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University Official Master's Degree in Business Strategy Direction

Participating institutions

Rovira i Virgili University

Compulsory student mobility: no

Presentation

In its professionalizing mode, the objective of the Master's degree is to prepare the students for management positions or senior management team assessment, both in private or public organizations, offering an integral and strategic point of view of the different functional areas.

In its research mode, the objective of the Master's degree is to prepare future researchers for Public Administration and Business Management, as well as Strategic Management, fostering discipline's advancement at the time when new challenges appear. On this matter, the research mode aims to enrich student's research abilities, to specialize students from different research lines, and to complete student's training through a deep instrumental and methodological study to carry out the doctoral thesis (as well as to consolidate future researcher's groundings).

Admission requirements

The Master's Degree coruses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it). 

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master.

Contents

Course taught in: Catalan and Spanish.

Schedule: Evenings

First year: Professional and Reserch modes

first 4-month period

Basic Company organisation
Basic Marketing
Financial and Company Accounting
Financial Management: Investments
Human Resource Management

second 4-month period

Account Statement Analysis
Basic Business Strategy
Financial Management: Financing
Marketing Management
Microeconomics and Macroeconomics for Businesses

Second year: Professionalisation pathway

first 4-month period

Advanced Strategic Management
Financial Strategies
Human Factor Strategies
Marketing Strategies

second 4-month period

Business Decision Techniques
Master's end work: Project in a company
4 elective subjects

Second year: Research pathway

first 4-month period

Advanced Strategic Management
Financial Strategies
Human Factor Strategies
Procés d’Investigació

second 4-month period

Investigation with Qualitative Research Techniques
Investigation with Quantitative Research Techniques
Master's end work: Research work
4 elective subjects (minimum 2 of Marketing Strategy in research especialisation module)

Elective subjects

Ethics and Social Responsibility
Consultancy Process
Financial Analysis and Company Valuation
Financial Products and Instruments
Knowledge and Competence Management
Professional and citizen advice


Research especialization module

Instruments for Taking Decisions in Uncertainty
Valuation of Scientific Production

Modes

- Professional
- Research

Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.

The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.

For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need. 

Pre-registration on-line

Academic contact (coordinator)

 Dr. Gerard Ryan

 Department of Business Management

 977 759 842

 gerard.ryan(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat
 Administrative contact (secretary)

Secretariat of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences

 977 759 803/04

 capsfcee(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat
 Postgraduate and Doctoral School

 Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona) 

 Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847 

 mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

 Office hours 

Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30

Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00 

July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

Informació

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