What will be the new university degrees 2025? What career opportunities are most in demand? Find out all about the new university degrees 2025 and the new trends in the labor market in our blog.
List of new university degrees 2025 in Catalonia
Depending on demand and supply, social changes and the emergence of new technologies, new professions appear that require specific training. Therefore, over the years new studies related to new social and technological trends are appearing. During the next academic year 2025-26 it will be possible to see how the new university degrees 2025 are related to the digital field, business, science, engineering, green economy and sustainability. Here is a list of the new university degrees that you will be able to find in the different universities of Catalonia:
University of Barcelona (UB)
- Labor Relations and Human Resources: this degree allows students to learn how to manage human talent in companies, from recruitment to the resolution of labor conflicts. With a practical approach, students will obtain the essential tools to manage labor relations in such a changing environment.
- International Hotel Management: Tourism continues to evolve and students in this degree will be able to master hotel management on a global level. In addition, students will learn about management, marketing and sustainability with a specialized focus on the international hotel industry.
- Marketing, Events and Entertainment: this degree combines marketing and events from a unique background. From campaign management to creating unforgettable events and experiences, the degree will prepare you for a very dynamic sector.
- Tourism + Digital Business and Innovation in Tourism: do you love tourism and technology? From destination management to digital innovation applied to the tourism sector, the degree will provide you with essential skills in such a competitive sector.
Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
- Economics + Computational Mathematics and Data Analytics: this double degree combines economics with mathematical and computational tools, being able to address complex problems and make informed decisions in the analysis of economic data.
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
- Management and Digitalization in Sport: this new university degree that will begin to be taught in the next academic year 2025-26 will replace the degree in Applied Sports Sciences and Technologies. This new degree will prepare students to manage sports projects from digitization of trainings to marketing on digital platforms.
- Fundamentals of Architecture (ETSAV): the fundamentals degree in architecture is a basic but very complete training on the principles of this sector. The degree will provide students with a solid foundation to continue with advanced studies in design or construction of spaces.
Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)
- Biomedical Sciences: the degree in biomedical sciences works on health sciences but from a multidisciplinary approach. Students can learn about biology, chemistry and the application of advanced technologies in medicine. It also opens the door to research or development of treatments.
- Computational Audiovisual Engineering: the degree aims to combine engineering and audiovisual media, with a focus on the development of innovative technologies to process images, sound and video on digital platforms.
University of Girona (UdG)
- Industrial Technologies Engineering + Master’s Degree: the degree provides a solid foundation in applied engineering with a specialized focus on automation and optimization of industrial processes. Combining it with the master’s degree will provide students with a higher level of training to manage projects with greater complexity.
University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC)
- Design for Food Systems: students will be able to design innovative solutions to improve food production and distribution with a sustainable and efficient approach.
Ramon Llull University (URL)
- Artificial Intelligence and Data Science: this is the most advanced training in technology at the moment, as it combines artificial intelligence with data analysis. This degree is ideal for students who want to develop in sectors such as programming, predictive analytics and the creation of AI models.
- Business and Artificial Intelligence: with the combination of business and artificial intelligence, students will be able to lead technological and business projects and analyze data to make decisions in the digital sector.
Abat Oliba University (UAO)
- Communication and Digital Content Creation: students who love content creation will specialize in the area of digital communication, graphic design and audiovisual production for digital platforms.
- Nursing: this degree, one of the most in-demand in the labor sector, will turn students into professionals in the sector capable of facing the different challenges of healthcare and the well-being of people.
What are the university degrees with the most professional opportunities at present?
The university degrees with the most professional opportunities and which are most in demand by companies are the following:
- Medicine: this is the university degree that leads the ranking in the top 1 of university degrees with the most professional opportunities. Most students manage to work in something related. However, this degree is neither fast nor easy and requires a very high cut-off mark.
- Nursing: with a high demand for health personnel, this degree is a safe option, although it is very demanding and normally not very socially recognized.
- Dentistry: this degree has a lower volume of students, but with a high labor market insertion. Most students manage to work in private clinics, practice on their own or collaborate with insurance companies.
- Industrial organization engineering: this degree is not very well known, unlike the other engineering degrees. However, it offers a high employability of its students, as it combines technical and managerial knowledge, ensuring work in logistics warehouses, production or strategic management.
- Software and Applications Development: digitalization and technological development is changing everything. For this reason, this degree has one of the most promising options for students. Many companies demand hybrid profiles or value experience even above the degree. Currently, it is a sector with a very high demand.
- Pharmacy: the degree in pharmacy continues to be a good option in the science sector for students to enter the labor market quickly.
- Electronics engineering: it has a very high labor market insertion, thanks to the application in different sectors such as automotive, renewable energies, home automation or industrial control systems.
- Electrical engineering: this degree offers a high insertion in large companies such as consultancies or companies specialized in renewable energies.
- Telecommunications engineering: students of this degree design, manage and maintain communication systems, networks and mobile technologies, so the demand in this sector is still booming.
- Energy engineering: this is a lesser-known university degree but with a future projection that is booming with renewable energies and the need for a more sustainable energy model.
New trends in the labor market
The development of technology and artificial intelligence has brought about many changes in society and in the labor market. Over the next few years we will see how technologies and artificial intelligence will enter the labor market and with it the emergence of new university degrees.
In recent years, new trends have been appearing in the labor market that both companies and workers will have to know how to adapt to. The following are the most important trends in the labor market:
- Training and adaptability: companies are starting to require workers trained in transversal skills such as leadership, critical thinking, communication, change management and digital skills. This training will allow workers to adapt to the different types of work, changes and demands of the sector.
- Digital transformation: companies need to digitize their work processes and automate work. As a result, some jobs will disappear and new jobs or new skills and ways of working will appear in which workers will have to know how to adapt.
- Elimination of routine and repetitive jobs: with the rise of new technologies and artificial intelligence, companies will have to make decisions in which many jobs will be replaced by machines and the skills of workers will be very important.
- Temporariness and outsourcing: many companies will require freelance workers, so new employment will be rare.
Flexibility: because of the global pandemic of 2019, telecommuting was instituted, something that has already been established for many companies. In addition, flexible schedules will allow workers to better combine personal and family life from work.
With these new trends in the labor market, there will appear professional competencies that workers will need to have such as:
- Critical thinking
- Communication skills
- Digital competence
- Adaptation to change
- Learning capacity
- Initiative
- Results orientation
- Availability for professional mobility
- Language skills
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