Student profile
Type of Degree
The basic qualities considered essential for students taking the Joint Degree in Law and Business Administration and Management include an awareness of and an interest in finding just solutions to the economic, political and social problems of our times and in aspects related to business operation and management together with the legal issues that can arise in a business context.
This is an officially recognised University Degree, valid throughout the European Higher Education Area.
Career opportunities
WORLD HERITAGE
Students on the Joint Degree course should be capable of critical thinking and should possess the capacity to reason and work as part of a team. They should be able to present their arguments persuasively and fluently, both in writing and orally, and should possess an aptitude for understanding abstract ideas, the ability for creative thought, a sociable outlook and an expansive view of the world. They will need an aptitude for studying economics, business organisation and human resources, accounting and cost management information systems and the legal tools necessary for future professional practice, in order to acquire the knowledge and skills which will enable them to tackle and resolve the specific legal problems arising on a daily basis competently, decisively and with authority.
This Degree complies with European Higher Education Area requirements
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS STUDIES
FACULTY OF LAW
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Holders of this Degree will have received an extremely versatile education, enabling them to perform a wide range of functions, whether managerial or in technical support, in both the private and public sectors. These include, among others:
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Business creation and management Purchase, operations, marketing, financial and human resources management Professional practice as a lawyer or solicitor, either individually or as an associate Teaching Access to the public sector as, among other possibilities, a judge, public prosecutor, notary or land registrar, and in practically all State and Regional Administration departments. Legal advisor in the public and private sector Auditor and Certified Public Accountant Consultant Financial analysis and control in business management
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Access to Higher Degree programmes Students may continue their officially recognised studies by taking a Master’s or Doctoral Degree course. The University of Alcalá offers various officially recognised Master’s Degree programmes (lasting either 1 or 2 years), oriented either to professional practice, adapted to the needs of the market, or to academic activity, leading to the preparation and presentation of a Doctoral thesis. Furthermore, graduates of this Degree are qualified to study the Master’s Degree in Law, which in turn qualifies graduates for professional practice as a lawyer or solicitor.
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Joint Degree in:
Law and Business Administration and Management
Overall credit distribution SUBJECT TYPE
ECTS
Basic Training (B)
100,5
Obligatory (Ob)
196,5
External Practical Training (Ob)
15
Bachelor’s Degree Final Project (Ob)
12
TOTAL CREDITS
324
STUDY PLAN FIRST YEAR
First semester
Type
ECTS
Constitutional Law
B
6
Introduction to Civil Law (General Part and Private Law)
B
Business Administration Business Mathematics I
Second semester
COURSE ORGANISATION Type
ECTS
Spanish and World Economy
B
6
6
Business Mathematics II
B
6
The basic training subjects listed in the study plan are
B
9
Economic Theory
B
9
taught in the first and second years. Subjects taught
B
6
Civil Law I (Obligations and Contracts)
Ob
6
in the first year should provide students with sufficient
Business Statistics I
B
6
Total ECTS
33
knowledge to understand and assimilate the subjects
Type
ECTS
Course contents
Total ECTS
27
Type
ECTS
Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Justice
Ob
9
State Ecclesiastical Law
B
6
Public International Law
Ob
8
Financial Accounting (Advanced)
Ob
6
ECTS), there are a total of 196.5 obligatory credits.
Business Statistics II
B
6
Philosophy of Law
B
6
Thus, all subjects offered over the five academic years
Introduction to Financial Accounting
B
6
Criminal Law I. General Part
B
7,5
Business Operations and Processes
Ob
6
Introduction to Administrative Law
B
7
comprising the Degree course are obligatory for all
Total ECTS
35
Total ECTS
32,5
Type
ECTS
Type
ECTS
Analysis of Financial Operations (Both semesters)
Ob
6
Analysis of Financial Operations (Both semesters)
Ob
6
Civil Law II (Property Law)
Ob
6
European Union Law
B
8
Administrative Law
Ob
8
Commercial Law I
Ob
7,5
Public Finance and Tax Law I. General Part
Ob
5
Public Finance and Tax Law II. Special Part
Ob
6
Administration and Management, respectively, and
SECOND YEAR
THIRD YEAR
First semester
First semester
Criminal Law II. Special Part
Second semester
Second semester
theoretical, technical and practical bases of Law and Business Administration and Management. This five year Degree course consists of the obligatory subjects taught on the Degrees of Law and Business
6
these subjects are likewise compulsory on the Joint
33,5
Degree course. Thus, instead of taking the optional
Type
ECTS
subjects offered on either degree course, students
Ob
6
taking this Degree study the obligatory subjects of both
Ob
7,5
Type
ECTS
Cost Accounting
Ob
7.5
Marketing I: Basics
Financial Management I
Ob
6
Financial Statements
Procedural Law I
Ob
7
Financial Management II
Ob
6
Labour Law and Social Security Law
Ob
10
Second semester
students. These subjects will provide students with the
Ob
7.5 32,5
First semester
In addition to the basic training subjects (worth 100.5
Total ECTS
Ob Total ECTS
FOURTH YEAR
Business Tax System
taught in the following years.
Procedural Law II
Ob
8
Commercial Law II
Ob
7,5
Total ECTS
35
Type
ECTS
Ob
8
degree courses. External Practical Training, worth 15 ECTS, is included in the last years of the course and is also obligatory.
Total ECTS
30,5
Type
ECTS
Marketing II: Strategies
Ob
9
Private International Law
External Practical Training
Ob
15
Civil Law III (Family and Inheritance Law)
Ob
6
are expected to apply the knowledge acquired during
Organisation and Human Resources
Ob
6
Strategic Management
Ob
9
previous years. This final year enables students to
Final Project
Ob
12
Total ECTS
35
consolidate the abilities, skills, practices and techni-
FIFTH YEAR
First semester
Total ECTS
Second semester
30
TOTAL ECTS CREDITS: 324 T: Basic Training; B: Obligatory.
In the fifth academic year, students are required to undertake a Final Project, worth 12 ECTS, where they
ques which they are expected to have acquired, equipping them for professional practice in the fields to which this Degree is oriented.