Double Degree in Law and Business Administration

Description

Program
Doble Grado
Learning Option
Presencial
Language
Español
Credits
396 ETCS (Plan 2020)

Double Degree in Law and Business Administration

Having a double degree becomes a great advantage in our current society driven by competitive and well prepared professionals. For this reason, in CUNEF, we offer our students a Double Degree in Law and BBA, which will provide knowledge in the fields of finance, business and law.

Our high standards as well as the outstanding qualification make our graduate students own a very fitting profile for the market, as well as provide the tools needed to build their own company and transform their ideas into realities.

The Double Degree in Law and Business Administration is a highly demanding programme which calls for substantial inputs of organisation, planning and effort from students. In return, this dual qualification offers participants outstanding professional opportunities in national and international company management, private and investment banking, strategic consultancy, major international business service firms (auditors and consultants) the leading national and international legal practices and public authorities.

Qualification title: Double Degree in Law and Business Administration

Centre Responsible: CUNEF

Academic year of launch: 2014-2015

Continuation norms and regulations

Minimum number of ECTS per enrolment and teaching period

Full-time students

First Year

Minimum ECTS: 30
Maximum ECTS: 74

Other Years

Minimum ECTS: Credits for the year
Maximum ECTS: Credits for the year + 36

Objectives and skills

Objectives

The CUNEF Double Degree in Law and BBA provides students with professional training, knowledge, skills and abilities that are highly sought after in a professional context. The fundamental goals of the double qualification are as follows:

First of all, students acquire a sound understanding of the nature of a company and its relationship with the immediate, national and international economic context. Students likewise acquire a sound knowledge of the legal system fully entitling them to practise as a lawyer in the public sector and the world of business, performing functions such as legal advice, legal representation and defence, notarial functions, public management, responsibility for public registers, defence of citizens’ rights, management and coordination in both the private and public spheres, mediation, reconciliation and arbitration, all the way up to judgment and enforcement. The aim in this regard is to train professionals who combine knowledge of legal theory and a comprehensive understanding of all areas connected with the Law, and an ability to lead project development and efficiently adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
The second aim is to explore in greater depth the methods and techniques of business management and administration: Theory of organisation. Strategic management. Policy and commercial strategy decisions. Financing structure. Tactical and strategic decisions connected with the production/operations area Setting of targets, policies and human resource planning. Information and management support systems. The necessary legal training is also provided to hold positions of responsibility at the legal departments of national and international companies in industry, trade, banking, insurance, development cooperation, etc.
Students are thirdly trained in the quantitative skills required to perform in the world of business: basic elements of linear algebra, differential and integral calculus, mathematical optimisation, mathematics of financial operations, descriptive statistics, probability, statistical inference, simple regression and explanatory variable models.
Participants also gain familiarity with the processes of decision-making, analysis and summary skills, communication and teamwork. As well as the abilities needed to analyse and resolve legal problems, to apply knowledge in practice, receive and convey information in other languages, and use information and telecommunications technologies.
Students have the chance to supplement their training with practical placements at a company through the educational cooperation programmes, and international training periods through exchange programmes established with a range of international institutions and universities.
One final aim is to raise participants’ awareness of socially committed values and principles in accordance with the demands of stakeholders and of society at large.

Skills

The skills acquisition process takes place through the modules and subjects that make up the Double Degree course. How aptitudes are acquired will of course depend on the student’s stage on the Double Degree course, with skills being learned at initial, intermediate and advanced levels, as is standard practice within the European university system.

The horizontal and specific skills acquired by students focus on preparing them to engage in professional pursuits corresponding to the qualification offered.

The way the skills are designed likewise complies with the provisions of the ‘MECES’ framework for higher education qualifications in Spain.

Syllabus

First term

CODE	SUBJECT	LANGUAGE	ECTS	TYPE
12902336	Administrative Law: The Activity of the Administration	Spanish	6	Mandatory
12902337	Civil Law: Economics of Marriage and Inheritance	Spanish	6	Mandatory
12902338	Human Resources Management	Bilingual	6	Mandatory
12902339	Decision Making Methods	Bilingual	6	Mandatory
12902340	Asset Valuation and Investment Analysis	Bilingual	6	Mandatory
		Total	30

Second term

CODE	SUBJECT	LANGUAGE	ECTS	TYPE
12902345	Financing Decisions	Bilingual	6	Mandatory
12902341	Administrative Law: Media, Responsibility and Control	Spanish	6	Mandatory
12902342	Commercial Law: Companies, Assets and Commecial Contracts	Spanish	6	Mandatory
12902343	Procedural Law: General	Spanish	6	Mandatory
12902346	Econometrics	Bilingual	6	Mandatory
12902344	Spanish Economy	Spanish	3	Mandatory
		Total	33

