Introduction

The double degree pathway in Law and Business Administration and Management is especially designed for students seeking thorough training in law and business that qualifies them to work in senior positions.
The double degree pathway in Law and Business Administration and Management produces professionals capable of successfully performing management, advisory, and assessment tasks at companies, whether at the global level within the organization or in any of its functional areas: production, human resources, finance, marketing, investment, administration, or accounting. At the same time, it provides basic legal training that includes both theoretical knowledge of the legal system and the methodological tools needed to interpret and apply the norms that make it up. This double degree enables students to work as both lawyers and economists, as well as auditors, corporate consultants, government economists and tax inspectors. It also prepares them to take on management and administrative roles at government agencies and international institutions.

Basic information

TypeDouble degree
Faculty or schoolFaculty of Law
Faculty of Economics and Business
Branch of knowledge
  • Social Sciences
  • Sciences
Credits420
Number of places available

60

Length of course

 5.5

academic years
Admission grade

11.406 (July 2024, start of process, via official entrance examinations/vocational training)

Approximate price per credit17,69 €
Compulsory placementsNo
Course detailsIndicators
SpecializationsYes

Objectives and competences

Objectives

The double bachelor's degree in Law and Business Administration and Management provides the knowledge and tools to understand the general legal framework we live in and, more specifically, the legal structures applicable to the creation and management of companies. Knowledge of the structure and operation of the legal system enables students to broaden their understanding of the various areas introduced in the bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management, and strengthens other aspects like decision making on the business field, studying the viability of business projects and their adaptation to the regulatory framework, different organizational models and the requirements of corporate responsibility. 

Competences

Students of the double degree will acquire the competences linked to each of the programmes: the bachelor's degree in Law and the bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management.  Under this combined perspective, the following competences can be defined as specific to the double degree:
  • Ability to work as part of a team.
  • Critical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
  • Ability to analyse and reflect on legal, economic and commercial matters.
  • Capacity to produce effective spoken and written communication in the primary languages of use in the two disciplines.
  • Capacity to apply the concepts of law and business in professional practice.

Access and admission

Applicant profile and access requirements

Recommended applicant profile

Students of Law and of Business Administration and Management must be enterprising and have the sensitivity to understand how human relationships are constructed and what the best tools are to contribute to the sustainable growth of the social environment and the resolution of possible disputes. They must be able to demonstrate a critical spirit, curiosity and an organized mind, and the ability to identify and distinguish between different situations. With regard to the legal content of the dual pathway, students must be alert to and keen analyse the social reality and social problems, to listen to and empathize with others, to consider underlying interests and make plausible decisions that are consistent with democratic values. On the economic side, students must have an interest in the business world and a general concern for political and social matters. It also is necessary to have an aptitude for mathematics, accounting and statistics.

Access requirements and conditions

Admission for students with studies completed outside Spain.

Applicants holding higher educational qualifications from a university outside Spain should consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications to find out about specific admission requirements.
 

Pre-enrolment

Students that have studied abroad and who wish to study at the University of Barcelona may be admitted to EHEA bachelor's degree courses. Procedures for gaining admission will depend on the qualifications held by each applicant.

For further information about admission, consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications.
 

Enrolment

As a general rule, at the UB you will be required to enrol online via the Món UB portal. To find out the date and time you have been assigned, check the specific information for your course. Remember that you can lose your place if you do not enrol on the day you have been assigned.

Academic information

 

Welcome

Support and guidance

Pre-enrolment information and events

 

Course curriculum

Subjects and course plans

Distribution of credits

Type ECTS
Basic training 108
Compulsory 246
Optional 54
Compulsory placements 0
Compulsory final project 12
TOTAL 420

