Master's Degree in Project Management and Organization

Skills

General competences

• GC1- Elaborate Project Plans, clearly differentiating the area of project management from the area of technical management of the product of said project.
• GC2- Apply the knowledge required by project management in the implementation of a project office in the different organizational contexts.
• GC3- Formulate the necessary processes in project management, understanding the life cycle of these processes and their activities.
• GC4- Understand and master the bases and good practices of planning a project, in what refers to: scope, time, cost, resources, provisioning, communications, stakeholders and risks.
• GC5- Properly plan a project, relating and integrating the different sub-processes involved according to the specific requirements, links and environment.
• GC6- Select the main standards, methods, frameworks and certifications currently in place for project management and management.
• GC7- Determine the main characteristics of agile methodologies and in their different phases of planning and management.
• GC8- Contrast different existing tools in project management in the market.
• GC9- Establish and assess the main skills that a project manager requires in his/her professional performance.

Specific competences

• SC1- Identify the different models of organization and project management in order to establish the business strategy.
• SC2-Know how to determine and evaluate the requirements and objectives of the project in a specific area.
• SC3-Be able to adapt the techniques and tools of project management to the different environments in which the project can take place, choosing the most appropriate techniques and the distribution of the management effort.
• SC4-Know the concept of efficiency in project management.
• SC5- Properly plan a project once the bases and good practices are known.
• SC6- Determine and contrast the basic concepts about verification of deliverables generated by the project.
• SC7- Establish the control parameters of a project ensuring the expected results.
• SC8- Formalize the organized closings of the projects that will serve as a basis to maximize the aspects that are done well and minimize the mistakes made in previous projects.
• SC9- Compare the main standards in Project Management knowing how to differentiate in each case which is the optimal approach.
• SC10- Evaluate the PMP® certification process as a training complement in future professional performance.
• SC11- Apply agile methodologies in the design of a technological project.
• SC12-Acquire the necessary knowledge to develop a quality plan for the project and define the processes and control systems necessary to achieve the characteristics that meet the requirements of the project.
• SC13- Select the most appropriate tools in the management and direction of projects, depending on a specific situation.
• SC14- Recognize different project / team / interest group environments and determine the available alternatives in each situation, preparing the corresponding strategy.
• SC15-Understand the concept of success in Project Management and the criteria necessary to achieve it.

Calendar and schedules

Academic calendar Schedule

STUDENT ACCESS AND ADMISSION

Pre-Enrollment Information Systems

The routes and entry requirements for the degree are those set out in Royal Decree 1393/2007 of October 29, with subsequent modification in Royal Decree 861/2010, of July 2, which establishes the organization of official university education.

For its part, the entry profile for the Master's Degree in Project Management and Organization is defined as follows:

The appropriate profile is aimed at engineers and graduates: who want to train and specialize in Project Management to improve their competitiveness and professional career, professionals (with a university degree) who work in the management of projects and do not have specialized training.

In addition, at Nebrija University it is necessary to pass the Admission Tests specific to each degree, whose content and specific procedure will be described under the heading "Access requirements and admission criteria”.

With respect to the entrance of non-Spanish speakers, the same profile as that of Spanish speakers will be required and they must also demonstrate their communicative competence in oral and written Spanish at a B2 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for teaching, learning and evaluation of languages.

Through the University's website (www.nebrija.com) and all the brochures that are usually published in the University, both the objectives and the structure of subjects that make up the academic program of the proposed title are described.

On the aforementioned page, you can consult the objectives of the degree, its general characteristics, the curriculum, the CVs of professors and tutors, testimonial texts of former students, career opportunities, the list of companies that have hired graduates in previous years, among other information of great interest such as fees, scholarships, bank loans and other aid, etc.

The candidate has access to all the information about the admission process, requirements, etc. on the University website: www.nebrija.com. This website also contains PDF copies of the informational brochures of the various programs.

The University has a Promotion and Admissions Department, which is responsible for providing personalized information to whoever requests it and for monitoring and facilitating the candidate's access phases, from the administrative and management side. The Promotion and Admissions Department has specialized people for each program, trained to respond to requests for information that may arrive by e-mail, telephone or fax, authorized for this purpose, and that appear in the advertisement. The candidate is also given the opportunity to meet with the Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Project Management and Organization and the Director of the Department.

