Master in Finance and Banking
Master in Finance and Banking
5% discount available to applications submitted before 27/04/21
Our master in finance will turn you into a professional in the financial area that today's market needs. Prepare yourself to be an investment fund manager, bank manager, personal advisor, or expert in the new disruptive platforms in the sector.
The previous masters offered by the school in Financial Markets and in Banking and Finance have been transformed into the Master in Finance and Banking, to respond to an essential training need for professionals and students who want to develop their careers in the corporate finance sector.
Why choose this program
Trains versatile professionals who are up to date with current market needs
New technologies have transformed the financial sector. This master will provide you with, in addition to the necessary financial knowledge, knowledge of the new business models, technology, and products that have burst onto the sector, training you to develop your profession in this changing environment.
Learn from experts in the sector
You will be trained, for the most part, with recognized active professionals who will contribute the knowledge and experience acquired in their day to day work, as well as with UPF professors, whose Department of Economics and Business has been classified as first in Spain, third in Europe and 46th in the world, by Times Higher Education.
International Accreditations
The master is a member program of the University Affiliation Program of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute*. In each course there are 2 scholarships available to access the CFA exam. In addition, the program enables you to take the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exams.
*(Renewal in process)
Carry out your internship in top-level entities
The master offers you the possibility of doing professional internships in leading entities of the first level in the financial sector such as BBVA, Banco Sabadell, Criteria Caixaholding, or the Governing Society of the Barcelona Stock Exchange, among others.
Recognized by the CNMV: allows you to act as a Financial Advisor
The master is published in the list of the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) that certifies that you will obtain the knowledge and skills of staff who provide financial advice and information, in accordance with the provisions of the European MIFID II directive and that therefore you will be able to practise this profession once you have completed the course.
*(Renewal in process)
Specializations
The master offers 3 possible training itineraries. Two itineraries with specializations and a third customized itinerary.
Market Specialization
You will specialize in advising clients within private banking and in financial market analysis in research services of financial entities (banks, companies, and securities agencies).
Risk Management Specialization
You will specialize in global knowledge of the financial sector and credit institutions. It offers specific training in risk analysis, both credit (essential as a core business of banking) and in the management of cash and liquidity risks, and markets.
Finance and Banking (customized itinerary)
This itinerary allows you to customize the program, choosing the subjects that interest you the most and which to suit your professional concerns and goals from among all the optional subjects offered.
Who is it for?
The master is aimed at both young graduates in the field of Social and Legal Sciences or Engineering or other disciplines in the quantitative field who want to develop their professional career in the financial or banking sector.
The program will also welcome qualified professionals who currently work in the sector and want to deepen or update their knowledge in the area.
Curriculum
The Master in Finance and Banking allows you to obtain the title with specialization (Markets or Risk Management) or without specialization.
All participants must take all the subjects of Fundamentals of Finance and Banking during the first quarter (24 ECTS), and in the second and third quarter 30 optional ECTS, in addition to the Master's Final Project (6 ECTS), which will be developed throughout the course.
Courses with specialization: the student must take the 5 optional subjects of the chosen specialty plus 10 ECTS chosen from all the optional subjects offered (including Professional Internships and optional subjects from the other specialization).
Courses without specialization: the student will choose 30 ECTS from all the optional subjects offered.
Compulsory subjects (24 ECTS)
Optional subjects (30 ECTS)
Master's Final Project (6 ECTS)
Complementary activities
Those students who have not completed the main subjects recommended for following the master in their previous degree may take supplementary training prior to the start of classes in the following subjects:
- Accounting and Finance
- Economy
- Quantitative methods and basic mathematical concepts
The master includes the online module BSM Inside:
BSM Inside is a transversal and interdisciplinary module, common to all master's and postgraduate degrees at UPF Barcelona School of Management, which has been conceived to work on a set of key competencies for professional development in conjunction with the real needs of today's organizations.
This module extends throughout the academic year and is made up of 3 areas of knowledge that constitute the identity traits of the UPF-BSM: Communication; Entrepreneurship and Innovation; and Planetary Well-being and Humanities.
