuing education programmes allowing students to obtain in-depth specialization in different areas of knowledge.

Main claims to international academic or non-academic excellence

Architecture: Genetic Architectures
It involves an interdisciplinary approach to the application of genetics in architecture and is based on two perspectives: the real, natural and direct, and the metaphorical, artificial and digital.

It is a new look at ecology, the environment and the digital mediums in architecture based on a biodigital fusion. It focuses on the relevance of the new digital paradigms in the design process, on digital architecture and the most progressive experimental architecture. New technologies bring us closer to new production processes (Data Driven Production, CNC) which create non-standard architecture - more in line with the logic that governs the genes (variation, mutation) - rather than focusing on industrialised chain processes.

This line has opened a new understanding of architecture with new cybernetic-digital and ecological-environmental design.


Architecture: History, Architecture and Design
It deals with the study of the history of architecture and design in an interdisciplinary manner, combining different perspectives from historians, architects and designers, and essentially focuses on the changes apparent from the 19th to 20th century to the present. It places special emphasis on the search for alternative aspects beyond the dominating trends derived from rational functionalism.

This research line has already given rise to numerous research projects, along with two doctoral theses.
Humanities: Education
Research lines
• Education in values and citizen education
This research line is dedicated to investigating moral education at the different educational stages, from Primary Education to Higher Education.
The line includes two levels of research. One is based on a theoretical reflection into morals, ethics and education in values, while the other involves analysis of the educational practice relating to the development of citizens.

• Emotional Intelligence
This research line is dedicated to analysing what is known as emotional intelligence.
The main areas within this line include analysis of the theoretical basis for this theme, the search for new ways of working and the proposal of training programmes.
This line focuses on the world of education in general, and on teachers in particular.

• Educational education and psychopedagogicsThis research line focuses on one of the principal aspects of the educational process: evaluation.
The most relevant aspects of this line include semantic analysis of the different ways of understanding evaluation, the analysis of different evaluation instruments and, in particular, the analysis of the different psychopedagogical diagnosis linked to evaluation and its consequences on the development of the student.

• Teaching and learning
This research line deals with the analysis of the existing teaching and learning methodologies and the proposal of new ones. The line is focused on higher education, although work is also carried out in the areas of pre-school, primary and secondary education.
The two main focuses are on new technologies applied to educational ends and alternating training.


Humanities: Communication Sciences
The research activities carried out by the department include journalism, audiovisual communication and advertising. The activities focus on the study of the interaction between society and communication. Special emphasis is placed on analysing the impact of new technologies on the different media communication structures.

Research lines
• International journalism
• New technologies and their impact on the media
• Media and society
• Audiovisual narrative
• Documentary films
• Communication structures and policies
• Public relations


Humanities: Thought and Anthropology
The area of Thought and Anthropology brings together researchers from diverse areas of knowledge: history, sociology, philosophy, art and literature. The interdisciplinary nature of the group adds a two-fold approach to their research work:

• On one hand, through an interdisciplinary team, the research is based on fundamental themes relating to socio-political thought and philosophical anthropology (principally the dignity of human beings and their focus on the construction of a social life). These themes are approached from a methodological perspective which highlights synthetic knowledge above analytic knowledge.

• On the other hand, as each participant is an expert in a particular area of humanist knowledge, each group member develops one or more research lines in their particular field which is closely associated with their relevant scientific communities.

The two aspects of the research are interlinked in a positive way. Interdisciplinary and non-specialised research offers a wide panoramic which enables the creation of a map of fundamental humanistic knowledge and the establishment of links between the different thematic areas, independent of their official ascription to specialised fields.

• Project 1: City, person and civilisation: keys to understanding the contemporary world.
This project is a reflection about human beings, both from an individual and collective perspective. It includes a reflection about the idea of community and the main values and concepts that produce and promote this. There is also a reflection about history and the deep sense of culture, religion and civilisation.


• Project 2: Cornerstone concepts of fundamental socio-political philosophy
Classic socio-political thought has full relevance in the present-day world. This research line puts into practice symbolic hermeutics in order to translate the essential contents of classical socio-political and anthropological theory to modern language. This implies a change in the paradigm as it involves an expansion of socio-political doctrines which today are commonly accepted in conventional praxis and theory. The conceptual nucleus of the new paradigm proposed is polis, understood as an analogical scheme from which it is possible to establish the lines of correspondence between human beings, their community dimension, and nature or the cosmos. This new paradigm can be called “fundamental socio-political theory”.

