Master's Degree in Philosophy

Academic year 2018-19 | 60 credits | 20 places

Degree data and benchmarks

Students

 

Data and description

2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18
New 13 5 6 6
SIIU New 10 5 6 6
Registered 13 11 9 8
Graduates 5 5 3 1

New students: these students are starting their studies from the beginning for the first time. They may have recognised credits or not.

New SIIU students: these students are starting their studies from the beginning, registering on a programme for the first time and, in accordance with SIIU criteria, may have fewer than 10 credits (for a Master's) or 30 credits (for an undergraduate programme) recognised. This set of students may also be referred to as the optimum new entry group. 

Registered students: these students have an active registration on a programme for an academic year. This set of students may also be referred to as the total student population.

  • Registration reservations are not included (due to the students awaiting a place at another university or credit recognition)
  • Registration cancellations are not included
  • Students with unpaid debts are not included

Graduates: these students have passed (passed or accredited) all credits required for the degree programme and have, therefore, finished their course regardless of whether they have requested their degree certificate be issued or not.

Entry Cohort

 

Data and description

2014-15 2015-16
Graduation Rate 71% 50%
Drop-out Rate 15% 20%

Final drop-out rate: the percentage of students from a new entry cohort that, without graduating, have not re-registered on the degree or any other programme, either at this university or at any other insitution in Spain, for two academic years in a row.

Graduation rate (RD 1393/2007) is defined as the percentage of students from an entry cohort that finish their programmes in the theoretical planned timeframe for the curriculum, or within an additional academic year. The reference population is the New Full-time SIIU Student Group.

Graduating Class

 

Data and description

2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18
Graduate Efficiency Rate 100% 100% 100% 100%

The efficiency rate is defined as the percentage ratio between the total number of credits passed by students throughout the registered programme from which they have graduated, and the total number of credits they effectively registered for. The reference population is the optimum group.

Credits Taken and Passed

 

Data and description

2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18
Degree Success Rate 100% 100% 100% 100%
Performance Rate 83% 79% 88% 56%

Success rate: the percetage ratio between the number of passed credits and the number of credits taken for assessment.

Performance rate: the percentage ratio between the number of credits passed and the number of credits registered for.

Who directly oversees the quality of the degree programme?

Quality Assurance Commission

Quality Manager
Jens Oliver Todt
Teaching and Research Staff
  • Antonio Bordoy Fernández
  • Bernat Riutort Serra
  • José Luis Luján López
  • Mateu Cabot Ramis
  • Joan Lluís Llinàs Begon
Admin and Services Staff
M. Consolación Hernández Guerra
Student
Diana Patrícia Rodríguez Fernández

The Quality Assurance Committee (CGQ) gathers all of the information regarding the degree programme (survey reports, data, statistics, complaints, suggestions, etc.) and analyses them. Here, you can see the regulations and duties of the Quality Assurance Committee (CGQ).

Commitment to quality

Declaration in which the person in charge of ensuring the quality of the Master's programme wishes to express his/her commitment to quality and the constant improvement of his/her actions.

Planning improvement measures

Improvement plan

Accountability and transparency

Link to the Register of Universities, Centres, and Degrees (RUCT)

Procedure Document Date/Year
Monitoring Annual follow-up and internal assessment report (2017-18) 19/06/2019
Monitoring Annual follow-up and internal assessment report (2016-17) 23/03/2018
Accreditation Council of Ministers' resolution 19/09/2017
Accreditation Final accreditation report 11/07/2017
Accreditation Self-assessment report 01/01/2017
Monitoring External follow-up report (2014-15) 16/09/2016
Verification Implementation. Council of Ministers' resolution 10/04/2014
Verification Final verification report 24/10/2013
Monitoring Annual follow-up and internal assessment report (2014-15) 2014-15

End of master projects

  • Cultura gastronómica. Una mirada crítica.
  • Poder y deshumanización en la obra de Franz Kafka
  • Chiquitilla: de la nada a una hermenéutica infinita
  • Mente extendida y descriptivismo: un análisis filosófico-lingüístico de la cognición
  • Transformaciones de la imagen del alma, de Homero a Platón
  • Espacio y narratividad televisiva en Breaking Bad
  • Identity and status in recognition theory of Axel Honneth
  • Justicia y cuidado del ambiente. El caso de la contaminación de la cuenca del río Matanza-Riachuelo a la luz de la obra de Nancy Fraser.
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein's Transcendental Ethics.
  • Walter Benjamin: The concept of art criticism in German Romanticism
  • L'escenari econòmic mundial segons Joseph Stiglitz
  • La construcción de la identidad en el nuevo capitalismo
  • Libertad y libre albedrío a la luz de la Neurociencia. una revisión del experimento de Benjamin Libet
  • Los problemas del conocimiento en Ramón Turró y sus influencias sobre Miguel de Unamuno
  • Man and technique. A perspective from philosophical anthropology