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Why the UOC

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Top 12 reasons why students choose the UOC:


  • Student-centred learning that is personalised, allowing you to tailor your studies to your specific knowledge, interests and needs
     
  • Flexible, adapting to your personal and professional reality, allowing you to set your pace and schedules regardless of where you are 
     
  • Interactive, creating a community where everyone takes part
     
  • Collaborative, generating shared knowledge
     
  • Accompaniment, guiding you through each course and giving you continuous assessment to guarantee your academic progress
     
  • Leadership and innovation in e-learning based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
     
  • High standards and quality of teaching, research and management
     
  • Diverse range of study options and unique online programmes tailored to societal needs: undergraduate degrees, masters degrees, official masters degrees, postgraduate degrees and short courses
     
  • Global exchange, fostering creativity, innovation and cooperation with other universities, institutions and businesses around the world
     
  • Numerous international awards in recognition of its outstanding e-learning educational model and the quality of its academic work
     
  • High levels of student satisfaction
     
  • Accessible, continuously adapting its website to comply with accessibility standards in order to eliminate barriers that impede people's rights to obtain information and communication
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A global online university, open to the world

Studying at the UOC means that you can pursue your education anytime and anywhere. Regardless of where you are, where you live or how you work, you can manage your own time, set your own pace and chart your own path for your studies. With the UOC’s online education programme, you can continue to work and live at home. Not having to relocate makes earning your degree more affordable and practical. 

The UOC is a Catalan university with an international presence. With an online community of over 100,000 students, alumni, professors, researchers and contributors in more than 50 different countries, the UOC is a multicultural institution with an international focus that contributes to progress and well-being around the world.

The UOC is endorsed by the Catalan Agency for Quality in the University System and is in compliance with the standards of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).