• Project 3: Images of man in the history of thought.
Human beings need an image of themselves in order to reach fulfilment as a person, both in an individual and collective sense. Self knowledge is undoubtedly one of the main sources in determining the social behaviour and political organisation of human beings throughout all ages and within all cultures. This research line aims to show the most interesting images throughout history that human beings have created of themselves from a philosophical, artistic and literary perspective.

• Project 4: Road Anthropology
This deals with revising the conceptual framework with reference to road serviceability by placing the human dimension at the centre of the problem which, until now, has been considered a technical question. It is therefore based on proposing and establishing the scientific bases for a new perspective on the road question, focusing on people and approaching it from a multidisciplinary angle. It can therefore be said that this research line is directed towards establishing a new scientific discipline: road anthropology.

• Project 5: Thinking with images: symbol and myth in the history of thought
The objective of this research proposal is to newly describe the intellectual value of images, symbolism and art in general as vehicles of theoretical and practical knowledge. This implies removing knowledge from an exclusively discursive approach. In reality, symbolic images constitute a vast ancestral archive of human civilisations. The main objective of this study is to develop the interpretative keys that will enable access to this world of images.


Humanities: Family
Family policy is a principal area of study across Europe, where numerous prestigious research institutes and centres dedicated to this field have had a major impact on the creation of family-friendly policies on a national and global level.

Family policy
• Assessing the current situation: families’ needs and demands.
• Proposals for action (Public Administration – Business – Society).
• Comparative policies (European Union – America).

Family and education
• Single sex education.
• Family rights in education.


Health Sciences: Dentistry
The Dentistry Department mainly focuses on applied research with clinical results or responses which are able to confirm or debate the efficiency of clinical materials and techniques. These results are based on verifications and/or simulations of these materials and techniques which may be already being used but which, at times, are difficult to evaluate within the clinic. In addition, in the design of the laboratory studies, translational research is strongly taken into account so that the data obtained in the laboratory always has a clinical repercussion. Therefore, the studies are largely clinical or observation studies or clinical trials which are beneficial in ensuring the safe treatment of patients. Often, in order to obtain objective data, a biological laboratory analysis is required and/or it is necessary to carry out prior translational studies of mechanics and simulations in the laboratory.


Health Sciences: Dental prosthesis
Research lines
• Biomechanics in prosthesis supported by implants
• Diagnosis and therapy for craniomandibular disorder
• Properties of the metals used in prosthesis and implants
• New technologies in the marginal adjustment of fixed prosthesis
• Clinical analysis of the functioning of different implant systems and techniques
• Biomechanical evaluation of implants and microfiltration systems


Health Sciences: Medical-surgical pathology and oral implantology
Research lines
• Implantology
• Oral surgery
• Maxillofacial surgery
• Tissue engineering: mesenchyme stem cells
• Oral medicine
• Anaesthesiology and pain control
• Smoking


Health Sciences: Orthopaedics
Research lines
• Pulpar treatments
• Saliva and decay
• Dental materials
• Behaviour management


Health Sciences: Restorative dentistry
Research lines
• Instrumentation system
• Physical properties of sealing materials
• Effect of disinfectants in endodontology
• Marginal microfiltration of sealing materials
• Evaluation of sealing materials
• Restoration of endodontically treated teeth


Health Sciences: Periodontology
Research lines
• New technologies applied to periodontology
• Chemical agents and biomaterials in periodontology
• Public health and periodontology
• Systematic conditions and periodontal illness


Health Sciences: Orthodontology and orthopaedics
Research lines
• Cephalometric analysis. Predictive use
• Effect of orthodontic forces in osteoblastic cultures
• Micro screws and implants in orthodontology

Range of Fees

Between 6.000 and 11.000 euros

Basic TOEFL/IELTS requirements

Linguistic accreditation (NOT required for Erasmus exchange):
a. For students from universities where Spanish is not an official language and who wish to take UIC courses taught in Spanish: DELE (Diploma de Español como Lengua Extranjera), Nivel Intermedio
b. For students from universities where English is not an official language and who wish to take UIC courses taught in English: EITHER a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score of 550 (if written), 213 (if computer-based) or 80 (if Internet-based), OR an IELTS (International English Language Testing System) score of 6.5.

Accommodation

Yes

Accommodation Range

Between 600 and 1.200 euros p/m

Finance and Scholarships

- Ministry of Education
- Generalitat de Catalunya

Entry Requirements

Depending on choosen programm.

(kinldy link at our web page - also in English version : http://www.uic.es/en/admissions?set=S )

Language Support

Course specific language classes

• International Relations Department