The Faculty of Economics offers a wide range of official Masters programmes adapted to the new regulations covering university courses that allow the student to become the true protagonist and focus of the learning process.
These wide-ranging Masters programmes provide an advanced education, of specialised or multi-disciplinary nature, geared towards academic or professional specialisation in economic and business areas, or one leading on to research work in these areas.
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The Faculty of Economics will provide the following Masters programmes:
The Master’s is addressed to university graduates, preferably in Economics, Business Administration and Management, Actuarial and Financial Sciences, Sciences (Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, etc.), Computing Sciences, engineers and architects with a strong education background in quantitative methods.
The main objective of the Master’s is to train experts capable of making assessment works, of management and advising in the field of finances.
Specifically:
-Will develop their activity using intensively, advanced quantitative and computing techniques, which will allow them to take complex decisions optimally.
-Will know the functioning of the financial system, the different alternatives of allocation resources, asset appraisal and risk management and its articulation in the general context of economy.
Particularly, they have to be capable of identifying and anticipating the economic and financial problems relevant in any given situation, to discuss the alternatives which facilitate its resolution and select the most appropriated for the objectives and to assess the results produced. They have to be capable of carrying out research projects with the objective, if they wished it and meet the requirements, of accessing a doctoral degree using the research potential of a large group of professors involved in the inter-university programme. 
The traditional separation between business and/or financial institutions and insurance companies is being increasingly overcome and the major financial conglomerates operate in all sectors of the market offering its customers all kinds of savings, risk or credit products. This means that the different risks and their treatment, objective of actuarial studies, are not studied separately but as common management tools.
Consequently, it is necessary to train professionals in the financial field, with solid knowledge of stochastic financial calculation, assets and financial markets, banking, portfolio management, financial risk management, etc., and in the specific areas of insurance such as social welfare, life and non-life insurance, reinsurance or newer issues such as health benefits and benefits for persons in need of long-term care.
Students will be trained for professional practice in a wide range of the world of work, allowing them to work efficiently not only in financial institutions and insurance companies, but also in any company that, being subject to various risks, will have to evaluate and manage them to ensure its survival.
The Master's Degree in Accountancy, Auditing and Management Control expects to offer a more specific training than that offered in the undergraduate degrees, with the general objective of students having a deep knowledge of the matters that make up the accountancy discipline, as well as training in the skills and competences of an expert in accounting or an auditor.
With this in mind, it expects to contribute to the excellence in the accountancy profession, that occupies itself with the internal and external information systems of companies and bodies, which plays a key role in the economic activity.
Furthermore, another of the objectives of the Master's Degree is to give students the theoretical training required by the ICAC for preparing them as auditors, consequently its curriculum is adapted to the content and workload of the courses demanded in the Resolution of 8 October 2010 of the Institute of Accountancy and Auditing.
Present-day society in an international level lives the determined irruption of new types of small companies under names such as: technology-based companies, new high-tech companies or knowledge-intensive companies.
These companies belong to the so called high-tech sectors, which begin their consolidation in Spain as opportunity and employment sectors and that will not stop growing in the next years.
The obvious slowdown of the main engines of Spanish economy, construction and tourism, confirms the decisive role that these new business methods are called to play in the future competitiveness of our country.
Technology-based companies belonging to sectors of advanced technology and innovative companies, usually require a new profile that link scientific and technological knowledge with business one, opening thus new professional ways.
Moreover, in a growing number of companies, institutions and public and private organizations is required a new professional profile: manager of innovation. The Master’s Degree in Creation and Management of New Technology-Based Companies offers basic training in the management of projects R & D of companies and public or private institutions, such as research foundations, technological institutes or consulting companies. In this way, the Master’s aims to establishes itself not only as breeding ground of innovative entrepreneurs, but also of specialized professionals in the management of innovation.