List of subjects

Subject Language Type Credits
Final project 1st semester
2nd semester
Compulsory final project 6
Final Project 1st semester
2nd semester
Compulsory final project 6
Subject Language Type Credits
Advanced Business Taxation 1st semester Optional 6
Alternative Means of Conflict Resolution 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Applied Statistics I 2nd semester Optional 6
Bioethics and Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Business Creation 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Business Information Systems for Management 1st semester Optional 6
Business Valuation 1st semester Optional 6
Canon Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Chinese for Business 1st semester Optional 6
Commercial Distribution 1st semester Optional 6
Communication Strategies and Techniques 1st semester Optional 6
Communication Techniques and Professional Orientation 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Community Law of Free Circulation 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Comparative Private Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Comparitive Constitutional Law and Law of the European Union 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Competition Law and Industrial Property Rights 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Computer Applications in Businesses 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Consolidation of Financial Statements 2nd semester Optional 6
Corporate Social Responsibility 2nd semester Optional 6
Creativitat, Innovació i Emprenedoria 2nd semester Optional 6
Current Legal Issues in Public Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Current Legal Issues in Business Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Current Legal Issues in International Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Current Legal Issues in Private Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Decision Making 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Economic Criminal Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Economic History of the Firm 1st semester Optional 6
Economic History 2nd semester Optional 6
Economics of Uncertainty 1st semester Optional 6
Economy and Industrial and Technological Policy 2nd semester Optional 6
Electoral Law and Parliamentary Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
English for Business 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Environmental Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
European Contract and Consumer Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
European Integration 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
External Audit 2nd semester Optional 6
Finance and Insurance Business Management 1st semester Optional 6
Financial Instruments and Markets 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Financial Market Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
French for Business 1st semester Optional 6
Fundamental Rights and Guarantees 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Game Theory for Businesses 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
German for Business 2nd semester Optional 6
History of Catalan Law and Roman Law Tradition 2nd semester Optional 6
History of Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Immigration, Nationality and Foreign Status 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Institutional or Company Placement I 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Institutional or Company Placement II 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Institutional or Company Placement III 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Institutional or Company Placement 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Insurance Mathematics 2nd semester Optional 6
Insurance Statistics 2nd semester Optional 6
Intellectual Property Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Internal Audit 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
International Economic Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
International Economy 1st semester Optional 6
International Marketing 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
International Organizations 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
International Protection of Human Rights 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
International Taxation 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Internationalization of Businesses: Management and Strategies 1st semester Optional 6
Interregional Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Italian for Business 1st semester Optional 6
Labour Law and Collective Bargaining 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Law and Gender Politics 2nd semester Optional 3
Law and Policies on the Environment and Sustainability 2nd semester Optional 3
Leadership and Development of Leadership Practice 2nd semester Optional 6
Local Government Law and Taxation 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Management Control 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Market Research I 1st semester Optional 6
Market Research II 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Minorities and Equality 2nd semester Optional 3
Navigation Law 1st semester Optional 3
Objectives and Instruments of Economic Policy 2nd semester Optional 6
Operational research 2nd semester Optional 6
Organization Management 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Organization, Innovation and Technology 2nd semester Optional 6
Peace, Justice and Security in Globalized Societies 1st semester Optional 3
Political Science 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Pricing Policy and Strategy 2nd semester Optional 6
Principles of Insurance 1st semester Optional 6
Procedural Strategies 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Product Management 2nd semester Optional 6
Public Forecasting Plans 2nd semester Optional 6
Public Function 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Quality Management 1st semester Optional 6
Quantitative Methods in Financial Valuation 1st semester Optional 6
Registration Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Rules of Accountancy and Audit 2nd semester Optional 6
Social Security Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Sociology of Law 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Sociology 1st semester Optional 6
State and Confession 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Sustainable Development: Ecology, Economy and Society 2nd semester Optional 6
The Social and Solidarity Economy 2nd semester Optional 6
Tort Law and Damages 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 3
Women, Occupations and Societies 1st semester Optional 6

Pathways and specializations

Itinerari 2- Grau Dret Menció Dret Empresa i Grau ADE Menció Comptabilitat (2021)
Itinerari 3- Grau Dret sense Mencions i Grau ADE Menció Comptabilitat (2021)
Itinerari 4- Grau Dret Menció Dret Empresa i Grau ADE Itinerari Lliure
Itinerari 5- Grau Dret sense Mencions i Grau ADE Itinerari Lliure
Itinerari 6- Grau Dret Menció Dret Internacional i Grau ADE Menció Comptabilitat (2021)
Itinerari 7- Grau Dret Menció Dret Internacional i Grau ADE Itinerari Lliure
Itinerari 8- Grau Dret Menció Dret Empresa i Grau ADE Itinerari Comptabilitat (2024)
Itinerari 9- Grau Dret sense Mencions i Grau ADE Itinerari Comptabilitat (2024)
Itinerari 10- Grau Dret Menció Dret Internacional i Grau ADE Itinerari Comptabilitat (2024)
Check the planning of the different pathways of the degree

Previous years

Placements

Placements in a company or another type of organization are an integral part of university studies, providing first-hand experience of working methodologies in students' chosen professional fields. They offer invaluable practical experience for the transition into work after graduation.

Placements are supervised by tutors and subject to assessment. They are therefore included in the academic record.  There is also an option to complete non-curricular placements of up to 500 hours, which can be extended to 900 hours. For both curricular and non-curricular placements, an educational cooperation agreement is signed between the UB and the company, institution or other organization at which the placement will be carried out.
 

Institutional information

Career opportunities

What can you work on ?

The dual pathway in Law and Business Administration and Management leads to the award of the two bachelor's degrees: Law and Business Administration and Management. The career opportunities linked to each degree (with specific requirements in some cases) can be consulted at the following links:


Career opportunities for graduates of the bachelor's degree in Law

Career opportunities of the bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management

Contact us

Faculty of Economics and Business

Diagonal, 690-696 - 08034 Barcelona
Secretary: 934 024 304
secretaria.fee@ub.edu

​​​​Faculty of Law

Diagonal, 684 - 08034 Barcelona
Secretary: 934 020 127
sec.dret@ub.edu


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