Comillas Pontifical University ( es, Universidad Pontificia Comillas) is a private Catholic higher education institution run by the Spanish Province of the

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Spain. The university is involved in a number of academic exchange programmes, work practice schemes and international projects with over 200 institutions of higher education in Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia.

History

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founded the Seminary of St. Anthony of Padua in 1890 in the town of

Comillas Comillas is a small township and municipality in the northern reaches of Spain, in the autonomous community of Cantabria. The Marquessate of Comillas, a fiefdom of Spanish nobility, holds ceremonial office in the seat of power at a small castle ...

, (Province of Santander, currently

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), in response to efforts made by the Marquis of Comillas to build an institution for educating local candidates to the priesthood. At the time of its foundation, the seminary was entrusted to the

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. In 1904, the seminary was raised to the status of a Pontifical university when

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granted the school the power to confer academic degrees in theology, philosophy and

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. In 1969 the university was moved to

, where it admitted a wider range of students including international students. In 1978 the Jesuits incorporated into the university their Madrid's

higher education Higher education is tertiary education leading to award of an academic degree. Higher education, also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education, is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completi ...

institution ICAI-ICADE, the resultant entity of the merger in 1960 of ICAI and

ICADE ICADE is the brand name by which two schools of the Comillas Pontifical University, located in Madrid (Spain), are known. It stands for '' Instituto Católico de Administración y Dirección de Empresas'' (''Catholic Institute of Business Administ ...

, two institutes established in 1908 and 1956 respectively. They are today the ICAI School of Engineering, the ICADE School of Law and the ICADE School of Business and Economics. Several other schools, like the San Juan de Dios School of Nursing, were incorporated later on, to reach the university's present structure of seven colleges and schools: *Facultad de Teología (Divinity School) *Facultad de Derecho Canónico (Canon Law School) *Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (Human & Social Sciences School) * Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería ICAI (ICAI School of Engineering) * Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales ICADE (ICADE School of Business & Economics) * Facultad de Derecho ICADE (ICADE School of Law) *Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería y Fisioterapia "San Juan de Dios" (Saint John of God's School of Nursing and Physiotherapy) Study and research centres and institutes have been created ( Institute for Research in Technology, Institute for Liberalism, Krausism and Freemasonry Research, Graduate Studies Institute, Institute for Educational Science, Institute for Migration Research, Faith and Secularism Institute, Law Innovation Center, Modern Language Institute, University Institute on the Family).

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External links

Universidad Pontificia Comillas. Official websiteIIT - Institute for Research in Technology. Official website
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