
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Postgraduate Overview
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) is a public university offering:
More than 500 programmes which include:
- Official Master's Degrees, which provide you with advanced interdisciplinary training and are divided into programmes offering practical training for employment and others specialising in initiation to research. Our official master's degrees are valid in all of Spain and equivalent to the master's degrees programmes in Europe. The research-oriented programmes give access to PhD programmes.
- UAB-Specific Master's Degrees and Graduate Diplomas. The aim of these programmes is to provide students with an advanced-level, specialised, multidisciplinary education oriented towards professional specialisation. In order to guarantee their academic rigour, they are subject to similar quality control processes to those used for official programmes taught at the UAB. Professors, professionals and external institutions take part in graduate teaching to make sure that courses offer the practical approach that the labour market demands.
Almost 70 PhD programmes in 5 areas of knowledge: Arts and Humanities, Health Sciencies, Sciencies, Social Sciencies and Law and Technological Sciencies.
The aim of these programmes is providing advanced training in research techniques, culminating in a doctoral thesis. They involve preparing and defending a thesis and usually last three years, with the aim of producing top-level academic and professionals.
Some of the UAB’s PhD programmes have received an Excellence Award. The European Doctoral Research Component includes stays in different European countries and the participation of lecturers from foreign universities.
Approximately 30-40% of students come from other countries in both master's degrees and graduate diplomas, as well as PhD programmes.


Programs available
Postgraduate - Faculties/Departments and Programs
- Master's Degree in Advanced Biotechnology
- Master's Degree in Advanced Genetics - in English
- Master's Degree in Applied Microbiology
- Master's Degree in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine
- Master's Degree in Bioinformatics - in English
- Master's Degree in Biology and Plant Biotechnology
- Master's Degree in Cytogenetics and Reproductive Biology
- Master's Degree in Neurosciences
- Master's Degree in Terrestrial Ecology and Biodiversity Management
- PhD in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biomedicine
- PhD in Biotechnology
- PhD in Cellular Biology
- PhD in Genetics
- PhD in Microbiology
- PhD in Neurosciences
- PhD in Plant Biology and Biotechnology
- PhD in Terrestrial Ecology
- Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Models and Methods of Quantitative Economics (QEM) - in English
- Master's Degree in Applied Research in Economics and Business - in English
- Master's Degree in Economic Analysis - in English
- Master's Degree in Economics and Business Administration - in English
- Master's Degree in Higher Accounting and Auditing
- Master's Degree in Management, Organization and Business Economics - in English
- Master's Degree in Marketing
- PhD in Applied Economics
- PhD in Economic Analysis
- PhD in Economics, Management and Organization (Business Economics)
- PhD in Entrepreneurship and Management
- Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Crossing the Mediterranean: Towards Investment and Integration - in English
- Master's Degree in Audiovisual Communication and Advertising Contents
- Master's Degree in Media, Communication and Culture
- Master's Degree in Research in Communication and Journalism
- Master's Degree in Strategic Planning in Advertising and Public Relations
- PhD in Audiovisual Communication and Advertising
- PhD in Communication and Journalism
- PhD in Cultures in Contact in the Mediterranean
- PhD in Media, Communication and Culture
- Master's Degree in Educational Psychology
- Master's Degree in Research in Education
- Master's Degree in School Library and Reading Promotion
- Master's Degree in Teaching in Secondary Schools, Vocational Training and Language Centres
- Master's Degree in Teaching in Secondary Schools, Vocational Training and Language Centres (Specialisation in Mathematics)
- PhD in Education
- Master's Degree in Aeronautical Management
- Master's Degree in Biological and Environmental Engineering
- Master's Degree in Computer Vision - in English
- Master's Degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management - in English
- Master's Degree in Telecommunication Engineering - in English
- PhD in Computer Science
- PhD in Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering
- Master's Degree in Analysis and Management of the Artistic Heritage
- Master's Degree in Archival and Records Management
- Master's Degree in Contemporary History
- Master's Degree in Documentary Management, Transparency and Access to Information
- Master's Degree in Egyptology
- Master's Degree in Musicology, Musical Education and Interpretation of Early Music