All the subjects of the BSM Inside module are 100% online and have been designed as self-learning subjects: from the first day of the subject until the end of the term you will have all the teaching materials available on the eCampus and you can work with the material and the different activities that it contains at your own pace, according to your availability and in a self-organized way.
Qualification obtained
After completing the program, and depending on their specialization, students will be awarded with the following degrees:
- Máster Universitario en Finanzas y Banca / Master of Science in Finance and Banking, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
- Máster Universitario en Finanzas y Banca / Master of Science in Finance and Banking. Especialidad en Gestión del Riesgo, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
- Máster Universitario en Finanzas y Banca / Master of Science in Finance and Banking. Especialidad en Mercados, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
Issuance of official Master's Degrees: The amount stipulated in the DOGC (Official Gazette of the Government of Catalonia) must be paid for the rights to issue the title. This rate varies annually and the rate in force at the time of application for the degree will be applied.
Note: Elective courses will be carried out in case of reaching a minimum number of enrolled students. The final offer for each academic year may be adapted depending on the academic planning.
Faculty
Academic directors
Full Professor UPF-BSM
Senior Lecturer BSM
Senior Lecturer BSM
Faculty
Academic Adviser
Senior Lecturer BSM
Senior Lecturer BSM
Full Professor UPF-BSM
Adjunct professor BSM
Lecturer BSM
Adjunct professor BSM
Head of Accounting and Finance
Senior Lecturer BSM
Lecturer BSM
Teaching Collaborator BSM (instructor)
Senior Lecturer BSM
Senior Lecturer BSM
Lecturer BSM
- Francisco Albuixech Micó
Delegate at the CNMV in Barcelona
Bachelor´s degree in law from the University of Valencia.
Master in Legal Practice by IE Law School.
- Ramon Alfonso Mata
Fiancial Analist at Gar Investment Managers.
Master in Business Administration from Ramon Llull University (Barcelona).
Bachelor in Philosophy and Humanities from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
- Ramón Amargant Arnau
Manager of the Economic Analysis Unit for Property Transactions and Projects at BancSabadell Investment.
Postgraduate course in Economics and Finance from the Centre for Financial and Monetary Studies (Madrid).
Degree in Economic and Business Sciences from Pompeu Fabra University and is a specialist in real estate.
- Silvia Baron Gómez
BBVA Real Estate Business Unit.
Master in Banking and Finance from Pompeu Fabra University.
Degree in Actuarial and Financial Sciences from Universitat de Barcelona) and a
Degree in Business Administration from Rovira i Virgili University.
- Tomàs Casanovas Martínez
Master of Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde - Glasgow
President of the company ENERSIDE and CEO of Open Learning Spain S.A. Economist and Business Professor.
- Francisco Javier Dueñas Selma
Vice-president of Forética and member of the Spainsif Board of Directors.
Delegate of the Cajamar Cooperative Group for the Sustainable Development Agenda
Management Program (PADE) at IESE Business School.
- Albert Martí Poyo
Commercial and Business Development Manager at Assurances Credit Mutuel Group in Spain.
MBA in ESADE Business School.
- Miquel Perdiguer Andrés
Director of the Catalunya Caixa Foundation.
PhD in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Barcelona.
Lecturer of Financial Marketing at Pompeu Fabra University.
- Josep Maria Raya Vílchez
PhD in Economics from the University of Barcelona.
Degree in Economics from the University of Barcelona. He is lecturer of the TechnoCampus Mataró-Maresme Foundation at Pompeu Fabra University and associate lecturer at the School of International Trade.
- José B. Sáez Madrid
PhD in Economics from the University of Barcelona.
Lecturer of the Department of Economic, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics at University of Barcelona.
Coordinator in Barcelona and Andorra of the course for obtaining the international accreditation of financial analyst (CIIA)
- Pere Serra Bartolí
Founder and owner of Ganimedes Consulting.
Bachelor in Biology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
- Mireia Sitjas
Director Global Head of FX, Barclays Wealth.
Master of Business Economics and Financial Management from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
Degree in Economics and Businesses Sciences from Pompeu Fabra University.
- Albert Soler Rubio
Executive Director Credit Risk at Caixabank
MBA from ESADE.Degree in Economics and Businesses Sciences from the University of Barcelona.