First term

CODE	SUBJECT	LANGUAGE	ECTS	TYPE
012900047	Analysis and Financial Planning	Bilingual	5	Mandatory
012900049	Taxing and Financial Law II	Spanish	6	Mandatory
012900051	Commercial Law II	Spanish	8	Mandatory
012900052	Procedural Law III (Civil Law)	Spanish	6	Mandatory
012900053	Production Management	Bilingual	6	Mandatory
012900057	Tax System I	Spanish	3	Mandatory
		Total	34

Second term

CODE	SUBJECT	LANGUAGE	ECTS	TYPE
012900048	Consumer Behavior	Bilingual	6	Mandatory
012900050	Private International Law	Spanish	6	Mandatory
012900054	Strategic Management	Bilingual	6	Mandatory
012900055	Philosophy of Law	Spanish	6	Mandatory
012900058	Tax System II	Spanish	6	Mandatory
		Total	30

First term

CÓDIGO	ASIGNATURA	IDIOMA	ECTS	TIPO
012900046	Consolidated Financial Statements	Bilingüe	4	Elective
012900060	International Management of the Company	Bilingüe	4	Elective
012900157	Corporate Bylaws for Small Companies	Español	6	Elective
012900065	International and National Financial Markets	Bilingüe	4	Elective
012900070	Internship – ADE	Español	12	Elective
012900071	Internship – Law	Español	6	Elective
012900074	Final Degree Project – ADE	Bilingüe	6	Final Degree Project
012900059	Final Degree Project – Law	Español	6	Final Degree Project
012900155	Credit Protection and Special Proceedings	Español	6	Elective
		Total	34

Faculty

CUNEF sets out below the information of the faculty who teach this degree (academic and professional CVs for all of them), demonstrating that CUNEF has the necessary faculty required in order to deliver the teaching scheduled for the Double Degree in Law and BBA. The academic, research and professional qualifications of the lecturers teaching this qualification at CUNEF are therefore appropriate.

Spheres of knowledge	Number of Professor	PhDs	Accredited
Law	35	25	11
Business Management	12	10	7
Economics	13	12	4
Finance and Accounting	17	15	2
Quantitative Methods	8	6	3
Overall Total	85	68	27

Internships

Our external academic placements are a training initiative undertaken by students and supervised by CUNEF with the aim of supplementing the knowledge acquired in class, underpinning the acquisition of skills to prepare students for professional life so as to increase their employability and expand their entrepreneurial capacity. They can be performed at the University itself or at such partner bodies as companies, institutions and public and private entities at the national and international level. Business placements represent a fundamental adjunct to training, and mark the first step in entering the professional world. They can be combined with study, and will help you:

Supplement your training with a practical focus applied to professional reality.
Acquire practical experience of the working methodologies used at the company.
Develop a range of technical and attitudinal skills.
Obtain practical experience that will then make it easier for you to enter the world of work.
Underpin such values of innovation, creativity, enterprise and many more.

Type of business placement

There are two formats of external academic placement:

Curricular: forming part of the Course Curriculum. The Practical Placement subject corresponds to this mode.
Extracurricular: undertaken by students on a voluntary basis during their education, without forming part of the corresponding Course Curriculum. This will however be covered by the Diploma Supplement, as established in the regulations in force

**Technical details: curricular business placements for the Double Degree in Law and BBA**
Number of ECTS	6 ECTS Degree in Law - 12 ECTS Degree in BBA
Nature of the subject	Elective, Degree in BBA. Elective, Degree in Law
Duration	150 hours (minimum Practical Placements in Law). 300 hours (minimum Practical Placements in BBA)
Requirements	Enrolment on any educational course delivered by CUNEF. Students must be enrolled at CUNEF throughout the duration of the practical placement. -Students that have any fourth examination session subject pending will not be able to sign the Agreement until this has been passed.
Where do I find practical placement offers?	CUNEF students can find practical placement offers through: CUNEF Career Centre CUNEF International Career Centre
When can curricular placements be performed?	Once 180 ECTS have been completed.
Teaching Guide for practical placements	PDF
Specific CUNEF regulations	PDF
Educational cooperation agreement format	PDF
Student appendix	PDF
Final report form	PDF

Norms and documents

Double Degree Academic Norms

Official law documentation

Official BBA documentation

Quality system

Article 31 of the Spanish Universities Act reform (Act 4/2007) addresses Quality Assurance, laying down the need to establish quality assurance criteria to facilitate evaluation, certification and accreditation, viewing quality assurance as an essential purpose of university policy. The new organisational structure for universal education established by Royal Decree 1393/2007, and the subsequent amendment in Royal Decree 861/2010, includes quality assurance as one of the basic elements that a course curriculum must include.