It is now unanimously accepted and recognised that the Business Management or of any other type of organization requires a broad set of competences that are so many knowledge, skills, attitudes, which can be acquired through an adequate specific training. The complexity of the business activity and the increasing turbulence of the socio-economic environment in which it develops, require a kind of Management that leaves no mere improvisation and intuition of the entrepreneur, and it is based on a specific training and updated training. It is proven that the adaptation and quality of the managers training positively influences, and in a significant way, in the development and business results, and constitutes a distinguishing feature of the most competitive companies.
The Valencian Community is a territory of a large business, with leading business sectors in Spain and internationally pointers. The training of its managers is especially important in the case of Valencia, as most of its companies are SMEs, with very small management teams and great difficulties in accessing the specialized knowledge that require the competition today.
The MBA allow to train the managers in all the functional areas of the company, in addition to general management.
Tourism contributes largely to the GDP and wealth of many countries, it spreads cultural diversity and consumes natural, rural and urban spaces. Therefore, the completion of postgraduate studies is very important for the professionals who will manage the future of the tourism industry.
This Master's degree provides the knowledge, skills and tools necessary to establish and develop the policy and strategy for tourism management, training professionals who can hold positions of responsibility in destination management and/or explore in depth the development of a method that elevates tourism to a scientific discipline.
This Master’s Degree offers high quality training, combining advanced academicoriented economics teaching with a more specific focus on knowledge about markets organization, decision making of economic agents, and the international economy. The Master aims to provide students both with a broad and rigorous view of the discipline,
and the analytical tools needed to carry out sound economic analysis. Successful course completion ensures students the endowment of the analytical and technical skills required for highly demanding jobs in international organizations (OECD, IMF, ILO, etc.), public policy institutions (Ministries, Central Banks, European Commission, etc.), private companies (including financial and consulting companies), research departments and universities. Students will also be equipped with skills in the use of relevant software programs such as MATLAB, STATA and R, among others. This Master is also highly recommended for candidates pursuing postgraduate education in our Ph.D. Programme in Industrial Economics or other prestigious doctoral programs in Spain and abroad.
Master’s students will interact with teaching staff with an excellent reputation and with wide‐ranging research and teaching experience. Most teaching staff hold postgraduate degrees from universities of international prestige (London School of Economics, University of Warwick, University College London, Queen Mary and Westfield College,
University of Illinois, University of Michigan, College of Europe, Université Catholique de Louvain, and University of Dijon, among others).
This programme offers advanced education on the Social Economy sector with a view to training top-level specialists in the area of cooperatives, non-profit organisations, social and labour companies, etc. including all their different levels: economic, legal, fiscal, accounting, labour and human resource-related, strategic, commercial, financial…
As a Master's with a professional focus, the programme is addressed to employees working in this area and to graduates willing to work in it, given the current market need to be up-to-date. As far as its research orientation is concerned, the programme provides the knowledge and tools needed to undertake the subsequent Social Economy doctorate studies and to prepare the PhD dissertation successfully.
The programme stems from experience in a Doctorate with a Quality Certification organised by the Ministry of Education (2006-2011) and offers the possibility of academic and research specialization in the area of business strategy typical of leading national and international universities. In addition to the growing development of this area of research in recent years, business administration constitutes a latent demand in our economic and entrepreneurial environment. Business associations, public institutions and prestigious experts have underlined the need to train those holding responsibility positions in terms of tools for diagnosis, design and implementation of business strategies, and to spread, among them, values and attitudes associated to a strategic vision, a focus on the long term, and an international/global concept of business. All such aspects are considered by the masters syllabus.
Finance in general and Business Finance in particular, at academic and scientific level is an issue to address in conferences, journals and academic and professional meetings. In fact, this subject matter is well established as a scientific discipline and it is studied in business schools and universities throughout the world. The academic interest of Finance is best illustrated in the existence of rigorous specialised journals exclusively in this discipline, such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Review of Financial Studies or Journal of Finance, and in how it is treated in prestigious generalist management journals as Journal of Management or Academy of Management Review. Also, frequently it is the subject of study in national and international conferences.
