Master in Management

The academy and the businesses together in the teaching of Management

The learning process in the Master’s in Management is developed underlining the linkage between academic excellence and the reality of the business world, including a large set of classes in Seminar format, presenting cases of diverse key organizations across different industries, promoting valuable networking opportunities and enhancing students’ job placement possibilities. The contact with organizations and business practice, in the academic context, advances the development of managerial skills essential to run one’s one firm and/or to make a significant contribution to the business arena, through global, integrated and differentiated understanding of the key functional areas of the firms.

At the forefront of knowledge

The new structure of the Master in Management was adapted to the demands and challenges of a world in constant change, increasingly global and digital, where the appeal for new business models and disruptive management tools is strong. Aiming to train managers who make a difference in organizations, the Master’s in Management study plan includes such prominent and trendy areas as the conceptualization, structuring, and analysis of social networks, technological, disruptive, and open innovation, the new trends of marketing 5.0, the possibility of testing business ideas, among many others.

The course grants 120 ECTS and lasts two years. The academic period focuses on the 1st year, which is divided into 2 semesters with 30 ECTS each. The remaining 60 ECTS are obtained from the Dissertation, Project or Internship to be developed throughout the 2nd year. Classes will take place over 11 weeks each semester, on Mondays and Tuesdays, with 8 weeks in person and 3 weeks online each semester.

The first year of the course provides a solid basis for the specialization to be developed during the second year on a specific management topic, according to the particular interests of the master’s students, with the support of specialized and dedicated advisors, so that they can carry out the Dissertation, Project or Internship.

The challenges currently faced by organizations call for the work of highly qualified management professionals in different functional areas, capable of promoting their alignment and reflecting strategically, analytically and critically on business models and practices. Thus, the Master’s in Management was designed for those who wish to make their mark in the job market, whether at the beginning of their career, looking for professional advancement, or aiming to create their own business, as the course fosters fundamental management skills and entrepreneurship, focusing on the most relevant and advanced organizational topics. The course emphasizes the integration between theory and practice through practical cases, contacts with businesspeople, and using teaching methodologies that promote critical and applied thinking. Six of the curricular units are connected to the ‘On-the-Road’ Project, which allows master’s students to visit 4 companies, get to know the main entrepreneurs and managers, as well as what their current activities and challenges are.

The main qualitative and quantitative areas of Management are broadly covered by the course, providing its graduates with transferable skills for a variety of work and entrepreneurial roles in any sector of activity. The Master’s in Management also allows knowledge of research methods, working with data collection and analysis tools, fundamental for studying management phenomena and respective organizational contexts, which will be the target of the Dissertation, Project or Internship.

All areas of Management, in companies, non-profit organizations, and public institutions.

Possibility to test and develop business ideas, which allow a professional career as an entrepreneur.

The knowledge, skills and abilities to be developed are the following:

• Analyse and find answers to strategic challenges in the business world;
• Build a customer base and reach new markets;
• Build organizational cultures focused on objectives and the market;
• Implement assertiveness and strategy in internal/external communication;
• Identify, evaluate and implement investment opportunities in a national or international context;
• Interpret and use financial information;
• Effectively manage relationships with stakeholders;
• Select and use the best means of collecting, analysing and synthesizing information with a view to making decisions;
• Understand the interconnection between the different dimensions of management, promoting their alignment;
• Resolve internal/external organizational conflicts/inefficiencies;
• Implement research as a tool for solving problems;
• Written communication skills;
• Critical and reflective capacity;
• Ability to self-learn throughout life;
• Development of entrepreneurial skills.

Upon completion of the 60 ECTS assigned to the taught curricular units over two semesters (Year 1) to earn the Master’s in Management, students will have to select, and successfully complete, one of the following that accounts for another 60 ECTS, thereby bringing their total to 120 ECTS:

• To write a dissertation;
• To undergo a curricular traineeship from which to draw a final report; or
• To complete a project work.

Any of the above should take one year (Year 2).

• More information about the degree at DGES (including accreditation)
• Self-evaluation guide