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Branch of knowledge: Social Sciences and Law
Center in charge: Facultad de Ciencias de la Economía y de la Empresa
Campus: Madrid-Vicálvaro
Method of teaching: Inglés
Credits: 240. Credits/year: 60. Duration: 4 years. Implantation: progressive, first course 2009-2010
Calendario académico Schedule Exam Teaching Guides Validations table Faculty
Coordinator: Prof.ª Dr.ª D.ª María Sonia Medina Salgado
Atención al estudiante: 91 488 93 93. Buzón de Ayuda al Estudiante Buzón de sugerencias y quejas
Basic Information
What will I learn by studying this degree?
The theory – both basic and in-depth for understanding how the different areas of a company work and are managed and supervised
- Business Organisation
Marketing
- Accounting
- Finance
- Human Resources
The socio-economic features of the environment in which a company operates. These include:-
- Economic
- Legal
- Sociological
- Historical
Additional knowledge which is needed to learn about the aforementioned and apply it in practice
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Information technologies
- Languages
Where will I be qualified to work upon graduation?
The job market for Business Studies graduates tends to centre upon set-ups, internationalisation, technological innovation and change, and new models of work organisation. As such, graduates will tend to move into:-
- Organisation or company departments:- finance, sales, management control, marketing, market research, IT, international trade, purchasing, quality, R+D+I, Human Resource Management.
- Financial Services:- auditing, consulting and advice, money markets/securities, financial institutions, recruitment agencies, insurance, marketing, publicity, research institutions, distribution, tourism, health.
- Industry:- food, drinks, chemicals, iron and steel, pharmaceuticals, motoring, stationery, building, publishing, cosmetics, textiles.
- Infrastructure:- technology, transport, telephony, energy, logistics, building
- Public Administration:- international, European, National, Regional
- Teaching (at secondary, undergraduate or postgraduate levels) and research
- Self-employment
Is this degree official in accordance with the regulations of the European Higher Education Area?
Yes (the final verification report is attached). The implementation of the degree will be carried out progressively, beginning in the first year of the degree in the academic year 2009-10.
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What topics will be covered in this Degree?
Topics related to:
- Companies
- Economics
- Accounting
- Law
- Statistics
- Finance
- History
- Market Research and Marketing of Products
- Mathematics
Recommended Profile
Given the fact that the Business Studies Degree covers a wide range of abilities, it is difficult to specify what profile of student it appeals, or is most suited, to. Undergraduate students seeking entry should be aware of the nature of the course aims and objectives, i.e., to train the student as well as possible to compete in the field of Business Management. Consequently, students wishing to study this course should have the following traits:-
- Responsibility. Students must realise that they need to work at their degree on a daily basis if they want to reach their objectives, and the results they obtain will be directly proportional to the amount of effort they put in.
- Receptiveness. Students must be open to all the new ideas which they will encounter as they study the course. This includes being willing and able to plan and organise activities as well as an ability to work with others and in teams.
- Be dynamic and eager to learn. Students should be entrepreneurial, willing to discover new things on their own, and also creative and innovative.
Objectives
The main objective of the Business Studies Degree is to enable students to manage, advise and assess product and service organisations. Those tasks may be carried out in the organisation as a whole or in one specific department: production, human resources, finance, marketing, investment, administration or accounting.
The graduate should know how to identify and anticipate opportunities, allocate resources, organise information, select and motivate personnel, take decisions, reach specific objectives, and assess results.
