Business Administration
Objectives
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The School´s undergraduate program in business has the following objectives:
- Form comprehensive managers
- Form ethical citizens
- Develop “Externadista” principles and values
Develop management skills, business practices, and entrepreneurial spirit social y profesional.
Student Qualities
Student Qualities
The undergraduate program in Business Administration fosters creativity to provide infinite solutions to problems in an ever-changing world. It forms criteria for identifying business opportunities and for advancing strategic plans in the organization. Our students maintain qualities within the framework of cognitive, communicative, contextual and evaluative dimensions:
- Personal qualities: self-esteem, self-critical, self-control, assertiveness, interaction, self-security
- Thought and Communication skills: Comprehension, interpretation, analysis, synthesis, argumentation and expression
- Vocational Certainty: students must be personally motivated so as to be able to adequately complete the program
- Leadership: initiative, persuasion, self-confidence, entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and dynamism
- Knowledge: students must have the necessary knowledge to be able to enter the program
- Values: congruence between personal values and university values
It ’s important to clarify that each of the academic programs that are oriented by these qualities specify the level of their development and relative importance.
Academic proyect
CONCEPT OF STUDENT FORMATION
The concept of formation in the Business Administration discipline is based on the idea of COMPRESHENSIVE MANAGEMENT, which is to say, an intrinsic relationship between strategic thinking, organizational competence, and democratic leadership. A comprehensive manager should be a strategist, an organizer, and a leader.
COMPRESHENSIVE MANAGEMENT was conceived as an ideal method for training students of different academic programs in the School and as a means to prepare quality professionals for a competitive world. As part of this formation, students maintain as a priority their contribution to the development of their home country.
The Strategist
By definition, strategic thinking leads to perspective as well as long term and tactical planning. The thought process of a strategic manager involves the entire organization. The strategist possesses the following skills:
- systematic thought
- creation of worldviews
- ability to imagine realities and utopias
- ability to interpret the world
- ability to construct a vision
The strategist manages and develops values to be conveyed and consolidated on the corporate level. Upon properly defining the direction of the organization, as well as committing personnel to long term objectives, he/she orients the organization towards high performance.
The Organizer
Organizational competence consists of creating coherent culture and structure for the organization with strategy considered.
Organizational culture is a factor that allows goals to be achieved in any given environment. For the most part, organizing is the ability to understand and transform people’s behavior so as to reach set goals.
Structure is another factor that enables the organiztion to accomplish its mission and visión. Sctructure allows intentions to become realities.
The Leader
In general, leadership doesn’t have one simple definition in the business administration discipline. Leadership in Externado is the competence to materialize strategy and organization and is inspired by democracy. It is motivated by tolerance and is committed to discipline and rigor and always seeks to improve the conditions of the country.
Graduate competencies
Graduates of the School of Management are skilled at obtaining new knowledge and competencies and conscious of the importance of continued learning. At the same time, the School aims to provide a formative experience that includes the ability to form new businesses, with a social and patriotic emphasis.
The School, in being consistent with the concept of comprehensive management, focuses its efforts on the developing the core competencies of the Strategist, the Organizer, and the Leader. Each of the academic programs that are oriented by these qualities specify the level of their development and relative importance.
Competencies of the Strategist
The competencies of the strategist refer to the ability of the individual to orient the organization in the long term. That’s to say:
- Interpret the past, the present, situations, information relationships and tendencies from a systematic perspective
- Imagine the future, design a vision and construct scenarios and alternatives
- Make decisions on scenarios and alternatives
- Strategic formation
- Continued improvement
Competencies of the Organizer
Organizational competence consists of creating coherent culture and structure for the organization with strategy considered. Organizational culture is a factor that allows goals to be achieved in any given environment. For the most part, organizing is the ability to understand and transform people’s behavior so as to reach set goals.
Structure is another factor that enables the organiztion to accomplish its mission and visión. Sctructure allows intentions to become realities.
Competencies of the Leader
Leadership competencies refer to the ability to communicate strategy, form culture, lay structure and have personnel commit themselves to the organization and its objectives. In executing and evaluating strategic plans, the leader requires other significant competencies: Negotiation, Team management, Positive management of conflicts, Time management, Communication, Creativity, Entrepreneurial spirit, Decision Making.
This group of competencies and knowledge are developed within the framework of the university’s institutional philosophy which seeks to find solutions to the country’s problems as well as maintain its commitment to improving quality of life within it.
Partner Institutions
The School of Management, as part of its underlying mission, collaborates with partner institutions nationally and internationally, allowing students to experience the broader world while attending activities in different universities around the world.
Conscious of the importance of academic alliances that encourage the internationalization of education and cultural interaction, the Undergraduate Program has diverse options to enable student mobility.
The international partnerships that facilitate academic exchanges offer the opportunity to spend one or two semesters abroad. Courses taken in a partner institution are credited for their equivalents in the Study Plan at Externado (with prior authorization from the Directorate of the Undergraduate Program).
The cost of tuition during studies abroad correspond to either the cost of a semester in Externado or the amount determined by the host institution, depending on the case.
Each semester the Office of External Relations opens applications for study via different partnerships that are adjusted to the different academic requirements of the program. After closing applications, the International Committee of the School of Management will review applicants documentation and determine, according to number of available spaces and requirements, which students will be able to participate in studies abroad.
Notice of Applications To apply for study abroad, application documents must be turned in to the Office of External Relations in the School of Management during the second and third weeks of classes of the semester prior to the one in which the student is interested in traveling.
Requeriments
Requirements
- Either be enrolled in or have completed 5th semester
- Not have had disciplinary issues nor be under academic probation
- Maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.8/5.0
- Fill out the application form
- Obtain certification of language sufficiency in the language of the host institution.
Documents required
- Application form
- Language exam
- Copy of grade point average certificate
- Resume in Spanish
Forms
- Study abroad application form[Go to form]
- FOLLOW ME application form Basic information for applying [Download form]
Current Partnerships
| Country | University | ||
| Australia | University of Wollongong | More information | |
| Austria | FH Joanneum | More information | |
| Argentina | Universidad Nacional de Quilmes | More information | |
| Brazil | Universidade de Sao Paulo | More information | |
| Colombia | Programa SIGUEME | More information | |
| Germany | FH Worms | More information | |
| France | Neoma Business School | More information | |
| IESEG School of Management | More information | ||
| Ecole de Management de Audencia Nantes | More information | ||
| Mexico | Universidad Anahuac México Norte | More information | |
| Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios de Monterrey | More information | ||
| Peru | ESAN | More information | |
| Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola | More information | ||
| United States | American University | More information | |
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| Competencies of Alumni
A Master in Strategic Thinking and Future Studies will have the capability to:
The Master in Strategic Thinking and Future Studies should be perceived as a generator of change in your company. Through your knowledge and strategic analysis of future studies that you will carry out, you will make to your organization more competitive. On the other hand, through analysis that the company completes, the graduate develops leadership skills. Therefore, the analysis process brings together and guides the labors of many stakeholders in your organization who generate knowledge. |
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