Within the higher education level, we have Universities, which may be private or public. Universities are organized in Schools (Facultades), and these in turn into Departments, each of them highly specialized in a specific part of the corresponding science. Currently, the Spanish university system comprises 49 public universities, 14 private universities and 4 universities of the Catholic Church.

Regarding its content, the Spanish university system displays an equilibrium between scientific disciplines included in the so called social sciences and humanities (History, Economics, Literature, Philosophy, etc.) and the so called pure sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, etc). Likewise, within the different Universities we may find scientific disciplines specifically applied to the society to which they are aimed. An adequate equilibrium between theory and practice is carefully achieved in these disciplines (Arquitecture, Medicine, Law, etc), studies that, in addition, have very high possibilities of immediate incorporation into the labour market.

It is becoming very common to see Universities that offer a higher university degree which interlaces academic contents from several scientific disciplines (economics and law, literature and history, etc). This option generates professionals with a very high level of training, who are very sought after by the national and international business sector.