Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration

Designed together with the professional sector, based on their needs.

During the first years of the degree program, you will acquire more general knowledge and then, successively, guided by your professors, you will discover which area of the business you would like to work in professionally. In your 4th year, you will be able to choose electives, continue acquiring in-depth knowledge of the broad, cross-disciplinary context of the company, or specialize, if you want, based on your profile and interests. In both options, you will complete your internship in three subjects of the curriculum (18 credits total).

• Innovative subjects: Business Workshop, Innovation Management, Sales Simulation and Marketing Workshop.

Internship

Internship regulations

Internships are a key part of your training. Gaining experience after learning in your degree program is the best way to enter the job market. There are two types of Internships: curricular (included in your curriculum) and extracurricular (those completed voluntarily).

To take part in curricular internships in companies, you must have passed 50% of the credits and enrolled in the subject before beginning the internship. These internships are conducted with follow-up by the company and by the internship professor, as well as intermediate and final reports for assessment.

If you want to improve your work experience before finishing your university training, you can take part in extracurricular internships. You may do so in any year but remember that internships are complementary to your studies, so the more knowledge you have acquired throughout your degree program, the better you will be able to take advantage of your internship experience.

Internships

Our students work at companies such as:

• Leroy Merlin
• Repsol
• KIA
• KPMG
• Manos Unidas
• Bankinter
• Campofrío
• Accenture
• Llorente y Cuenca
• McKinsey & Company
• C&A Modas

Core competencies

• CB1: Students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in an area of study that has its basis in general secondary education, and that, whilst supported by advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that entail an acquaintance with the latest developments in their field of study.
• CB2: Students should be able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and should possess the competencies usually demonstrated when preparing and defending arguments and resolving problems in their area of study.
• CB3: Students should be able to gather and interpret relevant information (usually within their area of study) in order to make judgments that include a reflection on important aspects of a social, academic and ethical nature.
• CB4: Students should be able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences.
• CB5: Students should have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy.

Cross-disciplinary competencies

• CT1: Self-learning skills: ability to choose the strategies, tools and moments we consider most effective for learning and putting into practice independently what we have learned.
• CT2: Self-confidence: ability to assess our own results, performance and capabilities with the inner conviction that we are capable of performing the tasks and meeting the challenges we are faced with.
• CT3: Capacity to adapt to new situations: being able to assess and understand different positions, adapting one's approach as the situation requires.
• CT4: Analysis and synthesis skills: being able to break down complex situations into their constituent parts, and to evaluate other alternatives and perspectives to find optimal solutions. Synthesis seeks to reduce complexity in order to better understand it and/or solve problems.
• CT5: Capacity to apply knowledge: ability to use the knowledge acquired in the academic environment in situations as similar as possible to the reality of the profession we are preparing for.
• CT6: Oral and written communication skills: ability to transmit and receive data, ideas, opinions and attitudes in order to gain understanding and act, oral communication being based on words and gestures, and written communication on text and/or graphic aids.
• CT7: Ethical values: ability to think and act according to universal principles based on the value of the individual that seek full personal development and which entail a commitment to certain social values.
• CT8: Information management: ability to find, select, analyze and integrate information from different sources.
• CT9: Interpersonal skills: ability to engage positively with other people by verbal and non-verbal means, through assertive communication, meaning the ability to express or convey what we want, what we think or what we feel without upsetting, attacking or hurting the feelings of the other person.
• CT10: Initiative and entrepreneurial spirit: ability to undertake difficult or hazardous actions with resolve. Ability to anticipate problems, suggest improvements and persevere in carrying them out. Preference for undertaking activities and seeing them through.
• CT11: Planning and time management: ability to set goals and choose the means to achieve them, using time and resources effectively.
• CT12: Critical reasoning: ability to analyze an idea, phenomenon or situation from different perspectives and take a personal approach to it, based on rigor and reasoned objectivity, and not on intuition.
• CT13: Problem-solving: ability to find a solution to a confusing issue or a complicated situation without a predefined solution, which makes it difficult to achieve a goal.
• CT14: Innovation and creativity: ability to propose and develop new and original value-added solutions to problems, including from areas other than the one in which the problems usually arise.
• CT15: Responsibility: ability to fulfill the commitments we make to ourselves and to others when performing a task and trying to achieve a set of goals within the learning process. Any individual’s ability to acknowledge and accept the consequences of a freely performed action.
• CT16: Decision-making skills: ability to choose between existing alternatives or ways to effectively resolve different situations or problems.
• CT17: Teamwork: ability to integrate and collaborate actively with other people, areas and/or organizations to achieve common goals.
• CT18: Use of information and communication technologies (ICT): Ability to effectively use information and communication technologies as a tool for finding, processing and storing information, as well as for developing communication skills.

