Current events

Most newly enrolled students have decided to study one of the courses adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA). Specifically, 3,556 students have enrolled on an EHEA degree and 720 on a university master’s degree.

Psychology, the most popular degree

The courses with the most enrolments are the Psychology degree, with 3,867 students; the Business Administration and Management degree, with 3,274, and the Business Sciences degree, with 2,567. With regard to the postgraduate courses on offer, highlights include the master’s degree in Health and Safety, with 531 students, followed by the master’s degree in Education and ICTs (e-learning), with 306. Finally, 649 people are studying one of the courses on offer from the University @thenaeum.

An international campus

86.2% (34,802) of all the students have enrolled on one of the programmes on the Campus in Catalan, whereas the remaining 13.8% (5,561) have signed up for courses on the Campus in Spanish.

With regard to those students living outside Spain, most are concentrated in Andorra, Colombia, France, Germany, Mexico and UK.

New virtual student service system

This semester the UOC set up a pilot-test virtual student service system to respond to the queries in the Virtual Campus Student Services section. This system reads and understands the question asked via the Student Services query form. If the system believes the question has an answer, it automatically opens a textbox with the various options in response to that entered. If the knowledge base cannot find an answer, it does not show this textbox.
This new feature is just one of the ways the UOC continues to extend the services it offers its students.