Master in Business Administration (2ªed)

Completion requirements:

Compulsory: 36
Optional: 18
Master’s Final Project: 6
Total: 60

The Official Master’s Degree on business Administration has two curricular orientations:

- Academic orientation
- Professional orientation

Students of the professional orientation must realize the optional external internship of 3,5 ECTS. The rest of the students will obtain the Master’s Degree for the academic orientation.

Through a participatory methodology this degree seeks that students acquire advanced knowledge in Business Administration and the ability to apply it, simultaneously developing management skills. The degree has three curricular orientations: academic, professional and research.

• Minimum number of ECTS enrollment credits per student and school period

  Completion requirements:

  Compulsory: 36
  Optional: 18
  Master’s Final Project: 6
  Total: 60

• Tutorial action and reception

  La Coordinación del Máster, en colaboración con la Comisión Académica del Máster y el profesorado realizará reuniones de coordinación para favorecer la integración de conocimientos, evitar vacíos o solapamientos entre los diferentes programas que conforman la titulación, realizar un seguimiento del aprendizaje del alumnado, poner de manifiesto los problemas que puedan surgir y buscar soluciones de manera conjunta con el objetivo de garantizar el cumplimiento de los objetivos y una docencia de calidad. Asimismo, se designará un coordinador para cada una de las materias y por medio de las tutorías presenciales y virtuales se mantendrá una estrecha interacción con el alumnado.

  Además, la universidad dispone de diversos servicios para el apoyo y orientación del alumnado durante su trayectoria universitaria, que se describen a continuación:

  Asesoramiento y acción tutorial.

  - Informar sobre las características académicas de los estudios y sobre sus salidas profesionales.
  - Informar sobre el régimen de acceso y permanencia del alumnado en la Universidad.
  - Informar sobre los derechos del alumnado y asesorar sobre el modo de ejercerlos y/o reclamarlos.
  - Informar, a nivel general y en los Centros, de las becas y ayudas convocadas.
  - Promover la creación de becas y ayudas y proponer a las Juntas de Gobierno las acciones a llevar a cabo en materia de becas, ayudas y exenciones.
  - Asesorar en la búsqueda de empleo. En esta línea se realizan varias actuaciones que tienen como finalidad atender necesidades de información y orientación laboral. Ofrece información sobre salidas profesionales, prácticas, ofertas de empleo, direcciones de empresas, ayudas y subvenciones para el autoempleo.
  - Asesorar en la creación de empresas nuevas.
  - Programas europeos.

  Dispone también de planes de acción tutorial que asigna profesorado tutor a cada estudiante para ofrecer asesoramiento académico en cuanto a las opciones y la orientación de su proyecto académico y profesional.

  Asimismo, informa de los recursos y servicios que la Universidad pone a disposición del estudiantado y de la información sobre el funcionamiento general de la misma, sobre los aspectos administrativos, académicos, de gestión y de participación en las estructuras de gobierno.

• Access

  Access

  Poderán acceder ás ensinanzas oficiais de máster:

  1. As persoas que estean en posesión dun título universitario oficial español.
  2. Aquelas que teñan un título expedido por unha institucion de educación superior do EEES que faculta no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de máster.
  3. Os titulados conforme a sistemas educativos alleos ao EEES sen necesidade de homologación dos seus títulos, previa comprobación pola Universidade de que os ditos títulos acreditan un nivel de formación equivalente aos correspondentes títulos universitarios españois e que facultan no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de posgrao.

  Admission

  Modality: with limited vacancies and general criteria

  a) 10 vacancies for graduates in the Degree in Business Administration and Management or equivalent qualifications.
  b) 6 vacancies for graduates in the Degree in Economics or equivalent qualifications.
  c) 4 vacancies for the following degrees by order of preference:

  1º) Engineering or equivalent qualifications.
  2º) Degree in or equivalent qualifications.
  3º) Other University Degrees

  Students coming from countries with a language other than Galician, Portuguese or Spanish must accredit the Galician language level: Celga II, or Spanish: B2, in accordance with the Agreement of the Governing Council of the USC of July 30, 2018.

  If they do not have any of the qualifications, the USC will give them a level test and, if they do not pass it, they must attend an intensive course of Galician or Spanish in the first semester until they reach the required level.

  Information is updated in each enrolment call

The aim of the University Master’s Degree on Business Administration is to provide students with and advanced training of specialized and multidisciplinary academic nature. Specifically, it pursues a double objective:

– In the first place, to provide students with the most relevant managerial competencies, providing them with a global and integrated vision of the company's functional areas, both from a theoretical and applied perspective. And this in order to respond to an increasingly changing and globalized environment, that demands graduates with the capacity for the administration of flexible and innovative enterprises, as well as with the needed competencies for the development of a project of an entrepreneurial nature.

