UAB is one of the major public universities in Spain. Currently, the university offers more than 100 bachelor’s degrees, more than 140 master’s degrees, as well as 9 Erasmus Mundus master’s degrees, runs 74 doctoral programs and more than 700 PhD dissertations are defended per year. The Department of Sociology is a research-intensive department offering high quality teaching in sociology in undergraduate courses and degrees, Master degrees and PhDs. The team involved in the project is the Education and Work Research Group of the Department of Sociology, with nearly 40 years of research in educational inequalities, educational pathways and transition from school to work.