Academic info

Students enrolled in the Bachelor in International Businesst will be governed by the following internal ESIC regulations.

• Bachelor in International Business

The students who wish to validate or adapt classes taken in other official institutions must comply with the requisites that the University demands for such validations or adaptations and request them in the School Secretary in the given timeframes. The University Rector will then process the petitions. Credits will be validated by the University taking into account the adequacy of competences and the theoretical knowledge associated with the rest of the classes taken by the student and present in the common curricula. The official regulations of admission and transference of credits can be found here. 

The students who wish to attend these classes must hold a High School Diploma and must have passed the University admission tests or to hold one of the degrees that enable the admission to the university:

• Admission Process Information
• Norms and prices

The students who wish to attend these classes must hold a High School Diploma and must have passed the University admission tests or to hold one of the degrees that enable the admission to the university:

Pre-enrollment and admission

1. Hold a Bachelor's degree or its equivalent and to have passed the University Admission Tests.
2. Complete the tests that the School Board determines.
3. Complete the tests that the School Board determines.
4. Have a personal interview with members of the corresponding area Board. Since these are official studies, the student must pre-enroll according to what the Consejería de Educación de la Comunidad de Madrid establishes every year, and respect the norms and schedules given by this body

Once accepted, the student must complete the payments at the Secretaría del Área de Grado in ESIC, providing the final examination card/credential (source document and 3 photocopies).

Admission and grants

Financial issues should not be an obstacle for applicants to achieve their goals and to receive a great education. In this page you will find several options that will help you find financial aid;there are options offered by ESIC and by public and private organizations. For more information about the admission process, or to request an appointment, contact us .

Bank financing:

ESIC has financing agreements with selected banking institutions to offer preferential conditions to its students. In the Financial Services Office you will find the specific rules and conditions of each of these agreements.

Scholarships:

• ESIC has its own programme of different types of economic scholarships. See conditions HERE
• These scholarships should be expressly requested by the pupil within the deadlines of the call and in compliance with all the requirements

All participants enrolled in a degree have the possibility to access the scholarship and financial aid program offered by the Ministry of Education (Ministerio de Educación) through the Department of Education (Consejería de Educación).

National scholarships:

• Ministry of education scholarships and grants. + INFO
• Scholarships given by the Department of Education. + INFO

International scholarships:

• ERASMUS schoolarship scholarships for students enrolled in the official degrees, which foster and facilitate the student's academic mobility within European Union Member States + INFO
• Santander Erasmus scholarships Santander Erasmus scholarships for students who have obtained an Erasmus+ studies

Insurance:

Undergraduate students are supplied with an education insurance, so that in the event of death of the person that bears the tuition expenses (the insured), the student (the beneficiary) will not go through economic difficulties to continue with his or her studies.

Every year, as a ceremony held before the beginning of classes, there's an informative session for students (and family of the First year Students) enrolled in the different courses if the Degree Studies. In this session, students are told about news and course characteristics and information about the School.

Before the beginning of classes, there will be "leveling" courses for the students to strengthen those areas of study that, as our experience has shown, need it.

This action aims at giving new students the quantitative knowledge they might need to start the course with more guarantees and efficiency.

These classes are:

• Pre-requirements in Mathematics Course
• Pre-requirements in Accounting Course.

ESIC has a Plan of Action for Tutoring (P.A.T.) for the "welcoming" of students in their admission process and adaptation to the School.

At the beginning of the classes, a tutor will be assigned to each student, who will be his/her referent in the personal and academic environments. Both will maintain a series of meetings and orientation interviews during the academic year, so the students feel guided and accompanied during their adaptation to University life.

The tutor's responsibilities will be to show the student the School (philosophy and resources), provide information about the Master's, make the university process a dynamic one and facilitate the integration, both personal as well as into the group.

 

Professional Work Meeting

Once a year, there is a work meeting called MEET, organized by the Professional Opportunities Department in ESIC. MEET connects companies in search for management talent with the students that learn every year in our classrooms, with the aim of connecting the potential candidates to the recruiting companies for possible hirings.

The companies involved carry out selection processes and sectorial presentations that complete the knowledge the students need of the different programmes at ESIC.

Workshop for Job Searches

Through the development of the Programmes, ESIC organizes a series of workshops in collaboration with INFOEMPLEO with the aim of helping the assistants to improve their personal and professional skills when facing work interviews.

Professional Careers Department

It offers ex-students two important salient advantages:

• Offers national coverage: That is, ESIC students can choose any national level offer, independently of the city where they attended classes.
• Offers its services throughout the student's working life: Does not limit itself to the search for their first job, but also helps in the development of the student's degree.

The student can make use of an on-line platform to improve the service it offers ex-students as well as collaborating companies.

Through the website, ESIC ex-students can register with their username and password, and activate their candidatures and have access to more than 250 monthly offers that the Department handles on a national level.

The candidates, besides uploading and codifying their CVs, can indicate their own preferences and restrictions as regards positions, sectors, geographical areas, responsibilities and retribution.

The candidates receive information about job offers to which their CVs have been sent to from the Professional Opportunities Department. At the same time that their CVs are sent to the companies that have required candidates with his/her professional profiles, they receive an email with all the information about the company and the job offer to which they have been recommended for.

All services offered by the Professional Opportunities Department at ESIC are free, for the ex-students as well as for the collaborating companies.

Learn more abou Professional Opportunities Department.
 

