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Study in Madrid, Spain

314 schools in Madrid, Spain. Universities (11), Higher education centres (56), Graduate schools (4), Language schools (31), Vocational schools (172), Primary and secondary schools (30), English courses (4), Online and distance learning (3).

Rooftops along the Gran Vía in Madrid

Universities in Madrid 11

  • CUNEF Universidad

    CUNEF Universidad (Colegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros) is a private university in Madrid. It has operated as a higher education institution since…

  • UDIMA - Universidad a Distancia de Madrid

    UDIMA (Universidad a Distancia de Madrid) is a private university that teaches online and describes itself as Spain's first private online university. It bel…

  • UDIT, Universidad de Diseño, Innovación y Tecnología

    ESNE, Escuela de diseño is an university centre affiliated to the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid. It is dedicated to the design, new technologies and…

  • Universidad CEU San Pablo

    Universidad CEU San Pablo is a private university in Madrid. It states that it has more than 90 years of teaching tradition, and it reports that it has obtai…

  • Universidad Complutense de Madrid

    The Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) is a university in Madrid whose main site is the Ciudad Universitaria; it also has a campus at Somosaguas. Accord…

  • Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo

    The Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP) is a Spanish university set up as an autonomous body (Organismo Autónomo) attached to the Ministry of Un…

  • Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

    The Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) is Spain's national distance-learning university. Its central headquarters are at Calle Bravo Murill…

  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

    The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is a public technical university in Madrid. Its central services are located at Paseo Juan XXIII 11. The universi…

  • Universidad Pontificia Comillas de Madrid

    Comillas Pontifical University was founded in 1890 in the town of Comillas, Spain, but moved to Madrid in 1969. It is a private university, and at the same t…

  • Universidad Villanueva

    Universidad Villanueva is a university in Madrid with sites in Mirasierra and Pozuelo. Its Mirasierra campus is at Calle de la Costa Brava 2 and 6, close to…

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Higher education centres in Madrid 56

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Graduate schools in Madrid 4

  • CEF - Centro de Estudios Financieros

    The Centro de Estudios Financieros (CEF.-) is a training centre founded in Madrid in 1977, originally to prepare candidates for the Spanish tax administratio…

  • CEU FP Madrid

    The Instituto Superior de Estudios Profesionales, now called CEU FP Madrid, is the Madrid vocational training (FP) centre of CEU, part of the Fundación Unive…

  • Cinteco

    Cinteco is a psychology and psychiatry centre in Madrid, based at Plaza del Marqués de Salamanca 10 in the Salamanca district. It is licensed by the health d…

  • TtMadrid TEFL Certification Course

    TtMadrid is a TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) teacher-training centre in central Madrid, founded in 2006. Its course leads to a Level 5 TEFL qu…

Language schools in Madrid 31

  • Universidad Antonio de Nebrija - DLA

    The Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (Nebrija University) is a private university in Madrid with more than 30 years of academic experience. According to the un…

  • Academia Contacto

    Academia Contacto is a Spanish language school in Madrid that has been teaching since 2001 and is accredited by the Instituto Cervantes. Classes are held in…

  • Academia EUREKA

    EUREKA is a Spanish language school in the historic centre of Madrid, at Calle del Arenal 26, a few metres from the Puerta del Sol and the Royal Palace. It w…

  • Academia Paraninfo

    Academia Paraninfo is an academy in Madrid that has been teaching since 1973. Its main centre is at Calle Princesa 70, ten minutes' walk from Plaza de España…

  • Academia Sílabas

    Academia Sílabas (Sí.la.bas) is a language and tutoring school in the Chamberí district of Madrid, at Calle Cardenal Cisneros 82, close to the Quevedo, Igles…

  • AIL Madrid Spanish Language School

    AIL Madrid (Academia Internacional de Lenguas Madrid) is a Spanish language school in central Madrid. It opened its first school in Madrid in 2006, has been…

  • Alce. Aula de Lengua y Cultura Española

    Alce is an organization, specializing in the provision of courses in Spanish and other modern languages. It has been operating since 1983, and offers intensi…

  • Berlitz Idiomas

    Berlitz is a language training company that has taught languages since 1878. In Spain it has language centres across the country and works with both individu…

  • BEST Programs

    BEST Programs is an organisation based near Madrid that arranges study, internship and volunteer programmes abroad. It describes itself as a non-subsidised,…

  • Cálamo&Cran - Centro de Aplicaciones Profesionales del Lenguage y la Edición

    Cálamo & Cran is a Spanish company that started as an agency for editorial services and translation and today works as both an agency and a school. It specia…

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Vocational schools in Madrid 172

