Información académica

The main objective of the Bachelor's degree in business administration and management is to train professionals to perform management, counseling and evaluation tasks in products and services organizations. These tasks can take place in the global sphere of the organization or in any of its functional areas: production, human resources, finances, commercialization, investment, administration or accounting.

The graduate should know the organisation of all these functional areas, as well as the overall objectives of the production unit; taking into consideration the context of the global economy and be able to contribute to the smooth running of activities to improve results. Specifically, they must be able to identify and anticipate opportunities, assign resources, organize information, select and motivate people, make decisions, reach proposed goals and evaluate results.

As expressed in its White Paper, this degree is aimed at the following professional profiles: Business Management, Economic Consulting, Financial System, Foreign Trade, International Institutions, Public Administration, Studies and Planning.

Training Objectives and learning Strategies.

The objectives for the Bachelor's degree in business administration and management are defined taking into account the characteristics and evolution of the economic and business activity in a globalised environment that changes quickly and requires competitiveness and sustainability.

It is important to differentiate between training objectives and learning techniques, because both are an important part of the teaching goals of the Bachelor's degree.

Training Objectives:

1. To know the nature of business and its relation to the immediate and mediate economic environment, national and international. Specifically, aspects like: Shortage and assignment of resources, price system, theory of consumption and production, competitive equilibrium, non competitive markets, economic efficiency and welfare theory.
2. Rent assignment models in an open economy, money, inflation, unemployment, growth and economic policies instruments.
3. Decision making theoretical fundamentals.
4. Business fundamental theories.
5. Organization and functional areas.
6. Micro and macroeconomic accounting.
7. National and international economic reality, production sectors, public sectors, economic institutions and their evolution.
8. Basic legal notions and Civil, Commercial, Tax, and Labor Law.

Learn business management and organization techniques.

1. Diagnosis of the situation and the results of the company, of the fund flow on a given period and costs establishment.
2. Business policies and strategic decisions: "marketing mix", price policies, distribution, promotion and product policies.
3. Investment projects selection, portfolio models, financial structure as regards mediums and policies, capital cost and risk-profit combination.
4. Tactical and strategic decisions related to production/operations areas: planning, programming and control of production, products, processes and infrastructures.
5. Human resources goal setting, policies and planning: analysis, assessment and planning of jobs, staff selection, staff training, managing development, degree planning, retribution and incentive programmes.
6. Support systems for management and its functions: planning, analysis.
7. Design and establishment of information systems.

Learning instrumental notions:

1. Basic elements of linear algebra.
2. Integral and differential calculus.
3. Mathematical optimization.
4. Mathematics in financial operations.
5. Descriptive statistics, probability, statistic inference, simple regression models and explicative variables.

Learning strategies:

1. Provide a wide spectrum training content for the university level that addresses the needs of students in higher learning in the social, humanistic, scientific and technical areas.
2. Put forward an academic curricula that includes the Fundamentals, Methods, Processes and Contents inherent in Business Management and Administration and reflects the multidisciplinary character of the degree.
3. Satisfy the degree's specific needs about knowledge and development of working techniques and skills, especially those required by the Information and Communication Technologies.
4. Training in specific job techniques through practical practices in the workplace and in collaboration with the tutorial help of the agents involved.

Competences Instrumental:

CI1 Ability to analyse and summarise ability to organise and plan.

CI2 Good at communicating, both in writing and orally, in their mother tongue.

CI3 Good at communicating, both in writing and orally, in a foreign language.

CI4 Study-related IT skills.

CI5 A capacity to analyse, review and classify information from different sources.

CI6 The ability to structure and project information.

CI7 Problem-solving abilities.

CI8 The ability to apply professional criteria to problem analysis, based on technical instruments.

Competences Personal:

CP1 Motivation towards quality and responsibility in the workplace.

CP2 Creativity, initiative and an entrepreneurial spirit.

CP3 The ability to work in a team with an ease of communication.

CP4 The ability to work in a team which covers a range of activities.

CP5 The ability to work in an international environment.

CP6 Skills in inter-personal relationships.

CP7 The capacity to work in diverse and multi-cultural environments: recognising and respecting diversity.

CP8 The ability to think through ideas.

CP9 An ethical commitment to work.

CP10 Good at working under pressure.

Competences Systematic:

CS1 Autonomous learning.

CS2 Adapting to new situations.

CS3 Creativity.

CS4 Leadership.

CS5 Initiative and an entrepreneurial spirit.

CS6 Quality-driven.

CS7 Being sensitive to environmental and social issues.

Competences Practical:

CP1 Applying knowledge to real situations.

CP2 The ability to research.

CP3 Designing and managing projects.

CP4 An ability to develop economic and business-related issues.

