Programs in Costa Rica 2025

Business Administration is a process of planning, leading, organizing, controlling, and evaluating the resources available in organizations, and searching efficiently and effectively for the proposed objectives. The Bachelor Degree covers the main areas of administrative and organizational tasks which allows the graduate to boost their possibilities to be placed in the business sector.

TRAIN, TEACH, DEVELOP With this Master's Program in Educational Sciences with a mention in Educational Administration, the Free University of Costa Rica wishes to contribute to the freedom that exists in the educational system of our country, strengthening the field of private education, the formation of educational policies, as well as the leadership resources that our education has, allowing a sustainable development in our society, guiding the ethical, moral and democratic values ​​that constitute it. The curriculum is focused on courses related to different areas of knowledge, integrated around the problems of education and complemented with a final graduation project, according to the nature and levels of demand of each of the courses and the areas in management, in what corresponds to the modality called Professional Master's Degree. This type of Master's focuses information on the inquiry, observation, analysis, systematization of the sociocultural reality, and the dynamics of educational institutions and programs in Costa Rica. This process is postulated as the starting point to generate adequate knowledge. Parallel to this, the study of the specific situation of the Educational Administration of the country is emphasized and the respective theoretical-methodological frameworks based on bibliographic consultation and on the comparison of experiences at the national level are elaborated. The synthesis of these two aspects, national reality, and theoretical-methodological foundation will allow the graduate of this plan to achieve the proposed objectives.

It is attached to the Postgraduate Program of the School of International Relations of the National University of Costa Rica. It has three emphases: Management, Ports, and Agro-chains, made up of six quarters where the first three quarters share a common trunk and from the fourth quarter it specializes in the selected area. This Master's program attracts graduates of economics and engineering, where it seeks to provide the student with the latest generation tools in key logistics processes such as purchasing, storage, inventory control, transportation planning, and distribution, and incorporates the most recent technological, managerial, social and commercial trends that are conditioning the discipline that allows them to better face the demands of the current market.

OBSERVE, SUPPORT, MOTIVATE From the professional point of view, the work in the field of Systemic Family Therapy has started from professionals motivated by related therapeutic interventions. Systemic Family Therapy uses different models of intervention with proven efficacy and increasingly widely used. In the country, there is a need to specialize with depth and breadth for the best and highest performance and job competence in the face of a family, partner, and individual demands that require a comprehensive response to their needs and problems of various kinds. Considering the above, the Free University of Costa Rica presents the PROFESSIONAL MASTER'S PROGRAM IN SYSTEMIC FAMILY THERAPY, aimed at training future therapists in a systemic model, which allows them to intervene in a wide variety of clinical and non-clinical situations, through the training of highly trained professionals. The strict limitation to a small group allows us to offer intensive and individualized practice.

In the realm of Agronomical Engineering (Agricultural Sciences), students benefit from a multicultural environment, boasting representation from over 48 countries among peers, officials, and faculty. With a legacy of over 30 years, the program has successfully nurtured young minds from America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, enabling them to drive sustainable development within their nations and foster equitable and prosperous societies. Within this academic family, unwavering support is guaranteed at every step of your journey.

The Master of Arts in Gender and Development offered by UPEACE, jointly with the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), aims to equip students with critical knowledge about gender studies in its intersections with development studies. Gain the skills to advance gender equality with this graduate program focused on the crucial role of women in diplomacy and development.

This master's program aims to train leaders with the elements of an integral human development for the 21st century. The essential nucleus of this formation will make it possible to understand that the conflicts we face must be transformed and solved peacefully, because that is the only way to lay the foundations for peace. The combination of these elements allows access to development in all its facets: human development, sustainable and sustainable. For this, our vision supports the notions of the United Nations that peace, human development and the transformation and resolution of conflicts must contain transversally elements related to gender equity and the principle of non-discrimination, be this racial , social, conscience, cult, or other.

The Master of Arts Degree Program in Gender and Peace Building offers critical knowledge and training in gender studies, which is a crucial aspect of any and all peace efforts.

The Master of Arts Degree in International Peace Studies provides an interdisciplinary and critical analysis of the causes and consequences of a wide range of contemporary conflicts and violence that impact on global, international and human security. Topics to be explored include militarization, armed conflicts, violent extremism, economic, social and gender injustices, cultural and religious identity conflicts, and competition over environmental resources. An in-depth understanding of peacebuilding and peace processes in response to these issues is built.

The Master of Arts Degree in Peace Education seeks to develop and strengthen the capacity of formal and informal educators to build a peaceful world on all levels and in all dimensions of life. Through coursework and independent research or internship experiences, complemented with a unique and cooperative learning environment at UPEACE, students will enhance their values formation, knowledge and skills for living in and building cultures of peace. An understanding of the roles education, educators and institutions can play in resolving and transforming conflicts and violence towards holistic cultures of peace is explored.

All students enrolled under this program will take most of the courses within the International Peace Studies program, however, this specialization will include 12 credits focused specifically on Media, Peace, and Conflict Studies.

The Master of Arts Degree in Environment, Development, and Peace (EDP) provides comprehensive training in issues of sustainable development, environmental governance, natural resource management, and environmental conflict management from both ecological and social perspectives. It encompasses a broad range of subjects and themes, including Food Systems, Water Management, Forestry, Coastal Resources, Climate Change, Urban Ecology, and Social Movements. The program focuses on the human dimensions of the environment-development nexus, highlighting the connections between local perspectives and broader processes at the national, regional and global levels and emphasizing the importance of political, economic structures and inequality in access to resources as key drivers in environmental conflict and global environmental change. The program prepares students for a wide range of careers in both environmental and development policy and programming in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

The online Master of Arts program in Sustainable Peace in the Contemporary World engages competent professionals and researchers to resolve pressing and complex global problems that concern humanity. Every course in the program shares a commitment to ethics, fundamental human values, gender sensitivity, and multiculturalism. The content of the online M.A. moves from a study of the origins of conflict at the personal, local, internal, and international levels to the promotion and practice of peace.

The tropics are one of the most diverse regions on Earth, and it hosts 80% of the planets terrestrial species and 95% of the corals and mangroves. The health and conservation of the tropical ecosystems are vital for life on Earth and the general well being of humans. Many foods and medicine resources come from the tropics, and the balance of the region impacts not only the world economy but also the global biological diversity.