  • Centro Superior de Diseño de Moda de Madrid

    The Centro Superior de Diseño de Moda de Madrid (CSDMM), which presents itself as "La Universidad de la Moda", is a fashion design school in Madrid. It has m…

  • CES Escuela Superior de Imagen, Sonido y Tecnología

    CES, Escuela Superior de Imagen, Sonido y Tecnología, is a private vocational training school in the Hortaleza district of Madrid, with more than 40 years of…

  • Escuela de Música Creativa

    Música Creativa (Escuela de Música Creativa) is a music school in Madrid, founded in 1985 and located at Calle de la Palma 35 in the Malasaña district. Its t…

  • IADE Institución Artística de Enseñanza

    IADE Escuela de Diseño is a design school in Madrid that has trained design professionals for more than 70 years; the school describes itself as the oldest d…

  • Acadef FP Arturo Soria

    Acadef FP Arturo Soria is a private vocational training centre in Madrid, Spain. It is listed in the State Register of Non-University Schools (Registro Estat…

  • Adams FP

    Adams FP is a private vocational training centre in Madrid, Spain. It is listed in the State Register of Non-University Schools (Registro Estatal de Centros…

  • Business and Language College Spain

    Business and Language College Spain is a private vocational training centre in Madrid, Spain. It is listed in the State Register of Non-University Schools (R…

  • Campus Dental Madrid

    Campus Dental Madrid is a private vocational training centre in Madrid, Spain. It is listed in the State Register of Non-University Schools (Registro Estatal…

  • Caser Formación

    Caser Formación is a private vocational training centre in Madrid, Spain. It is listed in the State Register of Non-University Schools (Registro Estatal de C…

  • Centro Bobath de Formación Profesional

    Centro Bobath de Formación Profesional is a private vocational training centre in Madrid, Spain. It is listed in the State Register of Non-University Schools…

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Primary and secondary schools in Madrid 30

  • American School of Madrid

    The American School of Madrid (ASM) is a not-for-profit K-12 international school with an American curriculum, open to students of all nationalities since 19…

  • Hastings School

    Hastings School is a private British international school in central Madrid for children and young people aged 2 to 18. Founded in 1971, it is part of the Co…

  • King's College Infant School

    King’s College Infant School is part of King’s School – an institution, dedicated to providing British education in the area of Madrid. King’s College was fo…

  • Brewster Madrid

    Brewster Madrid is a K-12 American school in Madrid, opened in 2023 as part of the network of Brewster Academy, a school founded in 1820 in Wolfeboro, New Ha…

  • City Country School

    City Country School (CCS) is a small Montessori school in Madrid for children and young people aged 3 to 16. It was founded in 2012 by Sarah Cardelús, a Span…

  • Colegio Japonés de Madrid

    The Colegio Japonés de Madrid (Madrid Japanese School) is a Japanese school in Madrid, opened in 1981. In Spain it is registered as a private foreign school…

  • Dallington School

    Dallington School is a British school in the Parque Conde de Orgaz area of Madrid, founded and directed by Paola Recio and María Recio. It follows the Britis…

  • Ellaluna American School

    Ellaluna American School is a small nursery and primary school at Calle de Pandora 23 in Madrid. It is authorised by the Comunidad de Madrid as an American f…

  • Greenleaves Montessori International School

    Greenleaves Montessori International School is a private bilingual Montessori school in the Moncloa-Aravaca district of Madrid, at Calle Cantos Negros 9. It…

  • Highlands School El Encinar

    Highlands School El Encinar is a private, Catholic school in La Moraleja (Madrid), founded in 1999. It describes itself as trilingual and belongs to the Regn…

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English courses in Madrid 4

  • Easybit School of English

    Easybit School of English is an English language school in the Aluche district of Madrid, at Calle Camarena 256. According to the school, it has more than 35…

  • Fyne Formacion

    FYNE Formación is a language consultancy and language school in Madrid, located at Calle Conde de Peñalver 88, with more than 30 years of experience in langu…

  • Canterbury Consulting Spain SL

    Canterbury Consulting Spain S.L. is a language school in Madrid, active since 1994, that runs Canterbury TEFL, an international school for teachers of Englis…

  • EBC International

    EBC International (EBC TEFL) is a teacher training provider based in Madrid that trains people to teach English as a foreign language. EBC has offered Englis…

Online and distance learning in Madrid 3

  • Bureau Veritas Business School

    Bureau Veritas Business School is a registered brand of Bureau Veritas Formación in Spain, the training division of the international company Bureau Veritas.…

  • CESAE, Escuela de Negocios

    CESAE Business & Tourism School is a business school based in Madrid that specialises in hospitality and tourism management. All its master's degrees, progra…

  • Formación Técnico Profesional

    Formación Técnico Profesional is a learning centre, online, distance learning and in person, created 30 years ago. Courses are taught in various cities and a…

About Madrid

Madrid is the capital of Spain and its largest city, with 3,527,924 registered residents on 1 January 2025 according to the city council's municipal register (padrón). It is also the capital of the Comunidad de Madrid region, in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula. For students, Madrid combines a very wide choice of schools with the services of a large capital: national institutions, company headquarters, embassies, museums and an international population.

