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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.

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 Programme INNDOC was created to promote, support and monitor teaching innovation and active learning methodologies in all the courses of the Faculty of Economics and Business. It is a project promoted by the Dean’s Team of the Faculty, which aims to lay the foundations for a new model of more active and motivating teaching through the improvement of teaching quality and the promotion of innovative teaching strategies.

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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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