Spain

• Governmental membership
  Spain has been a Governmental Member of EQAR since February 2008.

  Map: EHEA countries by governmental membership

• General information on higher education

  Higher education comprises university and professional studies. 

• National external quality assurance requirements

  The evaluation of the quality of universities is the responsibility of the Autonomous Communities. 

  • Ex-ante and Ex-post programme evaluation.
    

  • Institutional evaluations.
    

• EHEA key commitment

  Fully aligned with the ESG

  A fully functioning quality assurance system is in operation nationwide, in which all higher education institutions are subject to regular external quality assurance by an agency that has successfully demonstrated compliance with the Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the EHEA (ESG) through registration on EQAR

  Map: implementation of the EHEA key commitment

• Cross-border quality assurance

  Not recognising foreign agencies as part of the national external QA requirements

  Map: recognition of cross-border quality assurance

• European Approach for Quality Assurance of Joint Programmes

  European Approach available to all higher education institutions

  A joint university study programmes between one or more Spanish universities and one or more foreign universities leading to official Spanish university degrees may use the European Approach provided that the country of the coordinating university has subscribed to this agreement (see Royal Decree of 28 September 2021).

  
  

  Map: availability of the European Approach for QA of Joint Programmes

• Permalink
  https://data.deqar.eu/country/161
• Further information

  • Ministry responsible for higher education

  • Royal Decree 822/2021 on the establishment of university education and the procedures for quality assurance

Registered agencies operating in Spain