The University of Alicante ( ca-valencia, Universitat d'Alacant, italic=no, ; es, Universidad de Alicante, italic=no, ; also known by the acronym ''UA'') was established in 1979 on the basis of the Center for University Studies (CEU), which was founded in 1968. The university main campus is located in
San Vicente del Raspeig/Sant Vicent del Raspeig
San Vicente del Raspeig (Spanish) or Sant Vicent del Raspeig (Valencian), or simply San Vicente / Sant Vicent, is a municipality located in the ''comarca'' of Alacantí, in the province of Alicante, Spain, inside the conurbation of Alicante city ...
, bordering the city of
Alicante
Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in th ...
to the north. As of 2011/12 academic year, there are approximately 27,500 students studying there.
History
The university inherits the legacy of the
University of Orihuela
The University of Orihuela was located at the Convent of Santo Domingo, in Orihuela. It was the second university in the ancient Kingdom of Valencia, founded 40 years after the University of Valencia. The official name of the institution was Pont ...
that was established by
Papal Bull in 1545 and remained open for two centuries (1610-1808).
Studies
The University of Alicante offers courses in more than fifty degrees. It comprises over seventy departments and research groups in areas of
Social Science and
Law,
Experimental science,
Technology,
Liberal Arts,
Education and
Health Science
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to health sciences:
Health sciences are those sciences which focus on health, or health care, as core parts of their subject matter. Health sciences relate to multiple acad ...
s, and five research institutes. Almost all classes are taught in
Spanish language, some are in English, in particular, in computer science and in business degrees, and a few are in
Valencian language.
Spanish language courses are offered for foreign students throughout the year and during the summer. The university offers English Language versions to PhD level including religion. Julian Havell was the first to graduate from this scheme.
The Department of Economics runs, in Europe, a well-known Graduate Program in Economics which is an American-style full-time program taught entirely in English. The program provides students with a thorough theoretical and practical training in microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, as well as specialization in applied fields. The aim of the program is to prepare students for professional careers in universities, public and private research organizations, international institutions, consultancy and business.
Campus
The university has a modern campus of one square kilometer. La Rabassa airfield was located on these lands until the opening of
El Altet Airport
EL, El or el may refer to:
Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...
in 1967.
University of Alicante is part of several networks:
European University Association
The European University Association (EUA) represents more than 800 institutions of higher education in 48 countries, providing them with a forum for cooperation and exchange of information on higher education and research policies. Members of th ...
,
Compostela Group of Universities (Spanish: ) and Catalan-speaking network
Xarxa Vives d'Universitats.
The university hosts
Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes. It is the largest
open-access repository of digitised
Spanish-language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 millio ...
historical texts and literature from the
Ibero-American world.
, a
free software for
machine translation, is being developed at the university in cooperation with Spanish and Catalan governments. The software is distributed under
GNU GPL
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general us ...
license.
Image:Campus università di Alicante.jpg, ''Drawing Space'' sculpture by Pepe Díaz Azorín
Image:UA-Aulario2.jpg, Amphitheatre of ''Aulario General II''
Image:UA-Eps.jpg, Sundial
A sundial is a horological device that tells the time of day (referred to as civil time in modern usage) when direct sunlight shines by the apparent position of the Sun in the sky. In the narrowest sense of the word, it consists of a flat ...
next to the building of Polytechnic School
Image:UniversityAlicanteCampus BibliotecaGeneral.JPG, University library
References
External links
University website (English, Spanish, Valencian)Cicerone UA - Virtual visit to the campus of the University of AlicanteBiblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
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Educational institutions established in 1979
1979 establishments in Spain
Universities and colleges in Spain