OBS Business School

The student recruiting process at OBS Business School is done remotely.

Once the potential candidates have been provided with all the necessary information and have decided to apply to the Master’s Degree, the process is as follows. As a first step, an interview is carried out between the candidate and the Academic Advisor with the aim of verifying that the candidate with the necessary requirements enrolls in the Master’s Degree.

These requirements are:

• A Bachelor’s degree
• Proficiency in written and spoken Spanish
• Possessing professional experience, although not a strict requirement, is nonetheless highly desirable.

If these criteria are met, the candidate submits the necessary documentation proving they fulfil the requirements. This documentation is submitted together with their Curriculum Vitae, academic transcripts and a motivation letter. The motivation letter should include a brief personal presentation and a description of the students’ work experience, as well as their professional strengths.

In addition, students should also present their reasons to apply for the Master’s Degree, as well as the expected contribution to the group of participants in the course. The Academic Admissions Committee meets and decides on the candidate’s eligibility based on this documentation. The information provided in the CV, as well as the candidate’s academic background, helps determine if they possess the necessary technological skills to properly follow an online course.

The discounts offered are at the discretion of the Admissions department.

We are an online institution virtual campus LMS platforms is Blackboard.

Concerning our virtual campus, we incorporated a new videoconferences version, which is more intuitive, easier to use, allows live subtitles and provides participation reports. In addition, we renewed the look & feel of our campus, and introduced a new space, the Welcome Area. This area is one of the strategies developed to enhance students’ commitment.

Virtual classrooms are the meeting point for students and lecturers – in these classrooms several tools are offered in order to enhance the learning process: a debate and discussion area, an announcements area, web conferences, exams and tests, spaces to upload the required resources, Programme guides and calendars to keep track of key dates...

The institution offers additional online resources to its students, such as access to scientific and informative articles. These resources are described as follows:

• Harvard Deusto Journals
• Emerald
• Ebscohost

Student life

Concerning our virtual campus, in 2019, we incorporated the Blackboard collaborate Ultra, with a new videoconferences version, which is more intuitive, easier to use, allows live subtitles and provides participation reports. In 2020, we renewed the look & feel of our campus, and introduced a new space, the Welcome Area, a space developed to enhance students’ commitment.

Virtual classrooms are the meeting point for students and lecturers – in these classrooms several tools are offered in order to enhance the learning process: a debate and discussion area, an announcements area, web conferences, exams and tests, spaces to upload the required resources, Programme guides and calendars to keep track of key dates (e.g. exams and activities deadlines), an activity area where students can upload their completed assignments and an evaluation area where students’ grades are posted.

OBS Business School offers additional online resources to its students, such as access to scientific and informative articles. These resources are described as follows:

• Harvard Deusto Journals: a database which provides students and lecturers with informative articles from areas such as Marketing, Strategic Management, Management Skills, Human Resources, Finance and Sales.
• Emerald : an online research database where students and lecturers can find scientific contributions from their areas of interest.
• Ebscohost : an online research database where students and lecturers can find scientific contributions from their areas of interest.

In 2020, we incorporated access to OBS reports in the virtual campus, research conducted in OBS. Related with the resources, we added a new role in the academic coordination department, which is in charge of making the follow-up of the needed resources in each of the programmes and acquiring them. Lecturers have the option to ask for resources (e.g. case studies, softwares, Business Games, books, among others). We have also implemented several processes in order to ease the resource's acquisition. The aim of OBS when introducing this new area was to enhance the quality of the provided resources, and provide lecturers with the necessary tools to develop their modules.