ECTS & DS Labels Keys for Academic Excellence

The aim of this paper is to present an assessment of the importance of how and what are the actualresults after the higher education institutions have had designed the credits system in direct relations withtheir own characteristics. Also is important to identify and analyze how are the effects after the ultimatedesign of students guides and if those effects are bringing with them better feedback in terms of increasingnumber of cohorts of students. With this research paper we intend to make an overview of the results afterthis changes (re-design the curriculum, ECTS credit system, new learning modules, better, flexible andcomprehensive students guides) making the institutions more close to excellence in education and get readyfor the ECTS & DS Labels – awarded by the European Commission. All of those institutional changes can bemeasured in the final stage by an very actual indicator like the attainment and completion rates as well as bythe labor market prospects of graduates.