Bachelor's Degree in Education Studies

Would you like to become a paedogical leader who can inspire and build a better educational future, where each challenge is an oportunity to innovate, motivate and make a real impact inside and outside the classrooms? 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 assessment, and are also a person with a talent for observation and intuition? Are you a good communicator? Then the bachelor's degree in Education Studies at the UAB is right for you!

You will receive theoretical, professionalising and practical training in the analysis, intervention and evaluation of different educational systems. You will also learn to administer formal and non-formal educational organisations, and design training programmes to help institutions and businesses learn, while also acquiring the skills needed to guide and accompany people in their personal, academic and professional development. You will participate in practicum programmes organised as a connection between learning at university and teaching in different professional contexts. In your fourth year, 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 in different countries, such as at the University of California.

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 and education programmes.
• 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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