60.4% of the FUAB Training School's Master's degree students are international
More than 340 students are starting their Master's degree studies today, 60.4% of whom are international students, from 29 different countries, mainly China, Colombia, Chile and Peru. Registration figures are similar to those recorded last year.
09/10/2023
The Master's degrees at the FUAB Training School started the 2023-2024 academic year with registration figures similar to those from last year, although some courses have increased student numbers. This is the case with the Master's Degree in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems, the official Master's Degree in Teaching Chinese to Spanish Speakers, and the Master's Degree in Social Policy and Community Action.
Particularly noteworthy is the increase in registrations for the Master's Degree in Archival Studies and Information Governance, filling all 45 places and coinciding with its new updated format.
Internationalisation of study programmes
Of the 346 students who have started an official Master's degree at the FUAB Training School this year, 137 are Spanish and 209 are from abroad. 18.7% come from China and around 30% from Latin America, mainly from countries such as Colombia (7.66%), Chile (5.74%) and Peru (4.78%).
The Master's degrees with the highest number of international students are the Master's Degree in Teaching Chinese for Spanish Speakers and the Master's Degree in European Union-Chinese: Culture and Economy, where 92% and 72% of students are of Chinese origin, respectively.
The Master's Degree in Social Policy and Community Action also maintained its general trend of welcoming students from various Latin American countries, with 13 students from Chile, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina and Ecuador.
Also noteworthy are the Master’s Degree in Hotel Management -almost 75% are international students-, and the Master’s Degree in Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management, one of the programmes with the highest number of nationalities represented -with students from 8 countries and 3 continents-.
The Master's Degree in Account Auditing and Accounting also has students from a wide range of nationalities in the classroom, with students coming from China, France, Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, and Argentina.
The remote learning mode used for the Master’s Degree in Transfusion Medicine and Cellular and Tissue Therapies and the Master’s Degree in Sports Management (online), has encouraged a wide variety of international students to study with us, including two from Africa (Ghana and Egypt).
