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The UC3M Teaching Model: Innovation and Academic Excellence
At Carlos III University in Madrid, we are committed to a dynamic educational model that combines academic rigour with a practical approach geared towards today’s professional environment.
Our teaching is primarily face-to-face, encouraging direct interaction between lecturers and students to ensure a high-quality education.
Each module will be organised as follows:
- Two 90-minute sessions per week, designed to explore key concepts and their real-world application in depth. In some of the more experiment-based degree programmes, there may be additional sessions throughout the semester.
- Laboratory sessions, in those subjects where required, incorporating practical experiments in state-of-the-art facilities to enhance technical learning.
Class sizes will generally range from 40 to a maximum of 60 students, depending on the degree programme.
In the degree programmes of the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences, one of the weekly sessions will be a lecture-style session, bringing together several teaching groups, with mainly theoretical content.
Cross-curricular subjects
The integration of cross-disciplinary skills is one of the key features that sets UC3M’s degree programmes apart and defines them.
We believe that professional success goes beyond technical knowledge. For this reason, all our degree programmes incorporate training in key cross-disciplinary skills.
This training forms a structural element of all our degree programmes, providing all our students with skills that go beyond the academic content of their studies, equipping them with personal capabilities that will be useful not only in the professional sphere but also in their personal development.
These subjects are designed to help our students develop highly valuable interpersonal, humanistic and digital skills, ensuring a successful transition into the labour market and meeting the demands of the most competitive corporate environments
This programme comprises:
- Soft Skills
- Effective Language Strategies
- Humanities
- Digital Skills for Information Use
- Digital Skills for Data Processing
- Digital Skills for Engineering
Would you like to find out more? Check out all the details on our cross-curricular subjects page
Key features of the UC3M Model
- Face-to-face learning: Direct, personalised instruction.
- Small groups: A maximum of 40–60 students per classroom.
- Hands-on learning: Laboratory sessions using state-of-the-art technology.
- More than just theory: Comprehensive training in soft skills and digital skills.