- Jordi Viladot
President and General Director at Gesiuris SGIIC.
Degree in Economic Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Methodology
The Master of Finance and Banking program has a very practical and professional approach.
Theory and practice are combined with a very participatory methodology. In addition to the presentation of theoretical concepts by the teachers, there is the interaction and intervention of the students.
Connect with the professional world
Throughout the course, practical, real, and current cases will be presented and discussed which will allow you to apply the concepts learned and thus face the situations that you will find in your company or professional activity.
Team building
The experience of group activities will allow you to share visions, knowledge, and opinions with students not only from Barcelona but from all over the world, enriching your academic experience and strengthening your network of contacts.
Tutored final project
The experience of group activities will allow you to share visions, knowledge, and opinions with students not only from Barcelona but from all over the world, enriching your academic experience and strengthening your network of contacts.
Evaluation
The evaluation of the program is continuous and will be carried out on the basis of:
- Practical cases, exercises, and work
- Tests of the different subjects
- Class participation and presentations
- Class attendance (the face-to-face modality requires a minimum of 80%)
- Master's Final Project
The student's evaluation activities will be carried out individually and in groups, in order to encourage teamwork.
Tools
The On-Campus&Live methodology allows you to follow the program in person and also remotely.
In this modality, two stable subgroups are opened that will coexist throughout the course: one face-to-face and the other with 100% remote students. The remote students (a maximum of 15 places per course) will follow the program in a synchronous way with the face-to-face students. That is, they will share the same school calendar and schedule as the face-to-face students.
Project-oriented learning and the combination of lectures and active methodologies such as case studies, flipped learning, solving real problems, and professional simulations allow the student to connect theory and practice, acquire advanced skills, and achieve learning which is transferable to the job. The face-to-face modality is enriched with elements of online programs (virtual learning environment, multimedia resources, among others) so that the learning experience of the two subgroups is equally satisfactory.
You will have:
- Master's or postgraduate work to learn by doing
- A personal mentor to monitor your Master's Final Project (TFM) or Postgraduate Final Project (TFP)
- Digital resources to achieve transversal skills
- Interdisciplinary activities and workshops
- Digital resources and audiovisual blocks for online learning
- Active methodologies for transferable learning
Professional Future
The program is aimed at all those young professionals who want to focus their professional career on the current financial sector and seek strategic training that, in addition to providing them with solid financial knowledge, trains them to carry out their work in a sector strongly transformed by the emergence of new technologies.
Upon completion of the master, students will be able to exercise the management of financial products and services, from a perspective of financial advice, as well as the analysis of credit risk and other market risks in a changing environment due to new technologies and ways of working.
Student profile
The master brings together young professionals from various fields (Economics, Business Management, Law, Engineering or other quantitative disciplines), and students who come from different countries with a common goal: accessing quality and up-to-date training, in addition to living an academic experience that provides them with the knowledge and tools to face the challenges of their professional future.
Career opportunities
The main areas covered by the Master in Finance and Banking are risk management, portfolio management and investment funds, financial advice, private banking, and corporate finance.
The program also offers the possibility of choosing the optional subject of Professional Internships, an opportunity to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in corporate finance, financial accounting, etc. in the professional environment.
Portfolio agencies and companies:
- Portfolio manager
- Financial advisor
- Risk analyst
- Backoffice
- Department of studies
- Broker
Financial entities:
- Personal banking managers
- Private banking managers
- Bank office
- Risk department
- Settlement and clearing of operations
Financial entities. Companies or offices:
- Business managers
- Directors
- Positions in bank offices
Financial entities. Central services:
- Risk analyst
- Social work of the bank
- Personal banking managers
- Marketing
Other entities:
- Financial planning
- Family office
- Corporate finance
- Venture capital
- Insurance companies
- Business consultant
- Central Bank employee
- Commercial Bank manager
- Corporate finance services
- Investment banker
- M&A Advisor
- Wealth manager
- Financial advisor
- Private banking
- Socially Responsible Investment
- Wealth manager
- Financial advisor
- Private banking
Fintechs:
- Crowd funding
- P2P lending
- Roboadvisors
- Payment systems
Admission and enrolment
Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.