- Master's Degree in Prehistory, Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Master's Degree in The Challenges of Contemporary Philosophy
- PhD in Art History and Musicology
- PhD in Classical Archaeology
- PhD in Cognitive Science and Language
- PhD in Comparative, Political and Social History
- PhD in Philosophy
- PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology
- Master's Degree in Advanced English Studies - in English
- Master's Degree in Advanced Studies in Catalan Language and Literature
- Master's Degree in Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies
- Master's Degree in Information Processing and Multilingual Communication
- Master's Degree in Spanish Language, Hispanic Literature and Spanish as a Foreign Language
- Master's Degree in Theatre Studies
- Master's Degree in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies
- PhD in Catalan Language and Literature and Theatre Studies
- PhD in English Studies
- PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature
- PhD in Romance Languages and Cultures
- PhD in Spanish Studies
- PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies
- Master's Degree in Enterprise Law
- Master's Degree in European Integration
- Master's Degree in Legal Profession
- Master's Degree in Public Law and Multilevel Integration Processes
- Master's Degree in Social and Labour Rights
- PhD in Human Security and Global Law
- PhD in Law
- PhD in Law, Science and Technologies
- Master's Degree in Applied Clinical Research in Health Sciences
- Master's Degree in Introduction to Research in Mental Health
- Master's Degree in Pharmacology
- Master's Degree in Pharmacovigilance and Pharmacoepidemiology - in English
- Master's Degree in Reconstructive Microsurgery - in English
- Master's Degree in Research and Innovation in Nursing Care
- Master's Degree in Transfusion Medicine and Advanced Cell Therapies - in English
- Master's Degree in Translational Biomedical Research
- PhD in Medicine
- PhD in Methodology of Biomedical Research and Public Health
- PhD in Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology
- PhD in Pharmacology
- PhD in Psychiatry
- PhD in Surgery and Morphological Sciences
- Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Education Policies for Global Development (GLOBED) - in English
- Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Public Policy (MUNDUS MAPP) - in English
- Master's Degree in Anthropology: Advanced Research and Social Intervention
- Master's Degree in European Union-China: Culture and Economy
- Master's Degree in International Relations, Security and Development
- Master's Degree in Policies and Planning for Towns, Environment and Landscape
- Master's Degree in Political Science - in English
- Master's Degree in Public Administration
- Master's Degree in Regional and Population Studies
- Master's Degree in Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems
- Master's Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Master's Degree in Social Policy and Community Action
- Master's Degree in Social Policy, Employment and Welfare
- PhD in Demography
- PhD in Geography
- PhD in Politics, Policies and International Relations
- PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology
- PhD in Sociology
- Master's Degree in Communication and Language Disorders
- Master's Degree in General Health Psychology
- Master's Degree in Management of Human Resources in Organisations
- Master's Degree in Psychosocial Research and Intervention
- Master's Degree in Research in Psychology Applied to Health Science
- PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology
- PhD in Health and Sports Psychology
- PhD in Person and Society in the Contemporary World
- PhD in Psychology of Communications and Change
- Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Environmental Studies - Cities and Sustainability (JEMES) - in English
- Erasmus Mundus Master's Degree in Mathematical Modelling in Engineering: Theory, Numerics, Applications (MATHMODS) - in English
- Master's Degree in Advanced Nanoscience and Nanotechnology - in English
- Master's Degree in Electrochemistry. Science and Technology
- Master's Degree in High Energy Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology - in English
- Master's Degree in History of Science: Science, History and Society
- Master's Degree in Industrial Chemistry and Introduction to Chemical Research - in English
- Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability
- Master's Degree in Modelling for Science and Engineering - in English
- Master's Degree in Photonics Engineering, Nanophotonics and Biophotonics (EUROPHOTONICS) - in English
- PhD in Chemistry
- PhD in Electrochemistry. Science and Technology
- PhD in Environmental Science and Technology
- PhD in Geology
- PhD in History of Science
- PhD in History of Science
- PhD in Materials Science
- PhD in Mathematics
- PhD in Physics
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University Highlights
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is one of the top Public universities in Barcelona, Spain. It is ranked #213 in QS Global World University Rankings 2021.