Course General Description

The bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Studies will provide you with the skills to design audiovisual content and develop multimedia applications through a combination of creativity and the latest technologies. This cross-disciplinary degree course covers the fields of artistic creation, entertainment and communication in the context of the interactive digital content industry. The curriculum has been designed for students to acquire skills related to design, technology, tools and methodologies for multimedia production. You will specialise in 2D and 3D digital content creation, video, post production, usability and graphic interfaces. You will also learn to implement web solutions, mobile applications and interactive virtual environments. You will put the knowledge that you acquire into practice in individual work and in multidisciplinary teams, and you will have the opportunity to get to know the wide range of possibilities offered by the multimedia business sector.

School General Description

The Polytechnic University of Catalonia ), currently referred to as BarcelonaTech, and commonly known as UPC, is the largest engineering university in Catalonia, Spain. It also offers programs in other disciplines such as mathematics and architecture. UPC's objectives are based on internationalization, as it is one of Europe's technical universities with the most international PhD students and the university with the largest share of international master's degree students. UPC is a university aiming at achieving the highest degree of engineering/technical excellence and has bilateral agreements with several top-ranked European universities. UPC is a member of the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network, which allows for student exchanges between leading European engineering schools. It is also a member of several university federations, including the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER) and UNITECH. UPC is also a parent institution of the prestigious Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). The university was founded in March 1971 as the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona through the merger of engineering and architecture schools founded in the 19th century. As of 2007 it has 25 schools in Catalonia located in the cities of Barcelona, Castelldefels, Manresa, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Terrassa, Igualada, Vilanova i la Geltrú and Mataró. As of the academic year 2017-18, the UPC has over 30,000 students and over 3,000 teaching and research staff, 65 undergraduate programs, 73 graduate programs and 49 doctorate programs.