The Basque Country has achieved to maintain high-quality natural scenery internationally recognized. It also offers very good life quality parameters with reference to health, housing, leisure, sports, among others.
The region's high GDP per capita and employment rates, the low unemployment and crime rates, compared to other European countries, makes the Basque Country an attractive and safe place to live and work.
The Basque Country is an integrated system of cities located in a strategic place in Europe, making it a veritable Euro-City. It has modern communications, road, train and air transport infrastructures that allow for easy and flexible connections with the rest of Spain and Europe. Located on the international Lisbon-Stockholm Euro-Atlantic axis, Bilbao airport is the most important passenger traffic centre in the North of Spain.
The Basque Country is tradition and modernity. The diversity of its landscapes and peoples, together with its love of tradition, and the wish to advance forward, have fashioned an open society in which individual customs and ways of life can coexist alongside the most modern manifestations of art, culture and architecture.
The Basque County has highly regarded International Educational Centres, among which it is worth mentioned the following: The German School San Bonifacio (www.dsbilbao.org); The German School San Alberto Magno (www.colegioaleman.net); St. George's English School of Bilbao(www.st-george.com); American School of Bilbao (www.asob.es); French School of Bilbao (www.c-francaisbilbao.com).
The Basque Country has four main universities: University of the Basque Country, Deusto University, Mondragón University, and TECNUN. These universities comprise 28 faculties, 3 higher technical schools, and 11 university schools. More than one-third of the Basque population of between 18 and 25 years attend university and about 46.6% of the labor force of Basque Country has a tertiary education.
University of the Basque Country (EHU-UPV) (www.ehu.es)
The UPV-EHU is distributed into three campuses, one in each Basque province: Alava, Vizcaya and Guipuzkoa. These three sites house 31 faculties and schools and 104 departments covering a wide variety of subjects. It has a wide offer of tertiary studies.
University of Mondragon (www.mondragon.edu)
The Mondragon Unibersitatea was created in 1997 as a cooperative university with a clear human vocation and commitment to our environment, our society and our time. It has around 4,000 students and offers a total of 22 degree courses. On the other hand, the range of postgraduate courses includes 15 Masters and 8 university specialization courses.
University of Deusto (www.deusto.es)
The University of Deusto was inaugurated in 1886. The University has two campuses: one in Bilbao and another in San Sebastian. It is famous in the field of Business Administration and Management, the Deusto Business School being one of the best education centres in the Spanish state. Other Faculties in Deusto include: the Faculties of Law, Engineering ESIDe, Philosophy and Education Sciences FICE, Arts, Political Science and Sociology, Humanities and Theology. The university also has 3 Schools, 11 Institutes, 9 Chairs and other centres.
University of Navarra (www.tecnun.es)
The School of Engineering of San Sebastian, of the University of Navarra, aims to contribute to the professional, scientific and human education of prospective engineers.