Who can apply?
University graduates from the field of Social and Legal Sciences (Business Administration, Economics, Law or courses related to the business economic field, etc.), Engineering and quantitative disciplines (Mathematics, Statistics, etc.).
All those graduates or graduates from outside the field of economics, business, law, or engineering must have a minimum professional experience of two years in the banking or financial sector.
Those participants who do not have Spanish as one of their mother tongues or who did not have it as a teaching language in their training studies, must prove that they have at least a B2 level of Spanish (Common European Framework of Reference), as well as fluently take part in a personal interview with the academic director, if necessary.
How to apply?
To apply for admission to this program, students must read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Contract once they start the application for admission through its form.
Application for admission
Complete your application within the next admission rounds:
Round | Application deadline | Admission resolution |
---|---|---|
1 | 11/11/2020 | 26/11/2020 |
2 | 03/12/2020 | 18/12/2020 |
3 | 17/12/2020 | 31/12/2020 |
4 | 12/01/2021 | 28/01/2021 |
5 | 02/02/2021 | 17/02/2021 |
6 | 23/02/2021 | 10/03/2021 |
7 | 16/03/2021 | 31/03/2021 |
8 | 08/04/2021 | 23/04/2021 |
9 | 27/04/2021 | 12/05/2021 |
10 | 13/05/2021 | 28/05/2021 |
11 | 27/05/2021 | 11/06/2021 |
12 | 08/06/2021 | 23/06/2021 |
13 | 22/06/2021 | 07/07/2021 |
14 | 06/07/2021 | 21/07/2021 |
15 | 20/07/2021 | 30/07/2021 |
16 | 02/09/2021 | 17/09/2021 |
17 | 16/09/2021 | 01/10/2021 |
18 | 05/10/2021 | 20/10/2021 |
19 | 21/10/2021 | 05/11/2021 |
Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:
- Complete the online admission form.
- Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.
- Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
- Presentation letter or video
- CV
- Two letters of recommendation (academic or professional)
- Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)
- Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)
- Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport
- Passport-size photo (jpg format)
Additional documents may be requested in certain cases.
Applications are subject to the number of places available on the program.
Admission
- The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.
- You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.
Enrolment
- Resgistration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.
- Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your transcript of records.
- If you have a foreign degree you may need to submit additional documents.
- Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place
- If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is .
- The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Grants, scholarships and financing
Scholarships
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
Talent Scholarship
Apply for one of our Talent Scholarships, specifically awarded to master students who can demonstrate an exceptional academic, professional or personal trajectory.
UPF Barcelona School of Management, through the UPF's Institute of Continuing Education Foundation, annually awards scholarships to finance master's studies to students who can demonstrate their talent and motivation. The Talent Scholarships cover 25% of the total tuition fee. Exceptionally, the Scholarship Award Committee, may decide to extend this amount up to 50%. Likewise, and accrediting a difficult economic situation, the percentage of the scholarship could be extended up to 75%.
- You must have completed a university qualification.
- You must have obtained in your undergraduate studies a minimum GPA (Grade Point Average) of 3.0 out of 4.0 (the Scholarship Committee reserves the right to determine a different minimum GPA according to your home country's grading system). You can check here your Bachelor's Degree average score equivalence
- You must have applied for admission into one of the master's offered by the UPF Barcelona School of Management (except the Official Master's Programme in Advocacy or those master's in which the enrolment process is external to the UPF Barcelona School of Management).
Please note that your application must meet all documentation requirements and deadlines. Otherwise it will not be evaluated.
- Submit your application for the Talent Scholarship via the "Application form" of the programme that you are interested in.
- Submit the documentation detailed below via the "Scholarships and Funding" section of the platform, to which you will be given access when applying:
- Letter of motivation. Tell us why you request the Talent Scholarship and why you think you are a good candidate to be awarded.
- List of merits. Download our template. Remember to provide the information that accredits your merits.
- A complete transcript of records of your undergraduate studies with your GPA (if presenting a non-Spanish transcript of records, and only if the scale of grades does not appear, include an official certificate conversion chart or a scale, with the minimum passing grade, corresponding to the educational system of the country in which the degree was issued).
