Most UAB academic activity takes place on the main campus in Cerdanyola del Vallès.

Several centres exist in Manresa, Sabadell, Terrassa, Sant Cugat del Vallès and Barcelona.

It is accessible by air (flights to Barcelona, Girona, or Reus), by train (Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat, Renfe), by bus (SARBUS) or by car (AP-7 and C-58 motorways).

Around ten weeks later, on 6 October, the first course of the Faculty of Literature, Language, Art and the Humanities was inaugurated at Sant Cugat del Vallès Monastery.

During the following three years, several faculties and professional schools were created, and the construction works on the campus land took place.

Two years later, after the approval of the Catalan Statute, the University Council agreed to recourse to the Generalitat de Catalunya.

[20] Vila Universitària is the residential complex of the university, located on its campus, which has 812 apartments with a total accommodation capacity for 2,193 people.

A collaboration of IFAE (High Energy Physics Institute of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) and CIEMAT (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales and Tecnológicas), it is supported by regional (Catalan) and national (Spanish) research governing authorities.

The main scientific project PIC is associated to, in terms of utilisation of computing resources, is the deployment, operations and maintenance of the Spanish Tier 1 site for the WLCG, supporting the ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments of the LHC at CERN.