ESIC offers to all ex-students who are interested, the possibility to become a member of the Asociación de Antiguos Alumnos (Alumni) . Alumni was created in 1972 and nowadays has about 5.000 members, a group formed by business professionals and ESIC graduates. Alumni's main objectives are: to promote and strengthen networking, to foster the professional development of their members and to facilitate the ongoing training of its members. When becoming a member, the ex-students will be able to enjoy discounts in all the workshops and activities that ESIC organizes.

All members will receive in their houses the Alumni publication, with interviews and articles of interest.

Improving ESIC's quality day by day

ESIC's Quality Guarantee system (SGC_ESIC) was created in 2006, with the aim of improving the quality of teaching in all areas of training. This system outlines how ESIC makes use of its organs, regulations, criteria, processes, etc, to improve the quality of the degrees, the selection and promotion of its professors, the planning and development or the results of learning and also how to include different interest groups in design, development, evaluation and broadcasting of its training activities. All this Guarantee System is included inside a Continuous Memory work philosophy.

How we organize the project...

For the design and implementations of the SGC ESIC we have had the collaboration of all the professors and non-professors staff in the School. The project was directed by the School Management Committee, supported by the academic and management Campus Boards and Areas Boards. These Boards have made each and everybody of their staff collaborate, making the project a success that everyone can make good use of. All of them have had the support of the Quality Unit, formed by the quality managers of each area and coordinators of each campus, which helped the widespread and the participation of everybody in the project.

Which are our Reference Quality Models?

ESIC's SGC has been designed under the reference frame of the ISO standard 9001:2008, adapted to the training services in a first phase, with the aim of standardizing the academic and management processes.

On a second phase, the follow up, revision and improvements systems were added to the Quality system based on the ISO standard, much developed by the EFQM model, which resulted in an important improvement to the initial system.

More recently, the ESIC quality system has been upgraded through the AUDIT Accreditation Programme -which is the model of reference for our university system under the new European space and which is promoted by ANECA (Agencia Nacional de la Calidad y Acreditación). Moreover, ESIC's Quality Guarantee System complies with the requirements of the SGC (Sistema de Garantía de Calidad) of the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos and Universidad Miguel Hernández, since it is an attached training center for both institutions.

All Interest Groups at ESIC collaborate on the ESIC Improvement Project through their participation in the different existing commissions, and are listed in the ESIC Quality Handbook. These Groups regularly manifest their satisfaction as regards the training and complementary services, so that the "Services to Keep" are identified (because of the high levelof satisfaction they get), as well as "Services to be improved" and "newly identified needs".

Besides the Commissions, he ESIC students collaborate with the ESIC Improvement Project through Satisfaction Opinion Polls. Institución. ESIC conducts a Satisfaction Opinion Poll of Students towards Professors in every finished course, and a Satisfaction Opinion Poll of Students towards the Institution.

Satisfaction Opinion Poll for Students towards Professors.

• Degree Area, the Satisfaction Opinion Poll towards Teachers is sent out twice for each academic year, always at the end of each class in each four-month period.
• Graduate Studies Area, the satisfaction Opinion Poll towards Professors is sent at the end of each seminar.

Satisfaction Opinion Poll for Students towards the Institution.

All students at mid-point and at the end of their programmes, in Degrees as well as in Graduate Studies Courses, are interviewed to know their level of satisfaction towards ESIC. The aspects taken into consideration are: Programme taken, Facilities, Assistance, and Future Expectations.

Satisfaction Opinion Poll in International Mobility

All students who come from other Universities around the world and take classes at ESIC, as well as ESIC students who take classes in another University through the Institutional Agreements that ESIC offers, take part in a Satisfaction Poll which considers the following aspects: Assistance Services specific for International Mobility, Programme taken, Assistance received, Facilities and Future Expectations.

...in constant improvement...

ESIC formulates under its Quality System Guarantee different channels through which the possible improvements can be identified and implemented in the Institution or new needs which have not yet been detected.

All the ESIC interest groups are represented within the Boards , and collaborate with the identification of improvements regularly, as declared in the ESIC Quality Handbook.

Moreover, through the Satisfaction Polls of the different Interest Groups declared which are generated by the Opinion Poll Plans, possible improvements are identified, as regards academic and other service matters that ESIC offers.

Furthermore, all interest groups collaborate with their opinions through Regular and Web Email, which helps bring about improvements for ESIC.

• ESIC Quality Handbook. (Web Version)
• ESIC Quality System Procedure Manual

Degrees’ Committees Each degree has a Committee organized in the following way:

• The Director of the Degree Academic Committee, who will preside its meetings.
• A Coordinator from Undergraduate Studies.
• Two to five professors from the degree’s faculty.
• The Degree’s Class Representative and theDeputy Class Representative.
• A representative from the Academic Management Personnel (PAS)
• One or two external experts.

The Committee’s main goal is to assure the quality of the degree by promoting its constant improvement. For this, it develops the following functions:

• The monitoring of the objectives of the Degree’s curriculum.
• The proposal, implementation and monitoring of the improvement actions for the program.
• The developing of the Quality Management System for the Degree.
• The performance of the appropriate evaluations of the qualitative and quantitative data included in the Degree’s assessment reports and the improvement proposals based their information.
• The elaboration of the Degree’s Annual Report.
• The integration of the Academic Directors in the continuous improvement of the degree.
• The integration of the Non-Academic Directors in the continuous improvement of the non-academic services for the degree’s participants.

Frequency: 2 meetings per academic year and program (Degree).

See Policy for Degree's Committees.

See Policy for Faculty Coordination