BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT+ BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN LAW

Field(s) of education and training (ISCED-F)

• Management and administration (0413)

Main focus

The Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management qualifies graduates to create and manage a wide range of businesses. It also trains them to work in each of the following functional areas: production, human resources, funding, marketing, investments, administration, and accounting. Graduates are thus able to perform tasks related to administration, management, assessment, monitoring, and evaluation in companies at a general level or in any of their more specific areas. Furthermore, graduates will be able to perceive the relation of the various functional areas to the general objectives of the enterprise, and the relation of these objectives to the overall economic context. In this way, the professional activity of graduates will contribute to the smooth operation of the business as well as to more satisfactory results. More specifically, graduates will be able to identify and anticipate opportunities, allocate resources, organise information, select and motivate others, make decisions, attain objectives, and evaluate results.

The Bachelor’s Degree in Law provides general theoretical and practical training, which allows students to master the basic concepts of legal science, achieve the skills and abilities needed for legal practice, and gain sufficient understanding of the structure of national and international legal systems, including the EU system. Students also acquire knowledge of the normative content of the various branches of law. This degree programme also provides an education regarding general and professional ethics and values as well as a critical attitude towards reality and ideas. It also foments open-mindedness and interest in intellectual work and its results. Finally, the programme not only provides students with basic knowledge and skills to access a wide range of postgraduate programs, but also gives them training so that they can access jobs that do not require postgraduate studies.

Competences

1. Ability to manage and administer an enterprise or organisation, and to understand its competitive and institutional location and identify its strengths and weaknesses.
2. Ability to work in any functional area of an enterprise or organisation and to perform any type of management task.
3. Ability to use information systems to evaluate the situation and predict the evolution of an organisation, issue reports, and make decisions based on the information obtained.
4. Ability to plan and monitor the management of the enterprise as a whole or of any of its functional areas.
5. Leadership and management skills.
6. Understanding of the processes involved in the creation, innovation, and development of a business.
7. Initiative and entrepreneurship skills.
8. Understanding of business ethics.

Graduates of this degree programme will have the following instrumental skills:
1. Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
2. Good oral and written communication skills that enable them to properly express and convey complex ideas, problems and solutions to specialized audiences, both in Spanish and in a foreign language.
3. Ability to apply theoretical knowledge to professional work.
4. Capacity for decision-making.
5. Knowledge of a foreign language to be applied in the field of law.
6. Computer literacy involving the use of the new technologies of the knowledge society as a working tool.
Graduates will have the following interpersonal skills:
1. Critical reasoning that entails a. critical attitude towards reality and ideas, as well as an open-mindedness and interest in intellectual work and its results.
2. Ability to critically analyse the ethical and political dimension of institutions, problems and remedies, as reflected in a strong commitment to ethical principles and values.
3. Capacity to work in a team with people from other disciplines.
4. Capacity for leadership in collective tasks.
Graduates will have the following systemic skills:
1. Motivation for and commitment to quality.
2. Capacity for autonomous learning.
3. Ability to design, plan and organize one’s own work with a view to fostering private initiative and entrepreneurship.
4. Sensitivity toward social, economic and environmental issues.

Qualification requirements

– The student must prove the level B1, in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
– The student has to complete the ECTS credits of the study program distributed as follows:
Basic Formation (120 ECTS)
Obligatory (233 ECTS)
Optional (21 ECTS)
Final degree project (6 ECTS)

Admission information

Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to students with the following degrees/ diplomas or studies, or any other recognized as equivalent to these:
A.1. Spanish Bachiller, European Baccalaureate or International Baccalaureate.
A.2. Baccalaureate from European Union Member States’ education systems or other countries withinternational agreements.
A.3. Advanced Technician in Vocational Training, Advanced Technician in Plastic Arts and Design orAdvanced Technician in Sports Education, from the Spanish Education System.
A.4.Studies carried out in European Union Member States or in other countries with international reciprocal agreements which meet the academic requirements in those States to access their university studyprogrammes.
A.5. Official Spanish university degrees of Diplomado, Arquitecto Técnico, Ingeniero Técnico, Licenciado, Arquitecto, Ingeniero, Graduado or Máster Universitario.
A.6. Partial (foreign or Spanish) university studies.

Access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is also possible for:
B.1. People over twenty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.
B.2. People over forty with work or professional experience related to a university field of knowledge.
B.3. People over forty-five after successfully passing a specific access test.

Likewise, access to Bachelor’s Degree programmes is granted to:
C.1. People meeting the requirements to enter university according to the Spanish Education Systemregulations prior to Ley Orgánica 8/2013, of December 9.

Grading scale
In the Spanish university system, modules/courses are graded on a scale of 0 to 10 points with the following qualitative equivalence:
0-4,9: «suspenso»; 5-6,9: «aprobado»; 7-8,9: «notable»; 9-10: «sobresaliente». A special mention, «Matrícula de Honor» may be granted to up to 5% of the students in a group provided they have got a «sobresaliente». To pass a module/course is necessary to get at least 5 points.
In cases of recognition of ECTS, professional experience, cultural or sports activities, or student representation no grading will be recorded but, where appropriate, the word «Apto».

UGR Examination Regulations
https://docencia.ugr.es/sites/vic/docencia/public/inline-files/Normativa_de_evaluacion_y_calificacion_EN.pdf

More info on academic regulations at: 

https://ugrcat.ugr.es/en/about-ugr/#regulations