Program Overview

Introduction to the Grau Obert Program

The Grau Obert program is an innovative model that allows students to personalize their studies and take courses from different degrees at the UPF during three (extendable to four) trimesters. In the third (or fourth) trimester, the student chooses the degree in which they want to obtain the official degree (excluding inter-university degrees and those of centers attached to the UPF).

Program Details

• Duration: Four academic courses (between the first course of the program and the destination degree); in some cases, four courses plus one or two trimesters, depending on the personal itinerary.
• Price: Orientative price of the registration fee.
• Places: 30
• Admissions: How to access these studies.
• Branch of knowledge: Art and Humanities, Health Sciences, Social and Legal Sciences, Engineering and Architecture.
• Schedules: Morning and afternoon (depending on the chosen subjects).
• Calendar: From September to June
• Credits: 240 (between the first course of the program and the chosen destination degree)
• Languages: Catalan, Spanish, and English (depending on the subject)
• Location: Ciutadella campus, Poblenou campus, and Mar campus

Presentation

The Grau Obert program promotes an innovative model that allows students to personalize their studies and take courses from different degrees at the UPF during three (extendable to four) trimesters. Throughout the course, the student has an assigned academic tutor who accompanies and guides them in choosing subjects from the areas of knowledge that interest them, as well as in choosing the degree they will obtain.

Participating Studies

• Administració i Direcció d'Empreses
• Enginyeria Audiovisual Computacional
• Ciències Biomèdiques
• Enginyeria Matemàtica en Ciència de Dades
• Ciències Empresarials-Management
• Enginyeria en Informàtica
• Ciències Polítiques i de l'Administració
• Enginyeria de Xarxes de Telecomunicació
• Criminologia i Polítiques Públiques de Prevenció
• Global Studies
• Comunicació Audiovisual
• Humanitats
• Doble grau en Dret i Criminologia i Polítiques Públiques de Prevenció
• Doble grau en Dret-Economia/Administració i Direcció d'Empreses
• Doble grau en Traducció i Interpretació i Llengües Aplicades
• Dret
• Economia
• Enginyeria Biomèdica
• Llengües Aplicades
• Periodisme
• Publicitat i Relacions Públiques
• Relacions Laborals
• Traducció i Interpretació

Objectives and Competences

Objectives

• Facilitate more flexible access to degrees for students with diverse academic interests.
• Offer an innovative teaching and learning module that emphasizes transdisciplinarity and allows personalization of degree studies.
• Accompany students in the process of choosing the degree they will obtain at the end of their degree studies.

Competences

• Adapt to the functioning and organization of the different degree studies that make up the academic itinerary.
• Identify personal skills by exploring different areas of knowledge.
• Learn to work in a team with students from different degree studies.
• Apply the experience gained with the academic itinerary to the decision on the choice of destination degree study.
• Develop a transdisciplinary academic profile.

Student Profile

What is expected of the student?

• Interest in various disciplinary areas
• Ability to relate knowledge from different areas
• Desire to know the orientation of the different degrees to decide on a degree later
• High dedication to study
• Willingness to adapt to the functioning of the different degrees in the program

Study Plan

Students in the Grau Obert program can choose subjects from the first year of the studies that participate in the program and exceptionally subjects from the second year.

Data and Indicators

• Basic data and main indicators
• Indicators of degree studies
• Indicators of university master's degrees
• "The UPF in figures"