University master's degrees
University Master's Degree in Geoinformation

The best assessed master's degree in GIS in Spain. Over twenty years training professionals in ICTs in the GEO sector: 300 postgraduates with 80% employability

Official Master's Degree in Geoinformation

Ideal student profile

The Official Master’s Degree in Geoinformation is aimed at two different and complementary student profiles thereby enriching the work group and the study experience:

  • Recent graduates in any discipline related to territory or information technologies who wish to acquire a professional specialization for the future.
  • Professionals, working or unemployed, who have graduated no longer than six years previously, in any discipline related to territory or information technologies who wish to improve or reorient their career towards new professional avenues.

In both cases a high degree of motivation and a great capacity for learning are required, along with academic performance and the ability to organize. Knowledge of English (level B1) to make the most of the bibliography and the programming resources (programming documentation, developers’ forums, etc.) used on the course, is required.
Given the experience of the last UAB master’s degree prior to this year’s official master’s degree in Geoinformation, the most common prior studies undertaken by students on the master’s degree are Geography, Environmental Sciences, Biology, Topography, Geology, Computer Sciences, Agricultural Engineering and Forest Engineering.

Knowledge

  • Identify the theoretical foundations and technologies related to geospatial information.
  • Identify the main utilities and basic applications of geospatial information.
  • Introduce the ethical responsibility of geospatial information and its derived products: legislation, inequalities based on sex and gender, and social implications.
  • Relate paradigms to address the complexity of territorial problems using information that includes reflections on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of knowledge and judgments.
  • Recognize the different paradigms and programming environments of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) related to the development of Geoapplications.

Skills

  • Design cartographic documents and, in general, geovisualization products of geospatial data applying advanced techniques.
  • Use production and publishing processes for analog and digital media of the developed geovisualization products.
  • Examine projects based on user needs and functional and interface requirements in corporate or public environments.
  • Apply methodologies for analyzing geospatial and alphanumeric information to urban or territorial management problems.
  • Solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to Geoinformation.
  • Evaluate the quality of applied geoinformation sources and identify their limitations (format, reliability, etc.).

Competences

  • Plan projects with the necessary leadership for spatial analysis of complex systems using Geoinformation products applied to territorial, socio-environmental, and smart space studies.
  • Formulate imaginative, creative, and innovative ideas in projects involving systems, services, products, or geospatial information applications.
  • Adapt cartographic design principles to cartographic documents for different analog or digital publication media.
  • Defend results and conclusions, and the underlying reasons that support them, to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous manner.
  • Make judgments based on information that, although incomplete or limited, includes reflections on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of knowledge and judgments.
  • Demonstrate autonomy in the development of academic and/or professional proposals in the field of Geoinformation.
  • Manage GIS projects by applying programming knowledge specific to geoinformation.