To define the aims of the Business Studies Degree, the features and evolution of economic and business activity in an increasingly globalised and ever-changing world, in which the demands for competitiveness and sustainability are the norm, have been taken into account. The general training objectives are:
- To know the nature of companies and how they relate to their local, national and international environments
- To know the methods and techniques for managing and organising companies
- To obtain skills in the use of mathematics and statistics
Skills
GENERAL or COMMON SKILLS
Instrumental
- Ability to analyse and summarise ability to organise and plan
- Good at communicating, both in writing and orally, in their mother tongue
- Good at communicating, both in writing and orally, in a foreign language
- Study-related IT skills
- A capacity to analyse, review and classify information from different sources
- The ability to structure and project information
- Problem-solving abilities
- The ability to apply professional criteria to problem analysis, based on technical instruments
Personal
- Motivation towards quality and responsibility in the workplace
- Creativity, initiative and an entrepreneurial spirit
- The ability to work in a team with an ease of communication
- The ability to work in a team which covers a range of activities
- The ability to work in an international environment
- Skills in inter-personal relationships
- The capacity to work in diverse and multi-cultural environments: recognising and respecting diversity
- The ability to think through ideas
- An ethical commitment to work
- Good at working under pressure
Systematic
- Autonomous learning
- Adapting to new situations
- Creativity
- Leadership
- Initiative and an entrepreneurial spirit
- Quality-driven
- Being sensitive to environmental and social issues
Practical
- Applying knowledge to real situations
- The ability to research
- Designing and managing projects
- An ability to develop economic and business-related issues
Specific Professional Skills
- The ability to analyse and apply accounting techniques and rules
- The ability to draw up and interpret the data contained in yearly accounts
- The ability to solve legal, political and conceptual problems which may be encountered during the running of a business
- The ability to analyse and apply the principles of constitutional, civil, business and labour law
- A sound working knowledge of the different tax structures
- The ability to analyse the instruments of economic policy
- Knowledge and analysis of how economic factors work
- Knowing and analysing how markets work
- Knowing how to analyse the challenge of business through the management functions (planning, organisation, human resource management and control)
- Knowing how to identify and analyse the functional areas of a company
- Knowing how to design and carry out business strategies (corporate and competitive)
- Knowing how to design and develop a financial plan
- Knowing how to formulate an investment-funding strategy in the company
- Knowing how to analyse and interpret the data which the company has at its disposal
- Knowing how to analyse the sales strategy, targets and sales policy
- Knowing how to use Information and Communication Technologies in different areas
- Knowing how to lead groups of people
- Knowing how to carry out anaylsis and diagnosis, provide back-up and take decisions in the area of organisational structure
- Knowing how to apply techniques and take decisions in the field of human resource management
Minimun requirements for stay
- For full-time students doing an undergraduate degree, the maximum period of time allowed to complete the degree is eight years. Part-time students can request an extension of up to two years from the Rector.
- In the degrees that have more than to 240 credits (4 years), the maximum stated in the previous section will be increased by one year for each 60 ECTS that are added to the 240 ECTS.
- Students have to pass a minimum of two subjects in the first year. Students who are studying part-time have to pass at least one subject in the first academic year.
- Students who are studying an official degree at Rey Juan Carlos University have a maximum of four enrollments in each one of the subjects in the study program, without counting previous cancellations of said subjects.
For further information see: Normativa de permanencia
Access and Enrolment
Access
Access to official degrees requires holding a high school diploma or equivalent and passing the exam referred to in Article 42 of the Organic Law 6/2001 of Universities, modified in the Law 4/2007 (12 April), taking into account other mechanisms of access foreseen in existing regulations.
The maximum number of 1st year students accepted in the academic is:
| Madrid Campus (Vicálvaro): | 65 places |
Enrolment
Enrolment in the Rey Juan Carlos University is on-line, using the computers on campus or any computer with web access. Dates and deadlines can be consulted in enrolment, as well as the requirements and necessary documents. If any doubts arise, ask at the Student Telephone Assistance Centre (C.A.T.A.)
Teaching Itinerary
BE: Basic Education
COM: Compulsory
EL: Elective
| COURSE 1 | |||
| Semester | Subject | Character | Credits |
| 1 | Economic History | BER | 6 |
| 1 | Corporate Mathematics | COM | 6 |
| 1 | Introduction to Corporations I | BER | 6 |
| 1 | Professional Ethics, Basic Principles of Law and Equality | BEC | 6 |
| 1 | History of Spanish Institutions | BEC | 6 |
| 2 | Introduction to Economics | BER | 6 |
| 2 | Financial Mathematics | COM | 6 |
| 2 | Introduction to Corporations II | COM | 6 |
| 2 | Mercantile Law | BER | 6 |
