The master is addressed to engineers (all types), graduates in Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Business Administration and Management (ADE) (it is recommended to the students of the UIB’s ADE degree to have completed the optional subject (20632) Survey Analysis and Multivariate Techniques).

Specific access tests to the Master degree in "Analysis of Massive Data in Business and Economics" are not defined. However, it is established as access criteria for new students a Bachelor degree belonging to one of the following branches of knowledge: engineering and architecture, Social Sciences and Law (Economics and Business Administration and Management) and Science (Statistics, Mathematics, Physics). The recommended profile is a student with a Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Economics or Business Administration. For other degrees of the knowledge engineering and architecture branch, the Degree’s Academic Committee (CAT) will assess whether the student has received the necessary training and acquired the skills needed to pursue the Master without carrying out supplemental courses, which will affect the acceptance or not of the student in the program. The admission criteria will be weighted, taking firstly into account the degree of access to the Master and secondly the average grade of the student’s academic record in the studies of access to the Master.

Applications for admission to the master will be resolved by the CAT, named by the competent organ, and chaired by the Director of the Master, who will conduct proceedings in accordance with applicable regulations. The Commission of Studies will meet before the end of the fifteen days following the pre-registration deadline to assess applications according to the requirements (Royal Decree 1393/2207) and the admission criteria outlined above. If the number of interested students exceeds the numerus clausus, transcripts will be weighted following the method used in the selection phase to award grants for training university teachers (FPU) for the current year or the previous year if the call has not been published. The Degree’s Academic Committee will establish an access list, ordered by merits that will be followed in the registration process.

Admission of students once the academic year has started will be considered individually by the organ responsible for the Master will comply with the regulations of the university. The decision on admission will be conditioned by at least the following criteria:

• Places available in the program.
• Students cannot be admitted to courses that have already been completed, unless recognition of previous studies compensates for this course.

In the case of students with special needs or disabilities, their admittance into the program will be carried through in accordance with the twenty-fourth additional provision of Organic Law 4/2007 of April 12 on the inclusion of people with disabilities in universities. Positive action measures to ensure access of these students to the Master will be contemplated, provided they meet the conditions in the regulations in force.