Executive MBA (EMBA)
The Executive MBA at UPF Barcelona School of Management is the management development program that allows you to give the ultimate boost to your professional career and prepares you to lead companies with a global and innovative vision.
Next edition
Classes start: 16 October, 2023
Classes end: 20 December, 2024 (To be confirmed)
Program ends: 30 March, 2025 (To be confirmed)
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The Executive MBA is an official master's degree, accredited by AMBA, and endorsed by the excellence of Pompeu Fabra University.
It is a part-time program, lasting 18 months, aimed at executives and managers with extensive professional experience. Our Executive MBA will make you a global leader, capable of transforming organizations, dealing with uncertain environments, and providing new responses to the challenges that companies and their managers face.
Why choose this program
Study at an accredited school
Study at a school accredited by EQUIS, an international distinction that guarantees the quality of our institution and makes us the 1st school of management linked to a public university with this accreditation in our country.
Personalized Program
Design the itinerary you want, adding content on innovation, sustainability, soft skills, or leadership, among others. In addition, a mentor and the academic management will advise you throughout the course.
Learn from the best
You will learn from an elite faculty, made up of executives from leading companies and professors of recognized international prestige from UPF-BSM and the UPF Department of Economics and Business.
Networking
Interact with colleagues from different countries and with diverse professional backgrounds. Every year, we have participants from leading companies, such as CaixaBank, SDG Group, PwC, Cuatrecasas, etc.
Electives and complementary activities
Rich study plan with optional subjects and complementary activities that are constantly updated to adapt to market demands. Participate in practical activities for personal and professional growth, such as the MBA Challenge and Outdoor Training.
International Focus
Acquire a global vision of business, and discover other business realities through the International Study Trips.
Who is it for?
The Executive MBA is aimed at managers and executives with extensive professional experience (minimum five years). People who want to boost their professional career and lead companies with a global and innovative vision.
To apply for this program you must be a university graduate.
Accreditations
UPF Barcelona School of Management is the management school of Pompeu Fabra University, the 1st Ibero-American university and the 16th placed university in the world, among those under 50 years of age, according to the Times Higher Education ranking.
UPF Barcelona School of Management has EQUIS accreditation, the most prestigious institutional recognition for business schools globally, and places itself among the top business schools in the world.
The Executive MBA has AMBA accreditation from the Association of MBAs, which recognizes UPF-BSM for its academic quality and reputation.
The Executive MBA is an official master's degree and has the academic recognition of the Ministry of Education of the Government of Spain. The Quality Agency of the University System of Catalonia (AQU) has also institutionally accredited UPF-BSM. This accreditation certifies all the official master's degrees that we teach and recognizes the quality of our educational model in accordance with the criteria of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).
Curriculum
The Executive MBA is structured over 18 months in which students will participate in core and optional subjects.
We have identified a set of key competencies that favour the professional development of the participants: leadership, communication, co-operation, adaptive thinking, decision-making, and autonomous learning. You will work on these competencies in an integrated and transversal way throughout the Executive MBA.
The MBA is taught in Spanish, but subjects in English can be chosen from among the electives.
The program also consists of an individual project that is defined in the intensive initial week (from 9 am to 7 pm) and is developed throughout the Executive MBA.
Intensive week: project to develop
Core Subjects First Trimester
Core Subjects Second Trimester
Core Subjects Third Trimester
Core Subjects Fourth Trimester
Master's Final Project
Elective Subjects
Complementary activities
The Executive MBA also includes the possibility of participating in practical, and personal and professional growth activities such as:
- The Outdoor Training is a weekend of disconnection in a mountain hotel, in which team building activities are carried out with the aim of identifying roles and leaders, and improving managerial and team management skills.
- The International Study Trips which are work trips in which you will visit the stock market and companies with the aim of learning about new international markets. We have previously visited Shanghai (China) or London (United Kingdom), among others.
- The MBA Challenge is a four-day competition in which you will have the opportunity to work on a real challenge from a large corporation. Companies such as La Fageda, the Oncological Foundation of Catalonia, the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, or the Josep Carreres Foundation have already entrusted their cases to UPF-BSM participants.
- International mobility: The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you the possibility of expanding your training and international vision through the International Mobility Programme. Extend your studies extracurricularly, during the academic year following the completion of your Master's, at a top-level institution. Limited places.
- UPF-BSM Inside: is a group of interdisciplinary subjects (applied data, communication, creativity, innovation and project management, sustainability and leadership among others) that, if you take this program, you can access at no additional cost. They are 100% online and you can take them throughout the academic year at your own pace, as they have been designed as self-study subjects.
Qualification obtained
Once students have completed the course they will obtain the Màster Universitari en Administració i Direcció d'Empreses / Master in Business Administration (MBA) - Máster Universitario en Administración y Dirección de Empresas / Master in Business Administration (MBA) official Master's Degree, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
Issuance of official Master's Degrees: The amount stipulated in the DOGC (Official Gazette of the Government of Catalonia) must be paid for the rights to issue the degree. This rate varies annually and the rate in force at the time of application for the degree will be applied.
Faculty
The Executive MBA is taught by management professionals from leading companies, and professors of recognized international prestige from UPF-BSM and the Department of Economics and Business at UPF.
