Master in Solar Energy
The Official University Master’s Degree in Solar Energy aims to provide specialised, high-level training in Solar Energy and its multiple applications, oriented towards the labour market. Part of the content of the Master is oriented towards research activities in solar energy, as well as learning how to plan and develop R&D projects and publications.
This Master has a high practical content. Thanks to this, students acquire both scientific and engineering training, which allows them to access PhD programmes and the industrial sector.
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Enrolment and students
The average number of students enrolled in the first year of the master’s degree over the last 4 years has been 23, with an average entry mark of 7.2. The average number of students enrolled per academic year is 33, with an average duration of 1.2 years. The access studies have been, in this order, degrees in Industrial Engineering (Electrical, Mechanical, Electronic and Chemical), Environmental Sciences, Physics and Chemistry.
With regard to the origin of the student body, it is worth highlighting the high percentage of foreign students, around 80%. This percentage is mainly made up of students from Latin American universities.
The gender gap has been narrowing over the last 3 academic years, and in the 2023-2024 academic year it has reached its minimum value, with a parity percentage of 83%.
Academic quality and employability
The average number of students graduating from the Master’s in the last 3 editions is 7.7 graduates/course. The average success rate (credits passed/credits taken) is 97%. Satisfaction with the teaching quality of the average student, evaluated by means of surveys, gives an average score of 4.7 out of a maximum score of 5 for the last 3 years.
With regard to labour market insertion, the data corresponding to graduates in the last academic year analysed, i.e. the 2022-2023 academic year, is 56%. An analysis of labour market insertion through the unemployment rate (unemployed graduates/graduates) extended to the two years following the completion of studies yields a value of 0, i.e. a situation of full employment for graduates in the academic year 2021-2022. With regard to the types of jobs held and activities carried out by Master’s graduates, it should be noted that 40% of the contracts are related to pre-doctoral scholarships, research projects or doctoral studies. The remaining percentage corresponds to technical positions in engineering companies related to the development of photovoltaic solar projects.
Scholarship and internship programme
Although the master’s degree does not have a specific subject on work placements, students on the master’s degree are eligible for the extracurricular grants managed by the University Employment Service of the UAL through the ICARO platform. In the 2022-2023 academic year, 3 students of the master’s degree have been able to carry out this type of internship, 2 of them at the CIESOL research centre and the third at a consultancy on energy projects linked to a group of agricultural cooperatives.
In addition to the scholarships and tuition grants from the national and regional governments, it is worth highlighting the agreement with the Carolina Foundation, which provides funds, from the 2022-2023 academic year, for the financing of 2 Latin American students, with the particularity that the call for the 2024-2025 academic year is for female students.
A student has also received a grant for the academic year 2023-2024 through the international mobility programme between Andalusian universities and institutions belonging to the Ibero-American University Association of Postgraduate Studies (AUIP), forming part of the ‘Line of Action 3: Grants and Mobility Grants for Postgraduate Studies’ of the AUIP Action Plan 2024-2026 for the development of postgraduate studies (Masters, Doctorate, Specialisation) in the Ibero-American sphere.