Official University Master's Degrees
What are they?
The URV offered 46 official university master's degrees in the 2009-10 academic year. More than half of these are joint degrees, some in collaboration with research institutes (ICIQ, ICAC, ICMAB) and others in association with European universities, covering almost all the fields of study available at the URV.
Official university master's degree's are the result of adapting current Spanish university studies to the European Higher Education Area, in accordance with the Bologna process of 1999 and complementary accords. The ultimate aim of this reform of the structure of university qualifications is to harmonize the length of degree programmes, the learning methods employed and the academic activities offered in European universities. This is expected to facilitate the mobility of students and their integration into the European labour market.
There are three different types of official university master's degree: professional, designed for students to learn and acquire the skills they need to specialize in their profession of choice; research, designed for students to acquire knowledge that can be applied to the sphere of research and academic, which is a hybrid of the first two types.