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Universidad de Santiago

The University of Santiago de Compostela — commonly known as USC — is a public university founded in 1495 by Don Lope Gómez de Marzoa. It is located in the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela, with an additional campus in Lugo, both situated in northwestern Spain. The university hosts around 45,000 students and employs approximately 2,200 academic staff. The official language of instruction is Galician, which is used in about 20 percent of the courses.

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Universidad de Santiago

  • Analysis of socio-economic processes with spatial dimensions (tourism, industry, transport, mobility)
  • Local Development
  • Spatial Planning and Urban Studies
  • Environmental Law: Environmental Analysis and Climatological Applications
  • International Cooperation and Regional Development
Earth System Analysis:
  • Natural Resources
  • Paleoclimatology
  • Glacial and Periglacial Geomorphology
  • Culture and Climate
Society, Science, and Space:
  • New Technologies and Society
  • Territorial Marketing
  • Social and Information Geography
  • Urban and Regional Planning
  • Disintegration of Urban and Rural Areas
  • Socio-Economic Analysis with Territorial Impacts: Tourism, Industry, Transport and Mobility,
  • Fisheries
  • Local Development
  • Territorial Organization: Urbanism
  • Environment: Natural Areas, Environmental Assessment, Applied Climatology
  • International Cooperation
  • Number of Erasmus Places: 1 (1–2 semesters; Bachelor’s level only)
  • Language Requirements: B1 Spanish (DELE certificate or proof of language proficiency issued by a lecturer at the University of Bonn or the University of Bonn’s Language Learning Center)
  • Semester Dates: Winter Semester: Early September to late December; Summer Semester: Late January to mid-May
  • Erasmus Application Deadlines: Winter Semester: July 15; Summer Semester: November 30
  • English-Taught Courses in Geography: Not available
  • Erasmus Student Homepage
  • Course Catalogue
  • Accommodation*
  • Student Experience Reports
*Once a year, in May, a call for applications is published. Students wishing to live in one of the residence halls must apply at that time.