Public universities charge per ECTS credit – on average €11.95–19.29 in 2024/25, depending on the region, and EU citizens pay the same as Spaniards; many charge non-EU students without Spanish residence more. Spain has 91 universities, 50 of them public, and over 800 programmes taught fully or partly in English. Find out how UNEDasiss accreditation works, what a month in Madrid costs and how much you can work.
Spain has a large and varied higher education sector. According to SEPIE, the government agency that promotes Spanish higher education abroad, there are 91 universities: 50 public and 41 private. Together they have 1,111 faculties and schools, 594 research institutes and 61 doctoral schools.
Besides universities, there are specialised business, engineering and arts schools. Public universities come under the autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas) – Spain's regions – and it is the regions that set tuition fees, among other things.
You will find the official list of universities and degrees in the ministry's RUCT register and in the QEDU search engine ("Qué estudiar y dónde en la universidad" – what to study and where).
Sources: European Commission – Study in Europe (education.ec.europa.eu/study-in-europe), Eurostat, official national study and residence portals and authorities, Eurodesk, enic-naric.net, studentnews.eu. As of September 2026.
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