Access Requirements and Admission Criteria

According to the provisions of article 16 of RD 1393/2007, modified by RD 861/2010, students who meet any of the following conditions may access these studies:

• Have an official Spanish university degree or other issued by a higher education institution of the European Higher Education Area that authorizes access Master's degrees in the issuing country.
• Graduates according to educational systems outside the European Higher Education Area can access without the need to validate their degrees, after verification by the University that they accredit a level of training equivalent to the corresponding official Spanish university degrees and that they authorize, in the country issuing the degree, access to postgraduate education. The access though this route will not imply, in any case, the validation of the interested party's previous degree, nor its recognition for other purposes than that of studying the Master's degree.
• - In case of students with special educational needs derived from disability, the need for possible curricular adaptations, itineraries or alternative studies will be evaluated.

In the case of university graduates whose previous education does not include training in Business Management and Administration, the Antonio de Nebrija University will offer and demand training complements in this discipline, so that all students who access the master's degree have the appropriate knowledge at the level of the degree they wish to access.

In this way, if the student's profile requires it, the University, through the Master's Degree Director, will establish the training complements that the student must complete. These supplements may have a maximum load of 12 ECTS credits, and will be set according to the candidate's profile and history.

The training complements are not part of the Master's Degree in Project Management and Organization by the Antonio de Nebrija University.

The student must take, if required, any of the following subjects:

• 1. The Company and its environment (6 ECTS)
• 2. Management and organization of companies (6 ECTS)

The description of these training complements is included in the point Training supplements for Master's Degree of this Report.

In addition to the legal requirements, the university requires the completion of some access tests of its own, the admission tests.

The process of admission to the Master's degree begins by sending by post or courier to the Postgraduate Admissions Section the following documentation:

• Completed Admission application
• Updated Curriculum Vitae
• Photocopy of ID (Spanish candidates only) or passport (only foreign candidates)
• Photocopy of the Certificate of Studies / Academic Record (completed or in the last year of the university degree)
• Two color passport-size photographs

Once the documentation has been received and verified that the submitted degree grants access to the degree, as established in arts. 15 and 16 of Royal Decree 1393/2007, the candidates take the skills test of the chosen program, whose realization is handled by the Promotion and Admissions Department. This test takes place in person in Madrid and in different Spanish cities and, additionally, it can also be done remotely (online).

The admission test, which aims to analyze the student's abilities to complete the Master's program, evaluates the candidate's profile and abilities, so it does not require prior preparation and allows the student to receive broader and personalized advice about their academic and professional options. This test consists of two parts: the first is an aptitude test with which the maturity of the student is evaluated, and the reasons that lead him/her to study with us are analyzed. The second one is a specific test for the chosen program that consists of a test of questions about organization and management of companies, of basic level of education in the degrees that correspond to the entry profile.

Once the different phases of the admission tests have been completed, the candidate has a personal interview with the Master's degree Coordinator, who makes a report on the candidate's ability profile, his degree of maturity, his personal interest in the Master's Degree and his adaptation to the degree, which is attached to the file that will be studied by the Admissions Commission. In the case of doing the written tests remotely, the personal interview can be done through videoconference.

Once the admission tests have been completed, the Admissions Committee, made up of the heads of the Department, the General Secretary and the Promotion and Admissions Department, analyzes the results and documentation submitted by the candidate and approves or rejects the application. The candidate receives written information about their admission, which is advanced by telephone, about the result of the admission process and about the formalization of their enrollment in the Program, the final documentation that must be submitted, duly legalized, etc.

The weighting of these admission tests is specified below:

• Analysis of the academic record (previous studies): 50%
• Admission Test:
  • Aptitude test: 15%
  • Specific test for the Master’s program: 25%
  • Personal interview: 10%

Pre-enrollment

Once the admission is announced, the candidates must make the reservation of a place. This economic pre-enrollment guarantees the candidate's place at the University.

