University of Navarra

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University of Navarra
Universidad de Navarra
The university logo
Latin: Universitas Studiorum Navarrensis
Established October 17, 1952
Type: Private, Roman Catholic
Chancellor: Msgr. Javier Echevarría
Rector: Ángel José Gómez Montoro
Faculty: 1,924 (1,502 professors, and 422 TAs)
Staff: 969 (576 in Pamplona)
Undergraduates: 10,153 (c. 558 foreigners)
Postgraduates: 4,667 (938 foreigners)
Location: Pamplona, Spain
Campus: Four campuses: Pamplona (279.2 acres), San Sebastián, Madrid, and Barcelona
Affiliations: CRUE,Opus Dei, Catholic Church
Website: www.unav.edu

The University of Navarra is a private pontifical university based at the southeast border of Pamplona, Spain. It was founded in 1952 by Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei as a corporate work of the apostolate of Opus Dei. It is widely considered Spain's top private university, and is also ranked among the most distinguished institutions of higher education in Europe.

The University confers 27 official degrees and administers more than 300 postgraduate programs (including 33 doctoral programs and 13 master's programs) through 10 schools, 2 superior colleges, 2 university schools, its world-renowned graduate business school, IESE ("Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa"; in English: "International Graduate School of Management" or "Institute of Higher Business Studies"), ISSA ("Instituto Superior de Secretariado y Administracion"; engl.: Superior Institute of Secretarial and Administrative Studies), and other centers and institutions. The university also runs one of Spain's most distinguished teaching hospitals and the largest medical research center in Spain called CIMA in addition to various community outreach and volunteer initiatives.

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[edit] History

Central building of the University of Navarra
Central building of the University of Navarra

The institution began as Estudio General de Navarra on October 17th, 1952 with the inauguration of its School of Law with 48 students and eight professors under the direction of Saint Josemaría Escrivá. The founder wished the future university "... to be a place where people acquire a high level of learning and a Christian outlook on life. We want it to be a place which encourages deep thought and reflection, so that learning is soundly rooted in true principles, and shines its light along all the paths of knowledge."

After the founding its School of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1955 and its graduate business school, IESE, in 1958, the Estudio General de Navarra was established as a university by The Holy See on August 6, 1960, and received official accreditation from the State of Spain on September 8, 1962.

Since gaining university status, the university has gone by the name of Universidad de Navarra and has established several other schools and academic centers.

[edit] Government Appointments of Professors

[edit] Notable rankings

IESE Business School of the University of Navarra: A top business school, according to Financial Times and the Economist Intelligence Unit.
IESE Business School of the University of Navarra: A top business school, according to Financial Times and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

The Economist Intelligence Unit of The Economist magazine, in its 2005 and 2006 rankings of MBA programs, ranks the University of Navarra's business school, IESE, as having the best MBA program in the world.

  • The Times in its 2006 Times Higher Education Supplement ranked the University of Navarra as the top private university in Spain
  • El Mundo, in its 2006/2007 "Spain Best Universities Annual Report", ranks the University of Navarra as the best private university in Spain, and has consistently ranked it as such in the past.

Among both public and private universities, its undergraduate journalism course ranked #1, its undergraduate audio-visual communications and humanities courses #2; its undergraduate infirmary, pharmacy, medicine, nutrition, and public relations courses #3; its undergraduate architecture and industrial engineering courses #4; and undergraduate business administration and management, law, telecom engineering, and social work courses #5.

El Mundo, in its 2007/2008 "250 Master" ranking of Spanish masters programs, ranks Navarra's

  • For more information on Navarra's master's degrees, click here.

[edit] Notable alumni

CIMA, the famed medical research center of the University of Navarra
CIMA, the famed medical research center of the University of Navarra

[edit] External links

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