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The degrees of medium and high experimentality such as Medicine, Engineering or Biotechnology will cost 18.46 euros per credit
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The master’s degrees that accredit to practice professions such as teacher, lawyer or architect are also reduced to 18.46 euros
The ‘consellera’ of Research and Universities, Gemma Geishas presented this Monday the proposal of prices for Catalan public universities for this next course 22-23. A proposal that follows the line of going lowering rates university so that no one is excluded from access to these studies. The novelty is that from next year there will only be two prices instead of three and with the aim that within three years all degrees cost the same.
In undergraduate studies, the price of the registered credit remains at €17.69 in the degrees of coefficient A (those with low experimentality, for example Law, Philology or Education), which were already reduced by 30% in the 20-21 academic year. For the degrees of coefficient B and C (medium and high experimentality)the price is at €18.4633% and 26% less respectively than what they cost until now: 25.04 euros and 27.67, respectively.
As Geis has pointed out, a student of these careers who enrolls in 60 credits –a standard course– you will save more than 500 euros. For example, a medical student will go from paying 1,660 euros to paying 1,107.
Degrees with coefficient C (high experimentality) are Medicine, Nursing and Engineering. And degrees of coefficient B (medium experimentality) are, for example, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology or Digital Design.
As for the master’s degrees that enable for the exercise of regulated activities, such as those of secondary school teacher, architect or lawyer, the price per credit goes from 27.67 euros to 18.46, a reduction of more than 30%. Thus, the students of these master’s degrees will pay around 553 euros less. In the case of the rest of the master’s degrees, the price remains at 27.67 euros.
This reduction, the third in a row, represents an investment of €27.5 million directly assumed by the Government. In other words, it will not be at the expense of the universities.
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The proposal will now go to the Interuniversitari Council of Catalonia before it is approved by the Government next July.
Last April, the Parliament of Catalonia already agreed to shield prices and set the goal of lowering them so that in three years the price of credit is equal to or less than 17 euros in all grades. The 20-21 academic year already applied a 30% reduction in degrees and master’s degrees and this 21-22 academic year another 40% reduction was added to master’s degrees.