I'm looking for a legitimate yet relatively inexpensive study abroad program in Barcelona?

Pleas take my advice, do not pay any school do not, you WILL be ripped off. I paid for study abroad in france to a school in my hometown and I was compeltly jipped and had to sue to get my money back. When I got there I realized that I could have spent a fraction of the money and got WAY better.

When I got to France I realized there were already FREE french schools by the french government to educate immigrants that i could have attended and they probably exist in Spain too just like they exist in every country with immigrants.

Basically it comes to this, you can pay 7-10k to a school for a crappy housing or even a good one, and crappy food etc. or, you can stay in a 4 star hotel for 30 days at $200 a day or even ask a 5 star hotel for a deal of $200 a day (a guy at the hotel told me they would have given me the deal when i was leaving as the rooms just sat empty anyways) if you stay for 30 days. Even a busy hotel will have only 80-90% capacity and still have empty rooms so they'd rather rent them out at a discount and there are also discount sites that can get you 5 star hotels for $200 a day or less. So 6k on a 5 star hotel, get any food you want, buy it yourself for $900 in a month eating 2 meals of $15 a day, which is alot and I'm a big guy and only spend $20 a day, and go to free french school.

So you can give your money to a school from crap accomodations or get any food you want. alternatively you could rent out a house, and I mean a mansion for 5k a month and spend 1k on food and 1k on car rental/travel and 1k a month on a private tutor to come to your house every day. When you go to spain you can easily hire a spanish tutor from a university who is a student and will gladly teach you all day for 1k a month. so all in all you can get a one on one tutor, a 5 star hotel or a mansion, a car to travel around or travel expense, great food you like for less than the unknown crap the travel company will give you

I repeat stay far far away from exchange schools or study abroad schools complete and utter rip off.

I simply acquired completed with a six week summer season software on the University of the Americas in Puebla. By the top of the software I spoke Spanish good ample to journey within the southern states of Mexico on my own. Probably the pleasant facet of the software was once that I lived with a Mexican household. This pressured me to talk Spanish all day lengthy. I'd say that whichever path you move, you must seem for an educational software that presents homestay.