Competences Specific Professional:

CSP1 The ability to analyse and apply accounting techniques and rules.

CSP2 The ability to draw up and interpret the data contained in yearly accounts.

CSP3 The ability to solve legal, political and conceptual problems which may be encountered during the running of a business.

CSP4 The ability to analyse and apply the principles of constitutional, civil, business and labour law.

CSP5 A sound working knowledge of the different tax structures.

CSP6 The ability to analyse the instruments of economic policy.

CSP7 Knowledge and analysis of how economic factors work.

CSP8 Knowing and analysing how markets work.

CSP9 Knowing how to analyse the challenge of business through the management functions (planning, organisation, human resource management and control).

CSP10 Knowing how to identify and analyse the functional areas of a company.

CSP11 Knowing how to design and carry out business strategies (corporate and competitive).

CSP12 Knowing how to design and develop a financial plan.

CSP13 Knowing how to formulate an investment-funding strategy in the company.

CSP14 Knowing how to analyse and interpret the data which the company has at its disposal.

CSP15 Knowing how to analyse the sales strategy, targets and sales policy.

CSP16 Knowing how to use Information and Communication Technologies in different areas.

CSP17 Knowing how to lead groups of people.

CSP18 Knowing how to carry out anaylsis and diagnosis, provide back-up and take decisions in the area of organisational structure.

CSP19 Knowing how to apply techniques and take decisions in the field of human resource management.

The students accepted at ESIC in the Official Courses must comply with ESIC's internal regulations, as well as with the Admissions and Attendance Regulations of the Universidad Miguel Hernández .

The students who wish to attend these classes must hold a High School Diploma and must have passed the University admission tests or to hold one of the degrees that enable the admission to the university:

• Admission Process Information

Pre-enrollment and admission

1. Hold a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent and to have passed the University Admission Tests.
2. Complete the tests that the School Board determines.
3. Have a personal interview with members of the corresponding area Board.

Since these are official studies, the student must pre-enroll according to what the Conselleria de Educació, Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana establishes every year, and respect the norms and schedules given by this body.

Once accepted, the student must complete the payments at the Secretaría del Área de Grado in ESIC, providing the final examination card/credential (source document and 3 photocopies).

For more information on registration indicators, see the results here.

Admission to the Degree's official training courses requires be a high school graduate or equivalent, and the passing of the exam referred to in the article 42 of the Organic law 6/2001 of Universities, modified by law 7/2007, April 12, as well as all other admission requirements of the current regulations.

Due to the multidisciplinary character of the Degree in Business Administrations and Management, it´s difficult to design a specific and suitable application profile. It would be desirable that the new student must be conscious of what the Bachelor's degree in business administration and management pretends, which means giving a competitive formation in business management and administration. In consequence, he/she must confront the qualification according to the following attitudes:

• Responsibility. It´s necessary to be conscious that daily working will manage them to reach objectives and that the level of effort will be the one that remark the final results.
• Receptivity. It will be necessary to be open to every new idea. This receptivity includes possessing a flair and disposition to plan and organize activities, simplicity in going on with others and team work.
• Curiosity and dynamism. He/she must be enterprising, ready to discover new aspects by his/herself, creative and innovator.

For more information on entrance profile indicators, see the results here.

The Bachelor's degree in business administration and management aims at fostering the technical, organizational, human and intellectual abilities in the students, in order to face the current business world and its constant changes.

Once the studies are finished, they will be able to create their own businesses and make management decisions in any companies within the following areas:

• General Management.
• Economic-Financial Management.
• Human Resources and Organizational Management.
• Marketing and Sales Management.
• International Commerce Management.
• Planning, Programming, Objectives and Standards Management.
• Business Consulting and Counseling.

For more information on exit profiles, see the results here:

• Annual Programme Report.
• Job Placement Report.

ESIC has a Department of in-company Internships, which constitutes one of the natural links of the School with the business panorama. The external practices constitute a training activity to be performed by the students under the supervision of ESIC. These will take place primarily in companies, institutions and organisms, public or private.

The external internships aim at allowing the students to apply the knowledge acquired during their academic training in a professional way. This way, the students will learn first-hand about work methodologies, develop competences and obtain practical experiences that will facilitate their subsequent activities in the work market.

As stated in the current Legal Regime, the students who are admitted and attending classes at ESIC will be able to take part in these external internships. Those students who have completed all of the academic courses and who are able to obtain the corresponding degree are no longer able to apply for any official External Internship Programmes.

Percentage of students working in different areas:

ESIC is currently connected to more than 2.000 private and public companies that hold student internships; and a growing number of companies want to sign collaboration contracts every year.

Some of the companies with which ESIC has educational cooperation contracts are:

For more information on External Academic Internships, see the results here.

