Master in Business Administration (MBA) - 100% in English
Master in
Business Administration (MBA) - 100% in English
Enhance Your professional profile with AI and advance your leadership, strategy, and innovation skills
Credits
60 ECTS
Start
28 September 2026
Duration
1 academic year
Exams
Online and/or in person
Learning Mode
Online interactive
Reach the top with UNIR’s Online MBA — designed to set you apart
Choose from a wide range of concentrations and deepen your expertise in business management
Your talent will shape the future of business. Get ready for new challenges. Strengthen your leadership skills with UNIR’s MBA and achieve your professional goals. Choose from three concentrations from MIU City University Miami and work on a real digital transformation project led by world-class executives.
Gain a comprehensive understanding of all the key areas of business, enhance your leadership capabilities, and master management tools used in today’s organizations. This will allow you to make decisions with confidence and step into roles with greater responsibility.
UNIR’s MBA is the top-ranked accredited online MBA in Spanish worldwide (FSO 2025 Ranking).
Boost your competitiveness with an AI certification
AI is fully integrated into the program so that, from day one, it becomes a key part of your learning experience. By the end of the program, you will earn a university microcredential in Strategic Business Simulation with AI, certifying your ability to effectively use tools such as ChatGPT. This will help you stand out in the job market and strengthen your professional profile.
Develop your AI capabilities
Work with tools such as ChatGPT to model strategic scenarios, analyze complex decisions, and develop data-driven proposals.
Build strategy with AI
Use AI to create value propositions, develop strategic prototypes, and solve real-world challenges using methodologies such as Design Thinking.
Decision-Making
Strengthen your ability to make decisions in uncertain environments through simulations and advanced AI-supported analysis.
Turn complex data into impactful decisions
Learn to interpret and visualize business data using AI to anticipate challenges in dynamic environments.
We comply with the teaching and learning standards set by the European Higher Education Area, from an inclusive and innovative approach. An academic excellence that is possible thanks to the sum of your effort, the professional experience of our teachers and the commitment of the personal advisors. Get a unique international profile.
Why study UNIR’s Online MBA?
In this MBA, you will gain expertise in strategic management, innovation, marketing, finance, and operations and logistics. Working in high-performance teams, you will develop deep, business-oriented knowledge.
Take advantage of UNIR’s partnership with Harvard Business Publishing Education (HBP) to strengthen your management skills and boost your CV.
Specialize in a specific area of knowledge and learn how to identify growth opportunities and areas for improvement by choosing one of our three specializations from MIU City University Miami.
Learn through real business cases and take on the role of a managerial decision-maker.
Study with a top-tier faculty, made up entirely of professionals and executives from leading companies.
Build your network with peers from all over the world through workshops, CEO events, meetings, and in class.
Develop your entrepreneurial mindset through a Digital Transformation Project, creating new business models across sectors via technology.
Earn the ‘Leading People’ Diploma from the Harvard ManageMentor® Program
As part of the online MBA, you’ll gain access to the Harvard ManageMentor® program, where you can earn a diploma in Leading People.
You’ll develop the skills to motivate teams, build strong working relationships, and guide people toward achieving results. You’ll also learn how to create an environment where individuals and teams can perform at their full potential.
Through UNIR’s collaboration with Harvard Business Publishing Education (HBP), you can benefit directly from the Harvard ManageMentor® experience.
An online MBA designed to help you achieve your goals
95% of UNIR MBA students are employed. Our 100% online methodology is designed to fit around your personal and professional life.
Develop an innovative mindset in business
Strengthen your leadership capabilities
Gain the skills needed to lead transformation in your organization
Learn to apply AI tools to business strategy
If you have extensive experience or a management background, speak with one of our advisors about the Executive MBA.
A methodology adapted to you
Case Method
Make decisions as part of a team to solve real business challenges and develop your managerial skills.
Experiential training
100% live online classes, combined with labs, workshops, hands-on activities, and a fully equipped virtual campus.
