Madrid
Partner Institutions
The Universidad Complutense
The Universidad Complutense was founded in Alcalá de Henares, known in ancient times as Complutum, by Cardinal Cisneros in 1499. La Complutense is organized on the basis of several semi-autonomous colleges called facultades, which vary in size from a few hundred students to several thousand. Each facultad has its own facilities and courses of instruction.
The range of degrees offered at the Complutense is among the most complete in Europe and includes a wide variety of specialties. Its 70 official degrees are arranged with respect to four areas of knowledge: Humanities, Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Health Sciences and Social Sciences.
ACCENT coordinates programs where students are able to directly enroll in Complutense courses with all courses taught in Spanish.
Centro Complutense para la Enseñanza del Español
The Centro Complutense para la Enseñanza del Español (CCEE) was created as one of many efforts by Complutense University to support and expand internationalization on its campus. The central mission of CCEE is to offer Spanish language and Culture courses to foreign students as well as to prepare and train teachers of Spanish as a foreign language.
ACCENT coordinates programs that can take place in Fall, Winter, Spring or Summer and are taught by the CCEE faculty team comprised of professors from several of the main humanities and Spanish language departments of the Universidad Complutense.
CARLOS III
The Carlos III University is a public university under the jurisdiction of the Spanish Government. It was founded in 1989 and enrolls over 13,000 students.
The Carlos III University began its academic activity with modern, flexible and multidisciplinary curricula. The university offers 19 departments including Political Science, Sociology, Law, History, Economics, and Business.
ACCENT designs programs with American institutions that allow students to directly enroll into a full course of study at Carlos III where all courses are taught in Spanish.
ESCP-Europe
ESCP Europe was founded in Paris in 1819. In 1973 the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry decided to create a multi-campus school of management in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. Campuses in Madrid and Turin were added later. Today the school welcomes more than 4,000 students annually into a diverse group of management degrees, including executive education and a European MBA.
ACCENT partners with ESCP-Europe to provide high-level, internationally focused business and economics seminars to American MBA and management students. Programs include company visits throughout Madrid, exposure to ESCP-Europe's top faculty and the opportunity to study business in one of Europe's economic capitals.
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
United under the common name of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 1971, most of the 'facultades' or colleges that comprise this prestigious technological institution were founded between the 18th and 19th centuries. Today the school offers more than forty degrees in all fields of engineering and is considered one of Europe's top engineering research institutions.
ACCENT coordinates direct enrollment programs with the Universidad Politecnica, allowing American engineering students to fully immerse in both the Spanish language and the local university culture without compromising their rigorous academic requirements.
The Don Quijote Language School
The Don Quijote language school was founded in 1986. This private school is exclusively geared towards the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. Don Quijote students differ greatly in age, origin and cultural background and in their reasons for learning Spanish. These differences add value to the Spanish courses. Quite often the different ways of life and the different cultures of the students are the subjects of lively discussion during the lessons.
ACCENT offers two possibilities to its partner institutions within the frame of the collaboration with Don Quijote: Cursos abiertos - ACCENT students integrate into Don Quijote courses and share the classroom with other international students; and Cursos cerrados - Tailor-made courses for only ACCENT students taught by Don Quijote professors.
CEU San Pablo
CEU was founded as a small law school in Madrid in 1933 and has grown in its more than seventy years of history to a full-scale university with more than 26,000 students and 3,000 faculty members. CEU has campuses in seven Spanish cities and offers more than 150 courses.
The CEU San Pablo Campus in Madrid is composed of six colleges: Pharmacy, Medicine, Business & Economics, Law, Humanities & Communication, and Polytechnic. ACCENT coordinates programs with all of the colleges on the San Pablo campus and offers direct enrollment in all courses.
Francisco de Vitoria
La Universidad de Francisco de Vitoria was originally opened in 1993 as part of the Universidad Complutense, but in 2002 it separated to form an independent, private university. The main campus is located in Pozuelo de Alarcón, a suburb of Madrid, and serves nearly 3,000 students. The university has a strong focus on social justice and requires students to volunteer at a local NGO as part of course requirements.
ACCENT programs can take advantage of direct enrollment in all courses at the UFV, affording students a true Spanish university experience in the company of local students. Internship and volunteer opportunities can also be arranged.
IE Business School
IE Business School was founded in 1973 and today has more than 30,000 master level business graduates in more than 85 countries. Business Week ranked the IE MBA second in non-US MBA programs in 2008. The school's mission is to train leaders that promote innovation and change in business organizations, entrepreneurial styles of management that generate employment, collective wealth and social well-being. Degrees are offered in English, Spanish and bi-lingual formats.
ACCENT works with IE Business School to develop seminars on contemporary business issues as well as coordinate for direct enrollment in courses in both Spanish and English.
IE University
IE University was recently founded by the IE Business School as an extension of their innovative management education to the undergraduate environment. The main campus is located in historic Segovia in the former Convent of Santa Cruz la Real, declared a national heritage site in 1931. It is just an hour's ride from Madrid. IE University programs are designed around the humanities, innovation, and business management and all feature significant practical components.
IE University strives to mirror the diversity of its Business School campus, currently home to students representing more than 80 nationalities. ACCENT works with IE University to coordinate immersion programs and direct enrollment based on the school's modern campus in Segovia with orientation sessions and experiential learning in Madrid.
Universidad Camilo José Cela
The Universidad Camilo José Cela was founded in 2000 with the goal of educating global thinkers with modern methodologies. The university is associated with the SEK education group, which has been operating in Spain for over a century. The main campus is located in Madrid's suburb of Villanueva de la Cañada.
The University offers more than forty undergraduate degrees and eighty graduate degrees, as well as courses for professionals. There are four colleges: Social Sciences & Education, Communication, Health Sciences, Law & Economics, and Architecture & Technology. ACCENT partners with Camilo José Cela to offer direct enrollment in local courses and access to the university's international faculty for seminars and individualized courses.