Universidad de Navarra

University of Navarra

Universidad de Navarra
Latin: Universitas Studiorum Navarrensis
Type	Private, Roman Catholic
Established	October 17, 1952
Chancellor	Fernando Ocáriz Braña
President	Alfonso Sánchez Tabernero
Academic staff	1,569 (900 professors, and 669 adjunct professors)
Administrative staff	1,408
Undergraduates	11,180 (c. 681 international)
Postgraduates	1,557 (1,077 international)
Location	Pamplona, Spain
Campus	Six campuses: Pamplona (279.2 acres), San Sebastián, Madrid, Barcelona, Munich and New York City.
Affiliations	CRUE, CASE, Opus Dei, Catholic Church
Website	www.unav.edu

The University of Navarra is a private non-for-profit university located on 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 six campuses (Pamplona, San Sebastián, Madrid, Barcelona, Munich and New York City), the University confers 35 official degrees, 13 dual degrees and more than 38 master's programs in 14 faculties, 2 university schools, 17 institutes, 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"; in English: Superior Institute of Secretarial and Administrative Studies), and other centers and institutions.

The university also runs a teaching hospital, CUN, where 2,045 qualified professionals handle more than 100,000 patients each year, and a medical center research, CIMA, that focuses on four main areas: Oncology, Neuroscience, Cardiovascular Sciences, and Gene Therapy and Hepatology.

Since 2011, the New York Times has ranked the University of Navarra within the top 60 universities in the world, placing it at number 34 in 2012.

The institution was founded as the Estudio General de Navarra on October 17, 1952 with the encouragement of Josemaría Escrivá. It began as a School of Law with 48 students and eight professors, under the direction of Ismael Sánchez Bella. The founder described the ideals he wanted to transmit in the university:

"We want learned men to be formed here, with a Christian understanding of life; we want this environment, suitable for quiet reflection, to cultivate science rooted in its most solid principles, so that this light might shine over all the roads of knowledge"

After the foundation of the Faculty of Philosophy in 1955 and the Business School, IESE, in 1958, the Estudio General de Navarra was established as a university by The Holy See on August 6, 1960, and Escrivá was designated as the Great Chancellor. The university received an official accreditation from the Spanish State, on 8, September 1962.