Barcelona has positioned itself as an international hub both in executive training for managers and in higher education thanks to the work carried out by institutions such as the UPF Barcelona School of Management (UPF-BSM), which has been included in the ranking for the first time " Executive Education Custom 2023” published by Financial Times.
Thanks to this recognition, UPF-BSM thus becomes the first business school linked to a public university in Spain – Pompeu Fabra University, the best young university in Spain according to the Times Higher Education 2023 ranking – to appear in the most prestigious in the Higher Education market internationally.
The inclusion of UPF-BSM in the most important ranking of training for managers in the field of Higher Education positions the institution among the elite of management schools internationally, and therefore reinforces the path of international accreditations that it undertook the School a few years ago, first by obtaining AMBA (Association of MBAs) and then, in 2022, with the EQUIS accreditation, the most prestigious in the Higher Education sector granted by the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFMD).
As a result of this internationalization process, the UPF Barcelona School of Management has created a new Full Time MBA in English, face-to-face, full time, accredited by AMBA and aimed at people who want to take a professional leap or start their own business.
With this new addition, UPF Barcelona School of Management now has three MBA programs: Executive MBA, Full Time MBA in Spanish and the new Full Time MBA in English, all of which are accredited by AMBA. With this master's degree, students acquire a strategic vision of the main functional areas of a company and develop specific skills and knowledge for business management.
It is a flexible and personalized program that incorporates content on innovation, business development, sustainability, leadership, etc. In addition, it has individual coaching sessions, development workshops and personal branding, and activities with the professional careers department.
Sustainability and business ethics, as well as culture and humanism, are also integrated into the UPF-BSM programs through practical cases, conferences with executives and seminars, among other formats, raising awareness among the participants about the importance of social responsibility and the management of diversity in the world of business and organizations to, together, move towards a humanism and an ethic that promotes planetary well-being.
UPF-BSM adapts to the needs and demands of the market with the incorporation of three new official master's degrees that promote internationalization and that will start in October: the master's degree in Data Analytics for Business, the master's degree in Project Management and Culture of Change, and the Master in Supply Chain Management, Technology and Sustainability.
The new university master's degrees are added to the school's current offer, which will have 46 programs next year (28 university master's degrees and 14 of its own). José Manuel Martínez-Sierra, general director of UPF-BSM, comments: “These new programs aim to update our offer by responding to the growing need for professionalization in areas such as big data, the culture of change or sustainability. Our focus is to train the leaders of the future, with transversal values that are the axis of our school such as innovation, equality or sustainability, and that will contribute to building a better world”.
