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 Javier Echevarría
Rector Ángel José Gómez Montoro
Academic staff 1,924 (1,502 professors, and 422 TAs)
Admin. 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 St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei as a corporate work of the apostolate of Opus Dei.

Through its four campuses (Pamplona, San Sebastián, Madrid and Barcelona), 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 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 a teaching hospitals called CIMA, as well as various community outreach and volunteer initiatives. In addition, the University's library system contains over 1.1 million books.

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[edit] History

Central building of the University of Navarra

The institution began as Estudio General de Navarra on October 17, 1952 with the inauguration of its School of Law with 48 students and eight professors under the direction of 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 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.

During all its years functioning it has suffered six terrorist attacks with bombs carried out by ETA being the last one the 30 of October 2008,[1] that left 17 people injured.[2]

[edit] Government appointments of Professors

[edit] Notable rankings

  • The QS World University Rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds in its 2011 ranking, ranked University of Navarra as 375 in the World.
  • University of Navarra does not appear on the 2011 ARWA academic ranking of world universities that lists the best 500 institutions in the world.
  • The Times Higher Education in its 2010-2012 ranking didn't include University of Navarra among the top 500 Universities in the World.
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 nursing, 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

[edit] Notable alumni

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

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Un coche bomba en el aparcamiento de la Universidad de Navarra causa heridas leves a 17 personas, El Pais
  2. ^ Der Spiegel: Car Bomb in Spain Injures 17, october 10, 2008
  3. ^ article "Opus Dei", Micropaedia

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