DEGREE
Business Administration
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Academic Identity
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- Mission
To train responsible, reflective, autonomous, critical, productive, creative, strategic, entrepreneurial, and innovative professionals in Business Administration, with solid theoretical knowledge, technical skills, and human qualities. Graduates will be capable of analyzing, planning, managing, controlling, and evaluating business models and strategies in organizations of all kinds, incorporating scientific, methodological, and ancestral knowledge to generate social and technological innovation processes, increase competitiveness, and contribute to the achievement of organizational goals.
- Vision
By 2030, the Business Administration program will be a benchmark in planning, doing, checking, and acting through knowledge and technology, allowing it to achieve national and international prestige while remaining committed to the common good of society.
- Program Objectives
- General objective
To educate individuals who are capable of understanding the reality in which they live, including its structural problems, helping them become aware of their role and of the contribution they can make through their work, as well as the harm they may cause through unethical practices. The program seeks to promote ethical and honest behavior, as well as a commitment to the development of humanity and the preservation of the planet.
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Profiles and outcomes
The professionals we educate and the competencies you will develop
- Professional Profile
The Business Administration professional will develop the following skills, attitudes, and competencies related to personal and professional conduct:
– Identifies the deontological principles that govern professional practice, as well as their effects on society and its development.
– Practices honesty as a standard in professional practice, condemning corruption, illicit enrichment, and abuse of power.
– As a manager, they act with leadership when making decisions, safeguarding collective interests over individual interests.
– Demonstrates a willingness to take calculated risks, undertake their ideas, and pursue their goals.
– Adopts a position regarding national and international economic power structures and realities.
– Respects cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity in the formation of organizations, as well as in commercial, labor, and communication relations.
– Possesses adaptive thinking based on reflection and instinct.
– Generates empathy among the people with whom they interact.
– Works in teams and contributes creative ideas, either as a team member or as a team leader.
- Graduate Profile
The profile of the Bachelor of Business Administration is based on competencies that cover five areas of knowledge: knowing, learning to be, learning to know, learning to do, and learning to live together. The instruments of learning to be include values, attitudes, and norms, through which information is processed. Knowing involves notions, propositions, concepts, and categories, while learning to do requires procedures and techniques.
Graduates of Business Administration will have multidisciplinary and multicultural training, based on the new scientific and technological trends of the profession. They will be aware of the major challenges and problems of the world, where human beings and their well-being are placed above any other primary need. They will be capable of understanding the nature of organizations from the basis of human behavior, allowing them to have a positive impact on their development and ensuring efficiency in the use of resources.
They will have the ability to create innovative solutions to the needs that arise in companies through leadership, entrepreneurship, and the identification of investment opportunities that contribute to the economic and social development of the country and the region. They will remain committed to supporting the development and growth of Ecuador’s productive matrix. It will always be aligned with the support of the development and growth of Ecuador’s productive matrix.
– Analyzes administrative theories from different epistemological approaches and understands the purpose of science within the social context.
– Understands the functioning of productive organizations from accounting, economic, and marketing perspectives.
– Understands the concept of “quality” and all its elements, applied to production, service, or operations processes.
– Analyzes the social, economic, and cultural environment, both nationally and internationally, and its impact on the business world.
– Interprets the managerial skills associated with effective leadership.
– Understands the importance of “innovation” and its contribution to business success.
– Knows the regulations that govern the operation of productive organizations, as well as the laws and regulations related to labor, tax, and environmental matters.
– Identifies the differences between economic sectors: public, private, and popular and solidarity economy.
– Designs strategies to streamline human talent management.
- Learning Outcomes
Curriculum Structure
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Program cost:
Article 356 of the Constitution of the Republic establishes, among other principles, that third-level public higher education shall be tuition-free, and that this tuition-free policy is linked to students’ academic responsibility.
