- Faculty of Psychology
- Bellaterra Campus
- Duration: 4 courses - 240 credits
- Places: 80
- Admission mark: 8,918
- Price per credit: 18.46 Euros
- Language: Catalan (96%) and Spanish (4%)
- Academic Calendar Degree's 2023-2024
- Learning mode: Classroom-based learning
The bachelor's degree in Speech Therapy at the UAB is:
- The only public university in Catalonia to offer a degree in Speech Therapy.
- Training in a profession that is dedicated to the health and wellbeing of people in such fundamental aspects as communication and language.
- Helping you become professionally equipped to work in prevention, evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of disorders related to speech, voice, non-verbal oral functions, oral and written language and other forms of communication with people of all ages.
- Offering the multidisciplinary training all speech therapists need, with specialised lecturers from four different faculties (Psychology, Medicine, Humanities and Arts and Education) and 13 departments.
- Giving importance to professional work placements: you will count on a broad network of teaching labs which guarantee a strong practical component, as well as a large number of work placement agreements with affiliated centres.
- Internationalisation: you will be able to study part of your degree at a wide range of European and Latin American universities.
- Completing the degree to go on to working in healthcare centres, special education centres, media companies, etc. to name a few.
Career options
The main job opportunities for speech therapists are mainly related to those offered in public and private health care centres, special education centres, mass media and specific professional sectors (actors, singers, etc.)Testimonials
Mobility programmes
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona participates in numerous mobility and exchange programs around the world, especially with Europe, America and Asia, exchanges that allow the UAB university community to know other university realities and foreign students complete their education at the UAB.
Exchanges with European universities (Erasmus): Erasmus is the European Union's program in the field of higher education, which favors European mobility and helps to progress in transparency and full academic recognition among all the qualification studies and qualifications of the Union.
Exchanges with universities in Spain (SICUE): The System of Exchange between University Centers of Spain (SICUE) facilitates the exchange of students within the Spanish State. This exchange offers the student the possibility of experiencing different teaching systems, including the practices regime, and of knowing the social and cultural aspects of other Autonomous Communities.
UAB Exchange Program with universities around the world: The UAB Exchange Program gives students registered at the UAB the opportunity to take a one-semester or full-year academic stay in a foreign university that does not participate in the Erasmus program.
Exchanges with European universities (Erasmus): Erasmus is the European Union's program in the field of higher education, which favors European mobility and helps to progress in transparency and full academic recognition among all the qualification studies and qualifications of the Union.
Exchanges with universities in Spain (SICUE): The System of Exchange between University Centers of Spain (SICUE) facilitates the exchange of students within the Spanish State. This exchange offers the student the possibility of experiencing different teaching systems, including the practices regime, and of knowing the social and cultural aspects of other Autonomous Communities.
UAB Exchange Program with universities around the world: The UAB Exchange Program gives students registered at the UAB the opportunity to take a one-semester or full-year academic stay in a foreign university that does not participate in the Erasmus program.
List of universities with exchange programmes
Exchanges with European universities (Erasmus):
At present, the Faculty of Psychology has established agreements for students of speech therapy with 7 European universities of Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, United Kingdom and Turkey.
Exchanges with universities in Spain (SICUE):
At present, the Faculty of Psychology has established 6 agreements for students of speech therapy with universities of Granada, Madrid, Malaga, Oviedo, Tenerife and Valencia.
UAB Exchange Program with universities around the world:
The students of the Faculty of Psychology can access places signed with several universities in America, Asia and Oceania.
Space for Mobility and Exchanges of the Virtual Campus
This tool, created by the Faculty of Psychology (and pioneer at the UAB), aims to facilitate and promote the participation of students of the Faculty in the exchange programs established by the UAB, as well as streamlining the dialogue and the students' exchange of information between participating students and future mobility students.
Are you selected to study at the Faculty of Psychology as an exchange student? Check the Procedure for incoming students.
At present, the Faculty of Psychology has established agreements for students of speech therapy with 7 European universities of Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, United Kingdom and Turkey.
Exchanges with universities in Spain (SICUE):
At present, the Faculty of Psychology has established 6 agreements for students of speech therapy with universities of Granada, Madrid, Malaga, Oviedo, Tenerife and Valencia.
UAB Exchange Program with universities around the world:
The students of the Faculty of Psychology can access places signed with several universities in America, Asia and Oceania.
Space for Mobility and Exchanges of the Virtual Campus
This tool, created by the Faculty of Psychology (and pioneer at the UAB), aims to facilitate and promote the participation of students of the Faculty in the exchange programs established by the UAB, as well as streamlining the dialogue and the students' exchange of information between participating students and future mobility students.
Are you selected to study at the Faculty of Psychology as an exchange student? Check the Procedure for incoming students.
Additional exchange programme documents
Professional training
The objective of the Professional training of Speech Therapy is that the student makes a first contact with the applied practice in order to be able to directly observe the work of professionals and to be able to know, also directly, the users of the speech-based interventions and the functioning of work teams in public and private areas. It is an apprenticeship based on participatory observation and direct experience within the professional context.
The Bachelor's Degree of Speech Therapy comprises 4 Professional training, distributed among the second, third and fourth courses. The corresponding internships are carried out in hospitals, in specialized intervention centres in language problems and in schools or centres that have diagnostic and re-education units of language problems associated with different pathologies or delays.
List of work placement centres
The Faculty of Psychology has collaboration agreements, to carry out the Professional Training of Speech Therapy, signed with public and private entities that cover different fields.University Hospitals of Sant Pau and Vall d'Hebrón, Mataró Hospital, Centers for reeducation and attention to language problems, Centers for child development and early attention (CDIAPs), Centers for educational resources for hearing impaired (CREDAs) and others centers specialized in deafness and serious language disorders, special education centers, rehabilitation centers for language disorders derived from neurological diseases, among others.
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