Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Management (ADE, E-2 English)

About the course

A four-year, 240 ECTS business degree taught entirely in English at the ICADE campus in central Madrid. It covers management, accounting, finance, marketing, economics, mathematics and languages, with an exchange and double-degree options with partner universities.

Entry requirements for Irish students

• Comillas asks you to meet the legal requirements for university entry. Under Spanish law (Royal Decree 534/2024), Leaving Cert students do not sit the Spanish PAU but must meet the rules for university entry in Ireland (as a guide, six subjects with at least H5 in two and O6/H7 in the other four, including English and Irish; Irish colleges set this differently, so check). Comillas says it sets no minimum cut-off mark: it assesses your school record from your last three completed years together with its admission tests. It does not publish Irish-specific rules or say whether it needs a UNEDasiss accreditation, so confirm the documents it needs with admissions.
• ICADE’s admission tests are a maths test (24 questions, 45 minutes), a general knowledge test (45 questions, 45 minutes, covering literature, history, geography, art, cinema, music and current affairs), a psychometric reasoning test and a written English test. You can take the maths and knowledge tests in English, and applicants living outside Spain can sit them online.
• Every candidate takes the written English test, even with a certificate. If you have a TOEFL, Cambridge or IELTS certificate, the better result counts. E-2 candidates also do an online oral English test. Comillas does not say whether Leaving Cert English exempts you, so plan to sit both English tests.

How to apply

1. Apply online from 1 October 2026Register on the Comillas Admission Portal and apply for the E-2 English degree. Upload your school records from your last three completed years. Apply by 13 January 2027 for the first round.
2. Oral English testDo the online oral English test for English-taught degrees. These sessions start from November.
3. Sit the admission testsSit the maths, general knowledge, psychometric and written English tests on 30 January 2027 (round 2: 8 May 2027). You can do them online if you live outside Spain. Results come about 20 days later.
4. Accept and enrolIf you get an offer, pay the registration fee (€1,646.45) to secure your place. Then send your final Leaving Cert results and any accreditation Comillas asks for before the course starts on 1 September 2027.

Costs

• Comillas is a private university, so Spanish and EU students pay the same fee. The programme page lists a registration payment of €1,646.45 plus 9 monthly payments of €1,531.87, a total of €15,433.26 a year. Fees usually rise a little each year. Confirm the figure for later years and any application or test fee with the university, because we could not find one published.

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