Official masters

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Official Master's degrees

Based on Royal Decree 1393/2007, Bachelor’s degree programmes must provide students with sufficient basic academic training for them to work professionally or keep studying and pursue an official Master’s degree. Master’s degrees are advanced specialised, multidisciplinary training whose goal is either academic and professional specialisation or the start of research activities. Official Master’s degrees are needed to gain admission into doctoral studies, whose purpose is to provide advanced research training in which the candidate earns a doctoral degree by writing a doctoral thesis.

Official Master’s degrees have been adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and are organised into ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credits, a system of compatible credits, comparable criteria and methodologies and similar length for European degrees whose goal is to facilitate and promote mobility and students’ inclusion in the European job market. Master’s degrees are at least 60 credits and at most 120 credits long, equivalent to one or two academic years.

ECTS credits are characterised by revolving around students as the drivers of their learning process. Each credit is equivalent to 25 hours of instruction, and they are used to count class time (theoretical and practical), individual study, participation in seminars, projects, internships and testing. During one academic year, a student can earn up to 60 credits if studying full-time and 30 if studying part-time.

The official Master’s degrees at the Blanquerna-URL Faculty of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences are targeted at holders of Bachelor’s degrees as well as professionals who need to engage in lifelong learning. The Master’s degrees are professional in orientation, and they examine topics and subjects that require specialised treatment. Characteristics of the official Master’s degrees within the Faculty are:

Faculty made up of researchers and instructors both from the Faculty and from other universities in Spain and by prestigious practising professionals. All instructors are notable representatives of the course’s subject of study.
Programmes with institutional and business support, coordinated by renowned researchers and professionals.
A limited number of students in order to ensure the quality of instruction, participation and personalised treatment.
Agreements and contracts with institutions and companies that guarantee internships or professional development and/or research opportunities

Here you will find all the information you need to gain admission into the Official Master’s degrees offered by the Faculty. Click on one of the options of the menu below to see information on admission into the Faculty’s official Master’s degrees.

Calendar of application deadlines
- Results of the admission process
Process of applying for admission
Enrolment
- General enrolment conditions
Contact the Student Information and Guidance Service

Calendar of application deadlines

Pre-enrolment for academic year 2021/2022

The calendar for the pre-renrolment for the following academic year 2021/2022 is as follows:

Start of the enrolment process: November the 24th 2020
End of the enrolment process: July the 18th 2021
Last day to hand in the documents necessary for the enrolment: July the 18th 2021

Results of the admission process

Applicants will receive an email with the results of the admission process on July the 21th 2021 at 12pm (provisional date). You can check de dates and the registration process here.

Note: Some master's degree studies follow a different enrolment process. Those are:

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Process of applying for admission

To gain admission into official Master’s degree programmes, applicants must hold an official degree from a Spanish university or another degree issued by a higher education institution within the European Higher Education Area which in the issuing country authorises the holder of this degree to pursue a Master’s degree.

Likewise, holders of Bachelor’s degrees from outside the European Higher Education Area may gain admission to Master’s degree programmes without the need to have their degrees officially approved as long as the university can previously accredit a level of training equivalent to the corresponding Spanish official university degrees which in the issuing country authorise the holder of this degree to pursue a post-graduate degree. Admission by this means in no way entails approval of the previous degree or its recognition for purposes other than pursuing a Master’s degree.

The process of applying for admission has two stages:

Pre-enrolment: Students may pre-enrol either in person in the faculty or online. When they enrol, the applicant will receive the corresponding receipt indicating the day, time and venue for the entrance examination, pre-enrolment code and pre-enrolment information.
Enrolment: This implies acceptance of the place after being assigned it.

Online application

The form found at the following link must be filled out following the procedure indicated. By pre-enrolling online, the pre-enrolment fee (€95) must be paid by credit or debit card using a secure, confidential process via Catalunya Caixa.

Before the deadline of the pre-enrolment process has elapsed, the following documentation must be submitted:

Photocopy of Spanish national ID (DNI), passport or Spanish foreign ID (NIE)
Academic record (original or certified copy) with the marks on the courses taken and the grade point average from the degree, if available when pre-enrolling or applying for the programme.
- Applicants with degrees earned outside Spain: certified issued by the authorised body (university, embassy, consulate) accrediting that the previous degrees authorise the applicant to engage in Master’s or post-graduate studies in the country issuing the degree.
Brief curriculum vitae showing training and professional experience related to the degree programme applied for.

