Business Analytics and Big Data

Computer Science

Universidad de Alcalá
Escuela Politécnica
Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona, Km. 33,600
28805 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

2017-2018 (RD 1393/2007)

One academic year, full-time

Face-to-face classes

Spanish

This is not a degree title qualifying with ministerial approval for the exercise of regulated professional activities.

Dr. Marçal Mora Cantallops

marcal.mora@uah.es

Academic Coordinator

Elena García Barriocanal                     

elena.garciab@uah.es

Quality Coordinator

Miguel A. Sicilia Urbán

m.sicilia@uah.es

External inthernships Coordinator

Salvador Sánchez Alonso

salvador.sanchez@uah.es

Miguel A. Sicilia Urbán

Eugenio Fernández

Salvador Sánchez Alonso

Elena García Barriocanal

Marçal Mora Cantallops 

Administrative issues:
info.posgrado@uah.es

The goals of this Master's degree are in line with the stipulates of the Spanish Framework for Higher Education Qualifications (MECES) and ensure the achievement of the basic competencies required to obtain a master's degree, following article 3.3, Appendix I of R.D. 1393/2007.

Fulfilment of the goals means students have achieved competencies that must be consistent with the fundamental rights of equality between men and women, with the principles of equal opportunities and of universal accessibility for the disabled, and with the values proper to a democratic and peace-loving culture.

Access to Registration

• Entrance requirements
• Required documentation

Entry profile

• Graduates in Engineering, mainly graduates in degrees in Computer Engineering or their equivalents in the degrees of the previous system (Technical Engineers in Management Computing, Technical Engineers in Systems Comput and Computer Engineers) and related degrees of the branch of Computer Science, such as Degrees in Information or in Computer Engineering.
• Graduates in quantitative disciplines (Statistics, Mathematics, etc.).
• Graduates in studies related to Economics and Business Administration.

Candidates' degrees will be assessed individually to determine the training complements (detailed in later sections) required to ensure that the programme is used properly. These training complements may be compulsory or recommended, depending on the student's profile. The compulsory nature of these complements means that they must be taken in order to start the Master's (see timetable) and they will appear on the student's academic record.

Admission Procedure

1. Currículum Vitae.
2. Motivation letter.
3. Copy of the University Academic Record.
4. Copy of two recommendation letters (recommended).
5. Personal interview with the candidate.
6. Optional English language test if no certificate equivalent to B2 is provided. Good level of English is required to understand technical information and other materials provided.
7. Admission test if the academic committee considers it appropriate.

Admission criteria

• Previous professional experience.
• Assessment of the academic record 
• Skills assessed in the personal interview

The value of these criteria will be 33% of the final assessment.

For Master's Dissertations to be defended from the academic year 2019-20 onwards, it has been established that, along with the Master's Dissertation, the student must submit to the director the summarized report (% of coincidence) given through Turnitin application, once the director has opened the application to obtain the aforementioned report (Approved by the Official Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies Committee, on its regular session dated 24th September 2019).

September 2020 to July 2021

• Timetable for Master's Training Complements : from 21/9/2020 to 22/10/2020, Monday to Friday, 12.00-21.00.
• Timetable for Master's Regular Subjects: Monday to Friday, 18.00-21.00.

The classes of the Master's regular subjects will not overlap those of the training complements in any case. 

University of Alcalá
Politechnic School
Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona, Km. 33,600
28805 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

Installations, services and plans
(Computer rooms, bibliographic resources, libraries, study rooms...)

Students will attend face-to-face classes with their own laptops.

Miguel A. Sicilia
Marçal Mora
Salvador Sánchez
Elena García

Recently implanted degree.