Master’s Degree in Security and Defense

Skills

General Skills

Instrumental

• GCi1- Analyze and synthesize information that allows them to formulate judgments that come from personal reflection, especially in the field of social sciences.
• GCi2- Organize and manage own activity and time.
• GCi3- Gather and interpret the relevant data with a scientific mentality; transmit the information prepared correctly and with the appropriate arguments.
• GCi4- Present arguments in an orderly and understandable way.
• GCi5- Apply ICTs to the environment of Security and Defense.
• GCi6- Solve problems in the fields related to the degree.
• GCi7- Ability to develop ideas and solutions using appropriate professional language.

Personal

• GCp1- Work in multidisciplinary teams and specifically in Security and Defense.
• GCp2- Coordinate and direct work teams in the field of security and defense.
• GCp3- Be able to exercise and develop positive interpersonal relationships in scientific and professional activity.
• GCp4- Acquire and strengthen reasoned and autonomous criteria, as well as ethical commitment, in the exercise of the profession.
• GCp5- Increase sensitivity and interest regarding issues of social interest and public policies related to security and defense.

Systematic

• GCs1- Acquire critical awareness for the promotion of respect and Human Rights.
• GCs2- Develop skills for autonomous learning in the field of security and defense.
• GCs3 - Enhance the ability for initiative, creativity, leadership and improvement in the development of professional life.
• GCs4- Enhance the strategic vision in the development of the profession.
• GCs5- Manage effectively in a pressure environment.

Specific Skills

The student will be able to:

• SC1. Know the legal instruments and institutional frameworks in the field of security and defense.
• SC2. Apply instruments of analysis of the current geopolitical environment and international relations in the field of Defense.
• SC3. Use and analyze the international strategic intelligence systems and their operating systems, with special incidence in crisis situations.
• SC4. Use models of administration, planning, organization and strategic direction applicable to Defense and Security.
• SC5. Improve the leadership skills and strategic management of human resources of the Security and Defense Programs.
• SC6. Know the marketing processes and systems applicable to the Security and Defense Programs while practicing the professional activity.
• SC7. Apply and interpret process estimation and optimization techniques in the Security and Defense Programs.
• SC8. Know the Defense and Security sector.
• SC9. Have the ability to solve multidisciplinary security and defense problems.
• SC10. Qualitatively and quantitatively interpret the data related to security and defense.
• SC11. Create and manage information management systems (Databases) on data related to security and defense.
• SC12. Know the industry and defense services.
• SC13. Acquire diagnostic skills of crisis situations and analytical and creative solutions of problems.
• SC14. Design models of military cooperation in the NATO environment.
• SC15. Become aware of temporary and spatial problems in the field of security and defense
• SC16. Be able to make an economic assessment about goods, services and resources related to security and defense.
• SC17. Know the organic and functional structure of the Spanish Armed Forces, the legal regime of military personnel and the most effective management models.
• SC18. Know the administration of the defense as public policy of the States, their functions and objectives, as well as the structure and functioning of the Armed Forces, their missions and their interrelation with the society they serve.
• SC19. Understand the management and application of crisis control systems in the Private Security environment.
• SC20. Recognize environments conducive to antisocial or criminal behavior.
• SC21. Acquire skills to analyze and document crisis situations, humanitarian catastrophes and conflicts.
• SC22. Advise institutions, companies and non-governmental organizations in economic and legal decision-making in situations of crisis, humanitarian catastrophes and conflicts.
• SC23. Know how security companies and security departments of large companies are managed in order to achieve organizational objectives.

Calendars and Schedules

Calendars

Calendar start in November 2021-2022

Calendar intake March 2021-2022

Calendar start in octuber 2022-2023

Access and admission

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:

• Be in possession of an official Spanish university degree or another issued by a higher education institution of the European Higher Education Area that authorizes access to Master's degrees education in the issuing country.
• Graduates of educational systems outside the European Higher Education Area may access without the need for homologation of their degrees, after verification by the University that they accredit a level of education equivalent to the corresponding official Spanish university degrees and that they authorize, in the country issuing the degree, access to postgraduate education. Access this way will not imply, in any case, the homologation of the previous degree that is in possession of the interested party, 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.

For the proposed master's degree, being in possession of one of the following degrees will be specially valued:

• Higher Scale of Civil Guard Officials (degree equivalent to Undergraduate degree, Architect or Engineer).
• Executive Scale of the National Police Force, taking into account the following:
  • Executive Scale of Officials with academic equivalence to University Master's Degree, for those officials coming from free public entrance examination or internal promotion who have access to a university diploma or degree, or a university degree (in accordance with the Bologna Plan), who have completed two years of training in the School of Ávila since the year 2006.
  • Official Scale of Officials with the equivalence to a university graduate, for those who have accessed the Executive Scale by internal promotion or free public entrance examination with the degree of associate's degree or undergraduate prior to 2006.
  • Officials of the Executive Scale without any university academic qualification due to not fulfilling the requirements of accessing the Scale with the degree of associate's degree, undergraduate degree and that until September 2015 may continue to benefit from the validation of the Order of April 18, 2000, in the sense of obtaining the equivalence to a university undergraduate degree if before this date they acquire the degree of Associate's degree, Technical Engineer, Technical Architect, Undergraduate degree, Engineer or Architect.
• Career Soldiers
  • Officer Scale: corresponds to the studies of the first university course. In this scale, the first military employment is equivalent to the degree of Associate's degree, Technical Engineer or Technical Architect, according to the chosen specialty.
  • Higher Scale of Officials: corresponds to the first and second course of university studies. In this degree, the first military employment is equivalent to the degree of Undergraduate degree, Engineering or Architecture, depending on the specialty studied.

In addition to the legal requirements, the University requires the completion of its own entrance exams, the Admission Tests.

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

• Completed Admission Application (http://www.nebrija.com/escuela-negocios/documentos/solicitud-admision-residentes.pdf)
• Updated resumé
• Photocopy of DNI (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 gives access to the master's degree, as established in articles 15 and 16 of Royal Decree 1393/2007, the candidates take the training test of the chosen program, which is carried out 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 degree 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 on his/her 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 is a specific test for the chosen program.

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

Once the admission tests have been completed, the Admission Committee, made up of the heads of the Department, the General Secretariat and the Promotion and Admissions Department, analyze the results and documentation presented by the candidate and approve or reject 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:
  • Aptitudes test: 15%
  • Specific test of the Master's degree program: 25%
  • Personal interview: 10%

Pre-enrollment

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

Enrollment

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

• Submit documentation: documentary proof that they fulfill the requirements established by Spanish university legislation to be able to start/continue their university studies at Nebrija University.
• Formalize the online enrollment process: 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 that are indicated. To do this, they will receive in 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 formalized, after checking the submitted documentation, the candidate acquires the status of student of Nebrija University. In the process of self-enrollment, the student has at all times the technical assistance of the Computer Services Department, as well as academic assistance through the person that will be your Tutor, so that he/she can guide you in the selection of subjects.
• Payment 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 distance learning degrees will be the same as those in the classroom attendance modality, but will add the following additional criteria:

Real possibility of correctly following the educational activities foreseen in the requested degree (which may have a certain classroom lecture 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/her availability of time, etc. is compatible with the normal development of the process and teaching-learning 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 in relation to 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 educational activities is detected.