| 2 | Computer Science Applied to Corporations | BEC | 6 |
| Total Credits : 60 | |||
| COURSE 2 | |||
| Semester | Subject | Character | Credits |
| Annual | Modern Language | BEC | 6 |
| 1 | Introduction to marketing and communications in the firm | BER | 6 |
| 1 | Financial Accounting I | COM | 6 |
| 1 | MicroEconomics | COM | 4,5 |
| 1 | Corporate Statistics I | COM | 6 |
| 1 | Corporate Sociology | BER | 6 |
| 2 | Financial Accounting II | COM | 4,5 |
| 2 | Production Management | COM | 6 |
| 2 | MacroEconomics | COM | 4,5 |
| 2 | Corporate Statistics II | COM | 6 |
| 2 | Marketing Management | COM | 4,5 |
| Total credits: 60 | |||
| COURSE 4 | |||
| Semester | Subject | Character | Credits |
| 1 | Labour Law | COM | 6 |
| 1 | Optional 1 | EL | 4,5 |
| 1 | Optional 2 | EL | 4,5 |
| 1 | Optional 3 | EL | 4,5 |
| 1 | Optional 4 | EL | 4,5 |
| 1 | Academic Recognition of Credits | COM | 6 |
| Annual | Internship Placement | COM | 24 |
| Annual | End of degree project | COM | 6 |
| Total credits: 60 | |||
| OPTIONAL | |||
| Sem. | Subject | Character | Credits |
| 1 | Organizational Behavior and Design (semipresencial) | EL | 4.5 |
| 1 | Corporate Accounting | EL | 4.5 |
| 1 | Corporate Assessment and Acquisition | EL | 4.5 |
| 1 | Operations Management in Service Corporations | EL | 4.5 |
| 1 | Corporate Games | EL | 4.5 |
Internship Placement
The subject Internships is a curricular subject whose fundamental objective is to encourage the comprehensive training of the student through the practical application of the knowledge acquired in the degree, which facilitates direct contact with the professional activity and offers the opportunity for students to incorporate themselves in the professional world with a minimum level of experience. All the internships are designed so that students who participate in them acquire professional experience in real situations and conditions, applying the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are acquired in the educational process during the degree. These internships are an important opportunity for the personal and professional development of the students.
The internships are activities that the student undertakes in companies, institutions, and organizations; that is, in centers external to the university, and that have as their objective to enrich and complement their university studies, while also offering deeper knowledge related to the skills that will be needed once they graduate.
The Internship subject has two phases:
- First, doing the internship, which offers professional experience related to the profile of the graduate and that are shown in the Verification Report of the degree.
- Second, preparation of the report.
Documentation:
Formative proyect Qualification
For more information: Unit internships
Movility Programmes
ERASMUS
The Erasmus Program offers URJC undergraduate and graduate students the possibility of taking courses for one or more semesters at one of the European universities where URJC has agreements.
These exchanges traditionally involve financial assistance thanks to the Erasmus grants that the EU and the Spanish Education Ministry provide.
MUNDE
The Munde Program manages mobility with universities that are not included in the Erasmus Program.
The possibility of obtaining a grant or financial assistance and the quantity depend, in each case, on the agreements with the universities, the countries, or the entities that subscribe to said agreements.
For more information:
SICUE
SICUE es un programa de movilidad nacional para estudiantes universitarios de GRADOS que permite realizar parte de sus estudios en otra universidad española con garantías de reconocimiento académico, aprovechamiento y adecuación a su perfil curricular.
Student Support Programmes
Future student orientation. The university has various orientation programs for future students: visits to high schools, guided tours of the campuses, visits to classrooms, and, at the beginning of every academic year, the university organizes a Welcoming Day in order to orient new students.
Academic tutorials. Each professor offers, within his/her teaching plan, tutorial sessions related to his/her subject.
Integral tutorial programs. These programs are aimed at improving the learning process of the students, helping them to plan and organize their efforts in order to obtain the best academic results.
Degree coordinator. The degree coordinator works to favor the coherence and balance of the different subjects and the work load of the students.
Mentoring Program. URJC has a Mentoring Program, where students from previous academic years act as tutors.
Disabled students. The Assistance for Disabled Persons Office offers orientation and help to students with special needs.
Scholarships and financial aid. Rey Juan Carlos University processes the principle grants and annual financial aid programs, both their own and those from other official organisms such as ministries, the regional government of Madrid, international organizations, and other entities. The university also publishes and disseminates information about grants and financial aid of interest to students and graduates. During the year, students receive information about these through the established communication channels.
Laboral insertion program. URJC, through the Internship Unit and the Graduate Office, organizes events, workshops, and diverse services directed at helping and supporting students seeking employment. This is designed to improve students’ employability and to favor their incorporation into the labor market. The university has job listings, a platform at the disposition of companies and graduates where the organisms can carry out their selection process.
