Master in User Experience Design and Digital Analytics

📥 │ Syllabus content

Formative Complements*

Subjects	ECTS	TYPE	Language
Principles of Usability and Data Processing	6	FC

* Formative Complements: students who do not have enough knowledge and skills on these subjects must take these courses. The master's academic committee will decide, depending on the candidate's entry profile, whether or not they should take them. Check the requirements for access to the master's degree.
 

C) Compulsory: 42 ECTS

E) Elective: 12 ECTS

Master's Thesis: 6 ECTS

course Programs

◤ Access to previous course programs

GENERAL COURSE INFORMATION

☛ First year offered: 2025

• Verification Report

PROGRAMME’S QUALITY ASSURANCE

The Academic Committee of the Master’s programme complies with the SGIC-UC3M and it is responsible for the follow-up, analysis, review, assessment and quality of the program, it contributes with proposals to improve the program and produces the “Memoria Académica de Titulación” (Programme Report).

Application

The request must be submitted electronically through our application system. Before beginning the admission process, please read the following information:

• Documentation that must be uploaded to the on line application
• Calendar and general information about admission 
• Follow the step-by-step instructions in the application for admission

Requirements

Although the profile of the contents and faculty is interdisciplinary, opening the door to students with diverse backgrounds, graduates from the following fields of knowledge will have direct access to the master's degree: Cultural Industries; Computer Engineering; and graduates of Library and Information Science and Documentation and Information and Digital Content Management degrees.

Graduates from other fields of knowledge will be able to access the master's degree by taking the training complements specified below.
 

FORMATIVE COMPLEMENTS

For those candidates who come from degrees assigned to fields of knowledge other than those that give direct access to the master's degree, the training complements described below are foreseen to provide them with basic knowledge on concepts and fundamentals of the following subjects:

• Databases
• Principles of usability and accessibility of digital content
• Social media and platforms
• Open data and linked data
• Data processing and visualization

In very specific cases in which applicants demonstrate recognized experience of at least 5 years in jobs related to the specialization of the master's degree, the steering committee may exempt them from completing the training complements, after a detailed analysis of the applicant's curriculum vitae and a due explanation of the objective criteria that justify it.

The formative complements are offered in a single subject of 6 ECTS that must be taken before or during the first four-month period after the beginning of the Master's program.
 

Admission criteria

The selection of students will be made on the basis of:

*In the motivation letter, it is taken into account that the student reflects on the professional career he/she intends to pursue, that he/she makes a critical reflection on the competencies and skills acquired in the degree and how the master's degree can help to improve and increase them and an analysis of what specific elements of the master's degree program he/she values. In the letters of recommendation, the trajectory of the candidate will be evaluated in terms of the use of previous studies as well as the suitability of his/her profile to the contents and orientation of the master's degree.

Student Profile

These studies can be taken by those whose current and/or future professional activity requires strategies, skills and knowledge related to user experience and data analysis and digital information, both in the private sector and in public administrations.

The entry profiles described in section Requirements presuppose the training and previous knowledge and the appropriate level of the applicants to take advantage of the Master's Degree. They should handle digital information tools, web systems and social platforms, have notions of usability and accessibility, be familiar with digital information design tools and possess creative and innovative professional qualities and an interest in delving into the field of user experience, user interface design and the analysis of scientific and technological information.

Language requirements

Check the general language requirements required to study a Master’s at UC3M, depending on whether it is in Spanish, English or bilingual.

students with foreign university degrees

Once admitted to the Master’s program, students holding a university degree from a higher education institution outside the EHEA must provide the diploma, legalized through diplomatic procedures or by The Hague Apostille, for enrollment. They must also submit their transcript of records, including the grade point average, duly legalized.

More information about Legalization of Foreign Documents.

If needed, documents must be accompanied by an official sworn translation into Spanish.

TUITION FEES*

Reservation fee: €450 

• it will be paid once the student receives notification of admission to the master’s, and deducted from the first tuition payment
• the reservation fee will only be refunded if the master program is cancelled

60 ECTS in the first academic year:

• EU students: €4,800 (€80/ECTS credit)
• Non EU students: €7,200 (€120/ECTS credit)

✎│Tuition fees
 

NOTE: the indicated public prices do not include in any case, neither the ECTS corresponding to the Formative Complements that the student must take (only master's degrees with previous Formative Complements), nor the cost of issuing the master’s degree certificate.

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* Current fees for the 24/25 academic year, pending approval by the Community of Madrid for the 25/26 academic year.

Additional information

• You may enrol on the master’s degree after completing the admission process and receiving formal confirmation of your acceptance.
• When performing the enrolment you can choose between Full-time enrolment or Part-time enrolment.
• The email address provided upon enrolment will be used for formal communications; students are therefore kindly requested to check their mail regularly.
• Pursuant to the regulations of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, a student failing to pay any part of the fees will not be admitted and the enrolment process will be terminated. In cases of cancellation of enrolment due to non-payment, the University may demand the payment of the pending amounts for enrolment in previous academic courses as a prior condition of enrolment.
  No diploma or certificate will be issued if a student has any outstanding payments.

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✎│ECTS credits recognition

Best Practices and Regulations

• Student cohabitation system
• Ethical code
• Enrollment and permanence rules
• Master's degree access rules
• Master's Thesis rules
• Rules for credits recognition

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