The Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering will provide the student with the knowledge and skills required by the industry, one of the most important sectors for current economic development. In particular, it plays a key role in the field of chemical, pharmaceutical and natural-resource management industries.
General information
- Name of the course:
- Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering
- Branch of knowledge:
- Engineering and architecture
- Duration:
- 4 years
- European credits:
- 240
- What qualifications can lead to:
Holder of a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Girona
- Teaching institution:
- Polytechnic School
- Indicative number of places:
- 40
- Last admission mark:
Grades required for the June 2023 examination call
- Approx. price for the first year:
- See How much does it costs to study at the University of Girona?
- Valid report:
- Report (2009)
- Other information:
- Monitoring indicators
It's useful to know
The bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering will teach you the bases of industrial technical engineering, especially in the branch of industrial chemistry. You will learn how to design, develop and analyse:
- Chemical processes and environmental management.
- Monitoring processes.
- Designing chemical plants.
At the same time, you will acquire the scientific and mathematical knowledge to understand the technical and scientific literature to carry out research and development (R+D+I) in any of these areas, as well as to interpret reports drafted by other specialist engineers. This multidisciplinary ability will allow you to lead cross-disciplinary working parties and work as a manager in technology companies.
The graduate's training in Chemical Engineering is naturally complemented with the Master in Industrial Engineering, for the purposes of acquiring the skills of an industrial engineer, a profession with a highly valued tradition, spanning back over 150 years, in national and international companies.
Access
Access requirements
- Upper secondary school education
- Access: university entrance examinations (PAU), general stage. Admission: weighting of subjects examined in university entrance exam (PAU) linked to the branch of knowledge of Engineering and Architecture.
- Higher level training cycles (CFGS).
- Access: all CFGS. Admission: weighting of subjects examined in university entrance exam (PAU) linked to the branch of knowledge of Engineering and Architecture.
- Over 25 years old
- Preferential option in successful entrance exam: Engineering and Architecture.
- Over 40 years old
- Assessment of professional experience relating to the bachelor's degree that the applicant wishes to be admitted to and sufficient interview outcome.
- Over 45 years old
- Entrance exam passed and favourable interview outcome.
- Others
- Special types of access recognised under current regulations .
Another information on access
- Pre-enrolment code:
- 81023
- Weightings
- Weighting parameters of the subjects in the specific phase of the PAU
- Validated credit transfer from higher level training cycles
- Validated subjects and credit transfers from higher level vocational training cycles
Careers
The career opportunities with a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering are highly varied. Your professional career could be in the private sector: chemical industry, pharmaceutics, waste-water management plants, food industry and many others. Some jobs available in this area are:
- Production and plant line management.
- Quality laboratory management.
- Insurance-company consultants.
- Energy manager.
- Head of production.
- Process manager.
In the public sector: secondary and university teaching, national, county and local consultancy bodies, research positions in institutions and bodies.
You could also choose to develop your career in a freer way, by setting up your own project design and management company under the aegis of the Professional College of Industrial Technical Engineers.
Continue studying
The Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering provides direct access to the Master in Industrial Engineering, which is the only official master's degree that qualifies its holder to enter the regulated profession of industrial engineering. In addition, this degree also give access to technological and scientific master’s degrees, and if you wish to continue studying in the field of research you can access the Doctoral Programme in Technology.
Subjects
Fundamentals of mathematics15.00 credits
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BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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BBasic |
9.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Foundations of physics12.00 credits
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BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Graphic expression 7.00 credits
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BBasic |
7.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Foundations of chemistry 6.00 credits
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BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Computer science8.00 credits
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BBasic |
8.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Foundations of mechanics and strength of materials6.00 credits
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Foundations of materials science6.00 credits
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Statistics6.00 credits
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BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Business organization and management6.00 credits
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BBasic |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Fluid mechanics and thermodynamics12.00 credits
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Electrical, electronic and automatic systems6.00 credits
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Foundations of mechanics and strength of materials6.00 credits
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Advanced chemistry12 credits
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Chemical analysis in processes and products12 credits
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Electrical, electronic and automatic systems6.00 credits
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Industrial production and the environment 8 credits
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OBCompulsory |
3.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Chemical analysis in processes and products8 credits
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OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OBCompulsory |
3.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Industrial chemical engineering19 credits
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OBCompulsory |
3.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Industrial chemical processes14 credits
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OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OBCompulsory |
4.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Optional5 credits
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OPOptional |
15.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
Not |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
Not |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
Not |
Industrial production and the environment4 credits
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OBCompulsory |
4.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Projects6.00 credits
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OBCompulsory |
6.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Industrial chemical engineering12 credits
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OBCompulsory |
7.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OBCompulsory |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Industrial chemical processes3 credits
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OBCompulsory |
3.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Optional15 credits
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OPOptional |
15.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
Not |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
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Not |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
Not |
Bachelor’s thesis 15 credits
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OBCompulsory |
15.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
Optional modules + academic recognition25 credits
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OPOptional |
15.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
YES |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
Not |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
Not |
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OPOptional |
5.00 |
SSemester long |
Not |
Calendar and timetables
Through the following links you can access the calendars and timetables that correspond to this bachelor's degree.