Specific competencies

• CE1. Ability to know and understand the concept of enterprise and entrepreneur and their role in a market economy.
• CE2. Ability to gather and interpret information in order to prepare and implement a strategic plan: external and internal strategic analysis; formulating, choosing and implementing corporate and competitive strategies and strategic control.
• CE3. Ability to understand and analyze financial markets, their structure, agents and products.
• CE4. Ability to define, apply and explain the general management process and identify its different phases: planning, organization, management and control.
• CE5. Ability to analyze and evaluate a company’s competitive environment, pay special attention to the market and integrate this analysis when undertaking new challenges.
• CE6. Ability to identify and understand the accounting area of a business, apply the different tools available for managing it, and know the main relationships with other departments.
• CE7. Ability to identify and understand the human resources area of a business, apply the different tools available for managing it, and know the main relationships with other departments.
• CE8. Ability to identify and understand the marketing area and the sales area of a business, apply the different tools available for managing them, and know the main relationships with other departments.
• CE9. Ability to identify and understand the production area of a business, apply the different tools available for managing it, and know the main relationships with other departments.
• CE10. Ability to analyze, integrate and evaluate the legal information necessary for decision-making.
• CE11. Ability to analyze, integrate and evaluate the socio-cultural information necessary for decision-making.
• CE12. Ability to analyze, integrate and evaluate the economic information necessary for decision-making.
• CE13. Ability to value and apply principles of social responsibility in business, paying special attention to environmental management, aimed at complying with current legislation and as a source of opportunities, to strengthen the corporate image and the production process.
• CE14. Ability to communicate and negotiate effectively in the professional field of business administration.
• CE15. Ability to identify and implement processes, systems and/or certifications that guarantee service and product quality.
• CE16. Ability to understand and analyze consumer behavior: assess and predict behaviors and trends in the different audiences into which consumers are classified in relation to a certain product or service, both geographically and culturally or in terms of population segments.
• CE17. Ability to identify the stages that make up the process of economic transactions generated by digital content: manage and evaluate a complete process of digital payments and collections, including all the agents involved, as well as aspects such as taxes and frequency of reporting and payments.
• CE18. Knowledge of the tools available in the production management area, including planning, sales forecasts, inventory management and production process quality control.
• CE19. Knowledge of statistical and econometric tools for analyzing economic and business variables.
• CE20. Ability to select the best financial and tax planning alternative to be applied in the markets and companies where the activity is carried out, as well as to use the different tools available for managing it.
• CE21. Ability to use the mathematical tools necessary for solving economic problems and basic methods of calculus, algebra and programming.
• CE22. Ability to assess ethical business behavior and decisions, with respect for human rights, and the impact of productive activities on the environment both in the country of origin and in the different markets where the business operates.
• CE23. Ability to recognize technological and innovation strategies, as well as technological analysis tools and the technological capabilities of a business as a means of growing, developing and improving its competitiveness.
• CE24. Ability to integrate a company’s various budgets, relate them to standard technical and economic costs and analyze deviations.
• CE25. Ability to develop and explain effectively the parts that make up a business plan in entrepreneurial processes, the sources of financing available for start-ups; select and use the various tools available to the entrepreneur: business canvas, pitch elevator, etc. in the different phases of the life cycle of the entrepreneurial process; and know the necessary steps involved the setting up a business.
• CE26. Ability to practically and systematically carry out a consulting and research project based on experiential learning and focused on decision-making related to entrepreneurial processes, to apply the knowledge and specific skills acquired in a rounded, multidisciplinary and inclusive way.
• CE27. Ability to solve accounting problems and understand capital asset valuation criteria.
• CE28. Ability to interpret the information provided by a company’s financial statements.
• CE29. Ability to apply hedging strategies through the use of derivative products (futures, options, SWAPs, FRAs, foreign exchange insurance).
• CE30. Ability to analyze and interpret the recording and valuation rules of the Spanish General Chart of Accounts and the International Financial Reporting Standards.

Credits: 240 ECTS

Choosing to study a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management is a very attractive option due to the high rates of job placement, both in both private business and in civil service exam public positions. Graduates in this sector are also prone to start their own businesses, diversifying the job market and promoting the creation of new jobs.

Executive positions in business

• Financial Management
• Human Resources Management
• Management
• Sales and Marketing Management

Entrepreneurship

• New Businesses in all sectors

General management

• Businesses in all sectors

Consulting

• Tax Advisor
• Auditor/Accountant
• Human Resources Consultant
• Strategic Consultant
• Executive Positions in Marketing and Sales Agencies

Public Service

• Local and Regional Administrations
• General State Administration
• Public Sector
• Private Sector