- Faculty of Arts and Humanities
- Bellaterra Campus
- Duration: 4 years courses - 240 credits
- Places:
- Price per credit: 25.27 euros
- Language: Catalan and Spanish
- Academic calendar
- Learning mode: Online classes
Career options
The bachelor's degree in Geography and Spatial Planning trains technicians and specialists prepared to work in the following areas:- Spatial Planning and Management. Specialists in planning and managing the land, policies of private and public institutions (urban planning, cadastral surveyors, heritage and real estate managers, etc.).
- Regional Studies. Specialist in rural spaces and local developments and in urban spaces and planning (landscape specialists, development agents, cooperation agents, etc.).
- Mapping. Specialists in cartographic techniques and quantitative and qualitative methodologies (cartography and map libraries, remote sensing, collaboration with topographers, design of surveys and statistical analysis, etc.).
- Working in a network and in cooperation with other professionals from this environment. Specialist in environmental issues (environmental health and risk prevention officers, environmental consultants, managers of natural parks, etc.) and specialist in the physical environment (meteorologists, hydrologists, geological consultants, etc.).
- Regional analysis. Specialists in local and regional analyses as well as in countries and large regions around the world (strategic and geopolitical resources, etc.).
- Demography. Specialist in population and demography issues (demography applied to business, geomarketing, etc.).
- Teaching, dissemination and informal education on spatial planning.Specialists in education teaching social sciences or working on popularisation tasks in geography (tourist promotion, publishing houses, preparing papers for journals, teaching, etc.).
- Research into spatial planning. Specialists in different fields of geography working in research centres or institutes, or at universities conducting research into geography.
Mobility programmes
The Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona participates in many mobility and exchange programmes around the world (http://www.uab.cat/web/mobility-international-exchange-1345680336097.html), especially with Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Mobility programmes allow the UAB community to experience different realities and enable foreign students to complete their education at UAB.

Map of UAB exchange programmes.
Do you want to be an exchange student? Check the Circuit for outgoing students.
Are you interested in studying at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities? Check the Procedure for incoming students
Mobility programmes allow the UAB community to experience different realities and enable foreign students to complete their education at UAB.
Map of UAB exchange programmes.
Do you want to be an exchange student? Check the Circuit for outgoing students.
Are you interested in studying at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities? Check the Procedure for incoming students
Professional training
Optional work placement subject.