Bachelor in Transformational Leadership and Social Impact
- Barcelona, Spain
- Madrid, Spain
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 20,500 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* Esade may update annually their prices - but such increases shall not exceed the annual rate of inflation.
Key Summary
BITLASI, Esade's Bachelor in Social Entrepreneurship & Business Innovation for Social Impact
BITLASI is an multidisciplinary learning journey: business, humanities and technology for Social Impact.
Becoming a social entrepreneur or business innovator for social impact is a lifelong journey. Within the four-year timeframe of BITLASI, our goal is to give you the tools you need to create economic, social and environmental value, no matter where you are. In BITLASI, we believe that high-quality knowledge is essential — but knowledge alone is not enough. In today's interconnected world of rapid innovation and pressing global challenges, true professionalism extends beyond theoretical understanding. It encompasses social and environmental sensibility, practical application, global awareness, and a commitment to continuous learning.
The objective of the degree in Transformational Leadership and Social Impact is to educate new generations of leaders capable of identifying the keys to change (technological, climatic, geopolitical, and demographic) and generating sustainable, inclusive, and intelligent economic growth based on innovation: intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs.
Why BITLASI? Discover our degree focused on Business and Humanities for Social Impact
A disruptive multidisciplinary education
- 60% business, 25% Humanities, 15% Technology: 100% transformation for Social Impact. BITLASI covers three crucial fields of knowledge:
- Business with Social Impact: You’ll learn entrepreneurship, marketing, finance, operations, corporate strategy, design thinking, and more as tools for sustainability and social impact. How? Not attending separate subjects but in collaborative, cross-cutting projects.
- Humanities: More than ever, leading entails facing ethical dilemmas. By learning self-awareness, philosophy, anthropology, sociology and psychology and more, you’ll gain a critical edge and a good understanding of the world and of your place in it.
- Technology: BITLASI will help you develop skills and knowledge of AI, Big Data and more, and learn how to apply their power to solve human problems.
Internships
As well as a compulsory internship and diverse projects with leading companies, you can also help to improve the lives of developing communities through a voluntary solidarity internship.
Impact Talks throughout the program give you a direct connection with leaders as they share their perspectives on real issues in multinational companies, B-corps, and startups.
Flexible learning spaces
We believe that to enhance the individual learning goals of BITLASI, a combination of learning spaces must be provided to students during the 4 years of the Bachelor.
Based on that, the program is built upon various learning environments, including the BITLASI room, Fab Lab, media room, company facilities, and international ecosystems in Europe and Asia. There is no better way to understand an ecosystem than by experiencing it firsthand.
Innovative educational model
3 different learning methods:
- “Learn to Learn”: you will acquire cognitive and digital skills to continue to learn autonomously throughout your life.
- "Learn to innovate”: you will gain knowledge in all functional areas of business towards sustainability and social impact.
- “Lean to Think”: aimed to cultivate your ethical and humanistic skills to think about and understand the world as well as to make good personal and professional decisions.
A truly multicultural class profile
With 35 nationalities per BITLASI cohort (around 60 students), or more than 100 coexisting in our Barcelona campus, BITLASI offers the opportunity of a truly multicultural experience.
Transformative international experiences
During the program, our students will live transformative international experiences in Asia and Europe that will show them how to take advantage of any ecosystem, always with a social impact approach.
If you’re a good student and enjoy learning, if you like taking on new challenges and responsibilities, if you are motivated by the idea of having a positive impact on others, then you have the talent the Esade Scholarship Programme is looking for, a programme designed to help you access our classrooms and make sure your economic or geographical circumstances don’t get in the way of your dreams.
Scholarships: financial aid valid throughout your undergraduate studies
That’s right! When the Scholarship Committee awards you a Talent, Lodging or Living scholarship, you’ll be entitled to receive the benefits every year of your undergraduate degree programme. If you have a good transcript and financial needs, scholarships are for you.
Academic Excellence Awards: financial aid to reward your outstanding grades
Awards are intended to help with your tuition fee costs: they include various types and amounts of financial aid for students with outstanding academic records, regardless of their financial situation.
Income Share Agreement
Our Income Share Agreement (ISA) allows talented individuals to fund their education from their own future earnings. With this option, students can cover the last two years of their Bachelor’s Degree or Double Degree and combine it with a Scholarship or Award, enabling them to finance up to 90% of the total cost of their education.
The Bachelor in Transformational Leadership and Social Impact (BITLASI) is a degree in business and humanities for social impact that breaks the mould in terms both methodologies and content.
From the first year, you will integrate themes from diverse fields of knowledge through multiple learning styles, experiences and learning ecosystems.
The syllabus is designed to develop you as a socially and environmentally conscious business leader and as a human being. You’ll learn through both rigorous academic courses and through practical, collaborative projects how to seek and scale a positive social impact through business.
First Year: Knowledge
Self Awareness and Sustainability Foundations
In year 1, you’ll learn the fundamentals of marketing, finance, design thinking and more to build your own website, explore the possibility of developing a product in the FabLab and ideate an Impact business model. You’ll also develop essential managerial skills including critical thinking, tolerance, stress management, the ability to deal with teamwork conflicts in random groups, and basic technology.
Second Year: Tools
World Context and Sustainable Business Tools
In year 2, you’ll create marketing plans, build your own markstrat strategy, create competitive or corporate strategies, propose challenge-based solutions, and move onto more advanced concepts in business, humanities and technology.
Third Year: Goals
Sustainable, Humanistic Business Strategy
You will continue to add layers of knowledge on top of what you have already acquired and assimilated. You’ll apply more critical and disruptive thinking to help your possible future business plans take shape.
Fourth Year: Action
People, Planet, Profit
Year 4 is the time for taking action and making decisions. Which specialization track will you choose? Corporate innovation for social impact or social entrepreneurship? Where will you do your profesional internship? Will you do a solidarity internship in the summer? And of course it is also time for your final Project or thesis.
- #1 Private University in Spain for a Bachelor in Management, El Mundo
- #1 Academic leader in social impact and sustainability, Merco Responsabilidad ESG
- #4 level-4, Transforming Schools - Positive Impact Rating, PIR
- #1 Best university in Spain to study business administration undergraduate degrees, QS World University Ranking by subject
When you finish the Bachelor in Transformative Leadership and Social Impact, you will be prepared to start a career in the business world in a wide variety of roles in any country. In addition to the projection of having a degree from Esade, your professional profile will include a series of experiences and skills that will define you as an agent of change – prepared to launch new business projects, help companies to be more responsible or provide added value to those that are already having a positive impact.
You will also have expert support from Esade Careers—dedicated professionals who will help you define and achieve your goals.
Innovative educational model
The Bachelor in Transformational Leadership and Social Impact (BITLASI) combines diverse state-of-the-art learning methodologies. Together, they deliver an educational experience that prepares you to use the power of business to drive change.
Each of its three tracks is based on a methodology that reinforces a way of learning: individually, in teams, or in groups. Together, they help develop cognitive, hands-on and socio-emotional skills.
Because each BITLASI track is different, each requires specific learning environments. That’s why the program uses flexible spaces that adapt completely to the methodology being used, whether it is a masterclass, a presentation, a teamwork project, a conference or a Socratic dialogue session.