The Open Bachelor’s Degree programme

Is an innovative programme offered by UPF, addressed to students interested in multiple disciplines who want to acquire a cross-disciplinary training and choose, from within the University, a study in which to graduate.

The programme enables students to choose subjects from two or three undergraduate studies to create their own track, which is taken during the first year and if necessary the first term of the second year, before deciding on the destination degree. An academic tutor and a student acting as mentor will accompany and guide the student in this process.

 

 

Admission to the Open Bachelor’s Degree

Admission to the programme is via university entrance application, like any other bachelor’s degree. Information on university entrance and the allocation of places is available at the ACCESNET portal.

  • Secondary school subjects that count most towards the entrance mark: Business Administration, Geography, Catalan Literature, Spanish Literature, Latin, Mathematics, Mathematics Applied to Social Sciences, Physics, History of Art, Audiovisual Culture, Technical Drawing, Universal Literature, Biology, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Artistic Drawing, Design, Electrical Engineering, Greek, Chemistry and Industrial Technology.
  • Documents prior to registration: Once the allocation of university places has been published on ACCESNET, candidates who have obtained a place on the Open Bachelor’s Degree programme should consult the UPF registration website for specific information and the documentation they are required to submit in order to register for this study. Before this, however, students will receive a message by email from [email protected] with a form to complete on the study areas and degrees you are interested in.

  • Registration: Information on registration (place, day, time) and documentation to be submitted will be available as of the beginning of July on the UPF registration website.
     

First year of the Open Bachelor’s Degree

In the first year of the Open Bachelor’s Degree programme, students take the track created beforehand by them out of subjects taken from two or three studies in which they are interested.

Students register for a total of 60 credits, at all times taking into account that no one study can amount to more than 70% of the total credits for which the student is registered. The subjects must belong to the first year – or in exceptional cases the second year – of the studies combined.

Throughout this process of introduction to the university world and programme induction, students will receive guidance and support from the tutor and/or mentor assigned to them, who they will meet at the welcome session held at the beginning of the academic year.

 

Admission to the destination degree

During the third or fourth term, students will apply for one particular degree from among the various bachelor degrees awarded by UPF – excluding interuniversity degrees and those taught by UPF-affiliated centres. This is the degree they will be awarded when they complete their studies.

Once admitted, students are guaranteed a place on the degree of their choice, on condition that their university entrance mark was equal to or higher than the minimum entrance mark of their channel of access to those studies in the year they were admitted to the Open Bachelor’s Degree.

Academic achievement in the first year of UPF studies and affinity between the subjects taken and the degree chosen will also be taken into account, among other requisites.

 

Incorporation of the credits taken in the first year of the programme into the destination degree

The credits taken during the first year of the programme are incorporated into the destination degree in different ways, in accordance with the resolution issued by the directors of each degree programme:

  • As subjects of the destination degree: if they are subjects of the same study, taken as part of the academic track of the first year.
  • As optional subjects: if they are subjects of other studies, combined in the academic track of the first year and with similar or equivalent content to subjects of the destination degree.
  • As optional credits: if there is no equivalent content; they will be subtracted from the number of credits required to obtain the degree.

 

Qualification obtained

When students have completed the curriculum of the destination degree, they will be awarded the corresponding qualification.

If they wish, they may also obtain a UPF-endorsed qualification reflecting that they have taken a minimum number of credits of a disciplinary area other than that of the destination degree.