Competency-based learning
Build core business skills through real projects linked to digital transformation and real-world application.
Active networking
Connect with peers with similar professional profiles and expand your network.
Personalized support
You will have continuous support from a dedicated advisor who will accompany you throughout your training.
Online and in-person exams
Choose, for each course and exam period, whether to sit your exams online or at one of UNIR’s approved test centers.
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Work on real business cases through UNIR MBA corporate collaborators
Learn from real cases used at Harvard through the online case method.
In live classes, you’ll replicate the dynamics of companies such as Netflix, HP, Vueling, Applus+, and Dell, among others. Working in multidisciplinary teams, you’ll be expected to make action-oriented, real-world decisions.
You will also have the opportunity to participate in an exclusive UNIR program with RED Proyectum, a corporate platform that allows you to develop your Master’s thesis based on real business challenges faced by companies. Upon completion, you will receive an academic certificate to strengthen your CV.
Validate your MBA postgraduate internships with professional experience
You may apply to have your internship requirement (6 ECTS) recognized if you can demonstrate at least one year of full-time experience, or the equivalent part-time experience, performing tasks related to the competencies covered in the program.
To do so, you will need to submit:
Your CV
An official employment record
A company certificate detailing your role, responsibilities, and duration
If you do not yet have professional experience, you can complete your internship—either virtually or in person—with over 1,700 leading companies.
Dive into the 3 concentrations of the Master in Business Management and Administration
Enhance your MBA by choosing a specialization track that provides additional credentials, helping you strengthen your profile and expand your career opportunities.
Digital Marketing & AI Applied to Marketing
Lead the future of marketing with AI. Learn how to combine data, creativity, and automation to drive growth, improve performance, and deliver high-impact digital strategies.
Strategic Management and Organizational Leadership
Become the leader organizations are looking for. A practical program designed to help you develop your leadership skills, manage teams, and drive change in dynamic, results-oriented organizations.
Artificial Intelligence Applied to the Enterprise
Become a key player in the future of business. A strategic program designed to help you integrate AI into business operations, improve processes, and enhance decision-making—no technical background required.
Learn from an internationally experienced faculty with UNIR’s Online MBA in English
UNIR’s MBA faculty is made up of managers, engineers, and executives working in multinational companies, bringing real-world experience into the classroom and giving you the practical knowledge you need to apply directly to business management.
Docente UNIR
Profesor
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PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid and TURESPAÑA research grant 1999. She has 15 years of experience in business development, strategy implementation and management. External consultant at Hotels Efficiency and Proskene.
Docente UNIR
Profesora
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University MBA Professor at several prestigious universities in the USA and China. She has taught as an MBA Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in the United States, as well as at the School of Management at Fudan University.
The most prestigious associations in business endorse us
UNIR is the only spanish university member of the four most prestigious associations in the academic world in the business area.
Certified by ANECA, according to the AUDIT model
All the official academic degrees of the Faculty of Economy and Business have the seal of quality awarded by the National Agency for Evaluation and Accreditation, the body in charge of guaranteeing the quality of the degrees taught in the Spanish university system in line with the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).
THE places UNIR in the world university elite for its educational quality
Our university achieves a historic ranking in the ‘Sustainability Impact Ratings 2026’ from Times Higher Education, the global platform responsible for some of the world’s most influential university rankings. UNIR, which is the first online private university in the general ranking, stands out for its social impact, with quality education, its contribution to sustainable development, gender equality and decent work.
Leaders in educational innovation, according to Forbes
Forbes places us among the three best universities in Spain and as the first online. In addition, it highlights UNIR as a global benchmark in online training for its methodology and the interactive experience it offers its students, as well as its recognition in the most relevant international rankings.
Our graduates see real career impact
75%
of UNIR MBA graduates report salary and career progression
80%
of graduates have accessed new professional opportunities after completing their MBA
85%
of graduates highlight the quality of the faculty, content, and methodology
Meet our alumni experiences
“Thanks to the Master’s Degree Thesis Project, I saw that the app I wanted to create was possible. With the MBA, I gained the confidence and skills to start a business”.