  REGULATION OF WORK PLACEMENTS

Every year, as a ceremony held before the beginning of classes, there's an informative session for students (and family of the First year Students) enrolled in the different courses if the Degree Studies. In this session, students are told about news and course characteristics and information about the School, and they are handed the Participants’ Welcome Handbook .

Before the beginning of classes, there will be "leveling" courses for the students to strengthen those areas of study that, as our experience has shown, need it.

This action aims at giving new students the quantitative knowledge they might need to start the course with more guarantees and efficiency.

These classes are:

• Pre-requirements in Mathematics Course
• Pre-requirements in Accounting Course.

ESIC has a Plan of Action for Tutoring (P.A.T.) for the "welcoming" of students in their admission process and adaptation to the School.

At the beginning of the classes, a tutor will be assigned to each student, who will be his/her referent in the personal and academic environments. Both will maintain a series of meetings and orientation interviews during the academic year, so the students feel guided and accompanied during their adaptation to University life.

The tutor's responsibilities will be to show the student the School (philosophy and resources), provide information about the Master's, make the university process a dynamic one and facilitate the integration, both personal as well as into the group.

For more information, see Degree in Business Administration and Management Tutors .

Professional Work Meeting

Once a year, there is a work meeting called MEET, organized by the Professional Opportunities Department in ESIC. MEET connects companies in search for management talent with the students that learn every year in our classrooms, with the aim of connecting the potential candidates to the recruiting companies for possible hirings.

The companies involved carry out selection processes and sectorial presentations that complete the knowledge the students need of the different programmes at ESIC.

Workshop for Job Searches

Through the development of the Programmes, ESIC organizes a series of workshops in collaboration with INFOEMPLEO with the aim of helping the assistants to improve their personal and professional skills when facing work interviews.

Professional Careers Department

It offers ex-students two important salient advantages:

• Offers national coverage: That is, ESIC students can choose any national level offer, independently of the city where they attended classes.
• Offers its services throughout the student's working life: Does not limit itself to the search for their first job, but also helps in the development of the student's degree.

The student can make use of an on-line platform to improve the service it offers ex-students as well as collaborating companies.

Through the website www.esic.edu/campus-esic , ESIC ex-students can register with their username and password, and activate their candidatures and have access to more than 250 monthly offers that the Department handles on a national level.

The candidates, besides uploading and codifying their CVs, can indicate their own preferences and restrictions as regards positions, sectors, geographical areas, responsibilities and retribution.

The candidates receive information about job offers to which their CVs have been sent to from the Professional Opportunities Department. At the same time that their CVs are sent to the companies that have required candidates with his/her professional profiles, they receive an email with all the information about the company and the job offer to which they have been recommended for.

All services offered by the Professional Opportunities Department at ESIC are free, for the ex-students as well as for the collaborating companies.

Learn more abou Professional Opportunities Department.

For more information on infrastructure indicators and installations, see the results here.

ESIC offers to all ex-students who are interested, the possibility to become a member of the Asociación de Antiguos Alumnos (Alumni) . Alumni was created in 1972 and nowadays has about 5.000 members, a group formed by business professionals and ESIC graduates. Alumni's main objectives are: to promote and strengthen networking, to foster the professional development of their members and to facilitate the ongoing training of its members. When becoming a member, the ex-students will be able to enjoy discounts in all the workshops and activities that ESIC organizes.

All members will receive in their houses the Alumni publication, with interviews and articles of interest.

Improving ESIC's quality day by day

ESIC's Quality Guarantee system (SGC_ESIC) was created in 2006, with the aim of improving the quality of teaching in all areas of training. This system outlines how ESIC makes use of its organs, regulations, criteria, processes, etc, to improve the quality of the degrees, the selection and promotion of its professors, the planning and development or the results of learning and also how to include different interest groups in design, development, evaluation and broadcasting of its training activities. All this Guarantee System is included inside a Continuous Memory work philosophy.

How we organize the project...

For the design and implementations of the SGC ESIC we have had the collaboration of all the professors and non-professors staff in the School. The project was directed by the School Management Committee, supported by the academic and management Campus Boards and Areas Boards. These Boards have made each and everybody of their staff collaborate, making the project a success that everyone can make good use of. All of them have had the support of the Quality Unit, formed by the quality managers of each area and coordinators of each campus, which helped the widespread and the participation of everybody in the project.

Which are our Reference Quality Models?

ESIC's SGC has been designed under the reference frame of the ISO standard 9001:2008, adapted to the training services in a first phase, with the aim of standardizing the academic and management processes.

On a second phase, the follow up, revision and improvements systems were added to the Quality system based on the ISO standard, much developed by the EFQM model, which resulted in an important improvement to the initial system.