The Master’s Degree in Corporate Finance aims that his graduates cover the professional activity and responsibility that the Official Association of Economists of Valencia (COEV) states as the necessary for an expert in Corporate Finance. Regarding to professional activity the expert should be able “to provide financial, economic and strategic financial advice services, specialised for companies, institutions, finance companies, to the private equity, including governments. They must intervene from the conception and structuring of the operations until these ones are closed. These needs cover a wide range of operations: purchase and sales of companies, advising for private equity fund, and financial investors, search of financial partners for industrial companies, advising to the management team in leveraged buyouts (Management Buy-Outs, Management Buy-Ins, Secondary Buy-Outs…), seeking financing, development of business plans and strategic and financial advice, offering in all cases solutions for the future business, advising in all cases in those moments that require a quick decision making”.
The main goal of this Master’s is to prepare graduates for professional practices: in activities related to finance, the use of tools and methodologies, and the development and strengthening of skills to carry out effectively and efficiently the decision making in the following areas:
a) directive (operational and financial)
b) finance
c) investment and disinvestment
Thus, the graduate may help to prevent results, to improve a better understanding of financial aspects, to motivate the investment-disinvestment decisions and to propose data for the prediction and control of the business.
From the perspective of its social and economic impact, the increasing application of quality management by organisations from developed and emerging economies has become one of the drivers of their competitiveness. Moreover, it has spread throughout Europe not only to private businesses but also, in recent years, to sectors traditionally disinclined to introduce management innovations, such as health services, universities and schools, as well as to public administration. This expansion in the scope of the application of quality management gives us a first idea of the power and utility of this form of management and, therefore, of the existence of career opportunities in this field, which is closely related to the existing demand for the postgraduate studies presented here.
The implementation of the international standard known as ISO 9001 has facilitated and stimulated the spread of quality management. This model, designed to help forward the implementation of a management system that facilitates continuous improvement and customer satisfaction is becoming a requirement for organisations to participate in developed markets, at both national and international levels, especially when it comes to supplying goods and services to other organisations.
On the other hand, it is important to note the dissemination of quality management carried out by the European Foundation for Quality, that through the EFQM Excellence Model has promoted and implemented its advanced approach of total quality management. This approach incorporates a strategic perspective that emphasises the importance of customer satisfaction, leadership, human resources, and the improvement of product processes and design. The benefits resulting from its implementation are improved customer service, greater managerial ability, greater commitment of managers and employees, and greater consideration of the importance of learning, indispensable for continuous improvement.
In business world, also in economy in general, issues are addressed at a global level. Globalization can be defined as the integration of countries thanks to the enormous reduction of costs in transportation and communication and the breakdown of barriers on the free movement among borders of goods, services, capital and knowledge and (to a lesser extent) of people. This globalization has caused an evolution in the way of conceiving the practice of business in an increasingly competitive world. What before was called international trade, now is called internationalization of companies, since the relations between economic entities are trying to find long-term agreements rather than rely on competitions at short term.
Therefore, in getting involved in the world of business the simultaneous managements in many countries, the events that take place in one of them are also relevant for the functioning of the companies of the others. The Master’s Degree in International Business Management wants to give to his/her graduates an education in which global aspects will be considered when they take business decisions. The understanding of economic and cultural diversity becomes in this Master’s something as important as professional skills or management. The graduates in the Master’s Degree in International Business Management will end up taking jobs in which is essential mobility and adaptability to rapid changes in the environment, and they have to be trained for this. The Master’s offers this experience providing exchanges between the different universities and allowing to students to discover the way of being and the way of working of students from other races and cultures.
