Bachelor's Degree in Education Studies

Are you interested in learning how to lead and coordinate educational and training activities, produce materials and manage education resources in an innovative fashion? Then the bachelor's degree in Education Studies at the UAB is for you

General information

  • Faculty of Education
  • Bellaterra Campus
  • Duration: 4 courses - 240 credits
  • Places: 75
  • Admission mark: 8,942
  • Price per credit: 17.69 euros
  • Language: Catalan and Spanish
  • Academic Calendar
  • Learning mode: Classroom-based learning.

Are you interested in the educational problems of the 21st century from a broad perspective of analysis and from the outlook of planning, managing and assessing educational processes, syllabi and programmes? Are you a responsible and organised person with a talent for observation and intuition? Are you a good communicator? If you also have a good training in the humanities and social sciences, the bachelor's degree in Education Studies at the UAB is right for you!

You will receive theoretical, professionalising and prcatical training in the analysis, intervention and evaluation of educational systems and processes in the organisation and administration of the educational system, in the practices of academic institutions and in the formal and non-formal education agencies. You will participate in practicum programmes organised as a connection between learning at university and teaching in different professional contexts. You will be able to choose between two different specialisations: Educational Guidance and Management of Education and of Social and Educational Institutions.

If you want to discover other cultures, you have over 40 universities in Europe to choose from under the Erasmus programme. You will also be able to sign up for other mobility programmes and study at the University of California for example.

Career options

Education Studies graduates work in all contexts in which there are persons in training, in cultural, recreational and developmental activities, as employees or on a self-employed basis. Some examples of the type of work involved are as follows.
  • Coordinating and leading teams, programmes and services in education.
  • Designing, developing and evaluating training plans.
  • Delivering courses and training activities.
  • Giving advice and guidance to persons or groups.
  • Designing and producing teaching materials and resources.
  • Activating groups and communities.
  • Conducting studies and research.

The bachelor's degree in Education Studies offers a wide range of career options in a variety of contexts. In the field of education there is work in teaching and pedagogical consultancy, consultancy services on personal, professional, academic and/or family matters, coordinating schools for adults and hospital schools, specialist diagnosis centres, teacher training and design of teaching materials.

In the social field, there is work as pedagogical director, specialist or advisor in social, educational and cultural centres, associations or foundations, as managers of projects for recreation or sustainable human development, and as social, educational and cultural mediators. There is also work in education, in social, personal, cultural, employment, economic promotion, justice, international services (both in public administration and in private organisations) in the establishment of policies on education, diversity, equality, etc.

In the private sector graduates can work as managers, specialists, and trainers in personnel departments and knowledge management departments, as career guidance consultants, as producers and consultants on pedagogy in publishers', as managers of cultural and heritage projects in civic centres, museums, etc., as e-learning programme designers, as educational consultants in the media, museums and cultural projects and in research and knowledge transfer centres, and as specialists in educational innovation processes.

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