Alberto Manuel López
Online MBA student and founder of WeFish
“UNIR’s MBA allowed me to grow. Today, I lead a group of people and have expanded my role and responsabilities. The quality of the faculty is fundamental due to their extensive experience”.
Luis Sebastián de Frutos
Online MBA student
“This Master’s Degree has complemented my previous training and has made possible a range of greater job opportunities and allowed me to aspire to positions of greater responsibility”.
Juan Ibáñez
Online MBA student
“I wanted to pursue an online MBA that was recognized internationally, was affordable, and that would help me gain practical knowledge to apply at my workplace. UNIR fulfilled all these requirements”.
This MBA is designed not only for professionals with a background in business or economics, but also offers a multidisciplinary learning experience for those from other fields—such as engineering, healthcare, or marketing—who aspire to move into management roles.
It provides a global, strategic perspective applicable across a wide range of industries.
If you’re looking to move into leadership roles, stay up to date, strengthen your skills, or launch your own business, UNIR’s MBA is for you.
Over 3,000 professionals have completed UNIR’s MBA to advance their careers.
In the months following graduation, 3 out of 4 graduates report career growth and salary improvement, reflecting the program’s strong impact on employability.
As a UNIR MBA student, you will work on real business challenges faced by companies such as Netflix, Hewlett Packard, Vueling, Imaginarium, Molson Canada, Benetton, Applus+, and Dell Online. UNIR is a pioneer in delivering the Case Method in an online format.
Each case is:
Prepared in teams
Discussed in live sessions, guided by the professor
Resolved collaboratively, with key conclusions presented and debated
Unlike traditional approaches, this is not an individual assignment followed by correction. Instead, the process emphasizes interaction, discussion, and decision-making, closely replicating how teams operate in real companies.
In the final session, each team presents its conclusions, and the professor highlights the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, allowing all participants to learn from multiple perspectives.
All sessions are recorded, so you can review them whenever needed.
Prepare yourself to grow and put into practice your management, communication, and leadership skills in all areas of the company and get your official Master in Business Administration degree from UNIR. The entire master’s degree is taught in English so that you can achieve excellence from this linguistic base.
You will have access to a comprehensive array of professional internships because in addition to working on real projects, you will also be part of cutting-edge companies in the sector. We have agreements in place with hundreds of companies where you can carry out your internships.
If you already have professional experience, please provide evidence of this by emailing secretaria@unir.net. The documents you would need to submit are your CV, the work-life report and a company certificate specifying the position, the functions carried out and the period during which these were undertaken.
Final project
As a student of the Master in Business Management and Administration (MBA) at UNIR, you will be able to carry out your final project as a team with RED Proyectum, a platform that will give you the possibility of approaching real business problems.
You will work on a briefing provided by a company and following one of these lines of work:
Market development
Product development
Digital transformation
Once you have it successfully passed, you will obtain an academic certificate of participation in RED Proyectum and you will be able to indicate in your portfolio that you have had experience developing this project in a real company. This will allow you to strengthen your employability and boost your CV.
Admission
Recommended Profile
Expand your knowledge and work experience thanks to UNIR's MBA English. To access our specialized training program you must meet certain requirements. This degree is for you if:
You are looking for a 360-degree knowledge of the areas of a company.
You want to improve your business vision and be updated by working professionals.
You need to manage high-performance teams in multidisciplinary and multicultural environments.
You want to reach positions of greater responsibility within a company or even create your own.
You need to improve your level of English to broaden your range of professional possibilities.
You want to lead.
Eligibility
To be accepted into the university master’s program in Business Administration, you must hold a university degree. This requirement follows the admissions criteria established in Article 16 of RD 1393/2007, according to which applicants must:
Hold an official Spanish university degree or a degree from another higher education institution in the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) that grants access to a master’s.
