UAB is one of the major public universities in Spain. It is located in Bellaterra, close to Barcelona city. Currently, the University offers 87 bachelor’s degrees covering a wide range of fields such as humanities and arts, social sciences, health sciences, technology and physical sciences. Furthermore, the UAB offers 133 Master’s degrees, as well as 8 Erasmus Mundus Master's degrees; more than 1,114 PhD dissertations have been elaborated within its doctoral programs. The University has over 37,700 students, almost 3,700 researchers and teaching staff,and it hosts more than 6,000 foreign students. UAB coordinates a strong scientific and technological centre named the UAB Sphere, which comprises all the departments, science and technology services, research centres, institutes, university hospitals that are members of the UAB.