The Master's Degree in Economic Globalisation: International Trade Management offers the knowledge, skills and tools needed for establishing and developing the lines of policies and international commercial strategy that most adapted to the needs of a business with vocation to elaborate or improve a solid process of internationalisation. All this, reinforced by the presence of a significant part that involves the globalisation process of the enterprises, giving also answer to the needs of national and international institutions, of promotion, regulation and international business analysis. The current economic situation involves a challenge of exceptional magnitude for the public institutions, the financial entities and the non-financial enterprises and therefore, for all the professionals who assume responsibilities of these requests. These professionals are forced to respond efficiently to factors such as: the need to amend the strategies of internationalisation; the constant pressure of an increased international competition (but also of greater opportunities in new markets); the responsibility to discriminate among a multiplicity of investment options – real and financial -, in many occasions of high valuation difficulty; the obligation to study the weaknesses, modify and adapt in accounting, auditing and regulatory matters; the convenience of coordination of micro and macroeconomic policies. Hence, the new generations who wish to incorporate to that international labour market, global in its working, in its responsibilities and its objectives, must be prepared for the endless list of challenges – on the same level as the opportunities that they face. For this, they are given a specific training with an explicitly international orientation that deepen their previous knowledge and are trained to immerse themselves in that new economic world.
This programme offers advanced education in academic and research terms in the area of marketing. It is intended to respond to the growing demand for marketing professionals and to the need to train them by means of specialised and up-to-date studies for professional practice. The masters course offers a programme focused on market research and techniques in relation with advertising, consultancy, business distribution, sales in private and public organisations, etc. in different business sectors and regardless of their geographic location. It is targeted at future managers of sales, image and marketing campaigns or at those responsible for analyses in this area.
The main objective of the Master's Degree in Business Process Planning and Management is to prepare professionals capable of designing, planning, optimising and controlling the production and service systems of companies, based on analytical methods and computer tools, as well as on the principles of Economics and Business Administration.
It aims to train managers with a strong foundation in quantitative methods and with an integrated perspective of how to operate in a changing, globalised and highly competitive business environment, fully inscribed in the Information Society.
The aim is to train professionals with multidisciplinary training, capable of analysing problems and proposing solutions in the various fields of business activity, such as production planning, demand forecasting and inventory management, quality control, distribution and logistics, project management, financial management and internationalisation processes.
The multidisciplinary training is complemented by seminars and activities that allow students to acquire transversal competences such as social, analytical, communication, emotional, organisational and innovation skills.
Economic policy studies the relevance of state intervention in the economy. Currently, there are no pure market economies; on the contrary, contemporary societies have mixed economies that we can’t understand without taking into account the presence of the state in economy. In short, economic activities take place in an institutional framework shaped by state regulation and intervention. Economic policy is not only the study of a part of the economy, it reflects a perspective of the operation of all economic systems as a whole, since all economic activities are developed in an institutional framework defined and regulated by state intervention.
This Master’s degree is research-oriented. First, its academic relevance is reflected on its current potential demand. It is intended for students who want to deepen their knowledge in Economic Policy and Public Economics and who have completed degrees in the field of Economics, Business Management and Administration, Tourism, Marketing, International Business and Finance and Accounting, but also for graduates in Social Sciences such as Law, Sociology, Political Science, Labour Relations, Journalism, etc.
Second, this Master’s degree offers the opportunity to develop research skills and qualifies students to write a doctoral thesis in the framework of doctoral studies. It is therefore of interest to students who wish to pursue a professional research or academic career.
The Master’s Degree in Economic Policy and Public Economics is also relevant for the professional field. On the one hand, it allows students to develop research skills that qualifies them to write a doctoral thesis and, therefore, opens the way to an academic career. On the other hand, it is a training platform to develop a professional research career outside the University, in research centres, consulting firms, companies and organisations in the social, business and public sector (such as the Regional Ministry for Finance and Employment, Valencian Institute of Finance, Feria de Muestras de Valencia, Chamber of Commerce, Institute for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Centre for the Study of Social and Cooperative Economy, trade unions, NGOs, etc.). Moreover, given its specialisation in public economy, it is also relevant to students who want to prepare for competitive examinations for access to public servant positions.