More recently, the ESIC quality system has been upgraded through the AUDIT Accreditation Programme -which is the model of reference for our university system under the new European space and which is promoted by ANECA (Agencia Nacional de la Calidad y Acreditación). Moreover, ESIC's Quality Guarantee System complies with the requirements of the SGC (Sistema de Garantía de Calidad) of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Universidad Miguel Hernández, since it is an attached training center for both institutions.

All Interest Groups at ESIC collaborate on the ESIC Improvement Project through their participation in the different existing commissions, and are listed in the ESIC Quality Handbook. These Groups regularly manifest their satisfaction as regards the training and complementary services, so that the "Services to Keep" are identified (because of the high levelof satisfaction they get), as well as "Services to be improved" and "newly identified needs".

Besides the Commissions, he ESIC students collaborate with the ESIC Improvement Project through Satisfaction Opinion Polls. Institución. ESIC conducts a Satisfaction Opinion Poll of Students towards Professors in every finished course, and a Satisfaction Opinion Poll of Students towards the Institution.

Satisfaction Opinion Poll for Students towards Professors.

• Degree Area, the Satisfaction Opinion Poll towards Teachers is sent out twice for each academic year, always at the end of each class in each four-month period.
• Graduate Studies Area, the satisfaction Opinion Poll towards Professors is sent at the end of each seminar.

Satisfaction Opinion Poll for Students towards the Institution.

All students at mid-point and at the end of their programmes, in Degrees as well as in Graduate Studies Courses, are interviewed to know their level of satisfaction towards ESIC. The aspects taken into consideration are: Programme taken, Facilities, Assistance, and Future Expectations.

Satisfaction Opinion Poll in International Mobility

All students who come from other Universities around the world and take classes at ESIC, as well as ESIC students who take classes in another University through the Institutional Agreements that ESIC offers, take part in a Satisfaction Poll which considers the following aspects: Assistance Services specific for International Mobility, Programme taken, Assistance received, Facilities and Future Expectations.

...in constant improvement...

ESIC formulates under its Quality System Guarantee different channels through which the possible improvements can be identified and implemented in the Institution or new needs which have not yet been detected.

All the ESIC interest groups are represented within the Boards , and collaborate with the identification of improvements regularly, as declared in the ESIC Quality Handbook.

Moreover, through the Satisfaction Polls of the different Interest Groups declared which are generated by the Opinion Poll Plans, possible improvements are identified, as regards academic and other service matters that ESIC offers.

Furthermore, all interest groups collaborate with their opinions through Regular and Web Email, which helps bring about improvements for ESIC.

• ESIC Quality Handbook. (Web Version)
• ESIC Quality System Procedure Manual

• Degree’s Report of the Degree in Business Administration and Management (Degree – URJC in Madrid) (GRADE) 2017/2018   Download pdf
• Degree’s Report of the Degree in Business Administration and Management (Degree – URJC in Madrid) (GRADE) 2016/2017   Download pdf
• Degree’s Report of the Degree in Business Administration and Management (Degree – URJC in Madrid) (GRADE) 2015/2016   Download pdf
• Degree’s Report of the Degree in Business Administration and Management (Degree – URJC in Madrid) (GRADE) 2014/2015   Download pdf
• Degree’s Report of the Degree in Business Administration and Management (Degree – URJC in Madrid) (GRADE) 2013/2014   Download pdf
• Degree’s Report of the Degree in Business Administration and Management (Degree – URJC in Madrid) (GRADE) 2012/2013   Download pdf

Degrees’ Committees Each degree has a Committee organized in the following way:

• The Director of the Degree Academic Committee, who will preside its meetings.
• A Coordinator from Undergraduate Studies.
• Two to five professors from the degree’s faculty.
• The Degree’s Class Representative and theDeputy Class Representative.
• A representative from the Academic Management Personnel (PAS)
• One or two external experts.

The Committee’s main goal is to assure the quality of the degree by promoting its constant improvement. For this, it develops the following functions:

• The monitoring of the objectives of the Degree’s curriculum.
• The proposal, implementation and monitoring of the improvement actions for the program.
• The developing of the Quality Management System for the Degree.
• The performance of the appropriate evaluations of the qualitative and quantitative data included in the Degree’s assessment reports and the improvement proposals based their information.
• The elaboration of the Degree’s Annual Report.
• The integration of the Academic Directors in the continuous improvement of the degree.
• The integration of the Non-Academic Directors in the continuous improvement of the non-academic services for the degree’s participants.

Frequency: 2 meetings per academic year and program (Degree).

See Committee for the Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management

See Policy for Degree's Committees.

See Policy for Faculty Coordination