The University of León shows itself as one of the fundamental pillars on which our land’s economic development is based. This long-established university has a wide and consolidated formative and research programme, ensuring one of its most important tasks: the transfer of knowledge to the business community, both with its human resources astalentand with the practical results drawn from their research processes, which can be applied as innovation.
The Master’s Degree EMBS, European Master in Business Studies, is one of their most remarkable examples in this sense. The EMBS is an international marketing programme, organised in coordination with the universities of Trento (Italy), Annecy (France) and Kassel (Germany), which achieved the EPAS Accreditation last year, one of the highest honours in teaching quality at an international level, being the first Spanish university awarded with it.
Thanks to the University of León, 30 students come to León every year from different world countries to study the last semester of the master’s degree, focusing on a programme of business management strongly aimed at international marketing and with its teaching in English.
These students, who have been expressly selected from different European and non-European countries such as India, Turkey, Peru, Mexico, Albania, Vietnam, etc., will become some of the best managers of the future. And this is one of the most important features of the programme, the 100% employabilityof their graduates, all of them employed in the most successful global enterprises in the market, such as BMW, Henkel, Mondelez, IBM, Volkswagen, Glaxo Smith Kline, Hugo Boss, Ferrero, Inditex, etc., which, in turn, become the biggest guarantors and ultimate beneficiaries of the programme.
For this reason, the fact that the final term of the EMBS takes place here is a big opportunity for companies established in Leónas regards the incorporation of this profile of highly qualified, young professional with great international development.
This EMBS programme, as well as the collaboration of the University of Washington and the Confucius Centre, both with facilities located in León, and the great appeal of León as a destination for national and international exchange students, place the University of León at the forefront and as reference of universities in Spain and Europe. It also offers an excellent opportunity for companies to attract talentand apply the innovations resulting from the research programmes taken place in the University of León.