Students choose Madrid for the range of options in one place, from Spanish courses of a few weeks to full degrees, vocational training and graduate programmes in business, finance and law. The city is also a central hub for travel in Spain, which makes weekend trips to other regions easy.

Studying in Madrid

Our directory lists 191 active schools in Madrid: 71 universities and other higher-education centres, 31 language schools, 46 vocational and professional schools (FP and specialised training), 29 primary and secondary schools and 5 online and distance-learning providers. The higher-education side includes private universities such as CUNEF Universidad, university centres affiliated to public universities, such as CES Don Bosco (affiliated to the Universidad Complutense de Madrid), and specialised institutions such as CEMFI, a graduate centre for economics and finance created by the Banco de España. CIS University, founded in 1981, is an American university in Madrid whose students can complete a US bachelor's degree. Madrid also has authorised higher music schools, such as the Centro Superior Katarina Gurska and the Centro Superior Música Creativa.

Business administration, marketing, finance, law, communications and international relations are among the most common subjects in our Madrid listings. Most university degrees are taught in Spanish, but several private institutions and graduate schools offer programmes in English, so check the language of instruction for each programme. Families moving with children will find international schools as well, such as the American School of Madrid, which has taught students of all nationalities since 1961.

Learning Spanish in Madrid

Madrid is a common choice for Spanish courses, with schools that teach all year round. Several language schools in the city are accredited by the Instituto Cervantes, among them Academia EUREKA, which has offered courses since 1988 and is an authorised SIELE exam centre, and Academia Contacto, teaching since 2001. Typical options include:

  • intensive group courses in the morning or afternoon
  • evening and part-time courses
  • DELE and SIELE exam preparation
  • one-to-one lessons
  • homestay or shared-flat accommodation arranged by the school

Cost of living for students

Rent is the largest expense for most students, and rooms in central districts cost noticeably more than in outer neighbourhoods; ask your school about student residences, homestays or shared flats, because they often help with housing. Public transport, on the other hand, is cheap for young people. In 2026 the Abono Joven, for anyone from age 15 until their 26th birthday, costs €10 for 30 days of unlimited travel on public transport across all fare zones (A to E2), according to the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid (CRTM). These discounts apply until 31 December 2026. Students aged 26 or over pay €32.70 for a monthly zone A pass, and a 10-trip ticket for Metro and EMT buses costs €7.30.

Getting around and daily life

The Metro, EMT buses and Cercanías trains cover the whole city, and most central districts are easy to explore on foot. Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport is connected to the city by Metro line 8: the trip from Nuevos Ministerios to Terminal 4 takes 18 minutes, according to Aena, and a €3 airport supplement applies to single and 10-trip Metro tickets. High-speed AVE trains leave from Madrid Puerta de Atocha - Almudena Grandes; Renfe direct trains reach Barcelona in 2 hours 30 minutes.

Madrid has a continental climate with cold winters and hot, dry summers. At the AEMET Madrid Retiro station (normals for 1981-2010), the average temperature is 6.3 °C in January and 25.6 °C in July, when average daily highs reach 32.1 °C. Bring warm clothes for winter and plan for heat if you take a summer course.

Frequently asked questions

Is Madrid a good place to learn Spanish?

Yes. Madrid has many language schools that teach all year round, several of them accredited by the Instituto Cervantes, and courses range from short intensive programmes to DELE and SIELE exam preparation.

How much does public transport cost for a student in Madrid?

In 2026, young people from 15 until their 26th birthday pay €10 for the 30-day Abono Joven, valid across all zones of the region. From age 26 the monthly zone A pass costs €32.70 (CRTM).

Can I study in English in Madrid?

Some programmes are taught in English, mainly at private universities, graduate schools and American institutions such as CIS University. Most degrees at Spanish universities are taught in Spanish, so check the language of each programme.

How do I get from Madrid-Barajas Airport to the city centre?

Metro line 8 links the airport with Nuevos Ministerios in 13 to 18 minutes, depending on the terminal. Single and 10-trip Metro tickets need a €3 airport supplement.

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