Education in Spain: the steps, from official sources

What applies everywhere in Spain on education, each with the official page that confirms it, then the regions whose own rules add to it.

Your plan, in your order. Documents, offices, hours and fees for your city, for your passport and visa.

Across Spain

Get foreign diplomas and degrees recognized in Spain
A foreign university degree gets official effect in Spain through the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities: homologación, needed to work in a regulated profession listed in RD 889/2022, or a declaration of…
Full steps in the guideOfficial page: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y UniversidadesChecked 20 Oct 2026
Learn Spanish at official schools and get certified
Spain’s public language schools, the Escuelas Oficiales de Idiomas (EOI), teach official language courses from basic to advanced levels (A1 to C2), run by each region’s education department.
Full steps in the guideOfficial page: BOEChecked 20 Oct 2026
Schools teaching a foreign curriculum, and moving a child’s studies
Schools in Spain that teach another country’s education system must be registered in the public register of schools to operate legally, and school studies done abroad are recognized in Spain through homologación…
Full steps in the guideOfficial page: BOEChecked 20 Oct 2026
Student stay in Spain (working while studying and after)
A long-term stay for studies is the authorization for non-EU nationals to take full-time courses (including university and Spanish-language courses) in Spain; study-stay holders may work up to 30 hours per week under…
Full steps in the guideOfficial page: Spanish Consular Section, Embassy of Spain in Washington D.C.Checked 7 Oct 2026