We believe that higher education must be more than just a process that ends with an official qualification. It has to help individuals, businesses, institutions and society at large to develop. We need to provide people with skills and knowledge so they can bring value to society. We've been reinventing the university since 1995, when the UOC was created as the world's first online university.
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Top reasons to study here
- The UOC's methodology seeks to make the learning processes as easy as possible, constantly innovating for further improvement.
- The UOC is a university that renders a public service but is organized in accordance with private management principles.
- In our University, the student is the main player of an education process; he manages his own time, plans his pace of study and builds his own itinerary.
Master's Programmes
Social Sciences (7)
- Specialization Armed Conflicts
- Master Conflict, Peace and Security
- Postgraduate Certificate Crisis Management and Strategic Planning
- Postgraduate Certificate Diplomatic Practice
- Specialization International Relations, Geopolitics and Global Governance
- Postgraduate Certificate World Studies
Applied Sciences & Professions (2)
- Master Conflict, Peace and Security
- Postgraduate Certificate Crisis Management and Strategic Planning
Business & Management (2)
Humanities (2)
- Specialization Armed Conflicts
- Postgraduate Certificate Diplomatic Practice
Law (1)
- Postgraduate Certificate Diplomatic Practice
Medicine & Health (1)
- Postgraduate Diploma Clinical Management of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL)
About
History
The Fundació per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya was created on 6 October 1994 as an initiative of the Government of Catalonia to provide lifelong learning through the use of information technologies and a personalized educational model.
Education
The educational model was conceived to adapt and evolve constantly over time, in step with the progress of the internet and the knowledge society. Within this context, it is a model that focuses on the learning activity, offering a diverse range of options to suit the requirements of each student.
Faculties
- Faculty of Arts and Humanities
- Faculty of Economics and Business
- Faculty of Health Sciences
- Faculty of Information and Communication Sciences
- Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications
- Faculty of Law and Political Science
- Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences
Research
The Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) is a research centre of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) specializing in the study of the Internet and the effects of the interaction between digital technologies and human activity.
The IN3 hosts 11 renowned research groups that carry out a wide range of research of an interdisciplinary nature. Every year the centre hosts visiting professors and researchers; its researchers participate in the UOC's doctoral programmes.
Research fields
- Care and preparedness in the network society
- Information and network security and privacy
- Internet computing and systems optimisation
- Gender and ICT
- Complex systems
- Software engineering
- Urban transformations
- The internet of things
Global Student Satisfaction Awards 2019
GSSA 2019
The Global Student Satisfaction Awards empower students across the globe to determine the best universities of 2019. By rating institutions on a scale from 1 to 5, on multiple studies-related questions, we found the top educators in the world.
University Ranking
World University Rankings by Times Higher Education
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World University Rankings is a vital resource that provides the definitive list of the world's best universities. They look at how often they're producing new ideas, what their reputation is around the world, and how much they're contributing to science and academic fields. After calculating and comparing these criteria, THE ranks the universities accordingly.
Services
Library services
The UOC’s Virtual Library forms part of the University’s educational model. It is a key service made available by the University to support learning, teaching, research and management. The Library is a tool designed in and for a virtual world to meet the needs of its users and those who use the web for research, training and academic documentation.
Student Life
Campus life
The Virtual Campus is the place that can be accessed without physical barriers from anywhere and at any time, where students will find the necessary tools for study and communication. It is a university campus that students can carry with them in their pocket and which they can access from anywhere in the world, enter its classrooms, consult activities or carry out administrative procedures in the Secretary's Office, etc.
Student clubs
The UOC's graduate community, Alumni, was created in 2008. UOC Alumni seeks to provide an interface between graduates and university, with the goal of becoming an effective platform to enable former students to contact other people they studied with, professional colleagues, teachers and faculties. Furthermore, the UOC's graduate community facilitates access to lifelong learning and professional upgrades.
Accreditation
The UOC is a fully recognized Catalan university. It is constantly assessed by AQU Catalunya (the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency), the Catalan higher education system's leading quality assessment and advocacy body. AQU Catalunya is a full member of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA).
The Global Study Awards
Together with the ISIC Association and British Council IELTS, Studyportals offers you the chance to receive up to £10000 to expand your horizon and study abroad. We want to ultimately encourage you to study abroad in order to experience and explore new countries, cultures and languages.
Student Reviews
Anonymous rated 5 out of 5 stars
I have learned a lot about communications and new media. Although UOC university is completely online, professors do their best everyday to give us the opportunity of learning.
Anonymous rated 5 out of 5 stars
Easy to work in, they are really understanding and the evaluation process is easy to follow.
Nice university, good teachers.
Anonymous rated 5 out of 5 stars
A very good degree in Humanities. All subjects were properly organised and the connection between pupils and teachers were fairly good even though this is an online university. I would study again at UOC because you can study at your own pace and I felt that this university is committed to improve the experience as if you are in a physical university.