Higher Education Courses

Animation: You will create and organize audiovisual animation projects using different techniques and software in 2D and 3D, working through all phases of the process: storyboard, concept art, layout, etc.

Artistic Jewelry: You will create innovative artistic jewelry pieces using the techniques and procedures specific to the trade.

Applied Arts to the Wall: You will design and carry out your own or commissioned proposals related to the pictorial and mural world, using various techniques and methods of creation for different environments.

Photography: You will carry out photographic projects, either independently or from professional commissions, in areas such as advertising, fashion, editorial, or artistic fields, among others.

Illustration: You will conceptualize and execute illustration projects using various techniques in different fields: editorial, industrial product, advertising, conceptual and digital art, etc.

Advertising Graphic Design: You will create graphic design projects in the advertising field using various media, both digital and printed.

Interactive Graphic Design: You will participate in the creation of design projects such as websites, mobile applications, or other multimedia products like e-books or audiovisual products (digital video or motion graphics).

Educational Structure

Our Higher Education Courses are structured in two academic years and include internships in companies outside of class hours. This methodology ensures practical and applied training, facilitating the students' entry into the job market.

The objectives of the higher vocational training cycles include:

1. Providing high-quality technical and artistic training that allows students to develop their creative skills.
2. Facilitating the acquisition of professional competencies that meet labor market needs.
3. Promoting the labor market integration of students through internships in sector companies.
4. Encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship in different artistic and design fields.

The cycles in plastic arts and design offer professional training in the fields of artistic trades, plastic arts, crafts, and design, preparing students for entry into the labor market in a specific profession.

They are organized into various professional families with a duration of two academic years, totaling between 1,800 and 2,000 hours. Part of these hours is dedicated to training in an educational center and another part to practical training in companies, studios, or workshops.

The aim of this training is to provide quality education that guarantees the acquisition of competencies for future professionals in the design and crafts sector as qualified workers: as a technician from the medium-level vocational training cycles or as a higher technician from the higher vocational training cycles.

Both technological advances and traditional techniques are covered, while creativity and knowledge of artistic heritage are developed, allowing professional activity to be carried out with respect for the environment and cultural heritage.

Higher vocational training cycles in plastic arts and design are part of the European Higher Education Area Level 1 Framework, are official and recognized within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA).

What do I need to access?

Direct Access

Direct access is available for those who have one of the following titles or qualifications:

• Baccalaureate diploma in the arts or experimental arts.
• Baccalaureate diploma in other modalities if three subjects from the plastic arts pathway have been completed.
• Technical diploma in plastic arts and design.
• Higher technical diploma in plastic arts and design.
• Higher technical diploma in vocational training from a family equivalent to plastic arts and design for access purposes.
• Degree in Design, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Fine Arts, Architecture, or Technical Engineering in Industrial Design.
• Higher diploma in Plastic Arts or a higher degree in Design or Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage.
• Graduate in applied arts and artistic trades, in any of the specialties from the study plans established in 1963, 1984, or 1986.
• Exemption resolution recognized by the General Directorate of Vocational Training.

Access with Specific Entrance Exam

To gain access, individuals must take the specific part of the entrance exam if they:

• Have a baccalaureate diploma.
• Have a technical diploma in vocational training.
• Have passed the higher vocational training entrance exam.

People Without Academic Requirements

Those who do not have any of the titles or qualifications listed above may access higher-level plastic arts and design cycles if they pass both the common and specific parts of the higher education entrance exam; to take the exam, they must be 19 years old or turn 19 in the same year as the exam.

Important Information about Entrance Exams

Before pre-registering and enrolling in the center, students without direct access must register for the entrance exam (common and/or specific). These entrance exams have a separate calendar from the pre-registration and enrollment calendar at the center.

Registering for and passing the entrance exam does not imply pre-registration and enrollment in the center.

What are the academic and professional opportunities?

Those who complete the higher vocational training cycle receive a higher technician diploma, which allows them to access:

• Any official university undergraduate study (preference is given to vocational training cycles in the same branches of knowledge).
• Higher artistic education in university design.
• Higher artistic education in university conservation and restoration of cultural heritage.
• The labor market.