– In the second place, to train researchers interested in the realization of a PhD in the field of Business Administration in a strict manner

• Basic skills

  - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for being original in the development and/or application of ideas —usually in a research context.

  - Students must know how to apply their acquired knowledge and their capacity of problem solving in new or uncommon surroundings. All of this, inside broader —or multidisciplinary— contexts associated with their study area.

  - Students must be able to integrate knowledge and confront the complexity of making judgements from information which could be incomplete and limited. This information must include reflections about social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their study areas’ knowledge and judgements.

  - Students must know how to clearly and unambiguously communicate their conclusions —and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that sustain them— to specialized and non-specialized public.

  - Students must possess learning abilities that will allow them to continue studying, in a way which would be largely self-directed and autonomous.

• Generic skills

  1. Advanced knowledge in Business Management, mainly its methods, techniques and areas of application.
  2. Ability to have a strategic vision of the pros and cons of business.
  3. Ability to apply acquired knowledge to the reality of business.
  4. Ability to solve the pros and cons in new or little known environments.
  5. Ability to take managerial decisions within the company in general and in particular within its different functions, in situations of incomplete information.
  6. Ability to develop and defend arguments on specialised issues and resolve the pros and cons on these issues, making use of the knowledge acquired in the reality of business, the theories, models and appropriate scientific methods.
  7. Ability to communicate information, ideas, the pros and cons of business management, presentation techniques and solution proposals, using both verbal and written language, to specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  8. Ability to design integrated management projects or projects related to functional areas of the company.
  9. Master various tools, instruments and management methods necessary to run a company.
  10. Ability to identify, collect and interpret relevant data on issues related to business management.
  11. Ability to continue autonomous learning.
  12. Awareness of the company's social responsibility.

• Specific skills

  1. Ability to understand the relevant problems and aspects of the different functional areas of the enterprise.
  2. Overview of the company and its environment, that permits the diagnosis of complex issues, to analyze them and to make appropriate decisions, being aware of their impact and scope.
  3. Knowledge of the impact of internationalization
  4. Ability to understand markets and marketing from a strategic perspective.
  5.Ability to lead a sales team
  6. Ability to formulate and implement people-related strategies that help companies gain sustained competitive advantage.
  7. Ability to manage the operations and systems of information of the company.
  8. Ability to do the economic-financial management of a company.
  9. Knowledge and understanding of the role of accounting information as a mechanism for evaluation and control.

  The research aspect of the program, through the subject "Research Methodology in Business Management", will allow students to develop the following specific competencies:

  - Knowledge of the most relevant research methods in business administration.
  - Ability to design a research project and to interpret the results and to draw relevant conclusions.
  - Knowledge of the requisites that the measure scales of the constructs used in the research must fulfill.
  - To design a a survey and data processing using various statistical programs.
  - Knowledge of the fundamental databases for research in business administration, as well as the knowledge of impact journals in business management and the publication process.
  - Knowledge of the structure that a research project must have in order to be published in an impact journal (JRC).

• Transversal skills

  - Ethical sense of business management and administration
  - Ability of critical reasoning
  - Ability of analysis and synthesis
  - Ability of planification and organization
  - Ability of argumentation and communication
  - Ability to integrate and work in teams of diverse composition

Mobility

Student mobility is regulated through the “Regulation of inter-university exchange.” Exchange programs are managed through the International Relations Office, such as national exchange programs (SICUE) as well as Europeans (ERASMUS) and from outside the European Union (exchanges with Latin American countries or English-speaking countries):

Portal Internacional
In addition, the faculty counts on the colaboration of sveral professors that act as academic coordinators and whose function is to tutorize and help our own and host students in their academic decissions.

Internships

The optional subject ‘Internships in a Company’ must be taken by the students that want to get the Master's Degree for professional orientation. These are programmed in the second semester so that the students will possess the major part of the competencies developed in the obligatory subjects. The main aim is that students develop competencies through their immersion in a work environment representative of the future professional context.

The specific activities to be carried out will vary depending on the position and the organization (company or institution) in which the student carries out the internship, always linked with the established competencies. Each academic year a list of the companies and institutions with which collaboration agreements have been signed will be made public.

The Master’s Thesis will consist of the planification, elaboration, presentation and defense of an original project that demonstrates the acquired competences throughout the Master’s Degree. This project will include, at least, tasks of bibliographic search and review, reading and integration of information, elaboration of outlines, writing, presentation and defense of the final work. depending on the topic to be dealt with it may also include an empirical part or a case study.

For the planification and elaboration of the Master’s Thesis and its defense, the tutor will guide and advise the student about the documentary sources to be used, the format and the structure of the project, and, finally, about its posterior elaboration and presentation.