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The Faculty of Economics and Business is a leading centre in the studies of economics, business, statistics and sociology and the oldest faculty in Catalonia offering these disciplines.

The Faculty offers a range of official courses, including bachelor’s degrees, university master’s degrees and doctoral programmes. It also understands the importance of executive education and offers an extensive selection of lifelong learning opportunities. Programmes include five bachelor’s degrees, four double degrees, and a variety of prestigious master’s degrees, postgraduate programmes and doctoral programmes.

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Study programmes

Bachelor’s degrees currently last four years. In all of these courses, students acquire the necessary skills for professional activity in the respective field.

Master’s degrees, on the other hand, are aimed towards specialization in a specific field and can be university or inter-university degrees.

Finally, the doctoral degree represents the highest academic distinction that students can obtain in their training. It entitles the holder to teach and carry out university research.

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Academic area

The Faculty’s Academic Area is organized around academic councils for bachelor’s degree courses and coordinating committees for master’s degree courses. These bodies (formed by PDI, PTGAS and students) take the decisions to plan and supervise how these courses work.

To carry out the teaching tasks in the different courses, the Faculty has a team made up of more than 600 lecturers, 40% of whom are permanent lecturers; 12% are lecturers, visiting lecturers and postdoctoral researchers, and the remaining 48% are adjunct lecturers, made up of professionals from the public and private sectors who participate as part-time lecturers, contributing their knowledge and professional experience.
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Tutorial Action
The Pla d’acció tutorial (Tutorial Action Plan, PAT) is a service of guidance and counselling for undergraduates at the Faculty that conducts a series of actions, in which the figure of the tutors, who accompany them during their university years, is of the utmost importance.
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Teaching innovation

The teaching innovation groups of the Faculty of Economics and Business aim to develop and disseminate the results and activities of projects focused on the renewal and updating of pedagogical practices in order to improve teaching quality.

The Faculty continuously reviews its teaching strategies and promotes innovation at different levels:

  1. It supports Teaching Innovation Groups (GID). You can consult the GIDs currently active in the Faculty at: GID Economics and Business.

  2. It supports Teaching Innovation Projects (PID). You can consult the Faculty’s PIDs at: PID Economics and Business.

  3. It supports research programmes on teaching, such as REDICE. You can consult the Faculty’s REDICE projects at: REDICE Economics and Business.

  4. It provides updated information on conferences and workshops on innovation and university teaching.

Coordination: Amelia Díaz Álvarez.

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Teacher Training

The Faculty offers training activities for teaching staff with recognition from the Institute for Professional Development (IDP). Below you will find the different training options available:

Training and resources from the Institute for Professional Development (IDP)

Training offered by the Faculty

Coordination: Amelia Díaz Álvarez.

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Administrative procedures
The administrative procedures of a faculty are an essential part of the student academic life, from the first enrolment to the degree application.

To help students, we have arranged the most common procedures categorized by education.
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