Official Master's Degree in Business Management (Executive MBA)

Now more than ever, companies need leaders that are able to devise strategies that add value and enhance the competitiveness of companies, not to mention effective management and continuous exposure to decision-making. So the Executive MBA provides students with a comprehensive and strategic perspective of the business, integrating all operational areas and offering them a broad and enriching range of management tools that come together when making decisions.

The objectives of the course are:
Gaining a strategic and comprehensive perspective of business that allows the students to align strategic objectives and functional objectives while understanding the essence of the business.
Consolidating the knowledge and skills necessary to make business decisions and implementing new management models.
Employing management and information tools to solve the specific problems of each functional area.
Developing and enhancing their interpersonal skills to achieve a heightened sense of teamwork, flexibility and leadership in an effective and efficient manner.
Finding the preferred career path and fostering entrepreneurship in business.

This program is aimed at professionals with experience in positions of responsibility who wish to enhance their knowledge of business management and develop the most crucial management skills needed for effective decision-making processes. These professionals come away being able to convey an overall impression of good judgment, security, innovation and rigor in all their actions. Our graduates are also expected to take on leadership roles at any time.

Official university Licentiate or Bachelor's Degree graduates with at least three years of professional experience working in positions with middle/high level of responsibility.
Official Diploma graduates who can prove to have at least five years of professional experience in key positions.

Official Executive Master's Degree in Business Management (Executive MBA)

These are the program's added value:
It is recognized nationally and internationally.
It combines knowledge, attitudes and means, promoting interactive learning between lecturers and students.
It prepares the students to grasp and manage change, prompting them to develop their creativity and use their reasoning ability to solve problems.
It seeks to produce leading professionals in the business sphere.
This Official Master's Degree enables holders to gain admission to official doctorate programs as provided for in recent Royal Decree 99/2011, of January 28.

The teaching methodology is based on an eminently practical, dynamic and interactive (teacher-student) learning model that is designed to adapt the educational objectives, content and learning strategies to the students' profile. To do so, the following techniques are employed:
The case method, presentations of projects and other practical models that simulate real-life management scenarios and allow them to compare views on various decision-making processes.
Problem-solving exercises.
Analysis, debate and discussions on the best business internship and models.
Experience-based presentations from lecturers and students. Guided debates to compare the lecturer's and the other classmates' experiences.
Interdisciplinary activities.
Teamwork in the Executive MBA is employed as a tool that extrapolates companies' day-to-day operations to the classroom, entailing the development of several interpersonal, planning and communication skills in this field.

The close contact between the students and the academic staff allows for their continuous monitoring as well as providing an opportunity to follow their development and progress objectively.
Each of the subjects is evaluated taking into account the grades for the written tests, group work, individual work, active participation and attendance.
Students are required to complete a Master's Project as part of the program, which consists in making a group presentation and defending a business or consultancy project.
Each student will receive a final overall grade for the Executive MBA that is based on the weighting of the specific grades awarded for each subject and the Final Master's Project.
Students whose overall attendance fails to reach 80% or who fail the Final Master's Project will be excluded from the program and may not be awarded the Master's Degree.