Enrollment

Pre-enrolled candidates who wish to formalize their academic enrollment at the University must, within the indicated periods, follow the following steps:

• Submit documentation: documentary proof that they have passed the requirements established by Spanish university legislation to start/continue their university studies at the Antonio de Nebrija University.
• Formalize the enrollment process via Internet: The self-enrollment service of the Nebrija website allows admitted students to complete all the academic, economic and administrative procedures, without having to physically travel to the University. The admitted students will formalize their self-enrollment in the terms indicated. To do this, they will receive at their address, together with their admission letter, the personal access code and password necessary to carry out their academic and economic self-enrollment. Once the self-enrollment is done, the candidate acquires the condition of student of the Antonio de Nebrija University. In the self-enrollment process, the student has at all times the technical assistance of the Computer Services, as well as academic assistance through the person who will be their Tutor, so that he/she can guide you in the choice of subjects.
• Pay of the annual registration fees of the degree for which he/she was admitted. The reservation fee is a part of the annual registration fee.

The admission criteria for the case of students enrolled in degrees taught in blended modality will be the same as that of the classroom attendance modality, but will add the following additional criteria:
- Real possibility of carrying out a correct follow-up of the training activities foreseen in the requested degree (which may have a certain in-person component). This will be assessed during the personal interview, in which the interviewer, in addition to all the access and admission criteria already mentioned for the classroom attendance modality, will assess whether the candidate's work and personal situation, his time availability, etc. is compatible with the normal development of the teaching-learning process and activities with the expected teaching load. As a result of this joint analysis, which will entail a mutual exchange of information, students can be guided about their real possibilities, the recommended annual enrollment fee, the mandatory presence in some activities or, even if necessary, reject their candidacy, if a probable impossibility of satisfactorily performing the programmed training activities is detected.

The Antonio de Nebrija University does not allow the simultaneity of teaching modalities, but does allow the change of modality from classroom attendance to distance education, or vice versa. The General Student Regulations includes the specific regulations for the change of modality in its article 7.

Credit Transfer and Recognition Systems

For the purposes envisaged in the current and applicable legislation, with the objective of making student mobility effective, recognition is understood as the acceptance by the Antonio de Nebrija University of the credits that, having been obtained in some official education, in this or another University, are computed in different ones in order to obtain an official degree.

The credits obtained by the student will be recognized in the new teachings:

• a) The credits taken in university education leading to the obtaining of other degrees, referred to in article 34.1 of the Organic Law 6/2001, of December 21, of Universities, modified by the Organic Law 4/2007 of April 12.
• b) Accredited work and professional experience, provided that said experience is related to the competences inherent to the degree. In this regard, the profiles defined for the degree will be taken as a general academic criterion, so that professional experience based on reports and/or certificates issued by the companies or entities in which the activity was developed, professional associations, etc., will be recognized. This is justified in the actual drafting of RD 861/2010 that requires the accreditation of that experience and it seems logical that this accreditation is carried out by third parties.
• c) All other credits may be recognized by the University, taking into account the competences and knowledge associated with the subjects studied by the student and those foreseen in the curriculum, or that have a transversal nature.

The maximum number of credits of cases a) and b) may not be higher, as a whole, than 15% of the total credits that constitute the Curriculum.

Also, the transfer of credits implies the inclusion in the official academic documents accrediting the lessons followed by each student, of the credits obtained in previously studied official courses, in this or another University, that have not led to the obtaining of an official degree.

The recognition of credits must be requested by the student at the moment of formalizing their enrollment. Exceptionally, and with explicit authorization, a different deadline may be established. The student must also pay the fees established for this purpose.