Academic directors
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Director of the Academic Department of Business and Management Strategy
Deputy Directors
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Associate Provost for Strategic Projects
Full Professor UPF
Coordinator
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Faculty
Tenure Track UPF-BSM
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Rector UPF
Full Professor UPF
Associate Professor UPF-BSM
Dean
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Director of the Academic Department of Business and Management Strategy
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Associate Provost for Strategic Projects
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Program Academic Director
Associate Professor UPF
Full Professor UPF
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Program Academic Director
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Head of academic area: People and Organization
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
General Deputy
Full Professor UPF
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Full Professor UPF
Senior Lecturer UPF-BSM
Lecturer UPF-BSM
Teaching Assistant UPF-BSM
Methodology
The Executive MBA combines basic content, that which is considered essential for any professional who wishes to carry out a managerial role, with specific content, which is customized together with the mentor according to the participant's personal skills and professional project.
The program also includes the possibility of participating in practical, and personal and professional growth activities, such as Outdoor Training, International Study Trips or the MBA Challenge.
The professional challenge
At the beginning of the program you will define the individual project that you will work on during the Executive MBA. It must respond to a real business challenge and allow the development of business analysis and diagnostic skills, as well as formulate viable proposals for its implementation. Its objectives define the knowledge and academic content that is learned in the Executive MBA.
The figure of the mentor
The mentor is key in the learning model, acts as a guide and challenges your thinking and ideas. They will also help you to identify teachers, professionals, projects, companies, and reference activities with which to contrast and enrich your project.
Tutoring and monitoring
During the Executive MBA you will have the monitoring of the Academic Management team to offer you support and ensure your correct progress in the development of skills.
Collaborative learning and real case studies
The diversity of profiles enriches learning through a shared and interdisciplinary viewpoint. In the classroom, an inclusive learning process is put into practice in which the active participation of all classmates is promoted in the form of dialogue and exchange of ideas around the resolution of the different real practical cases.
Flipped learning
In the classroom we will explore the topics in depth to create more learning opportunities. They are work sessions that you will prepare in advance so that you actively participate in the construction of knowledge.
Evaluation
The Executive MBA program consists of different evaluation systems according to each subject: exams, group assignments, individual assignments and the individual project.
Tools
Project-oriented learning and the combination of lectures and active methodologies such as case studies, flipped learning, solving real problems and professional simulations allow the student to connect theory and practice, acquire advanced skills and achieve learning which is transferable to work.
You will have:
- Master's Final Project (TFM) or Postgrad Final Project (TFP)
- A personal mentor to monitor your final project (TFM or TFP)
- Digital resources to achieve transversal skills
- Interdisciplinary activities and workshops
Professional Future
The Executive MBA is a transformative program that allows you to boost your professional career and prepares you to lead companies with a global and innovative vision.
Student profile
The Executive MBA ecosystem is made up of national and international professionals with an outstanding track record.
The diversity of profiles with whom you will share this experience (entrepreneurs, managers, consultants, engineers, etc.) is of great added value for your training.
Career opportunities
A career advisor will support you in a personalised way to achieve your career growth goals towards professional opportunities such as:
- CEO, Board of Directors, or General Management of companies and organizations of any kind.
- Venture Capital Manager, Private Equity Manager, and Strategic Consultant.
- Management positions in any of the functional areas of a company: marketing, finance, human resources, production, etc.
- Entrepreneur
- Intrapreneur: undertake projects within your organization.
Admission and enrolment
Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.
Who can apply?
The Executive MBA is aimed at university graduates with an average work experience of 9 years (minimum experience required is 5 years) and who currently occupy a position of responsibility or wish to boost their professional career.
The program is designed to also respond to businessmen and entrepreneurs who want to provide strength to their business project or who want to make it grow.
The Executive MBA is also suitable for companies that want to develop the talent and skills of their executive and management teams.
Those participants who do not have Spanish as one of their mother tongues or who did not have it as a teaching language in their training studies, must prove that they have at least a B2 level of Spanish (Common European Framework of Reference), as well as fluently take part in a personal interview with the academic director, if necessary.
Although it is not essential, a good level of English is highly valued by the Admissions Committee.
How to apply?
To apply for admission to this program, students must read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Contract once they start the application for admission through its form.
Application for admission
Complete your application within the next admission rounds:
Round | Application deadline | Admission resolution |
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10 | 24/05/2023 | 09/06/2023 |
11 | 14/06/2023 | 29/06/2023 |
12 | 22/06/2023 | 07/07/2023 |
Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:
- Complete the online admission form.
- Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.
- Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
- Presentation letter or video
- CV
- Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)
- Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)
- Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport
- Passport-size photo (jpg format)
Additional documents may be requested in certain cases.
Applications are subject to the number of places available on the program.
Admission
- The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.
- You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.
Enrolment
- Resgistration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.
- Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your transcript of records.
- If you have a foreign degree, we will indicate you in the admission letter the specific instructions of the documents required
- Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place
- If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is 1517.
- The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Grants, scholarships and financing
Scholarships
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
Grants and discounts
Funding
Financing simulator
You can choose how to finance your studies by consulting our simulator and receive an answer in less than 24 hours.
Collaborating entities
We collaborate with various entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links.