Postgraduate degree in Service Management and Facility Management
Barcelona, Spain
Postgraduate Diploma
DURATION
5 months
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2027
TUITION FEES
EUR 3,100 *
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
* 10% discount for early registration
Key Summary
About: The UPC School’s postgraduate programme in Service Management and Facility Management covers management of buildings, physical assets and associated services. It focuses on strategies to optimize real estate and infrastructure profitability, reduce maintenance costs, and align support services with core business. It professionalizes practitioners who often work self-taught, offering lifelong learning for professionals updating knowledge or redirecting careers.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles such as Facility Manager, Property Manager, Asset Manager, Maintenance Manager, and Building Services Coordinator in real estate, healthcare, services. They’ll manage building operations, contracts, maintenance programmes, and service delivery to improve asset efficiency and value.
The comprehensive management of buildings, encompassing both the physical structures and associated services, is becoming a vital area for businesses. A sound facility management strategy allows for optimizing the profitability of real estate assets and infrastructure, reducing maintenance and upkeep costs, and offering more competitive support services that are aligned with the organization's core business.
The diversity of activities included in the management and conservation of buildings and in the maintenance of facilities makes it necessary to professionalize those responsible for this functional area of companies, who often act in a self-taught manner and lack methodology.
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- Facilities and their Contribution to Business Strategy
- Facilities Management and Value Creation
- Management Support Activities
- The Facility Manager and Their Management Skills
- Development of a Practical Management Case
The UPC School reserves the right to modify the program content, which may vary to better suit the program's objectives.
- To train people to perform the functions of a facility manager in an organization.
- Demonstrate understanding of the functions of the facility manager and their links with clients and suppliers.
- Identify and interpret the applicable legal framework in the practice of facility management.
- Use the most appropriate current techniques to manage spaces within an organization.
- To employ the most efficient techniques to manage the maintenance and conservation of an organization's real estate assets and facilities.
- Use the best techniques to manage an organization's support services.
- Apply the principles of project management and quality assurance to the activities of the facility manager.
- Evaluate and responsibly manage the contracting of support services for an organization.
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This postgraduate program is designed to address the need for methodological rigor in the management and operation of real estate and associated services. It is open to professionals from diverse backgrounds, such as:
- Architects
- Technical architects.
- Industrial engineers from different specialties.
- Civil engineers.
- Economists.
- Graduates in Business Administration and Management.
- Those responsible for maintenance and comprehensive management of infrastructure.