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Master in Evaluation and Contracting for Public Projects

Bogotá - presencial

2 años

The joint program between the Faculty of Economics and the Department of Administrative Law

The Master's Degree in Evaluation and Contracting for Public Projects provides detailed training on the contracting processes of the public administration with individuals, by analyzing the constitutional, legal and jurisprudential foundations, as well as the theoretical and practical elements for the formulation and evaluation of public projects, by deepening the understanding of public management, resources, their monitoring and evaluation.

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The competencies that the students of the Master in Evaluation and Contracting of Public Projects will develop are:

  • Understanding of the state contracting policy in Colombia, as well as an analysis compared with the regimes of other jurisdictions.
  • Development and application of empirical methods and use of theoretical foundations for the economic and legal analysis of cases related to state contracting.
  • Discussion capacity, based on economic, financial, and legal foundations, on contemporary issues on the formulation and evaluation of public projects.
  • Understand the constitutional and legal language in public procurement.
  • Propose solutions to problems related to the State and the processes of contracting public projects.

Why study the Master in Evaluation and Contracting of Public Projects?

Applicant profile

Professionals from different disciplines, who work as:

  • Public officials in charge of designing, awarding and / or monitoring public procurement processes.
  • Professionals from the private sector who oversee preparing technical and economic proposals for contracting processes with the State.
  • Professionals in charge of contract management in contractor companies.
  • Officials in control entities.

Graduate profile

The graduate of the Master in Evaluation and Contracting of Public Projects will be an expert in the legal aspects that regulate the contracting process, trends in electronic contracting, the management of the execution of contracts, the fundamentals of litigation resolution and claims, and will have extensive knowledge of economic and financial tools that will allow you to plan, evaluate and audit the procurement processes by the State more effectively.

Differentiators

  • The Externado ranks third among the best Universities in Colombia and is among the best 500 in the world, according to the QS University Ranking 2019.
  • Joint Master’s degree from the Faculties of Economics and Law, which guarantees an interdisciplinary approach between legal concepts and economic tools.
  • Innovative program in the country by combining concepts of state contracting and economic evaluation of projects.
  • As it is a deepening master’s degree, the program has a flexible curricular structure that responds to the prior knowledge of each professional.
  • Teaching plant

Privileges

  • Homologation plan of up to 30% for graduates of the Specialization in State Contracting.
  • Young Researchers Program: Periodically the Faculty of Economics links active students of the Faculty’s Master’s Degrees to the Young Researchers program, which is a job opportunity that allows them to participate directly in teaching or research activities with the faculty. This participation is independent of the existing relationship between the University and the student, derived from the academic enrollment.
  • Discount policy: Externado University has a discount policy for undergraduate and graduate graduates.More information here.
  • Multiple financing options
  • Route service at different times and stops
  • Participation in the different cultural activities (photography club, singing, capoeira, ceramics, oral narration, story Tuesday, among others that you can find HERE)
  • Guidance and counseling service
  • Medical Service- Mediexpress, with a previous evaluation by general medicine in the following specialties: Internal Medicine, Dermatology, Otolaryngology, Orthopedics, Optometry, Urology, Gynecology and Ophthalmology.

For more information see HERE.

  • Gym service and participation in the different sports offered by the university (swimming, skating, diving, basketball, among others).
  • Loan of different sports venues at the Alcazar headquarters
  • Loan of study rooms, access to computer rooms and other services provided by the university for academic development.

Curriculum

The academic load has been distributed in 49 academic credits to cover in two (2) years. To meet these objectives, the master’s degree requires intensive individual work to achieve synergy with the subject matter seen in the classroom and its interdisciplinary development.

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Requirements

To be admitted to the master’s degree in Evaluation and Contracting of Public Projects, you must present the following documents:

1.    Letter of motivation

2.    Copy of the undergraduate diploma

3.    Copy of the undergraduate degree certificate

4.    Original undergraduate qualification certificate

5.    Copy of identity document

6.    Resume

8.    Interview presentation

9.    One (1) digital photo, white background, JPG format

In the qualification of the resume, the motivation letter and the interview, the following aspects will be considered:

-Experience in the subject of the master’s degree

-Previous training related to the subject of the master’s degree

-Solidity of the undergraduate monograph project

-Professional project and its coherence with the master’s degree

Please develop each of these aspects in the motivation letter.