Cerdanyola del Vallès · UAB campus, outside Barcelona
Bellaterra - Vila Universitària
If you live here, you live on campus for less than anywhere else, and the last train home decides what your evenings look like.
Vila Universitària sits beside the Collserola natural park with more than 2,000 places across single rooms, shared flats, studios and the Cases Sert. It is the clearest live-on-campus-or-commute split of any university here. The Erasmus and doctoral allocation was already exhausted by August 2026; everyone else lives in the Vila, in Cerdanyola or Sabadell for value, or commutes about 39 minutes each way along the FGC Vallès line.
UAB's own residential complex, and the cheapest single room in this whole comparison. It is a real bubble: lively while term is running, and cut off once the last train has gone.
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An instant social life
Parks and green space
Think twice if you want
Being in the middle of everything
Nightlife on the doorstep
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ModelledDistances are from the middle of Bellaterra - Vila Universitària rather than from a specific flat, and venues come from OpenStreetMap, which under-maps small independents, so read a count as a floor rather than a total. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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