Master's Degree in Leadership and Management of Educational Centers
Logroño, Spain
Master degree
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
About: This Official Master's in Leadership and Management of Educational Centers is delivered 100% online by UNIR. You'll complete 60 ECTS in 1 academic year via a remote method that combines live online classes, recorded sessions, a personal tutor and a virtual campus. Exams require attendance each semester. It grants access to official doctorate programs. Keywords: educational leadership, school administration, online pedagogy.
Career Outcomes: Prepare for roles like school manager, deputy manager, head of studies, department coordinator, HR manager, communications officer, or educational consultant and entrepreneur in nursery, special, early childhood, primary, secondary, vocational and adult education centers and administration.
Obtain your Official Master's Degree in Online Educational Centers Management with UNIR
The Official Master's Degree in Leadership and Management of Educational Centers 100% online will teach you the necessary skills to be responsible for schools, schools, institutes and other educational centers. You will learn to plan, promote and evaluate successful measures that improve the school community.
This online course on management of educational centers extends the training of teaching professionals who wish to prepare themselves to become directors of public, private or concerted educational institutions.
The Master's program in management and management of UNIR educational centers has a strong practical orientation . From the classroom the cases and problems that the directors of educational centers meet in their day to day are addressed. The classes are taught by active professionals with long experience in the management and management of educational communities.
It is the first official master's degree based on current Spanish legislation and does not require external internships, since all of its methodology throughout the course is based on real situations that are experienced daily in schools.
With the Master's Degree in Leadership and Management of Online Educational Centers of UNIR learn how to exercise an effective leadership that will excite teachers, parents and students.
General information
- Credits: 60 ECTS
- Duration: 1 academic year
- Start: October 25, 2018
- Methodology: Remote, 100% online
- Exams: Attendance at the end of each semester
- Doctorate Access: This official Master's degree allows the incorporation to official doctorate programs
Methodology
The UNIR study method is flexible, personalized and effective. The methodology is based on online live classes and personal tutor to offer the best training.
The UNIR pedagogical model is effective because it is based on a totally online methodology so that each student can study at their own pace:
- Live online classes: There are classes scheduled every day of the week in the morning and afternoon so you can attend class when it is best for you.
- Online classes in deferred: If you could not attend a class or you stayed with questions, you can access all your classes in deferred. You can see them whenever you want and as many times as you need.
- Personal tutor: The first day you will be assigned a personal tutor. You will be in contact with him by phone and email. He will support you in your day to day and solve any doubts that may arise.
- Virtual Campus: Everything you need to study at UNIR is on campus: classes, teachers, classmates, the library, teaching resources, schedules, chat, forums and much more.
- Teaching resources: You will have access to different learning resources to complete your training: complementary readings, diagrams with key ideas, self-assessment test, etc.
A curriculum to guarantee the quality of educational institutions
The curriculum of the Master in Leadership and Management of Educational Centers will help you develop leadership, management and organizational skills by combining specific subjects of organization and strategic management of educational centers with those of communication, group dynamics or center identity.
First quarter
- Educational Leadership for Management
- Organization and Strategic Management of Educational Institutions
- Management of Resources of the Center (I): Management and Management of Human Resources
- Educational Legislation and Documents for Management
- Innovation and Educational Models
- Quality Management: Evaluation and Improvement Plans of the Center
Second term
- Resource Management of the Center (II): Administrative, Economic and Commercial Management. Educational Marketing
- The Identity in the Educational Center
- Internal Communication, Institutional Image and External Promotion
- Information and Computerization in the Centers
- Teamwork, Group Dynamics and Strategic Negotiation
- Final Master's Project
Develop a comprehensive management project to overcome the Master's Thesis
This Master's thesis project can be presented as a real-world project. If the student is already a manager, or will be, at the specific institution on which they based their work, they can implement and put it into practice. You have two options for structuring your Master's thesis:
- You can focus on a school that is about to open. You will need to create a forecast outlining what the school should be like and its priority areas for action . From these, you will select the three most important and design a plan to implement them.
- You can also choose an existing center. In this case, you will need to conduct a diagnostic assessment of the current situation and identify the problems that need to be addressed or those areas that, while functioning well, require improvement. From all the possible improvements, the three most relevant will be selected, and you will need to design a plan to optimize them.
Professional profile
Upon completion of the official Master's Degree in Leadership and Management of Educational Centers from UNIR , you will be qualified to:
- Implement managerial skills (team management, change management, conflict management, innovation…) in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environments.
- Making decisions that result in quality and educational excellence based on the particularities of each center.
- Become the leader of your educational community.
- Knowing how to approach the planning, evaluation and management of daily tasks with a strategic orientation towards continuous improvement and innovation.
- Apply effective and strategic leadership in dynamic and changing contexts.
We help you finance your future!
At UNIR we offer you different forms of support so that you can continue your academic training in our virtual classrooms:
- Financial aid for your studies so you can achieve your goals and continue growing professionally.
- Interest-free financing with UNIR .
This Master's program is designed for students whose aspirations include:
- To manage an educational institution or to hold positions of responsibility.
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of educational project design.
- Understanding the planning, evaluation, and communication needs of educational institutions
- Access to a doctorate.
Management tasks are very different from teaching. With the Master's in Leadership and Management of Educational Centers, you will acquire the technical skills that will allow you to lead and innovate in a constantly changing environment. You will learn how to address the administrative needs of an educational center, engage the entire community, improve student-teacher relationships, and promote excellence. After completing this master's program, you will be qualified to work in the following positions:
- Management and sub-management of non-university educational centers, both public, subsidized or private.
- Management and administration of educational institutions.
- Head of studies.
- Educational project design.
- Communications Department in educational institutions.
- Human Resources Management of non-university educational organizations.
- Coordination of area, cycle or department.
- Administration of non-university educational institutions.
- Entrepreneurship and educational consulting.
In this way, you will be able to work in any non-university educational institution that provides regulated education, for which it will be necessary to have academic training that enables you to work at the corresponding educational level:
- Nursery schools, for children aged 0 to 3 years.
- Special Education Schools focused on children with disabilities, disorders or high abilities.
- Early Childhood Education, Primary, Secondary, Baccalaureate and Vocational Training Centers.
- Adult Education Centres, aimed at people over 18 years of age who want to resume their studies.