For the fourth straight year, the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture has claimed a position in the ranking of the best Spanish university master’s degrees for 2019, created by the newspaper El Mundo. More specifically, the School ranks second in the category of Design and Architecture with the Master’s Degree in International Cooperation: Sustainable Emergency Architecture, which has climbed one position over the previous year and remains in the top 5 in the ranking. 

According to El Mundo, one of the most outstanding aspects of this master’s programme are the field trips the students go on each year to different parts of the world, normally underdeveloped regions, to cooperate on an existing project for a certain period of time. 

According to Carmen Mendoza, “This new position as the second best master’s degree in the category of Design and Architecture recognises the excellent level of not only our national and international teaching staff, but also the programme’s coordinators and content. It also acknowledges a master’s degree that looks beyond the conventional topics of architecture and, through design, strives to exalt its social and service-oriented aspects in complex contemporary settings, which for me is an incentive”.