Competencies

After completing the studies you will have the following competences:

General competences

Official language competence

Profession-specific competencies 

General competences

Arcada's students are curious and reflective, putting education to work for a meaningful and sustainable life. Education is a lifelong pursuit of knowledge, new perspectives and deeper insight into oneself and the surrounding society. Education means taking responsibility for other people and society, and for one's thinking and behaviour. 

Learning and career competences  

Ethical and sustainability competence

Communication and social competence 

Local and global social competence

Technological competence  

Innovation and development competence 

The general competences are described at a general level here - General Competences BA degree programmes at Arcada (EQF 6) . The development of general competences starts in general education studies, continues through integration in professional studies and is deepened in development studies and research studies.

Official language competence

 The Language Unit assesses students' knowledge of the domestic languages and the results are stated in their degree certificates in accordance with section 6 of the Act on the Knowledge of Languages Required of Personnel in Public Bodies (424/2003). Please read more about the language studies here - Language studies. 

You can read about the generic competences and language competence in the section on competences.

Profession-specific competences

The four profession-specific competencies of the degree programme are based on society's and working life's need for educated, relevant labour. The core of the degree programme is competence in sustainable value creation, which permeates the other profession-specific competencies. The other three profession-specific competencies are: competence in evidence-based business practice, competence in leadership and competence in increased resilience. 

The degree leads to the following profession-specific competencies:

Competence sustainable value creation
Competence in evidence-based business practice 
Competence in leadership
Competence in resilience