Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales

Professional internships

In the third term, students can choose between taking two optional courses of the research itinerary or carry out internships (6 ECTS). The minimum duration of the internship is 120 hours, although the internship may be extended by up to 630 hours (yielding a maximum duration of 750 hours per academic course).

The tasks to be performed during the internships should include a training component in line with the Master’s objectives.

Through the Internship Office of the Faculty of Economics, this Master program will have direct access to an extensive database of institutions, including the Human Resources Departments of the main IBEX35 companies.

Priority will be given to internships offered by institutions such as Banco de España; BBVA Research; Banco Santander; La Caixa Research, etc., as well as by departments of economic analysis, cabinets and other centres of economic policy (Ministerio de Economía, Ministerio de Hacienda, Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), ICEX, COFIDES, CESCE, etc.), and by planning and data analysis departments of international firms (e.g. Google, Amazon, Amadeus, McKinsey, Deloite, Accenture, …). UAM also has on-going collaboration agreements with relevant companies such as Repsol, Toyota, etc.

The search process for internships is carried out jointly between the students and the coordination of the Master, in collaboration with the Internship Office of the Faculty of Economic and Business Administration. Internships will usually take place from April (third term) or during the summer.

The coordinators of the master will inform students of the internship offerings of which they have knowledge. Given the competitive nature of the internships, the signing of the internship contracts will depend on the institutions, which will be responsible for selecting the candidates from the pool of applicants, and therefore the internships cannot be guaranteed a priori. In some cases, the internships are paid.

Although all courses of the master are taught in English, since most of the internships are carried out at firms and institutions located in Spain, a minimum proficiency in Spanish will be required.

Through the Erasmus+prácticas program it is possible to carry out internships in countries of the European Union.

It will be possible to validate 6 credits of internships for those students who carry out a professional activity in the functional areas of economic analysis and quantitative analysis in companies and other public or private institutions that meets the academic and training requirements of the master's degree. The Academic Committee of the master will assess each case and issue the corresponding report.