**4. Conclusions**

The research allows us to conclude that, from the students' point of view, the university can indeed promote the ethical culture of future professionals in administrative areas. The participants recognise that corruption in the public and private spheres is closely related to a lack of ethics and undermines the common good, a situation that they consider to have become naturalised.

The participants' suggestions as to how the university could foster an ethical culture involve incorporating the approach and reflection of ethical issues in the subjects that make up the curricula of the degree programmes. They consider it important to study ethical dilemmas related to their profession through experiential reflections and experiences based on the day-to-day reality of business people.

The results of this research pose a challenge for universities that focus their efforts on the development of hard skills and technical abilities, neglecting the treatment of key aspects such as ethics, which contribute not only to the formation of the individual as a professional but also to his or her development as a whole person. Both the theory and the opinions of the participants in this study indicate that universities, and particularly the degrees that train in administrative areas, cannot ignore the obligation to train entrepreneurs and leaders who are capable of proposing solutions to economic and market problems, as well as those of a social nature.

*3rd International Congress on Ethics of Cuenca*