All documents except for the academic transcript must be in either Catalan, Spanish or English. The academic transcript can be presented in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese. If it is another language it must be accompanied by a sworn official translation into Catalan or Spanish.
If you wish to apply for an increased scholarship due to your economic situation you must expressly request this and provide additional documentation.
In some cases, candidates will be called for interview, either in person or by telephone or Skype. If necessary, we will contact you in order to schedule an interview.
Talent Scholarships are not compatible with the UPF Alumni's discounts, nor with the UPF Barcelona School of Management Alumni discounts.
Talent Scholarships are applied for and awarded according to the dates outlined below. The funds available in each call for applications diminish as the dates advance. Therefore, the earlier you apply for a Talent Scholarship, the more likely you are to be awarded one.
Programmes for the academic year 2021-2022:
- Scholarship application deadline: 03/12/2020, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 14/12/2020
- Scholarship application deadline: 12/01/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 25/01/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 23/02/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 08/03/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/04/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 19/04/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 13/05/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 24/05/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/06/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 21/06/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 06/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 20/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 02/09/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 13/09/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 05/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 18/10/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 21/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 01/11/2021
The number of rounds is subject to the availability of funds, so if the funds are exhausted in previous rounds, later rounds will be cancelled.
The Talent Scholarship Committee reserves the right to transfer funds to other applications' deadlines if they have not been assigned.
Please bear in mind that scholarship applications have to be made at the same time as completing your application for the programme and always before classes begin. Talent Scholarships cannot be processed for a master's programme that has already begun.
Equally, applications presented after the deadlines of the established rounds will not be accepted, even if classes have not yet begun.
If you have any questions about how to apply for a Talent Scholarship, do not hesitate to contact our Scholarship Information Office. You can also consult our competition rules on the official DOGC Núm. 7518 del 18.12.2017. You can find information about the taxation of the scholarship in the FAQ's.
Beca UPF-BSM
Apply for one of our UPF-BSM Scholarships, awarded specifically to Pompeu Fabra University students with a good academic record.
If you are studying your last undergraduate course (4th year) at UPF or at a UPF Group centre and you have a good record, you can apply for a UPF-BSM scholarship. Remember that you must be a graduate and be in possession of your degree (or failing that, the certificate of receipt) when you start the program in which you have enrolled.
- Be in the last undergraduate year at UPF.
- Have a good academic record.
- Have been admitted or are in the process of admission to a Master or Postgraduate course for which you are applying for this Scholarship.
- Apply for the Scholarship at the time of application for admission.
- Submit a motivation letter with the reasons why you have opted for the Scholarship and a list of verifiable merits.
- Upload the required documentation through the eRegistrar platform
- The dates of awarding or denying of the Scholarship will be published on the website.
- The scholarship candidate will personally receive a communication with the procedures to follow in order to formalize it.
- The Scholarship Committee assesses academic talent (average grade of the report) and personal talent (the motivation of the candidate and their merits).
- The UPF-BSM Scholarships are not compatible with specific aid for the programs, scholarships granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, and other UPF-BSM scholarships.
- They are compatible with other scholarships from organizations outside the UPF-BSM and with discounts for large families.
They are applied for and granted in accordance with the dates stipulated below:
Academic year programs 2020–21 and 2021–22
- Scholarship application deadline: 03/12/2020, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 14/12/2020
- Scholarship application deadline: 12/01/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 25/01/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 23/02/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 08/03/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/04/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 19/04/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 13/05/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 24/05/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/06/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 21/06/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 06/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 20/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 02/09/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 13/09/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 05/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 18/10/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 21/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: week of 01/11/2021
Remember that you must apply for the scholarship when you complete the application for admission to the program that interests you and always before classes start. The Scholarship cannot be processed for a program that is already being studied.
If you have any questions about how to apply for the UPF-BSM Scholarships, you can contact our scholarship secretariat via email.
Social Value Scholarships
UPF Barcelona School of Management, for this next academic year, and aiming at the commitment for social welfare, offers the Social Value Scholarships with the objective of supporting and favoring the groups that the School considers a priority. Enter and consult the details.
