Master in Management

PRESENTATION

The Master in Management programme is an 11-month, accredited master programme designed to provide a high-quality, rigorous graduate business education. We respond to the demands placed by the rapidly evolving and increasingly complex global business context on present and prospective business practitioners. The programme offers students the mastery of quantitative techniques, an understanding of a research approach to business decision making, and a commitment to update their management education in the true spirit of lifelong learning.

We provide a rigorous, multidisciplinary and multicultural learning experience focused on real, modern-day management issues and based on innovative, hands-on problem-solving tools. The programme is delivered entirely in English, but students are provided with plenty of opportunities to learn and master Spanish.

The multidisciplinary approach we offer allows our graduates to access a wide variety of professional positions, to continue their studies, or even to begin a research career in business. And the programme is tailored to meet individual students’ needs; through its wide-ranging offering of electives, students can personalize their academic curriculum to focus on their professional or academic interests. Students may deepen their education in the management of innovation and corporate social responsibility, two areas where our faculty shows internationally recognized expertise. The programme also offers internships in companies.

The Master in Management also provides students the opportunity of extending their curriculum by taking part in the International Complement programme. This extension is a 6-month programme placed at the end of the regular Master’s programme that allows outstanding students to complete an extra 30 ECTS credits in any of the universities with which we have exchange agreements. Additionally, students can opt to enrol in the Extension Internship Programme, a post-Master’s internship extension that allows post-grad’s students to work in the company in which they have interned or are still interning for an extended period after finishing their Master’s.

OBJECTIVES

The Department of Business Administration pursues the following objectives for its Master in Management programme:

1. To provide students with valuable knowledge of the business world through the acquisition of a sound education in up-to-date management techniques covering the areas of strategy, marketing, finance and accounting, economics, statistics, innovation, social responsibility, and human resources management.
2. To help students explore their professional opportunities in the areas of business and academics and advise them on building their professional careers. To this end, the programme adapts to the professional or academic needs and interests of its students by offering a wide range of subjects and allowing students to personalize their academic curricula. The Master’s Academic Committee is on hand to provide students with continuous assistance and tutoring.
3. To prepare students to assume technical and managerial perspectives and responsibilities as they participate in decision-making processes.
4. To contribute to the development of students’ personal and professional abilities and skills – creativity, leadership qualities, decision-making, teamwork, and oral and written expression – in an environment that fosters self-initiative and positive ethical values.
5. To prepare graduates to become innovative and socially committed analysts, researchers, and professionals in the field of management.
6. To prepare students to work in international and multicultural organizations.

COMPULSORY COURSES

Strategy

Marketing Management

Accounting and Finance for Management

Firms & Industries

Quantitative Methods for Management

Corporate Governance

Final Master’s project

ELECTIVES

Management of Innovation

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Quantitative Methods for Innovation

Corporate Social Responsibility

Global Firms & International Management

Personnel Economics

Managing People

Organizational Behaviour & Leadership

Internships

INTERNATIONAL COMPLEMENT

The Master in Management offers students the possibility of extending their curriculum in prestigious European universities, with which the Universidad Carlos III has agreements integrated in the Lifelong Learning Programme: Higher Education (ERASMUS). Currently, we have student exchange agreements with: Maastricht University, Audiencia Nantes, Tilburg University, and University of Porto.

EXTENDED CURRICULUM

The International Complement of the Master in Management is a 6-month programme placed at the end of the regular Master’s programme that allows outstanding students to complete an extra 30 ECTS credits in any of the 4 universities with which we have exchange agreements.

This extension is conceived in order to prepare students to:

• Broaden their horizons by exploring different national environments
• Strength their skills to live and work in another country
• Explore different views of management
• Complement their education in other topics of management, choosing among a wide range of subjects at the host university
• Develop their language skills
• Improve their capabilities to work with people from diverse cultures
• Experience alternative pedagogical methodologies for learning management