Bachelor’s Degree in Business Analytics (E-8)

About the course

A new four-year, 240 ECTS degree taught entirely in English in Madrid. It combines core business subjects (finance, marketing, economics, operations) with programming, statistics, databases, machine learning, big data, AI and data visualisation, and ends with capstone projects.

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 with admissions.
• ICADE’s admission tests are a maths test (24 questions, 45 minutes), a general knowledge test (45 questions, 45 minutes), a psychometric reasoning test and a written English test. You can take them in English and online if you live outside Spain. There is no published Leaving Cert Maths grade, but the course is heavy on maths, statistics and programming, so strong Maths is a good idea.
• Every candidate takes the written English test (a TOEFL, Cambridge or IELTS certificate counts if its result is better), and E-8 candidates also do an online oral English test. Comillas does not say whether Leaving Cert English exempts you.

How to apply

1. Apply online from 1 October 2026Register on the Comillas Admission Portal and apply for E-8 Business Analytics, uploading 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 required for E-8. 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. 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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