These scholarships are intended to favor specific groups, to help them in their professional and personal development or people who are in a situation of economic difficulty.
The Social Value Scholarship program covers from 25% to 70% of the total tuition fee for the master's degree and from 25% to 50% of the total tuition fee for the diploma or postgraduate course for all the programs offered by the Institute of Continuing Education Foundation.
The University Master's Degree in Law and any other master’s degree carried out in conjunction with an institution outside the UPF-BSM are excluded. Also excluded are programs for which the interested party wishes to carry out any recognition. Repeating students will also not be eligible for the scholarship.
- "Impulsa MUJER" (“Promote Woman”)
Aimed at all professional women, from any environment, who wish to study a management program in any area of the company, to occupy leadership positions or to lead a professional project.
Sporty woman: Specifically addressed at professional sportswomen interested in studying the master’s degree in Sports Management in any of its modalities. - "Post COVID boost"
Aimed at people over 40 who are unemployed or in ERTE. ERTE is a term used in Spain to refer to the suspension for a specific time of the labor contract of part or all the workers of a company due to force majeure. This temporary suspension of the contract has been applied in Spain during the COVID-19 pandemic and remains in effect until the Government and the Employer decide. - "Entrepreneur Scholarship for local economy"
Aimed at entrepreneurs and small businesses with a direct impact on the local economy and regions that need specific training to boost business.
- You must have applied for admission into one of the master's offered by the UPF Barcelona School of Management (except the Official Master's Program in Advocacy or those master's) and have been admitted to the program for which the grant is being requested.
- Present a letter of motivation with the reasons why you are applying for the scholarship with a list of merits or outstanding aspects that can be contrasted.
Consult the specific criteria for each of the modalities in the rules.
Submit your application for the Social Value Scholarship via the "Application form" of the program that you are interested in.
Submit the documentation via the "Scholarships and Funding" section of the eRegistar platform, to which you will be given access when applying
Please note that your application must meet all the requirements for both documentation and deadlines. Otherwise, it cannot be evaluated.
All documents except for the academic transcript must be in either Catalan, Spanish or English. The academic transcript can be presented in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian or Portuguese. If it is another language it must be accompanied by a sworn official translation into Catalan or Spanish.
Social Value Scholarship applications have to be made at the same time as completing your application for the program and always before classes begin. Social Value Scholarships cannot be processed for a master's program that has already begun.
Equally, applications presented after the deadlines of the established rounds will not be accepted, even if classes have not yet begun.
Social Value Scholarship are applied for and awarded according to the dates outlined below.:
Programmes for the academic year 2021-2022
- Scholarship application deadline: 12/01/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 25/01/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 23/02/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 08/03/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/04/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 19/04/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 13/05/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 24/05/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 08/06/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 21/06/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 20/07/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 27/07/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 02/09/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 13/09/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 05/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 18/10/2021
- Scholarship application deadline: 21/10/2021, Awarding of the scholarship: during the week of 01/11/2021
The Scholarship Committee will only award Social Value Scholarships to those applicants who, having completed the corresponding documentation and been finally admitted to the program for which they are applying, have passed the various tests that may be requested and meet the criteria established in each established typology in which they wish to enter.
The Scholarship Committee will inform each applicant of the decision individually by e-mail, following the dates published on the website.
If you have any questions about how to apply for a Talent Scholarship, do not hesitate to contact our Scholarship Information Office. You can also consult the competition rules here.
Grants and discounts
External financial aid
A large number of external entities and institutions offer financial aid options to students who want to enrol on one of our master programs and postgraduate courses.
A large number of external entities and institutions offer financial aid options to students who want to enrol on one of our master programs and postgraduate courses. If you want to apply for any of these financial aid options you will have to deal directly with the awarding entity. These options are compatible with any other program-specific aid option of your master program or postgraduate course but not with the Talent or the Partner Universities Scholarships.
Spanish Public Financial Aid for Official Master's Degrees
- General scholarships of Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport: The call is aimed at offering tuition aids and different concepts
- Basque Country Scholarships: The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport allocates part of the Basque Country's budget to educational scholarships. These scholarships are aimed at Basque students who wish
External Financial Aid
- MAEC-AECID Scholarships: Scholarships for Spanish and foreign citizens who wish to study in Spain (and abroad).