Spanish Universities Act 6/2001, of 21 December 2001, and the reform applied to this by Act 4/2007, of 12 April 2007, Article 31 of which addresses Quality Assurance , lays down the need to establish quality assurance criteria to facilitate evaluation, certification and accreditation, viewing quality assurance as an essential purpose of university policy. Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October 2007, amended by Royal Decree 861/2010, of 2 July 2010, establishing the regulations governing official university education, clearly indicates that “Quality Assurance Systems, which form a part of the new course curricula, likewise provide the basis for the new educational structure to function efficiently and to generate the trust on which the process of qualification accreditation relies“. The establishment of a Quality Assurance System is thus included in the new official university education regulations as a condition of the process of qualification verification and accreditation.

CUNEF has defined the structure of its Internal Quality Assurance System, known as the ‘Sistema Interno de Garantía de Calidad’ or ‘SIGC’, and the procedures governing this function, in accordance with the demands of Royal Decree 1393/2007, amended by Royal Decree 861/2010.

The SIGC allows CUNEF to ascertain the development of its official qualifications, in support of transparency, the inclusion of continuous improvement strategies and the systematic organisation of actions effectively contributing to qualifications quality assurance and efficiency in processes to appraise verification, monitoring and renewal of mandatory official qualifications accreditation.

The CUNEF SIGC has the following structure: Degree Quality Committee, Master’s Programme Quality Committee and Doctorate Quality Committee, Technical Quality Unit, Academic and Management Unit.

The Quality Committees are responsible for monitoring the implementation of the degree, master’s and doctorate programmes taught at CUNEF. These Committees analyse and appraise the development of the qualifications, making proposals for review and improvement that will be submitted to the Academic Committee and CUNEF Management to be taken into account where applicable.

These committees have the following responsibilities:

Manage and coordinate the Internal Quality Assurance System and monitor this process.
Monitor and evaluate the quality targets, external practical placements and mobility programmes.
Draw up the regulations governing the functioning of the Quality Committees, and make the corresponding proposals to the Academic Committee and the Director of CUNEF for approval.
Gather information and evidence as to the development and application of the training programme for the qualification (objectives, development of teaching and learning, methodology, etc.).
Manage the Information System for the qualification (information, support and guidance for students, coordination of teaching staff, qualification course resources, mobility programmes, external practical placements, etc.).
Supervise fulfilment of the quality policy for the qualification in accordance with the CUNEF quality policy and the UCM quality policy.
Promote specific actions to encourage the use of new teaching methodologies and to disseminate and raise awareness of good practice in the field of quality.
Draw up guidelines for the development of information systems as to objectives, available resources, management and results of the qualifications course intended for lecturers, students and admin and support staff.

The Academic Committee (see composition in Table 1) is responsible for coordinating improvement proposals connected with qualifications and for decision-making in this regard. The Director of CUNEF is ultimately responsible for validating the decisions reached by the Academic Committee.Each Quality Committee comprises:

The coordinators/directors of the applicable official qualifications in each case (degree, master’s and doctorate programme),
The representatives (at least one per qualification) of the lecturers teaching each qualification,
The representatives (one per qualification) of students sitting for the qualification as candidates,
Up to a maximum of three representatives from the professional sphere of university qualifications delivered by CUNEF (where there are alumni among these representatives, they will be selected from this group), and a representative of admin and support staff.

The Degree Quality Committee is currently in operation (see composition in Table 2). It oversees the proper development of official CUNEF qualifications, and can be sent any comments connected with the quality of qualifications via the suggestions box.

The Quality Committees meet at least twice per year and are governed by the Quality Committee Functional Regulation approved on 24 November 2014.

Degree Quality Committee

Full Name	Category and/or group
Mercedes Gracia Díez	Degree Director (President)
José Javier Galán Ruiz	Degree in Law Director
Guillermo Velasco Fabra	Academic Staff Representative
Francisco Javier Sosa Álvarez	Academic Staff Representative
Javier Sánchez Hernández	Admin and Support Staff Representative (Secretary)
Begoña Menéndez Rodríguez	Admin and Support Staff Representative
Pablo Romanillos Pardo de Santayana	Student Representative
Felipe Julián Vázquez Sánchez	Student Representative
Cecilia de la Rosa González	Alumni Representative