Prior to the pre-enrolment deadline, candidates who apply for the Official Master’s Degree in General Health Psychology must accredit that they have taken 90 ECTS credits specifically in the field of healthcare through the corresponding academic certificate issued by the home university and have a degree in Psychology or studies approved by the Spanish State.

In-person application

Please provide the Student Information and Guidance Service with the following documentation:

Photocopy of Spanish national ID (DNI)
Academic record (original or certified copy) with the marks on the courses taken and the grade point average from the degree, if available when applying for the programme
- Applicants with degrees earned outside Spain: certified issued by the authorised body (university, embassy, consulate) accrediting that the previous degrees authorise the applicant to engage in Master’s or post-graduate studies in the country issuing the degree.
Brief curriculum vitae showing training and professional experience related to the degree programme applied for.
€95 for the pre-enrolment fee. This fee may be paid by credit or debit card.

International students

It is the student’s responsibility to have all the official documentation needed to live in Spain while they study at the university.

Applicants may request pre-admission documents along with their pre-enrolment receipt in order to begin the paperwork needed to secure visas, scholarships or any other procedure. This document in no way guarantees the student’s place in the programme if all the other entrance and admission requirements are not met.

Once the applicant has been admitted and has officially enrolled, if desired they may request a letter of admission from the Academic Secretary's Office after paying the corresponding fee.

Please feel free to contact the Student Information and Guidance Service for further information.

Exceptional application processes

Interuniversity Master's in Educational Psychology

To gain admission into the MIPE, the applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in:

Psychology
Education
Teacher Training
Education Sciences
Social Education
Educational Psychology
Linguistics
Sociology
Social and Cultural Anthropology
Audiovisual Communication
Equivalents (after evaluation of the candidate’s academic record)

After analysing and assessing the candidates’ dossiers, the coordinating committee of the MIPE in charge of the student admission process will identify those candidates who do not fully accredit specific training in Psychology and Education as required to be admitted into the programme, and may require them to take up to 30 further credits in addition to those required to earn the degree in order to ensure that they maximally benefit from the programme.

+ information: MIPE's official website

Enrolment: website of the coordinating university (UB)

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Enrolment

In general, the enrolment of the students admitted for the first time in a master's degree will take place between July 22th and 26th 2021 in virtually. Each applicant will be informed of the day and time of enrolment assigned along with the result of their application.

When enrolling, the following documentation must be attach:

Bank account number for automatic withdrawals (if paying in instalments)

The Faculty does not guarantee that classes will be held if the minimum enrolment number is not met.

Enrolment is the final procedure to gain access to the master’s course. Every candidate shall be individually informed of their enrolment date. Enrolment formalisation, including the payment of corresponding fees, represents that the applicant has finally been awarded the place. Tuition fees payment is carried out in instalments, free of interest. After enrolling, applicants shall have a period of two working days to pay for 50% of the total cost of enrolled credits via bank payment (either transfer or barcode); the remaining 50% will be split into 9 monthly payments, due from October to June, via direct debit (when enrolling, applicants shall provide us with a bank account number). Fees will be updated every academic year. Once enrolment is formalised, fees paid cannot be refunded for any reason.

Blanquerna-URL alumni will have a 15% discount on their tuition fees for non-subsidised, first-access official master’s courses.

General enrolment conditions

With enrolment, a teaching services contract between the student and Fundació Blanquerna is entered into with all legal effects once payment is carried out. This payment is to be made within the following two working days after the enrolment date via the aforementioned payment methods.
Payment includes the corresponding insurance and for applicants under twenty-eight the compulsory school insurance.
Should applicants renounce to their place, they shall fully lose any quantity already paid.
Applicants accept IT services’ rules of use as established by Fundació Blanquerna.
The applicants’ personal data shall be included in an automated data file under the responsibility of Fundació Blanquerna to maintain and abide by this contract. Applicants are also informed that another use is to notify them about future activities of the Fundació, as well as to provide them with publications of this institution. In accordance with what Organic Law 15/1999, on the protection of personal data, establishes, students have the right to have access to them to update, rectify, cancel them or show their opposition to their processing, by sending a text where they shall specify what right they want to exert to the following address: Secretaria de la Fundació Blanquerna / Passeig de Sant Gervasi, 47 / 08022 Barcelona.

Note: This section is merely a summary of the general enrolment conditions and thus has no contractual value. In case of any discrepancy, please resort to the General Enrolment Conditions stipulated in the receipt generated when enrolling; this receipt formalises the contract between the applicant and Fundació Blanquerna; students can consult it at any time on their intranet.