An innovative, world-leading project
The UOC opened its doors in 1995, becoming the world's first online university, leveraging an internet that was only just beginning to show its enormous potential. A new kind of university that used information and communication technologies to develop an innovative, world-leading project.
The Faculty's leadership began planning the content, methodology, audiovisual media and teaching approach, with the aim of putting students at the heart of the action.
The history of the Faculty of Economics and Business is one of an enthusiastic, creative and motivated team that regarded it as a living entity that was rapidly evolving and that called for real-time transformation to shape it into a useful, innovative tool.
The Faculty of Economics and Business (then Business Sciences) comes online:
Research
One great challenge was to adapt to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) during the 2009/2010 academic year, a move that entailed the disappearance of university education as it had previously existed, giving way to the official bachelor's degree programmes (in the fields of Business Administration and Management, Economics, Marketing and Market Research, Labour Relations and Employment, and Tourism) and master's degrees and other postgraduate programmes, which now provide specialized training in different areas that are of great value to organizations and in the tourism sector.
With the mission of putting the focus on skills, the Faculty of Economics and Business provides top-quality lifelong skills training via its Executive Education programmes, offering the tools needed to boost or pivot the careers of professionals with experience in the management and administration of businesses and organizations.
The journal Oikonomics publishes the special dossier "25 years of the UOC's Faculty of Economics and Business: reflections on the future", coordinated by M. Jesús Martínez-Argüelles and Joan Miquel Gomis.
On the occasion of the 25th. Anniversary of the Faculty of Economics and Business we talked to the deans who led them along these years and we reflected on the path taken, the contribution made to the university community and the challenges of the future that they face.
To recall moments from the year the UOC was founded and memories from the times that have passed since, we spoke with some veteran members of faculty.
Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business, which is celebrating its 25th year.
