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Responsible Center: postgraduate unit Location: Mostoles Campus
Modality: from distance Title code: 6095 Orientation: Approval
Number of ECTS Credits: 60 ECTS Duration of the Master: an academic year
Public prices: See table
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Director of the Master: Prof. Dr. D. Juan Manuel Vara Mesa. Telephone: 91 488 8264
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Basic Information
What knowledge will I acquire with this Master?
Recent reports indicate that one of the most promising professional profiles in the IT area are those who have skills related to Information Systems and decision-making processes and techniques. Along these lines, the Master's Degree in Information Systems Engineering presents a novel mix of Information Technology oriented towards the construction, management and organization of Information Systems, on the one hand, and Decision Making, on the other. In this way, the aim is to train professionals of superior quality, capable of solving the decision problems of this new millennium and leading modern societies, of great utility in numerous high-level companies.
Is this degree official according to the regulations required by the European Higher Education Area?
Yes (final verification report is attached), starting the first course in the academic year 2010-11.
Final verification report turned out FAVORABLE
What is the minimum number of credits for which I can enroll?
You can see it in the rules of permanence in this link
Recommended income profile
Students who have possession of an official Spanish university degree or another issued by a higher education institution of the European Higher Education Area that authorizes access to Master's degrees in the country that issued the degree.
Objectives
Recipients of this title
- They will have demonstrated sufficient basic knowledge and understanding to develop and/or apply original ideas, either in the context of Research or Development, in the area of Information Systems
- They will be able to direct, supervise and actively participate in the process of building and managing information systems. From the moment of its conception to the moment of its production.
- They will have sufficient skills to manage or optimize the operation of Information Systems already in place.
- Essentially, they will have the ability to integrate knowledge and deal with complexity and also to formulate judgments based on uncertain information through data analysis tools, but which includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge. and judgments, reflected through socially responsible utility functions.
- They will be able to communicate their conclusions, and the knowledge and conceptual framework on which they are based, to both expert and non-expert audiences, clearly and unambiguously.
- They will have developed learning skills that allow them to continue their training in the area of Information Systems and specifically in aspects related to its construction, through the handling of leading publications in the field (on paper and electronically).
Competences
General Competences of the Master:
- CG01 - Ability to develop and apply original ideas in the area of Information Systems Engineering and decision making, using the available technological tools.
- CG02 - Ability to develop and apply original ideas in the area of decision support, using data analysis and Operations Research tools and models.
- CG03 - Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams in order to face and solve problems related to Information Systems Engineering and Decision Making.
- CG04 - Ability to formulate judgments based on uncertain information, through data analysis tools, all based on socially responsible utility functions.
- CG05 - Ability to fully justify the alternatives/decisions of design and construction of information systems and that can be understood by different types of audiences.
- CG06 - Ability to continue training in the field of Information Systems and Decision Engineering, through the management of leading publications.
Transversal Competences
- CT01 - Capacity for analysis and synthesis, organization and planning
- CT02 - Oral and written communication skills
- CT03 - Critical and self-critical capacity
- CT04 - Ability to integrate and communicate with experts from other areas and in different contexts
- CT05 - Ability to write and present technical and scientific documents
Specific Competences
- CE01 - Ability to understand the general elements of the general process of Discovering Useful Information in Databases.
- CE02 - Ability to detect the latent information contained in large relevant databases, using Data Mining tools.
- CE03 - Ability to apply Data Mining techniques to Customer Relationship Management.
- CE04 - Ability to understand the connections and interrelationships between the different Data Mining techniques (without going into mathematical details).
- CE05 - Ability to understand the main aspects related to IS security.
- CE06 - Ability to understand, design and implement biometric systems.
- CE07 - Ability to understand, design and implement artificial vision systems.
- CE08 - Ability to understand, design and implement the most used classifiers.
- CE09 - Ability to learn about the different dissemination forums in the area of Information and Decision Systems and select the most appropriate for a specific objective
- CE10 - Ability to know and apply the main research methods
- CE11 - Ability to carry out systematic reviews of the literature
- CE12 - Ability to understand the particularities of data storage and management in Information Systems.
- CE13 - Ability to design advanced data models adapted to complex Information Systems.
- CE14 - Ability to handle tools to automate the Information Management process
- CE15 - Ability to structure decision analysis and negotiation problems
- CE16 - Ability to participate in a structured and informed negotiation
- CE17 - Ability to prepare to act as a mediator in a negotiation, writing the corresponding reports
- CE18 - Ability to handle the modeling tools of decision analysis and negotiation analysis
- CE19 - Ability to handle computer tools to support decision-making and negotiations
- CE20 - Ability to understand and take advantage of the characteristics of new trends in the development of information systems.
Admission and enrollment
Admission:
The requirements for access to the proposed title are according to article 18, of Royal Decree 822/2021, of September 28:
- Possession of an official Spanish Graduate or Graduate university degree or equivalent is a condition for accessing a Master's Degree, or, where appropriate, having another University Master's degree, or titles of the same level as the Spanish Bachelor's or Master's degree issued by universities and higher education institutions in an EHEA country that in that country allow access to Master's degrees.