The academic calendar marks the beginning and end of classes, non-teaching days, holidays, exam periods, and so on. The administrative calendar marks the periods to make the different formalities administrative.
Placements
All subjects have a practical aspect that carries a lot of weight on the course. Practical classes are held in small groups and in laboratories with equipment adapted to the current requirements.
Businesses play a large role at the Polytechnic School. As a chemical engineering student, you will be able to do placements in companies through work placements. You will be able to choose between the more than 450 options that are proposed in each academic year.
Bachelor's thesis
You will complete your bachelor's thesis in the last year of your degree, demonstrating the knowledge you have acquired during your education.
The bachelor's thesis is an engineering project on the subject you choose, carried out under the supervision of a lecturer. If you wish, you can complete this in a company or research group.
The business association that supports the Polytechnic School and professional associations of engineers award prizes every year to the best theses.
Mobility
The Polytechnic School (PS) maintains relations with universities from all over the world. There are several mobility and exchange programmes that enable you to make stays abroad for studying subjects, drafting bachelor's theses or broadening studies: Erasmus, Erasmus+, Erasmus Mundus, Socrates, IAESTE, SICUE-Sèneca, Balsells scholarships, Josep Maria Ginés i Pous scholarship.
Enrolment
First year enrolment
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Once the Catalan government has allocated you your place, you will receive an email from the UdG with your user code and a link for setting your password, as well as links to online enrolment applications and information on enrolling on your bachelor's degree studies. If you do not receive the message, fill in and send the user-account application form for newly admitted students for the academic year.
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Use the link provided in the message to set your password. The user code and the password make up your digital identity as a UdG student and will allow you to access the university's online services.
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Use your user code and password to access the online enrolment and check the enrolment period assigned to you. If the period has already started, the application will inform you that you can start your enrolment.
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Click on the Grants and allowances tab. If you are entitled to any discounts that are not recognised, you will have the option to start the recognition procedure by pressing the corresponding "Request” button and attaching scans of the necessary documentation. Your school’s secretary's office will validate the documents so that, where appropriate, you can enjoy the corresponding discount on your enrolment or free enrolment.
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Formalise your online enrolment following the guide's instructions. If you have queries, contact the secretary’s office at your teaching institution. Remember you must enrol before the deadline provided for, otherwise, you will lose your place.
- Subjects
- Check the subjects for which you can enrol in the section Subjects > Available subjects 2023-2024 of the website for your bachelor's degree studies.
- Fees
- Consult the enrolment fees and deductions available to you.
- Payment
- You can pay the enrolment fee in full, in two or three instalments or in monthly instalments. See the terms and conditions in the Enrolment Regulations.
- Grants
- If you have applied for the MEFP general scholarship and you meet the academic requirements established in the call for applications, you will be able to enrol without paying the public fees (subject to the subsequent award of the scholarship).
- Third language
- If your degree course requires a level of knowledge of a third language to obtain the qualification and you already have a recognised certificate of this level or higher, we recommend that you present it together with the rest of the documentation required for the first enrolment. Check the Regulations about a third language.
- Insurance
- If you are under 28 years old, you are obliged to take out compulsory school insurance for €1.12 per year. If you are over 28 years old, you will be covered by a compulsory accident insurance for 6.65 euros per course. Further information on the Insurance policies page.
- Staying
- Bear in mind that if you do not pass a minimum of 30 credits in the first two years, you will not be able to continue the same course at the UdG. Check the Rules for staying.
- ID
- Spanish nationals do not need to produce their national ID (DNI) unless they opposed the University of Girona's collection of personal data during their online enrolment (see the guide for online enrolment).
If you are a national of a EU member state, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland or Andorra, you will need to present a valid ID or passport from your country of origin.
Otherwise you will preferably need to present a valid foreign-national identification care (TIE) or passport if do you not have a TIE.
You will need to attach a scanned copy of the document through the corresponding online procedure and present the original in person at the academic secretary’s office.