Regulations
CALENDARIO ACADÉMICO
MATRÍCULA
*Las tasas correspondientes a los dobles grados con distinto grado de experimentalidad se aplicarán tal como establece el nuevo Decreto 43/2022, de 29 de junio, del Consejo de Gobierno, por el que se establecen los precios públicos por estudios universitarios conducentes a títulos oficiales y servicios de naturaleza académica en las universidades públicas de la Comunidad de Madrid*
- Matrícula y permanencia en los estudios de Grado de la URJC
- Reglamento de devolución de tasas académicas
- Admisión por cambio de campus o modalidad, universidad y/o de estudios universitarios españoles parciales de Grado y de Doble Grado de la URJC
- Precios Públicos
PROCESO FORMATIVO
- Grados conjuntos
- Dispensa académica
- Prácticas externas (en vigor durante el curso 21/22)
- Prácticas externas (de aplicación a partir del curso 22/23)
- Reconocimiento académico de créditos (RAC)
- Reglamento Marco TFG (Aprobado Consejo de Gobierno 27 de mayo de 2021)
- Premio extraordinario fin de grado
- Procedimiento extraordinario para la finalización de estudios de grado (adelanto de convocatoria)
EXÁMENES Y REVISIONES
- Revisión y reclamación de la evaluación continua en los estudios de grado de la URJC
- Solicitud de revisión y reclamación de la evaluación continua
- Tribunal de compensación
Convalidación, adaptación de estudios, reconocimiento de créditos y homologación de títulos extranjeros
- Convalidaciones / Reconocimientos grados
- Convalidación parcial de estudios extranjeros
- Requisitos formativos complementarios previos a la homologación de títulos extranjeros
TÍTULOS UNIVERSITARIOS
ESTUDIANTES VISITANTES Y DIVERSIDAD FUNCIONAL
RÉGIMEN DE CONVIVENCIA
SEGURO ESCOLAR
ASOCIACIONES
Quality Guarantee
General information Collection Plan
Within the Quality Guarantee System at Rey Juan Carlos University, the following surveys are planned:
- New students
- Teacher assessment
- Student satisfaction
- Satisfaction of graduates
- Labor insertion
- Causes of abandonment
- Career path:
- Second year after graduating
- Third year after graduating
- Fourth year after graduating
- Degree of satisfaction:
- Faculty with campus and university
- Teaching staff with degree
- Of the evaluators
- Incoming student mobility program
- Outbound student mobility program
- Administration and services staff with university
- External practices:
- Student satisfaction
- External tutor satisfaction
- Satisfaction of evaluators
Survey results:
Steps toward Improvement
The Quality Guarantee System at URJC establishes that the Quality Guarantee Commission of the degree analyzes the information derived from the different indicators of the degree and draws up a report which includes plans for improvement, if that is what the results so indicate.
- Improvement actions 2020/2021
- Improvement actions 2019/2020
- Improvement actions 2018/2019
- Improvement actions 2017/2018
- Improvement actions 2016/2017
- Improvement actions 2015/2016
- Improvement actions 2014/2015
- Improvement actions 2013/2014
- Improvement actions 2012/2013
- Improvement actions 2011/2012
- Improvement actions 2009/2010
Accreditation renewal
Accreditation renewal supposes the culmination of the implementation of the official undergraduate and Master’s degrees registered in the University, Center, and Degree Register. The accreditation renewal of official undergraduate and Master’s degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit, and final assessment.
In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the situation of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment report that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of assessors who are external to the degree in question.
Recognition of quality
The Virtual Campus at URJC has the international certification “UNIQUe” for quality in e-learning. UNIQUe is the most demanding seal of quality for the use of ICT in higher education.
In the framework of the celebration of the INNOVATION FORUM 2011 in the Portuguese town of Oeiras, the Foundation for the Quality of e-Learning gave three UNIQUe quality certifications to universities in Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Spain, and Rey Juan Carlos University was one of those chosen.
UNIQUe is the first certification of quality in all of Europe, created to offer support to universities in order to achieve excellence in the use of ICT for innovation in learning. The certification provides points of reference for the field of higher education in order to increase the speed of implementation of the Bologna reforms in the field of technology. It is centered on innovation with the aim of improving learning. At the same time, the UNIQUe seal facilitates the incorporation of the existing good practices and the valid strategies for quality, presenting a wide institutional focus that goes beyond e-learning in order to validate the efforts of the universities with regard to innovation.
This process of quality certification is based on the broad participation of the interested parties with the aim of involving the entire community of higher education, including the government, students and professors, as well as the administration and management of universities.