Criteria for the recognition of credits and their justification in cases a) and b):

• 1.- For the credits taken in university education leading to the obtaining of other degrees referred to in article 34.1 of the Organic Law 6/201 of December 21 of Universities, the following criteria will be applied.:
  • 1.1.- CRITERION No. 1.- The usual criterion of credit recognition will be applied, that is, recognition will proceed when there is a substantial identity between the competences of the subject studied in the degree of origin and the competences of the subject that is recognized. This criterion is justified by the usual practice in the recognition of university credits.
  • 1.2.- CRITERION No. 2.- The number of credits that are subject to recognition from unofficial university education may not exceed 15% of the total credits that constitute this curriculum -considering that this percentage encompasses as a whole the recognition of cases c) and d). This criterion is justified because it is established by the aforementioned RD 861/2010.
• 2.- In the case of recognition by accredited professional and work experience, the following criteria shall apply:
  • 2.1.- CRITERION No. 3.- The recognition of credits will be carried out by accredited professional and work experience, if said experience is related to the competences inherent to the degree in the subject to be recognized. The accreditation can be based on reports and/or certificates issued by the companies or entities in which the activity was carried out, professional associations, etc. This is justified in the actual drafting of RD 861/2010 that requires the accreditation of that experience and it seems logical that this accreditation be carried out by third parties.
  • The presentation of this type of reports and/or certificates that accredit the work and professional experience will be a necessary condition, but not enough, for the recognition of those credits, since finally it will be the Antonio de Nebrija University that decides whether or not to recognize the credits, in view of the accreditation presented, in application of the legislation in force, in the exercise of its university autonomy and in accordance with its internal procedure of credit recognition.
  • 2.2.- CRITERION No. 4.- The recognition of credits for accredited professional and work experience, along with those completed in other higher education, will have a maximum limit of 15% of the total credits that constitute this curriculum. This is justified because it is established by the aforementioned RD 861/2010.
  • 2.3.- CRITERION No. 5.- Credits based on professional experience may be recognized by taking into account the adequacy between the competences and knowledge acquired, associated with that previous professional experience and those corresponding to the subjects to be recognized. In no case will a general credit recognition be made based on years of experience or any other similar general criteria.
  • 2.4.- CRITERION No. 6.- In the recognition of professional experience, any type of professional experience that is distantly related to the subject’s competences whose recognition is requested will not be admitted, but rather it will be recognized only in the case of a good match between those competences and the professional practice. Recognition will also be avoided if such experience on the part of the student has been brief. Therefore, the credit recognition commission will assess at the time of recognition a balance between the characteristics of that experience, the scope where it was carried out and its duration.

Nebrija University will take special care in the process of recognition of credits through professional experience, which will be applied with a restrictive criterion and a clear correlation between experience and recognized competences, for a correct and orderly development of the new legal scenario, and within the framework of the instructions issued by ANECA, both in the verification processes and with a view to the accreditation processes of the degrees.

Part of the curriculum affected by the recognition.

These can be recognized by accredited professional experience:

• Management Skills of International Project Management (2 ECTS credits)
• External Internships (4 ECTS credits).

Definition of the type of professional experience that may be recognized:

The adaptation of work and professional activity carried out to the professional qualification of the degree will be taken into account. Preferably, the following professional profiles will be taken into account:

• Program Directors
• Project Directors
• Project Managers
• Senior Executives
• Functional Directors
• Consultants and Experts in areas related to the development of Projects
• Purchasing Managers
• HR Director
• Quality Director

The student will present certificates issued by the company where he will detail tasks performed, responsibilities assumed and competences of the job. It will be necessary to be able to prove the employment contract (with a copy of employment record) and the functions performed (by certification of the company/institution) or documents of similar characteristics

It will be necessary to duly prove that the work or professional experience is related to the competences of the degree, so that the credits recognition of a subject would only occur in the case that the information provided by the applicant allows the guarantee that through his professional experience he has acquired the competences of the subject of recognition.

Training supplements for the Master’s Degree

In the case of university graduates whose previous training does not include training in Business Administration and Management, the Antonio de Nebrija University will offer and demand training complements in this discipline, so that all students who access the master's degree have the appropriate prior knowledge to the level of the degree they wish to access.

In this way, if the student's profile so requires it, the University, through the Master's Director, will establish the training complements that the student must complete. These supplements may have a maximum load of 12 ECTS credits and will be set according to the profile and history of the candidate.
The training complements are not part of the Master's Degree in Project Management and Organization by the Antonio de Nebrija University.

The student must take, if required, any of the following subjects:

• 1. The company and its environment (6 ECTS credits)
• 2. Management and organization of companies (6 ECTS credits)