- Fulbright Scholarships: The Fulbright Program is a competitive program of grants for students, which is aimed at encouraging the exchange of American graduate students with those of other countries involved in the program for the purposes of research, study or teaching.
- UNESCO Scholarships: Short stays in other countries to allow postgraduate students to specialize.
- "la Caixa" Social Foundation: Grants for official master degree studies in Spain.
- Portal Ploteus: EU grants for non-EU citizens to study in Europe.
- Portal Universia: Spanish and Latin American portal for information on grants.
- Santander Scholarships: Over 30.000 scholarships, study grants and internships for students coming from Germany, Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, the United States, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, the UK and Uruguay.
- Erasmus+ Master's Degree Loan
Financial Aid by country
- Chile: AGCI, CONICYT
- Colombia: Colfuturo, ICETEX
- Egipto: Qalaa Holdings Scholarship Foundation
- Ecuador: Senescyt
- Guatemala: Guatefuturo
- Iberoamérica: Programa Ibermedia
- México: Coordinación Nacional de Becas de Educación Superior, FIDERH, Fonca, FUNED
- Panamá: IFARHU
- Perú: IPFE, RetoExcelencia
- República Dominicana: FUNDAPEC
Alumni discounts
If you are a member of our alumni associations or of one of our partner universities, we offer you a series of applicable discounts on the amount of tuition for your program.
- UPF Barcelona School of Management or UPF-IDEC Alumni: If you have previously studied at UPF Barcelona School of Management or UPF-IDEC a 15 credits (or more) program and you decide to take on a new program with us, you are entitled to a discount of 20% on your program tuition fees. It is required to be registered in the Alumni network of the UPF Barcelona School of Management upon your application. This discount is not applicable to short courses and postgraduate courses which are part of the same itinerary.
- UPF Alumni: If you have previously studied a degree, a master program or a doctoral program at Pompeu Fabra University, you are entitled to a discount of 15% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduated program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits) beginning on or after 01/01/2019.
- ESCI-UPF and Tecnocampus Alumni: If you have previously studied a degree or a master at ESCI-UPF or Tecnocampus, you are entitled to a discount of 15% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduated program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits).
UPF Employee Discounts
If you are a member or family member of an employee of the UPF group or belonged to the collaborating institutions of the UPF Barcelona School of Management, you can enjoy a series of applicable discounts on the tuition fees for your program.
- Administrative and Service Staff (PAS) of Pompeu Fabra University. You are entitled to a 35% discount on tuition fees for open programs subject to prior communication from the rector's office and/or the UPF general manager's office.
- Administrative and Service Staff (PAS) and Teaching and Research Staff (PDI) of the UPF Group. Discount of 20% on tuition fees for open programs.
- Relatives (up to second degree) of UPF and the UPF's Institute of Continuing Education's Foundation teaching and research staff (PAS and PDI, in Spanish). Discount of 20% on tuition fees for open programs.
- If you work at a company member of the Institute of Continuing Education Foundation's Board of Trustees or at any of our councils' companies. Discount of 20% on the tuition fees of our master's and postgraduate courses.
Early Bird discount
Discount available to applications submitted before the stated deadline.
UPF Partner Latinoamerican Universities Discount
If you are alumni of one of our Partner Universities, you are entitled to a discount of 10% on the UPF Barcelona School of Management Masters and postgraduate program tuition fees (those programs with more than 15 credits).
Funding
Financing simulator
You can choose how to finance your studies by consulting our simulator and receive an answer in less than 24 hours.
Collaborating entities
In addition, UPF Barcelona School of Management collaborates with various banks and financial entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links (in Spanish).
Note, however, that in order to benefit from these special conditions you must have a NIE if you are not a European Citizen. Therefore, UPF Barcelona School of Management strongly recommends international students to seek first for students loans at bank entities of their country of origin, or to search for funding opportunities through international entities.
The Agency for Management of University and Research Grants of Catalonia (AGAUR, in Spanish) also offers loans to university students with legal residence in Catalonia through the PREPOST program.