For online submissions you can use “Application to the administration” procedure in the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably, or (with digital certificate) the UdG’s e-register.
You have until the 21 November to submit the document.
- Admission documents
- If you have been admitted to the UdG through university pre-enrolment, from PAU, CFGS, admission exams for individuals over the age of 25, 40 or 45 or university degree obtained from the UdG, you will not need to produce any documents.
If you have been admitted to the UdG through university pre-enrolment, from a university degree completed at another university, you will need to forward a copy of your degree online (e-degree or authenticated digital copy of the degree) or provisional degree certificate (with digital signature and CSV), or produce the original in person at the academic secretary's office.
If you have been admitted to the UdG through academic record transfer or university pre-enrolment from a university degree started at another university, you will have to send proof, online, of payment, of your transfer fees, signed electronically and with SVC, or present the original in person at the secretary’s academic office.
For online submissions of documents, you can use “Application to the administration” procedure in the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably, or (with digital certificate) the UdG’s e-register.
You have until the 21 November to submit the documents.
- Allowances and exemptions
- Before you register, review the self-enrolment’s "Grants and allowances" tab. If you are entitled to allowances that are recorded as accredited and are valid on the date of the start of the academic year (12 September), you will not need to produce any documents.
If you are entitled to allowances that are not recorded as accredited, you can start the accreditation procedure by clicking on the corresponding "Request" button, and uploading the necessary documents there for applying the corresponding enrolment discount or payment exemption.
You can also use the “Document Accreditation” procedure from the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably (with digital certificate) the electronic register of the UdG, or to produce the documents in person at the academic secretary's office.
If your documents are currently being processed or pending renewal, you will not be eligible for the enrolment-fee discount, but presentations of updated documents will be accepted up to 31 December for subsequently regularising your situation.
Further information from the Allowances and Loans page.
- Bank details
- If you are not the holder of the bank account from which the registration fee will be paid by direct debit, you must submit the completed bank details notification/ modification form and proof of identification for the account holder.
For online submissions of documents you will have to use the “Communicating or amending bank details” procedure in the online procedures section of the Virtual Secretary’s Office, preferably, or (with digital certificate) the UdG’s e-register.
These documents will have to be produced within a period of 10 work days as from the date of enrolment.
- Enrolment application (only for face-to-face enrolment)
- If you not enrol online (online enrolment), you will have to fill in an enrolment-application document for the teaching centre. The centre itself will provide you with the document and which you will have submit duly filled in and signed on the day of enrolment.
- Photograph
- After you have enrolled, you will need to produce a personal photograph through the La meva UdG intranet (Staff > digital Identity), in accordance with the instructions provided on the same webpage.
Note: accreditation by electronic means is not definitive, except in the case of original electronic documents or authentic electronic copies. The UdG reserves the right to request the corresponding physical documentation at a later date.
Online enrolment
Online enrolment is the University of Girona's electronic enrolment system. It is done through the Internet and is available for the most of the studies.
Testimonials
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Gerard Marés Martínez (graduated: 2014)
“Studying at the UdG provided me with the necessary expertise for entering the pharmaceuticals industry. Thanks to the placements on offer working environments, I’ve been able to put my skills into practice, expand the knowledge I acquired and finally find the job I wanted.”
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Helena Matabosch Coromina (graduated: 2013)
I really appreciate being able to go on an Erasmus exchange during the final year of my degree and, what's more, to a country such as the UK. The professional opportunities available from the bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering are really useful to me. And, what is more, I enjoyed the subjects I studied.”
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Arnau Vidal Minobis (graduated: 2013)
“There’s nothing at other Catalan and Spanish universities you won’t already find at the University of Girona, and the Polytechnic School in particular. We’ve got top-class facilities and much more personalised assistance than the other universities. That means getting to know the students better and therefore improved and optimised educational quality.”
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Marc Delgado Aguilar (graduated: 2013)
“A balanced educational grounding in several areas: process engineering, materials science, quality control and management. There is a very close teacher-student ambience thanks to the Girona nature and number of students per year.”
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Gerard Marés Martínez (graduated: 2014)
“Studying at the UdG provided me with the necessary expertise for entering the pharmaceuticals industry. Thanks to the placements on offer working environments, I’ve been able to put my skills into practice, expand the knowledge I acquired and finally find the job I wanted.”
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Helena Matabosch Coromina (graduated: 2013)
I really appreciate being able to go on an Erasmus exchange during the final year of my degree and, what's more, to a country such as the UK. The professional opportunities available from the bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering are really useful to me. And, what is more, I enjoyed the subjects I studied.”