Your first choices on Parcoursup have not been validated? What if the solution was in Spain...

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You are sure of the job you want to do, but unfortunately, your morale is at half-mast because you did not get this choice in your post-baccalaureate orientation wishes?

You didn't think about Spain for your studies and yet there are very good quality/price training solutions in almost all fields of higher education.

At the end of May, the first results of Parcoursup are published. If your wishes are not accepted, then think about Spain and the many options that are available there.

We have been working for more than 10 years in the education sector (French and Spanish) in Spain.
This has allowed us to identify the university courses of interest in Spain for a French student.

Contrary to what one might imagine from France, Spain is not only interested in training in the health field.

Our general opinion

First of all, we advise you to determine your objectives precisely:

  • Obtaining a diploma in a regulated sector to practice in France.
  • The search for skills to practice in France after your studies in Spain.
  • The search for an international career.
  • Access to high quality training.
  • The desire to distinguish one's future CV from those of most French students.
  • The idea of proving an ability to adapt, to demonstrate an ability to get out of one's comfort zone.
  • Etc...

If you know what you want to study, there is certainly a solution in Spain that will allow you to become a competent and recognized professional.

What are the most popular and interesting courses in Spain?

  • If you are passionate about Spain,
  • if you have a particular passion for a region of Spain,
  • if you want to defend innovative tourism proposals or benefit from the marketing experience of experts,

you can find a training offer of quality.

In the more specific sector of the hotel industry, there is no interest in training, stay rather in France or think of Switzerland but Spain does not offer courses that really deserve that you are interested.

If your goal is to pursue an international career, you should definitely look into the proposals of Spanish universities. architectural training is to pursue an international career, you should be interested in the proposals of Spanish universities.

In Spain, this training was built from engineering training (in France, architectural studies are more likely to be part of fine arts training) and therefore offers a very solid technical base.

  • Several universities offer the curriculum in English with bridges to major architectural firms, particularly in the United States.
  • Studying architecture in Spanish will allow for very interesting openings towards South America, with, in particular, interesting projects in sustainable development.

In both cases, you will benefit from a learning method through the implementation of projects, supervised by professors who are all recognized professionals and have often received international awards for some of their projects.

You often choose these studies out of passion.
You sometimes forget that, to have a quality training in this sector, you need enormous technical means at your disposal.

You should also know that you will need to have very specific specialties and a very important network to make a living and have fun in your future job.

We have identified the right university for you in Spain and you can study in Spanish or English with, in both cases :

  • gigantic technical means (the Illion animation studio on campus),
  • an infinite professional network (creation of the school by renowned and world-renowned entrepreneurs in the sector who could not find sufficiently well-trained personnel for their companies)
  • worldwide recognition (students win most of the awards in this sector).

In our opinion, only this university is interesting in this field of training and it is very interesting for a student to consider studying in Spain.

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  • The cost of education is much lower than in Anglo-Saxon countries,
  • the quality and ranking of some schools are excellent, even before entering the Master's program.

This choice is an anticipated and thoughtful way to prove that your future resume is not like others and that you have long been able to step out of your comfort zone to achieve a goal.

This is a way to already stand out to future employers that you don't even know yet, even though you haven't started your higher education yet. You can find, for example:

  • excellent offers in English and Spanish.
  • Training proposals in digital marketing, which will give you very concrete skills and allow you to be professionally competent even before the end of your studies.

Other important benefits, in our opinion:

  • In two years, some will have finished their preparatory course and will enter a business school in France, on the basis of a competitive examination, and those who have chosen Spain will enter the third year of equally prestigious schools at the international level.
  • Your profile as a foreign student is an undeniable advantage in the admission process to business schools in Spain:

    and yes, you are automatically considered more motivated than others!

