Master Programmes in Guatemala 2025

You will learn about waste analysis and management.

You will learn about analysis and management of water purification.

The Master in Organizational Leadership is focused on developing leaders with the skills necessary to lead innovative, creative, ethical, and strategic organizations. We seek, through a highly active, participatory, and applicable methodology, to provoke leadership, implementation, and evaluation of initiatives aimed at the development of the nation.

The main purpose of the Master in Social Communication with a Specialization in Audiovisual and Multimedia Management is to strengthen and deepen the competencies in the areas of audiovisual and multimedia production of professionals in the various fields of communication. For this, it will be based on the fundamental changes that communication has undergone in recent times in terms of the collection, storage, and recovery of information, processing, production, and distribution, as well as the presentation, visualization, and access to it. The two-year program is designed for participants to master the production and content generation models and apply the knowledge acquired in the digital area to manage strategies and multimedia publications for various platforms. As part of the methodology, the Case Study has been considered, which will allow professionals to analyze and interpret relevant cases in national and international contexts that are applicable to the study areas.

Accelerate the digital transformation of companies.

The Master in Comprehensive Risk Management seeks to train professionals who respond to the institutionalization needs of concrete actions to prevent, reduce and mitigate the incidence of adverse events, of natural or anthropic origin, that affect vulnerable populations and limit the development process safe and sustainability of the Guatemalan nation. This program is based on four pillars that are: strategic planning, decision-making, democratic security, and emergency management.

This Master's Degree has been designed based on the teaching competencies required by Higher Education, therefore its approach is highly didactic, which allows the immediate application of new knowledge, contributing to the quality of the university educational process. Through its 16 courses and the Professional Project, the graduates of this Master's Degree will obtain a global vision on the management of andragogic training, the application of technologies required in Higher Education, and a better understanding.

Tourism is a domestic activity that generates the most foreign exchange in the country. According to the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), in addition to being a profitable activity that contributes strongly to the GDP of many countries, tourism can be a development tool, if it works with the integral sustainability approach, that is, it contributes to the development. socioeconomic conditions of the communities and the conservation of natural and cultural heritage. It favors the generation of jobs and the reduction of poverty in countries of emerging economies.

The globalization of markets based on commercial openness currently represents great business for individuals and legal entities. In this sense, the study of trade and international business strategies play an important role in the internationalization of a company's operations by facilitating the movement of services and goods through knowledge of the streamlining of operations, simplification of customs procedures and processes, and application of the rules arising from global trade agreements and free trade agreements signed by the countries, as well as the design of effective international marketing strategies for the success of their operations.

The Universidad del Istmo, aware of its responsibility to train today's designers, offers a cutting-edge program to prepare them to face new challenges and professional environments in which interdisciplinarity has become necessary. We are in the era of interactive and multimedia communications and the designer has an important role here. This program trains participants in technology, strategy, and management. In addition, they obtain a specialty in a specific subject, chosen by the student, with which they can develop their professional practice in a specific field.

Design of each of the courses that include: Psychosocial considerations of the target group. The procedural, attitudinal, and conceptual contents of each area of ​​specialization Communication and Language, Physics and Mathematics, Educational Technology and Social Sciences, and Citizen Education are studied. The knowledge (procedural, attitudinal, and conceptual) applied to real life. How do you learn best? Promotion of Creativity, promotion of critical thinking. How is it best taught? Connect inquiry and learning. Application to real life: How to face uncertainty and new scenarios? How is this learning evaluated? Promotion of lifelong learning (learning to learn) Integration of contextualized knowledge with application to real-life Skills focused on conflict resolution. Promotion of entrepreneurship. Current trends in each area of ​​specialization. Inclusion of the study of Guatemalan educational legislation. Personal work and autonomous study are combined and the curriculum design, learning modality, essential characteristics, and approach of the teachers in secondary education are taken as a basis.

The Master's Degree in Operations and Logistics Management is defined as the most advanced studies, from a professional and academic perspective, in the direction and management of operations and logistics. The challenges of the business environment demand professionals capable of creating and running companies of all kinds at a national and international level.

The program focuses on developing ethical values, tools and qualities in the general context of administration; specializing in personnel management processes, organizational development, evaluation of the function of human talent, labor relations, ergonomics, business communication, industrial safety and compensation among others.

Through IPSL’s independently designed and curated reflections seminars, “Community Organizing and Social Activism (COSA), “ students receive a foundation of the history and key practices of community building and civic engagement, from domestic and international volunteerism, community organizing, grassroots social movements, and activism.