The Blanquerna-URL masterclasses are a vital component of our program, delivered by guest lecturers who are prominent figures in international relations, management, and communication. These professionals impart not only theoretical principles but also practical insights from their extensive careers.

By exposing students to diverse professional domains, the masterclasses inspire and offer a window into potential career trajectories, expanding their perspectives and equipping them for global prospects.

The seminars at Blanquerna-URL stand out as a key feature of our approach, limiting groups to 12 students to ensure individualized attention. These sessions, spanning six hours weekly, focus on professional practice through projects, presentations, debates, and teamwork. Seminar instructors also serve as personal mentors, supporting students in their personal, academic, and career growth while cultivating a nurturing and engaging learning atmosphere.

We provide an extensive array of internship opportunities, including mandatory curricular ones and optional extracurricular ones, backed by agreements with over 1,200 companies, such as multinational firms, private businesses, agencies, and public institutions. Internships form a core part of the curriculum, with dedicated advisors offering guidance and mentorship throughout the process. Students can select their preferred sector, and the School ensures they are matched with an internship that aligns with their profile and career aspirations.

The ERASMUS and Exchange programs are designed to provide tailored mobility options.

Erasmus caters to fourth-year Bachelor's students seeking a semester-long academic experience at a European university.

The Exchange program targets students interested in spending a semester in their fourth year at an international university beyond Europe.
With over 60 global university partnerships, Blanquerna showcases its dedication to enabling every student to pursue a mobility experience abroad at their preferred destination.

It can be done via the Application for admission button on the page for each degree, or directly from here, and requires:

1. Registering in the single registration system and creating a user account (if not done previously).
2. Making a payment of €50 (non-refundable) for admission rights and procedures. This can be done with a credit or debit card through a secure and confidential process with BBVA bank.
3. Uploading the documentation to the document repository before the deadline for the place application process.

• Identification document (DNI, NIE, Passport)
• Certification of university entrance qualifications (PAU (University Entrance Exams), CFGS (Higher-Level Vocational Training), International Baccalaureate Diploma, etc.) if available at the time of applying for a place.

It can be done at the School itself, by going to the Student Information and Guidance Service (SIOE), and the following must be submitted:

1. Photocopy of the identification document (DNI, NIE, Passport)
2. Photocopy of the certification of university entrance qualifications (PAU (University Entrance Exams), CFGS, International Baccalaureate Diploma, etc.) if available at the time of applying for a place.
3. Payment of €50 (non-refundable) for admission rights and procedures. This can be made in cash or with a credit or debit card.

Studies can be paid upfront and/or in interest-free installments. If payment by installment is selected, upon enrollment the student will have two business days to pay 50% of the total cost of the enrolled credits, using their chosen form of payment; this payment will not be taken by direct debit. The remaining 50% will be divided into nine monthly payments from October to June via bank direct debit from the account provided at the time of enrollment. Prices for each academic year are updated annually.

Once payment is made, the corresponding receipt of enrollment can be viewed in the student's Document Repository and via the student's portal.

Students must apply to the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) to obtain the credential certifying that they meet the requirements to access university studies within the state education system (UNED Credential). Therefore, they do not need to take the PAU (University Entrance Exams), but without the mentioned credential, they cannot enroll in our degrees.

The education systems that can be accessed through this pathway are: Germany, Andorra, Austria, European Schools (European baccalaureate), International Baccalaureate, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom, the Czech Republic, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, China and Cyprus.

These students may access our degrees by submitting the homologation of the High School diploma from the Spanish Ministry of Education or from the autonomous communities with transferred competence, such as the Generalitat de Catalunya. Proof of application for convalidation will be sufficient for students to enroll and begin taking a bachelor's degree course, however full enrollment is conditional on convalidation being confirmed. Bear in mind that convalidating studies can take more than three months to complete, so this process should be done in parallel with the admissions process to our bachelor's degrees. If the convalidation resolution is not obtained in the terms requested by the interested party, the results of any exams taken, or the enrollment made as a result thereof, are rendered null and void.

The thesis is written during the fourth academic year and has its own seminar. The student decides the topic and type of thesis. To write the thesis, the student can decide to do a research project or design an intervention program that will be tutored throughout the academic year by a professor-tutor specializing in that area.

The topics may be related to any of the areas of the profession and, where applicable, may also be linked to the center where the student is doing the internship or to the School's research groups.

The project will be completed in groups and written in English. In every instance, it must feature an abstract in English.

The bachelor's degree thesis will last two semesters and will be supervised by a professor-advisor, both individually and in the Seminar space.

Within this space, the process carried out is shared in groups, guidelines are established, and the activity is organized. These Seminar sessions will be alternated with individualized follow-up/tutoring (in which each advisor will personally follow up on the thesis).