In our opinion, you can have an interest in training in Spain for artistic courses very specific fields:

  • You will find, for example, flamenco schools in Seville. We know students from the south of France who trained there for several years, they couldn't have found a better place!
  • FEEDUC works with a Madrid university that offers a prestigious music school. Every year, teachers and students win prizes in major international competitions around the world. If you're planning to make music your career, this could be an interesting option, as it's of the highest quality.

To follow an interesting training in Design you have to be in the heart of where it all happens and be in contact with influential professionals in the sector.
This training proposal :

  • is located in the center of Madrid, a few steps from Gran Via,
  • will bring you skills and network in the design sector by relying on the Italian expertise of the group it is part of,
  • is a very good way to stand out from other profiles in the sector right from the start of your higher education!

The sectors of training offered in engineering schools are the same in Spain as in France:

  • aeronautics,
  • automobile,
  • communication,
  • computer science,
  • aerospace,
  • electric,
  • industrial,
  • environmental sciences,
  • etc...

There is no generalist school.

The main advantage, in our opinion, is the opportunity to access these courses without going through the 2 years of preparatory courses and your future ability to manage projects in Spain and Latin America for French companies, which is not so frequent.

In this sector too, your profile as a foreign student is an important advantage for the admission process: for universities, if you choose Spain for your engineering studies, you are bound to be more motivated than a Spaniard studying in Spain or a French student studying in France!

Students who choose these studies often seek a degree to practice in France.

If you choose a serious university in Spain, you will obtain, in addition to this official diploma that will allow you to practice in France, solid knowledge and skills that will allow you to be competent and recognized professionals in France and everywhere else in the world.

In the health training or similar to this sector of training there are also trainings that, in our opinion, are not recommended:

  • Medicine:
    This course of study is very difficult to access for a French person in Spain and there is a barrier at the end of the studies, the MIR. This exam, which takes place at the end of the 6th year, is a grading exam but does not lead to a degree. There is therefore a real risk of successfully completing 6 years of studies but never becoming a doctor, neither specialist nor generalist, because of not passing the exam.
  • Midwife:
    on the one hand, this training in Spain is only a nursing specialty and the skills obtained may be a bit inadequate for competent practice then in France where the training passes through a foundation of medicine and not nursing.
    Moreover, there are very few places in this specialty in Spain, so there is no guarantee that a nursing graduate will be admitted to this specialty.
  • Speech Language Pathologist:
    The linguistic structures of French and Spanish are very different and it is rare to have professionals trained in one of the two countries who have the skills to practice in the other and vice versa.
    As a proof, the need for speech therapists trained in France to treat students in French high schools in Spain in order to perform an efficient work.
  • Law:
    Except as a complement to a business course, this is a course that we do not recommend in Spain, neither in post-bac nor in Master.
    In the post-bac program, you start with the basics of civil law, which vary from one country to another, and the content is therefore not identical. To enter the Master's program, you must repeat all, or almost all, of the subjects obtained in the Bachelor's program in France, because the knowledge is not the same and ECTS validation is not accepted. Therefore, unless your life project is in Spain or you want to obtain a double degree in business and law so that your legal knowledge can help you in your business career, we do not recommend expatriation to Spain.
  • Teaching :
    You cannot be prepared to take the competitive exams to be a teacher in France by studying in another country and this is also true for Spain.
    A competitive examination for school teachers, a Capes, an Agrégation are prepared in France.
  • The STAPS equivalent :
    The same as for teaching, a competitive exam for a sports educator or gym teacher to practice in France is taken and therefore prepared in France.
    If you have studied STAPS in France, you can, on the other hand, consider continuing your studies in Physiotherapy in Spain, sometimes with recognition of ECTS for certain subjects.
  • The Social :
    This is a Franco-French sector of activity, and therefore of training.
    It does not exist in Spain as a training field.
    What is called "social" in Spain includes all the social sciences such as economics, law, business administration, international relations, history, geography, sociology.... and is generally of no interest to a French student.

Here's FEEDUC's professional opinion on studying in Spain and which courses are of real or no interest to French students.

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