	12/13	13/14	14/15	15/16	16/17	17/18	18/19
Pre-registered				384	391	457	486
Admitted				236	256	324	343
ICM-1 – New enrolment places offered (authorised by the UCM)	100	100	90	150	120	160	190
ICM-2 – New enrolment	98	93	63	95	95	127	135
ICM-3 – Percentage cover	98,00%	93,00%	70,00%	63,33%	79,17%	79,38%	71,05%
ICM-4 – Qualification performance rate	89,55%	89,48%	85,32%	91,21%	92,54%	94,53%	92,92%
ICM-5 – Degree dropout rate	7,14%	2,13%	Not applicable	Not applicable	8,53%	13,68%	14,52%
ICM-6 – Teaching Evaluation Programme participation rate	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%
ICM-7 – Alumni Efficiency rate	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	95,51%	93,17%	95,21%
ICM-8 – Graduation rate	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	85,36%	85,26%
IUCM-1 – Success rate	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	92,80%	94,57%	92,98%
IUCM-2 – First choice degree demand rate	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	92,80%	94,57%	62,63%
IUCM-3 – Second and subsequent choice degree demand rate	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	34,17%	36,25%	23,16%
IUCM-4 – Degree suitability rate	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	84,47%	87,50%	81,48%
IUCM-8 – Teaching Evaluation Program participation rate				Not applicable	85,36%	85,26%	96,47%
IUCM-13 – Student satisfaction with the qualification				6,94	7,30	7,69	7,37
IUCM-14 – Lecturer satisfaction with the qualification				9,00	9,12	8,20	8,6
IUCM-15 – Centre Admin and Support Staff satisfaction				6,82	6,76	7,38	7,67
IUCM-16 – Qualification Appraisal Rate					99,73%	99,97%	99,94%

*ICM – Madrid Regional Government Indicators
*IUCM – Universidad Complutense de Madrid Indicators

CUNEF is a highly specialised university education institution focused on the world of business management, finance and financial markets and instruments, and law. Our Degree and Postgraduate programmes set the standard in their respective fields.

To maintain this prestigious standing, CUNEF is committed to the continuous improvement of the teaching, research and services it provides as part of its quality commitment.

In accordance with its equality policy, CUNEF aims to fulfil the reasonable needs and expectations of its students, lecturers, admin and support staff, governing bodies and society at large. To this end the Centre defines the following quality objectives:

Pursue excellence in the education given to its students, combining cutting-edge knowledge with an eminently professional focus.
Offer its students the very best lecturers for their specialist qualifications in each operational sphere, combining knowledge and educational vocation with lengthy professional management experience in their respective fields.
Consolidate its image as a University Centre of acknowledged standing.
Underpin its professional network of lecturers, students, graduates/alumni and partner companies to generate benefits in the professional and managerial performance of its graduates/alumni.
Achieve an employability rate among graduates/alumni of close to 100%.
Commit to the internationalisation of its students, lecturers and programmes.
Ensure that the quality policy is understood and accepted by all CUNEF staff and is publicly available.
Ensure that the CUNEF Internal Quality Assurance System remains effective and is periodically revised. As the figure responsible for this institution, I undertake to develop and implement this quality policy in order to achieve the highest possible level of performance among our students.

Ana Isabel Fernández Álvarez

Director of CUNEF

The Degree Quality Committee meets periodically over the course of the academic year, and at least twice per year. These meetings analyse information regarding the implementation of degree studies and the data revealed by the functioning of the quality assurance system. This review and study of information serves to identify areas for improvement that the Quality Committee conveys to CUNEF Management for approval and execution together with the tasks to be undertaken to eliminate any shortcomings.

The Degree Quality Committee maintains a register of quality improvements and strengths which it reviews and updates at least once per term, in accordance with the tasks being performed and the assessment of their impact.

Numerous improvement actions have been conducted since 2013 covering a wide range of aspects, resulting in managerial improvements and enhanced satisfaction among students and other stakeholders, alongside the public information made available about CUNEF itself and its academic offering, etc. Particular mention should be made by way of example of efforts to increase teaching coordination, to incorporate diploma supplements within the degree courses, to review and enhance the website and the information published there, etc.

For more specific and detailed information about how the Degree Quality Committee functions and the improvement proposals made, you may contact the email address sgic@cunef.edu.

The employability of CUNEF alumni represents a variable which is analysed by the Quality Committees, serving to assess professional interest in the qualification while likewise ascertaining whether alumni have acquired the skills initially defined for the course.

This analysis will allow proposals to be made to improve the qualification, or to eliminate it if the figures are below 20% for 5 consecutive years. To this end CUNEF conducts yearly surveys of alumni, asking them directly, as set out in the SIGC, whether the training they received has or has not proved useful in the pursuit of their profession, and their professional position before (if any) and after completing the qualification.

CUNEF uses this information to conduct a study of whether the study curricula are appropriate or not, as well as the employability or professional prospects of alumni.

Double Degree in Law and Business Administration

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