Burgos, two hours north of Madrid, is known as a center of Spanish tradition. Home to one of Europe’s most beautiful Gothic cathedrals, it was also an important way station on the Camino de Santiago, and is famous in literature as the birthplace of El Cid. Burgos retains many of the customs of provincial Spanish life to this day. Download a program one-sheet.

The program offers students the opportunity to enroll directly in the University of Burgos (UBU) (www.ubu.es), a modern university centered in a medieval complex of buildings that was once part of the Camino de Santiago. The program will provide an excellent opportunity for students who prefer to live and study in a smaller city where there are very few Americans and very little English spoken.

Burgos students will enroll in an intensive language and cultural immersion course before the regular university semester begins. Once students complete this course they will enroll in courses offered by other UBU departments, including humanities, business administration, economics, and political science. Upon successful completion of the program, students earn a minimum of 16 Boston University credits.

Because of the Spanish academic calendar, the Burgos program is available only as an academic year program, or a spring semester program. Another academic year option: fall semester in Burgos, followed by a spring semester in the Boston University Madrid program at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.