Facilities in Castellón
Main Building CEU Castellón
CEU Castellón Main Building
The building has rooms of various sizes, a library with study areas and meeting rooms for group work. Within its enclosed grounds, it offers outdoor spaces for rest and social interaction.
It can also boast innovative training and research laboratories for education and the health sciences, microscope and dissection rooms, and specialist practical training facilities for Nursing and Medicine students. Among these is the Advanced Simulation Centre, opened in 2017, which seeks to recreate a hospital with the latest technology, enabling students to receive high-quality training in diagnostic and care provision techniques. Its facilities include medical consulting rooms, simulation suites which possess hi-tech models, and a 'backstage' area for instructors and actors taking part in the simulations.
The building also has its own cantee noffices for student services, such as the University Guidance Service, the Careers Service, Student Administration, and a chapel. All in all, it has for optimal academic and personal development.
What do students study in this building?
The degree programmes offered are:
Bachelor’s Degree in Gastronomy, with the first year available in Spanish or English.
Various postgraduate programmes in education and gastronomy.
GASMA: Gastronomy and Management Campus
GASMA is where our innovative Bachelor's Degree in Gastronomy is taught.
Our facilities are designed to offer high-quality education in a unique environment. Our classrooms are designed for experiential learning and are equipped with the latest technology to enable students to learn via immersive, practical experience. There are also various kinds of kitchens designed for advanced training, facilitating student acquisition of cooking techniques.
Our wine-cellar is another unique learning space, enabling students to explore the world of wine and wine-tasting as part of some of their courses.
We also have a learning garden, giving students the opportunity to gain first-hand experience with the cultivation of the ingredients they will use in their dishes. For those who see their future in making desserts, there is a specialist cake and dessert area, equipped with everything our students might need as they get creative. The campus has its own student-led restaurant, enabling students to put what they've learnt into practice in a real professional environment. The facilities also include a large, landscaped area with a swimming pool, creating a much-needed atmosphere of relaxation and well-being for all.
GASMA possesses bespoke, cutting-edge facilities, with all the equipment and utensils that culinary professionals working at the highest level require. And in the restaurant, the students are in charge both in the kitchen and customer areas, while enjoying the support of top professionals.
Advanced Learning Facilities
The desire to recreate professional environments to facilitate learning has always been of the characteristic features of education at CEU. Being able to put theoretical learning into practice while still at the University really helps our students prepare themselves for real life in employment. But achieving this requires two things in particular:
- A focus on innovation in teaching: the desire to develop new forms of learning and of demonstrating achievement in learning.
- An ability to invest in in-house facilities: the infrastructure necessary to facilitate a truly practical education at university is costly, both to build and to maintain. Due to our status as an educational foundation, all the fees paid by our students are invested in our educational activities, enabling us to improve our Advanced Learning Facilities, year after year.
Learn more about our advanced learning facilities here.