The number of Erasmus students at UA increases to over 600

601Erasmus students start the 2024-25 academic year at the University of Alicante (UA). The number has grown by nearly a hundred students compared to last year, and it will increase in the coming months with the resolutions of the second semester, as explained by the university of Alicante.

Regarding UA students participating in the Erasmus program in other European countries, the total amounts to 412 students, who will study in countries such as Poland, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, or France, destinations that top the list most requested by UA students.

These are "very encouraging" data, as stated by the Vice Chancellor for International Relations and Development Cooperation, Rosa Mª Martínez Espinosa, since "for now, we will welcome almost a hundred more Erasmus students this academic year compared to those we received at UA last year."

Similarly, UA will send a total of 138 students to study part of their studies in non-European countries (USA, Japan, Argentina, and Canada as the most demanded countries) thanks to its own global mobility program and will receive on its campus 98 students (mainly from USA, China, Chile, and Mexico).

The Faculty of Economics and Business celebrated last month the "Welcome event for mobility students," both national and international, who will stay during the 2024/2025 academic year. The Vice-Chancellor for International Relations and Development Cooperation "wants to promote and enhance these welcome events for international students as well as 'International Weeks' in UA centers and faculties that wish to carry them out," as commented by Vice Chancellor Rosa María Martínez.

The event of the Faculty of Economics and Business had the participation of more than 200 students from about thirty countries worldwide and various Spanish universities through the national mobility program SICUE. Antonio Fuster, Academic Coordinator for International Relations, and Malena Fabregat, Vice Dean for Institutional Relations, Equality Policies and Mobility at the Faculty, offered an informative talk accompanied by tutors from mobility programs at the faculty and staff from the International Relations Service.

Antonio Fuster explains that "in addition, the Faculty has expanded its international studies offer with the recent signing of an International Double Degree agreement in Social Work with Andrés Bello University in Chile, an agreement that adds to the double degrees already offered in the United States, Brazil, and France for Business Administration studies (University of North Florida and Northwestern State University), Advertising and Public Relations (UNIVALI), and the International Double Master's Degree in Communication and Creative Industries (Université Paris Cité).