18 Degree Programs in Uruguay

This is the first Tourism Degree developed in Uruguay. It has the uniqueness that it is the only career in Maldonado that has four titles, which are awarded in the course of it. This allows potentially interested parties, both to fully develop their career, fulfilling the four-year program, to become an expert in matters of analysis and planning of tourism projects, as well as to develop technical training instances. In this way, if the student completes one, two, or three years and does not meet the requirements of the last year, they still obtain a university degree. For this, you only have to complete all the subjects of the year. In the first year, he receives a diploma in Tourism Services Management. This program already offers extraordinary training to work in activities related to Hospitality, Gastronomy, Real Estate, and Events. Unifa has unemployment 0, for more than five years with the students of this course, since with this training it is very easy for them to access the very important tourist companies in the department. In the second year, the person receives the Title of University Tourism Guide. This is the only proposal for the training of University Guides that exists in Uruguay. Their labor insertion is very high for the simple reason that these young people are the ones who are prepared to work in the hundreds of tours that are organized throughout the year, by various companies. It is also easy to recognize that in the summer season, due to the presence of cruises, the number of Tourist Guides that are in Maldonado is really insufficient, so companies must often hire people who have no preparation for this activity, with the consequent loss of quality of the services that involve them. With the third year, the person obtains the Technique in Tourism, which enables him to carry out tasks related to the organization of tourism companies. The fourth-year allows obtaining the title of Bachelor of Tourism. He is a person who is theoretically and practically capable of practicing the profession in different fields. It works in the areas of assistance and advice to companies linked to this sector, in relation to the planning, organization, execution, and control of all the resources they have. You can develop your task at the managerial or consulting level. He is capable of developing his work in a morally committed way through the application of the knowledge that makes up the tourist sciences, as well as having enough knowledge to design research projects, referring to various topics that make up the work of this discipline.

The courses are aimed at the academic and technical training of the student, emphasizing the conceptual contents of the disciplines. Academic and ethical development is proposed that allows the graduate to contribute to the social and cultural progress of the community.

The Master of Public Policy is part of a long and rich tradition of international programs in Public Policy (MPP) and Public Administration (MPA), which train professionals to perform functions in government, public administration, companies, and social organizations. It offers training in skills such as microeconomics, macroeconomics, strategic management, methodology, statistics, spatial and network analysis, project formulation, and evaluation. Likewise, it offers the possibility of specialization in methodology for the analysis of public policies; social and educational policies; territorial and urban planning; State, market, and the third sector. The program is aimed at professionals already inserted in the public administration, in social organizations, and in international organizations, as well as those who are starting their professional career and wish to improve their possibilities of insertion or intend to continue later doctoral studies in public policy, sociology, economics or political science.

A degree in Psychology is a person who is theoretically and practically trained to practice the profession in different fields at the first level of assistance. It works as a promoter of health and the improvement of the quality of life of the inhabitants of society. Receive adequate training to diagnose, prevent and assist people with psychological problems. You can develop your work in a morally committed way through the application of psychology in the clinical, labor, and educational areas, as well as having enough knowledge to design research projects, referring to various topics that make up the work of this discipline. He is trained to carry out his work independently or as part of teams in the public and private spheres. This discipline has undergone a strong increase in the demand for its services in recent years, so today it is completely foreseeable to enable an adequate insertion in the clinical field (office assistance), in educational institutions, in companies, and specialized organizations ( national and international non-governmental organizations). Finally, the foray of the psychologist into the academic field through teaching and research is no less important.

The degree is aimed at training professionals capable of participating and advising in the decision-making process implicit in agricultural activity. The skills and knowledge acquired, both in the technical-productive and economic-financial areas, will allow the graduate to plan, control, and evaluate the agricultural activity, orienting it to the optimization of the use of resources in the search for sustainable production systems. With specific knowledge of business management, he will be able to advise on the commercialization and marketing of the products derived from the activity.

The Program combines elements of training in theory and research, in order to enable graduates, depending on the case, the work of teaching, management, administration, and analysis of the working conditions of higher education, as well as in space of the consultancy. All this aimed at strengthening institutional strengthening and reengineering processes, which show a scenario of growing and sustained growth in the country and the region.

The purpose of the Master in High Performance in Team Sports is to train specialists who acquire a specific work methodology for training in team sports, know and use tools related to planning, control, and evaluation of training in this type of sports, and experience practical situations in which the model developed in the theoretical contents is applied.

Music therapy is a profession in the health area, which uses music and acoustic phenomena to work from pregnancy to the last moments of life. Music therapists are qualified professionals whose interventions seek to promote, prevent and rehabilitate aspects such as communication, interrelation, learning, mobilization, expression, organization, and other relevant therapeutic objectives, with the purpose of preventing and attending to physical and emotional needs. , mental, social, and cognitive.

Psychomotricity is a discipline that is based on an integral conception of the person. It deals with the interaction that is established between the body, movement, emotion, and intelligence, to achieve that the individual develops their ability to express themselves and relate to the environment.

The academic proposal is to provide skills, abilities, and tools as well as up-to-date knowledge to serve as a linguistic and cultural link between people who work in various areas of knowledge and to know core lines in translation theory and develop the capacity for its practical application in the translation process.

The Master's Degree in Health and Sports Psychology is a new academic program that offers different health professionals the possibility of working in the field of physical activity, whether in sports or in promoting physical exercise. Likewise, this proposal is aimed at providing useful elements of psychology for other university professionals linked to physical activity and sport within the framework of health.

The curricular plans are complete with updated theoretical-practical courses and job placement programs that allow the knowledge acquired in the classroom to be applied to the real demands of the job.

Our graduates will have solid specific training that will build the rigorous scientific support that sports training of the highest level requires. They will be prepared to direct the comprehensive training of athletes in their respective specialties and in the various stages of their careers, whether in initiation, improvement, or high performance

The Master of Business Administration is a program designed to empower professionals with a different perspective, to overcome challenging contexts, and increase the competitiveness of the projects and organizations they lead. As a Jesuit university, we promote sustainable organizations that contribute to the growth of individuals and their communities.

The dissemination of the application of issues related to Supply Chain Management and the need for companies to use it as a competitive advantage requires experts in the area with solid training and the ability to face changes. In this context, both logistics firms and public and private companies, in general, require more and more highly trained professionals from a technological point of view and with good scientific training.