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IES Abroad: Barcelona - IES Abroad Barcelona Center
Program Information
Study abroad in Barcelona—capital of the autonomous province of Catalonia. The IES Abroad Barcelona program provides students with opportunities to learn or perfect Spanish while studying business and liberal arts.
| Provider: | IES Abroad |
| Location(s): | Barcelona, Spain |
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| Website | Take me there! |
Review By:
Milena R. (Finance, The University of Texas at Austin) on August 23, 2011
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| * Start Date: | 2011-05-25 |
| * End Date: | 2011-07-08 |
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| * Did your program have a foreign language component? | Yes |
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| * If you could do it all over again, would you choose the same program? | Yes |
| * What did you gain/learn from your experience abroad? Was it worthwhile? | It was one of the best choices I have ever made. Studying abroad is something that everyone should do at some point in their college career. It made me practically fluent in spanish, and I gained such a great knowledge of the city of barcelona, and spain by studying there. It was such an international city, so it was great to get a sort of "melting pot" of cultures along with the Catalans. |