Degree in Engineering in Telecommunication Technologies and Degree in Business Administration and Management

As stated in the White Paper on Degrees in the Digital Economy sector, this results from the disruptive capacity that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) produces in all economical sectors and social and personal activities. Applications, processes, content and digital entities, and associated services influence the real economy, offering a global platform where people, virtual entities, and organizations interact, communicate, collaborate and search for information, forcing them to define new strategies and ways of competing. In this sense, there is no doubt that the application of technology in business processes is a reality in Spain. The Double Degree that is presented includes the competencies of the original titles and pools them with the fundamental objective of training highly trained professionals for the challenges of Telecommunications and Business and with the ability to adapt to future challenges.

The degree has 402 ECTS credits, distributed over 11 semesters at a rate of 72 credits per year in the first ten semesters and 42 in the last, which will contain all the theoretical and practical training that the student must acquire. Each ECTS credit equals 25 hours of student work, with 40% attendance.

The person responsible for administrative and financial management is the Administration of the Building of the School of Telecommunications and Electronic Engineering.

The languages used throughout the training process are Spanish and English.

As specific access requirements, you must have passed the entrance test in one of the two degrees involved in this curricular program. In the event of abandonment by the student of this curricular program, they can only continue their studies to the degree to which they passed the specific entrance test.

Degree in Tourism

The fundamental objective of the Degree in Tourism is to train professionals with a specialized profile in tourism that considers the needs of business management and the tourist use of natural and cultural resources, with a global knowledge of all areas related to tourism and with the ability to lead the development of projects and adapt efficiently to a rapidly changing environment. This degree in the branch of Social and Legal Sciences was published in BOE on 05/11/2011.

The study plan that leads to the Bachelor’s degree in Tourism, taught by the Faculty of Economics, Business, and Tourism of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has been designed so that students can study a total of 240 ECTS credits in four years.

The Degree in Tourism is organized around semester subjects of 6 ECTS essential and compulsory training credits. The ULPGC regulation establishes the value of each credit in 25 hours of student work. Thus, students must take five-semester subjects to complete 30 credits per semester (750 hours) and thus reach 60 credits per year (1500 hours) and a total of 240 credits in four years (6000 hours).

The minimum number of European enrollment credits per student and academic year in the degree follows the Rules for Progress and Permanence in official degrees of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which establish the modalities of enrollment on time, complete and partial. Full-time students, the regular dedication regime of ULPGC students, must enroll in all the first year’s ECTS credits; from the second enrollment, they will have to register between 48 and 60 ECTS credits. Part-time students, for their part, must enroll for 30 ECTS credits in the first year and from the dual enrollment for between 24 and 30 ECTS credits. The student may request the modification of these limits in the Administration of the Building within the periods established for this purpose and according to the conditions included in the regulation.

Spanish, English, and German are used throughout the training process. Of the 216 ECTS credits of basic and compulsory training for the degree, the subjects of English and German have a combined weight of 16.67%, corresponding to 18 ECTS credits. The rest of the issues are taught in Spanish, reaching a total of 180 ECTS, which represents 83.3%. In addition to the 24 ECTS credits offered as electives, the student can take a German subject of 6 ECTS credits. To obtain the title, the student must have the equivalent of level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference in a foreign language for languages.

RD 861/2010, which modifies RD 1393/2007, establishes that access to official Bachelor’s degrees will be governed following the provisions of RD 1892/2008, of November 14, which regulate the conditions for access to official university degree courses and admission procedures to Spanish public universities, modified by RD 558/2010, of May 7. The Governing Council of the ULPGC, in a session of April 27, 2010, agrees to approve the Regulations for Access and Admission of the ULPGC for Official Degrees created in the application of Royal Decree 1393/2007 of October 29. On September 27, 2010, the Permanent Commission of the Governing Council of the ULPGC approved the regulation modification

Master’s Degree in Accounting, Auditing and Business Taxation

Today the accounting auditor offers a high value to society. The report issued by the auditor expressing his opinion on whether or not the company’s financial statements are free of bias, error, fraud, and data manipulation generates confidence in the audited company. The auditor becomes an expert in the business. The experience acquired over the years provides the audit professional with multidisciplinary skills and abilities (digital, environmental, social, human resources, legal).

For the technical training of the auditor, it is essential to obtain skills in business risk assessment and management that the Official Master’s Degree in Business Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation at the University of Las Palmas offers its students. The master’s degree is the start of the path that every audit professional must have. The master’s degree provides theoretical and practical training through the union of academic excellence and guided practice, with audit professionals who put the student in direct contact with business reality.

The Official University Master’s Degree in Accounting, Auditing, and Business Taxation at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has a vital job placement, being the business practices of the master’s degree the starting point in the professional career of the student of the Official University Master’s Degree in Accounting, Auditing, and Taxation Business with local, national and multinational audit firms. There are two professional paths that the master’s student can choose once they have finished their studies: follow a professional career, having the illusion of, one day, being the ones who sign the audit reports, or take the leap in their professional career towards another type of companies to hold positions in senior management in the accounting and financial field. Two equally exciting and ambitious paths are at the service of graduates of the Official University Master’s Degree in Accounting, Auditing, and Business Taxation.

Degree in Economics

The university teaching of the Degree in Economics provides a scientifically based training and professional orientation that enables the analysis and interpretation of the functioning of the economy in its aspects: individual and aggregate, to improve the well-being of society and, in general, rigorously addressing the analysis and solution of the most relevant economic and social problems. This title of the branch of Social and Legal Sciences was published in BOE on 11/11/2010.

The study plan that leads to the Bachelor’s degree in Economics, taught by the Faculty of Economics, Business, and Tourism of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, has been designed so that students can study a total of 240 ECTS credits in four years.

The minimum number of European enrollment credits per student and academic year in the degree follows the Rules for Progress and Permanence in official degrees of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, which establish the modalities of enrollment on time complete and partial. Full-time students, the regular dedication regime of ULPGC students, must enroll in all the first year’s ECTS credits; from the second enrollment, they will have to enroll between 48 and 60 ECTS credits. Part-time students, for their part, must register for 30 ECTS credits in the first year and from the dual enrollment for between 24 and 30 ECTS credits. The student may request the modification of these limits in the Administration of the Building within the periods established for this purpose and according to the conditions included in the regulation.

The Degree in Economics is organized into semester subjects of 6 European ECTS credits. The ULPGC regulation establishes the value of each credit in 25 hours of student work. In this way, students must take five-semester subjects to complete 30 credits per semester (750 hours) and, thus, reach 60 credits per year (1500 hours) and a total of 240 credits in four years (6000 hours).

The languages used throughout the training process are Spanish and English, with the English language corresponding to 7.5 percent of the total credits of the degree collected in the teaching of three compulsory subjects. The student must have the equivalent of level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages in a foreign language to obtain the degree.

RD 861/2010, which modifies RD 1393/2007, establishes that access to official Bachelor’s degrees will be governed following the provisions of RD 1892/2008, of November 14, which regulate the conditions for access to official university degree courses and admission procedures to Spanish public universities, modified by RD 558/2010, of May 7. The Governing Council of the ULPGC, in a session of April 27, 2010, agrees to approve the Regulations for Access and Admission of the ULPGC for Official Degrees created in the application of Royal Decree 1393/2007 of October 29. On September 27, 2010, the Permanent Commission of the Governing Council of the ULPGC approved the modification of said regulation.