Hold a qualification obtained outside the EHEA in accordance with foreign educational systems without the need for official recognition of their degrees, having previously confirmed with the University that this qualification accredits a level of training equivalent to the corresponding official Spanish university degree and that it would serve as a means of access to postgraduate study in the country in which it was awarded. Admission through this channel in no way implies either official recognition of the candidate’s prior qualification or any other recognition than permission to enrol in online master’s study.
To study this master's in English, students must demonstrate and certify that they have at least a B2 English level.
Admission process
To become a student, applicants must follow the following process:
You will be assigned a personal advisor who will verify that you meet the required requirements and help you develop a personalized study plan taking into account your experience and professional objectives.
You must send the application for admission and you will be evaluated by the Admissions Committee.
We will confirm your admission and you can submit the form to reserve your place.
We will formalize your registration and you will have to send us the rest of the documentation.
At the beginning of the course, you will receive access to the Virtual Campus and you will have at your disposal the UNIR Experience workshops to develop your soft skills.
Scholarships and grants to study
At UNIR Colombia we offer you a very complete scholarship and aid program, which allows you to study and graduate with us. If you are motivated to study and meet the access requirements, we are open to hearing your story to find out what is the best financial aid we can offer you.
We also have aid for functional diversity, for parents of large families and aid for unemployment. For more information, visit our Funding and Scholarships section or contact us.
Methodology
An experiential, competency-based and personalized learning model to study your online MBA
Unlike traditional methodologies from other universities, in the Faculty of Business and Communication of UNIR, we employ a methodology that guarantees an excellent learning experience adapted to the challenges of a changing world in constant evolution.
Experiential learning
Daily online live classes: they are programmed in advance, but if you can’t attend or have doubts, you can access the recordings of these as many times as you need. You will have 21 high-impact online sessions per subject lasting 45 minutes in which you can interact live with the teacher.
Live virtual laboratories and workshops: specialized workshops are offered to delve into the latest professional trends and the most innovative tools on the market.
Practical activities: inspired by the simulation of real learning environments that prepare you for business reality: o Case method: a learning methodology based on a learning-by-doing system, used by prestigious universities such as Harvard and Stanford, which trains you to make strategic decisions in companies by resolving real cases o Forums: debate and reflection sessions in which high-impact content is used (short cases, readings, and podcasts, among others).
Virtual Campus: our online platform is designed to optimize your learning, where you will find everything you need to study at UNIR: classes, professors, classmates, schedules, forums and much more. • Learning resources: you will have access to different learning resources to complete your training, such as a digital library, complementary reading, summaries with key ideas, self-assessment tests, etc.
Competency-based learning
This is the differential element of our university. We call it UNIR’s Footprint, and it refers to exclusive modules. They have been created specifically to improve the necessary skills that managers in any sector will need to master teams and situations of all kinds: leadership skills, effective internal and external communication, individual and group planning, etc.
Follow-up and networking
UNIR advicer: will be in contact with you from day one by phone and email to support you with any questions you may have.
Teachers: will follow your progress and help you whenever you need it through group coaching, individual feedback and in the joint exam preparation session.
Networking: you will establish relationships with people from all over the world with common interests in discussion spaces, expert panels and chats that will allow you to make a professional list of contacts.
Personalized learning
To ensure that you obtain the right learning experience, in this MBA in English at UNIR, we create homogeneous groups in terms of professional experience, although heterogeneous in terms of the degree of origin. We are the only online university that creates high-performance teams.
For more information about our methodology, check the section How to study at UNIR.
Evaluation Criteria
To determine the level at which the student has achieved the general and specific objectives defined in the master's, we must assess the competencies acquired during study.
Learning will be assessed through the grades earned for performance in the following:
Continuous assessment (assessment tests, participation in forums, discussions and other collaborative media, and solving practical cases).
Online and/or face-to-face non-memory exams, based on a practical case. You can choose in each subject and call whether you want to take them from your computer or in the centres enabled by UNIR.
Final Thesis.