- In the same way, people in possession of titles from educational systems that are not part of the EHEA, which are equivalent to a Bachelor's degree, will be able to access a Master's Degree in the Spanish university system, without the need for homologation of the title, but verification by of the university of the level of training that they imply, as long as in the country where said title was issued it allows access to university postgraduate level studies. In no case will access through this route imply the homologation of the previous degree held by the person concerned or its recognition for other purposes than that of carrying out the Master's degree.
Candidate selection:
Recommended access criteria for the title
Legal requirements
To participate in the Master it will be necessary to be in possession of the Bachelor's degree or another expressly declared equivalent.
Graduates in accordance with foreign educational systems may take the Master's Degree without the need for homologation of their degrees, after verifying that they accredit a level of training equivalent to the corresponding Spanish Bachelor's degrees and that they authorize access to postgraduate studies.
Specific requirements
For students with the title of Computer Science Engineer, Technical Engineer in Computer Management or Technical Engineer in Computer Systems, the preferential criteria for admission will be the academic record and work experience.
For students from other undergraduate degrees, the admission criteria, in addition to the above, will include the affinity of the study plans of the home universities and letters of recommendation from the academic or professional field, which will be assessed by the Admission Committee.
Prior admission for foreigners
Request:
- Foreign students who wish to apply for prior admission to the Master must submit the same pre-registration form from the university that you will find at www.urjc.es, within the same deadlines established for the rest of the students.
- Documentation: Together with the pre-registration form, the following documents must be provided, in addition to the documents that appear on the sheet:
- Certified/collated photocopy of the Foreign Higher Education Title (Bachelor's Degree, Architect, Engineer, Doctor)
- Certificate of studies legalized in accordance with Spanish legislation, and translated by an official translator
Conditions and special access tests
No special access conditions or tests are foreseen
Offer of places: 15 seats. If the minimum number of students envisaged is not reached in a course, the University may choose not to open the teaching group.
Training itinerary
Master's Teaching Guides
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Training Itinerary
| Custom code | Subject | Semester | Type | Number of ECTS |
| 609501 | New Trends in Information Systems Engineering | 1 º | required | 6 |
| 609502 | Information Systems for Decision | 1 º | required | 6 |
| 609503 | Technical Scientific Methodology and Documentation | 1 º | required | 6 |
| 609504 | Information Systems for Knowledge Management | 1 º | required | 6 |
| 609505 | Security in Information Systems | 1 º | required | 6 |
| 609506 | Information management | 2 º | required | 6 |
| 609507 | Master's thesis | 2 º | TFM | 24 |
Mobility programs
University Master's degrees, due to their duration and characteristics, in general do not specifically contemplate the mobility of their students. However, the Rey Juan Carlos University has different mobility programs for both students and University workers (PDI and PAS) and has procedures for collecting and analyzing information on these mobility programs.
Regulation
- Academic Calendar
- Regulations for enrollment and permanence in university master's degrees at the URJC
- academic waiver
- Public prices for university master's degrees
- Exemption from the prices of official master's and doctoral studies for the sons and daughters under 25 years of age of victims of gender violence
- External Internships
- University Master's Thesis
- Review and Complaint of the Continuous Evaluation in the studies of university master's degrees of the URJC
- Acknowledgments / Adaptations of university master's degrees
- Simultaneity of URJC university master's degree studies
- Regulations of the School of Official Masters
- Addendum to the protocol for adapting teaching at the School of Official Master's Degrees
- Royal Decree 1125/2003, of September 5, which establishes the European credit system and the qualification system in official university degrees valid throughout the national territory
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Quality guarantee
Results report
Once the monitoring of the Master's Degree has been carried out, the most relevant quantitative information on the results obtained in the monitoring of said Degree is displayed, differentiated by academic year.
Report by course:
General information collection plan
Within the quality assurance system of the Rey Juan Carlos University, the following surveys are planned:
- Student profile
- Teacher evaluation
- Degree of satisfaction:
- Of the students
- of the graduates
- From the Faculty
- Administration and Services Staff
- Labor insertion
- External internships:
- Satisfaction of interns
- External tutor satisfaction
- Employer satisfaction
Survey results:
Improvement actions
The Quality Assurance System of the Rey Juan Carlos University establishes that the degree's Quality Assurance Commission will annually analyze the information derived from the degree's indicators and prepare a report that will include improvement plans if the results so indicate.
- Improvement actions 2017 / 2018
- Improvement actions 2016 / 2017
- Improvement actions 2015 / 2016
- Improvement actions 2014 / 2015
- Improvement actions 2013 / 2014
- Improvement actions 2012 / 2013
- Improvement actions 2011 / 2012
- Improvement actions 2010 / 2011
Renewal of accreditation
The renewal of the accreditation represents the culmination of the implementation process of the official Bachelor's and Master's degrees registered in the Register of Universities, Centers and Degrees (RUCT). The renewal of the accreditation of official bachelor's and master's degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit and final assessment.
In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the status of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment Report (IA) that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of evaluators external to the evaluated title.”