Bachelor's degree in Tourism | 100% in English
Barcelona, Spain
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
Spanish, English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 7,956 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
The CETT-UB Bachelor's degree in Tourism 100% in english is a unique opportunity to shape your future. Thanks to the set of knowledge and experiences that you will gain throughout your studies, you will lead and manage all kinds of companies in the tourism and hospitality sector. Imagine a school with its hotel and restaurant—a meeting place for professionals in the industry, students, and clients. Live CETT's experience. Shape your future and study with us for a Tourism Degree.
Tourism is one of the main economic sectors worldwide and especially in Spain. Despite the current economic and health crisis, the tourism sector demands profiles with multidisciplinary training in business management, leadership, economics, law, humanities, and languages. Companies need trained professionals to respond to the challenges that the sector must face, such as digitalization, sustainability, innovation, and responsible and ethical development.
As a CETT-UB Graduate in Tourism, you will be recognized for your ability to adapt to new situations and contexts, your versatility, and your versatility for the direction and management of companies in the tourism sector.
Discover the degree in numbers
- You will be able to pursue an international double degree in the U.S., France, or Finland in just four years.
- You will be able to choose between 3 specializations (mentions) with official recognition. .
- 7 languages. We are the center with more teaching hours in different languages: English, French, German, Italian, Xinese, Russian and Spanish for international students.
- More than 85% of our students find a job within three months of completing their degree
- +900 agreements with collaborating companies
- +50 international agreements in 4 continents
Why study this bachelor's degree in tourism?
With the CETT-UB Degree in Tourism, you will hold positions of responsibility, management, and administration of tourism companies and public or private organizations in the sector.
Its curricular design will allow you to understand and see tourism from a global and international perspective. At the same time, it integrates the development of the necessary competencies for management profiles and those responsible for tourism and hotel businesses.
Acquire the competencies of the tourism leaders of the future
- You will develop a professional career with the most competent, versatile, and polyvalent profile in a sector with a future.
- You will be part of the new generation of managers with the necessary management skills that the sector demands.
- With more than 50 years of experience and recognized expertise in the sector, CETT is one of the most prestigious centers endorsed by the UB.
- You will learn with a faculty with outstanding expertise and a proven track record in the tourism and hotel sector.
- You will acquire recognition in the sector for the transversal competencies and management skills our students are known for.
- It will open the doors to the labor market: 45% of CETT-UB Tourism Degree undergraduates have found employment before completing their degree, and 90% have done so within three months.
Internships how and where you want
- You will have to complete two periods of curricular internships in companies and organizations of the CETT-UB partner sector; you can choose from more than 900! You will also be able to do extracurricular internships.
- You will also have the option of doing a cross-training internship thanks to the skills enhancing elective subjects, which will allow you to get to know the different departments of a company. Do not hesitate to ask.
Boost your international profile with a double degree
- CETT-UB has international double degrees: specific training itineraries established with universities in different countries, which will allow you to obtain two official degrees. Check these opportunities here.
- You will choose between doing a double degree in the USA, France, or Finland.
A unique higher education center at your disposal!
- You will be able to use multipurpose learning spaces: the Forum, the Eidos Space, La Plaza, the Creativity, and Innovation Space, the Computer Classrooms, or the Reception Classroom.
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Ideal Students
Our Bachelor's Degree in Tourism has a multidisciplinary approach, so no additional knowledge is required to access the program. Your pre-university studies will be enough, although we recommend that you have notions of humanities and social sciences.
If you come from a vocational background, you can apply for credit recognition and follow a tailor-made study pathway. Ask our student guidance team for all the details!
The recommended profile for prospective students of the degree:
- Has a good level of foreign languages, especially English.
- Has basic knowledge in tourism and hotel business management.
- Has analytical and organizational skills.
- Has critical and reflective capacity.
- Can study the dynamics of business growth and internationalization.
- Has empathy and willingness to work as part of a team.
- Has a high sense of ethics.
- Has an interest in traveling, enjoying the knowledge of other cultures, and contacting different realities.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
The CETT Foundation has a long tradition of commitment to education, teaching, and research in the field of tourism. The main principles that define and guide its actions are:
- Promote greater tourism knowledge
- Drive Tourism Science by promoting research
- Encourage the sustainable growth of tourism and hospitality
- Strengthen the international presence of CETT
- Maintain and increase relations with the tourism sector and CETT Alumni members
- Help students to broaden their knowledge
- Be socially responsible
With these principles, the CETT Foundation has been able to harness the will and intentions of various entities to provide scholarships for the different types of training that the CETT Group offers each year.
For more information regarding all the grants, please click link below.
Curriculum
An experiential learning journey
The study plan for the Bachelor's Degree in Tourism is composed of four courses of 60 ECTS each. The first two are common to all students. In the 3rd and 4th years, you will study the subjects corresponding to the specializations.
At CETT, we offer you skill enhancement pathways to adapt the degree to your motivations and interests and configure your professional profile with an added and differential value that will boost your professional career.
After completing your skills enhancement itinerary, you will receive an expert diploma in the chosen area, which will certify this itinerary to complement your degree specialization.
Depending on your interests, you will be able to choose between several intensification itineraries:
- Skills Enhancement: you will be able to take 18 credits to further deepen your knowledge in any of the following areas:
- Internationalization: new emerging markets, models, and expansion strategies in tourism businesses, etc.
- Digitalization: Big data management, Artificial Intelligence, digital applications in tourism, innovation: innovation models, agile methodologies for innovation, and technological innovation in tourism.
- Experiences: film and literature, food and wine tourism, design of establishments in hospitality, and design of experiential spaces in catering.
- Sustainability: ethics and CSR, development cooperation and tourism, tourism and gender.
- Internationalization: new emerging markets, models, and expansion strategies in tourism businesses, etc.
- Digitalization: Big data management, Artificial Intelligence, digital applications in tourism, innovation: innovation models, agile methodologies for innovation, and technological innovation in tourism.
- Experiences: film and literature, food and wine tourism, design of establishments in hospitality, and design of experiential spaces in catering.
- Sustainability: ethics and CSR, development cooperation and tourism, tourism and gender.
- Skills Enhancement oriented to increase language proficiency: you will be able to master a second language and take up to 27 credits of French or German. You will also learn other foreign languages such as Chinese or Russian and Spanish for international students.
- Skills Enhancement oriented to applied learning and knowledge of organizations and business management models: to carry out cross-training between various departments of national and international companies for 4 to 6 months.