Career Paths
The MBA online in English at UNIR will allow you to assume positions of great responsibility in which you will add value by applying all your skills and strategic vision. You will understand digital trends, have the necessary knowledge to solve problems in demanding environments, and be able to successfully lead high-performance work teams.
Become the digital leader who can adapt to today's complex and constantly changing environment. You will be able to obtain positions of:
Executive Management, by providing a transversal vision of the business administration and ensuring the fulfillment of the company's objectives.
Digital Transformation Management by ensuring the digitization of the company or entity.
Operations Management, by optimally executing the company's processes.
Financial Management, by making decisions on key aspects of the institution.
Marketing Management, by establishing objectives, assessing and monitoring results and identifying new markets.
Human Resources Management, by carrying out tasks like recruiting talent and managing teams.
Manager, by leading projects within the company and managing the different teams involved.
Business consultant, by advising all parties involved and ensuring the correct long-term operation.
You can also be an entrepreneur, by leading, managing projects and research with your own vision and purpose, assuming the risks of the entrepreneurial function.
Alumni Profile
At the end of the program you will have practical and solid knowledge on an advanced level in different fields.
Global vision of the elements of a company: organization, accounting, finance, marketing and other aspects necessary and parallel to a successful management.
Decision-making to manage technological change, and use information tools to improve management with innovation as a competitive weapon.
Management and Business Administration.
Our graduates improve professionally
+80%
of students found new opportunities after finishing their master's degree
+75%
of students improved their salary after completing the master's degree
Faculty
The faculty of the Master’s Degree in Business Management is formed by 60% of active professionals with managerial positions in companies such as Santander, Microsoft, Iberdrola, Volkswagen, BBVA and Telefónica, among others. In addition, 30% are ANECA-accredited doctors. Our teachers undergo continuous quality controls internally.
Director
Decana de la Facultad de Economía y Empresa de UNIR y directora de Innovación Académica de PROEDUCA. Doctora en Economía, ha dirigido proyectos de innovación en Movistar, Banco Mundial, Accenture, Everis, CCAA de Madrid y Fundación Fhimades.
Doctora Comunicación y Licenciada Publicidad y RRPP; Máster Investigación en Comunicación y Máster Profesorado de ESO. Directora de Marketing y Comunicación en empresa Privada.
Nuestros expertos
10 years of experience in Higher Education (Teaching, R&D and Management). 2 years Industrial experience in Digital Design. 1 year in Patent Examination. 6 years in Project Management in Academic and industrial environment. 1 year in Product Management
15 years of experience in management education at the undergraduate, masters, executive, and Ph.D. level. BS in biology from the American University of Beirut, and a Ph.D. from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.
Business analyst, PM and manager at PZU (biggest polish insurance corporation), February 2003 – Present Lecturer at Jagiellonian University, mathematics, statistics, forecasting, information technology, October 2001 – Present.
Consultor y docente en Project Management. Asesora a empresas en implantación métodos-herramientas gestión de proyectos.
Professors
Profesora Universitaria de MBA en prestigiosas universidades de EEUU y China. Ha impartido clases como Profesora de MBA en el Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College en Estados Unidos, así como en el School of Management at Fudan University.
JRO DERIVATES. Director Ejecutivo y Socio Fundador de consultora de riesgos financieros y finanzas cuantitativas. Cuenta con experiencia en la cobertura de riesgos, habiendo desarrollado su actividad en instituciones como Coopers & Lybrand.
Es ingeniero superior industrial especializado en Organización y Gestión por la Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (I.C.A.I.) MBA: Máster en Dirección Estratégica de Recursos Humanos por el Centro Superior de Estudios de Gestión (UCM).
Directora del Área de Empresa en UNIR. Consultora económica de varias instituciones privadas y públicas. Doctora en Economía e investigadora.
Doctor ‘cum laude’ en Economía por la UCM. Participante en el Programa de Desarrollo Directivo (PDD) en la Escuela de Negocios de Harvard, y Executive Master en Business Management por la Universidad ‘Kellog’ Northwestern de Chicago, EEUU. También fue dir
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