The assessment process will involve three grading methods and stages:

1. The designated advisor will oversee each project continuously throughout the academic year. During this time, students are required to submit progress updates. The advisor will suggest a grade based on the efforts in seminars and tutorials, constituting 70% of the total grade.
2. The final assessment will include a presentation and public defense before an evaluation panel, consisting of two professors from the relevant field, one of whom could be the assigned advisor. The grade will be agreed upon by consensus; if no consensus is reached, each panel member will assign a grade, and the average will be computed, making up 30% of the final grade.

• The bachelor's degree ensures that each student will be able to do an internship within a company in positions related to their sector.
• Each student will have a bachelor's degree advisor who will ensure they comply with the internship's objectives and make the most of the experience.
• In addition to the compulsory or curricular internships, students will be able to do whichever voluntary internship they want from their third year onwards.
• Our students will be able to do internships abroad, provided that health conditions permit it.

• The student will have to demonstrate that they know how to join a professional team, where they will complete their training, providing the host organization with their skills.
• Application, in the professional field, of the knowledge acquired by the student in the School.
• Internships provide the student with an overview of the communication and operating dynamics of the medium, company, or institution where they are receiving work experience.
• Start creating a network of professional contacts that can help them enter the workplace smoothly in the future.

There are two types of external internships: curricular and extracurricular.

Curricular internships are those that form part of our curriculum: these are compulsory internships that are taken in parallel to seminar VI during the second semester of third year and the elective ones taken during the first semester of fourth year. The seminar VI professor is the advisor who will supervise the evolution of the student in their internships and guide them throughout the process. In the fourth year elective courses, the internship coordinator will appoint a faculty member to conduct a follow-up of the student. In the company, students will also have an advisor appointed by the center who will supervise their learning.

Extracurricular internships are all others that the student can do electively outside the curriculum, although they also have an exclusively training and teaching purpose and will therefore be included in the European Diploma Supplement (EDS). In all cases, the internship must be compatible with the student's class hours. Internships may or may not be remunerated, depending on the company or institution.

In the following links you will find the program of the curricular internships.

1. Compulsory internships.
2. Elective internships.

Students also have the opportunity to do internships abroad through different agreements with companies via programs such as Erasmus+.

The curricular and extracurricular internships are regulated by point 17 of the school's academic regulations.

The student's advisor in the school will provide students with the criteria to follow to successfully pass the internship course and the parameters for drawing up the internship report. Here is the guide to writing the report.

This must be done by contacting the School's Internship Service.

• 2018 Final report
• 2018 Global Communication Management Report
• Report on the Degree in Global Communication Management

• Follow-up report

Center follow-up report

• 2013-2014 Follow-up report
• Center follow-up report 2014-2015
• Center follow-up report 2015-2016
• Center follow-up report 2016-2017
• Center follow-up report 2017-2018
• Center follow-up report 2018-2019
• Center follow-up report 2019-2020
• Center follow-up report 2020-2021

• Satisfaction indicators (students) for the 2020-2021 academic year
• Degree indicator table
• EUC indicators (employment rate, satisfaction, access, results)
• 2014-2018 Occupational integration studies
• Bachelor degree employment rate studies 2017
• Bachelor degree employment rate studies 2018
• Bachelor degree employment rate studies 2019

Student surveys

• Survey of student satisfaction with online education
• Report result of the student form on online academic activity and COVID-19
• Blanquerna School of Communication and International Relations bachelor's and master's degrees student participation and satisfaction
• Survey of student satisfaction with School services 2019
• AQU preliminary report on graduate satisfaction 2019
• 2015 first-year student URL satisfaction
• 2015 fourth-year student URL satisfaction

Faculty surveys (research and teaching staff)

• Teaching and research staff satisfaction survey results tables 2019
• Teaching and research staff qualifications satisfaction survey results tables 2019
• Teaching and research staff survey participation results 2019
• Teaching and research staff satisfaction 2015
• Teaching and research staff satisfaction 2013

Administrative and service staff surveys

• Service staff survey (comparison of URL and Blanquerna results) 2015
• Administrative and service staff satisfaction survey summary tables 2019
• Administrative and service staff satisfaction 2015
• Administrative and service staff satisfaction 2013

Evidence relating to employer satisfaction

• 2019–2020 FCRIB Report on internship employer satisfaction
• 2017–2018 FCRIB Report on internship employer satisfaction

Job bank and careers

• Bachelor degree employment rate studies 2019
• Official master degree employment rate studies 2019
• Bachelor degree employment rate studies 2018
• Official master degree employment rate studies 2018
• Official master degree employment rate studies 2017
• Bachelor degree employment rate studies 2017
• 2014-2018 Occupational integration studies

URL Student mobility

• URL Erasmus Final Report

• Center self-report 2016/2017
• Center self-report 2018/2019
• Center self-report 2020/2021
• External assessment report 2017
• External assessment report 2019
• External assessment report 2021