CEU Cardinal Herrera University

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CEU Cardenal Herrera University
Seal of CEU Cardenal Herrera University
Former names
Centro Universitario San Pablo affiliated to the University of Valencia, University of Alicante and to the Polytechnic University of Valencia (1969–1999)
Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera (1999–)[1]
TypePrivate
Established1970[2][3]
ChancellorVicente Navarro de Luján
Academic staff
1,222
Students9,250
Undergraduates8,198
Postgraduates1,052
Location
Valencia
,
Spain
CampusValencia, Castellón and Elche
NewspaperEl Rotativo
AffiliationsCEU Foundation
EHEA
Erasmus Programme
Karolinska Institutet
Websitewww.uchceu.es

CEU Cardenal Herrera University (in Spanish: Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera) is a private university located in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is part of the CEU Foundation, being the first private school of Law ever founded in Valencia. It has been associated to the University of Valencia and Polytechnic University of Valencia since the early 1970s but the university gained its current name in 1999.[1]

The university has five faculties:

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
  • Faculty of Law, Business and Political Science
  • Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences
  • Technical School of Design, Architecture and Engineering (ESET)

CEU UCH offers degrees in English (Bachelor's degrees in architecture, veterinary medicine, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, nursing studies[4] and Gastronomy and Culinary Management), in French (Médecine Vétérinaire) and in Spanish. It boasts three modern campuses in Alfara del Patriarca (12 km from Valencia), Elche (Alicante) and Castellón. CEU UCH currently provides teaching to over 9,250 students from all over the world, with 35% of its students being international.

International rankings place CEU UCH at the top of the 23 Spanish private universities, rankings like Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) placed CEU UCH the second Spanish private university, after the University of Navarra, in terms of research in 2013.[5][6] In 2014 U-Multirank, a new global university ranking financed by the EU which assesses the performance of more than 850 higher education institutions worldwide, placed CEU-UCH as the tenth European university in agreement to regional involvement, scientific productivity and international orientation.[7][8] THE World University Rankings 2021 and 2022 have included CEU among the best universities in the world.[9]

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