How to study in Spain?

FEEDUC support, studies, calendars, university procedures.

With more than 9 years of experience serving French students planning to study in Spain, FEEDUC puts its expertise in this field at their disposal.

Knowing the steps to take, the schedules to follow, how to prepare, are all subjects on which we have provided advice to the more than 1,000 students we have accompanied in their plans to study in Spain in 2019.

  • What is FEEDUC's mission? Who will implement it?

Our daily role, with the students who have a project of study in Spain (and their families), is to accompany their projects.

To do this, we listen to and analyze each person's profile beforehand, and then we can provide relevant advice to each of them.

What level of Spanish? What solutions?

What grades in high school? Which universities?

What budget? What offers?

What is the deadline? What proposals?

We want to show each student who wants to study in Spain and who asks us for help, a way.

A path to admission and above all a path that will lead him to the success of his studies in Spain. A path that will give him the opportunity to become a successful student in Spain and then a competent professional in his future professional life.

We are 2 experts (Nathalie Sanchez and Clément Bazoge) at FEEDUC and we work daily, methodically and rigorously to fulfill our mission.

  • What projects can we support?

We can accompany all projects for training in the health sciences(physiotherapy, dental, veterinary, audioprosthesis, pharmacy, nursing or podiatry...), architecture, business school (marketing, business, finance, management ...), the artistic field, digital (with the creation of video games and cartoons), design (of spaces, objects, in the field of fashion, photography, etc...), tourism, engineering, translation-interpreting and Spanish language studies.

There are also courses for which FEEDUC will not support you. This is the case, for example, if you want to study occupational therapy or speech therapy, or if you want to become a midwife or Spanish teacher. Some courses don't exist in Spain, others are incomplete or of too low a quality overall, so there's no real point in studying in Spain. Finally, some courses make it extremely unlikely that you will be able to practice in France, as the steps involved are extremely complex, with no guarantee of success.

 

FEEDUC can also support your project by offering a specific accompaniment service to certain public universities.

 

We can also help you to join university studies if you have not obtained your baccalaureate after your 3 years of high school studies. To do this, we will suggest that you go through "FP" (Vocational Training), some of which open the doors to university courses.

 

  • What is the timetable for your study project in Spain?

Whatever your study project in Spain, you will have to follow and sometimes even respect a calendar, just like for a post-bac orientation with ParcourSup in France for example.

 

  • From June to January: information gathering phase (rates, required levels, locations, discovery of training offers) and preparation.
  • January to May: admission phases with the implementation of selection processes. The processes often open towards the end of January and remain open for several months.
  • FEBRUARY: Open days organized (especially for students who have chosen to study in Spain with FEEDUC) by private universities selected in Spain for the quality of their teaching. If you are unable to attend on the dates proposed, we can arrange individual appointments for you.
  • From May to July: registration phase for students who have been admitted following the selections, and administrative finalization
  • From the end of August to October: it's back to school!

 

  • What steps will you have to take to study in Spain?

During the course of a student's study project in Spain, the student's activity (and that of his or her family, which often accompanies him or her in the process) will be divided into three main, fundamental and unavoidable phases: preparation of the project, university procedures (admission and registration for students who have received a positive admission response), and general administrative procedures.

1. Preparation of the project

This will last several years for the most far-sighted, several months as a general rule and several weeks at least for the least far-sighted who still want to see their project succeed and especially who want to succeed in their studies in Spain. Being admitted to a university is not the goal: your goal must be to succeed in your studies in Spain!

  • You will first have to do a classic orientation work to find out which job is right for you. Do not skip this step, it is even more important with an expatriation project. An expatriation is never trivial, sometimes difficult (even in Spain) and requires a strong motivation to successfully face what awaits you during 2, 3, 4, 5 (and sometimes more) years of study in Spain.
  • Next, you'll need to spend a lot of time researching colleges. This is the heart of your project! What are the accessibility requirements for a French student who wants to study in Spain? Each university decides on its own requirements. Each university proposes its own process. It can therefore take a lot of time to gather and synthesize all this information to make a decision, to make the right decision. What are the annual fees? The ratio between the cheapest and the most expensive can vary from 1 to 10 for the same course of study and the same degree. Do you have the prerequisites to get into the cheapest ones? Will you be able to finance your entire education at the most expensive ones? Does the location of the campus match the lifestyle you want? Will the location mean additional housing or transportation costs? What will be the magnitude of these additional costs?
  • Once (and only then) you have gathered and synthesized this information you will be able to prioritize your choice of universities. It is not a matter of applying to a university because you have a friend or your grandmother's nephew there, but rather of selecting the study proposals in Spain that correspond to you and for which you meet the admission requirements. This is the only way to give yourself the best chance of making your study abroad project a reality.
  • Another essential part of the preparation of a study project in Spain is to be carried out in parallel: The Spanish language upgrade ! Whether you are a beginner, weak, average or good in Spanish, if you are not completely bilingual, you will have to work to improve your Spanish level. This is essential for studying in Spain (especially for health care courses, where you will need to be bilingual before you can treat patients in internships, regardless of the language of your studies in Spain) and living a pleasant life in Spain. The level of Spanish of a student is currently thefirst criterion taken into account by the universities to evaluate the motivation of the applicants.

2. The implementation of academic approaches

This is not a topic that will occupy you until January-February because, before that time, universities are not yet ready to process applications (in fact, they may not even have definitively defined their admissions processes by then).

  • Tip #1 for university procedures to study in Spain: do not confuse the admission process (you apply to a university) with the enrollment process (the university has informed you that it accepts you and you can then enroll).
  • Advice n°2 for the university procedures to study in Spain, respect to the letter what is asked by the universities because the incomplete or non-conforming files are simply not taken into account. Sending an incomplete application or one that does not comply with the instructions is equivalent to not having sent an application.
  • Tip #3: As soon as you decide to apply to study in Spain, gather the following original documents that you have already obtained: your first year report card, your last year report card, your high school transcript, your high school diploma, an identity document that is valid beyond the start of the school year that you plan to attend in Spain, and an official certificate (SIELE or DELE from the Instituto Cervantes ) With this file you will be able to provide everything that is usually required to implement a study project in Spain.

3. General administrative procedures

Once you have been admitted to a university and have registered to study there, you can start to take care of the other administrative procedures:

FEEDUC can help you find out exactly how to study in Spain!

For all those who have a project to study in Spain for 2020, what to do? Contact us as soon as possible and let's start working together on your project!

It's also in the preparation that FEEDUC brings you its real added value.

It's our presence in the field that makes FEEDUC: we know what we're talking about, and we only talk about what we know.

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