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The University of Valencia ( ca-valencia, Universitat de València ; also known as UV) is a

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located in the city of

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

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. It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest in the

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. It is regarded as one of Spain's leading academic institutions. The University was founded in 1499, and currently has around 55,000 students. Most of the courses are given through the medium of Spanish, but the university has promised to increase the number of courses available in

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. Moreover, in some degrees part of the teaching is in English. It is located in the Mediterranean Spanish baseline, in the city of

which is the capital and most populous city of the

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and the third largest city in Spain, with a population of 829,705 in 2014. One of its campuses is located in the metropolitan area of Valencia, in the municipalities of

Burjassot Burjassot ( es, Burjasot) is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of Horta Nord in the Valencian Community, Spain. Museums The Museum of Geology at the University of Valencia is located on calle Doctor Moliner. It has several collections of geolo ...

and

Paterna Paterna is a city and a municipality in the province of Valencia in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is located northeast of the comarca of '' L'Horta de Valencia'', northwest of the inland suburbs of Valencia, and on the left bank of the riv ...

. The current chancellor is María Vicenta Mestre Escrivá.

History

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James I the Conqueror James I the Conqueror ( es, Jaime el Conquistador, ca, Jaume el Conqueridor; 2 February 1208 – 27 July 1276) was King of Aragon and Lord of Montpellier from 1213 to 1276; King of Majorca from 1231 to 1276; and Valencia from 1238 to 1 ...

Pope Innocent IV Pope Innocent IV ( la, Innocentius IV; – 7 December 1254), born Sinibaldo Fieschi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 June 1243 to his death in 1254. Fieschi was born in Genoa and studied at the universitie ...

in 1246 authorized (by a

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) the establishment of ''estudis generals'' in Valencia. The University Statutes were passed by the municipal magistrates of Valencia on April 30, 1499; this is considered to be the 'founding' of the University. In 1501, Pope

Alexander VI Pope Alexander VI ( it, Alessandro VI, va, Alexandre VI, es, Alejandro VI; born Rodrigo de Borja; ca-valencia, Roderic Llançol i de Borja ; es, Rodrigo Lanzol y de Borja, lang ; 1431 – 18 August 1503) was head of the Catholic Chur ...

signed the bill of approval and one year later

Ferdinand II the Catholic Ferdinand II ( an, Ferrando; ca, Ferran; eu, Errando; it, Ferdinando; la, Ferdinandus; es, Fernando; 10 March 1452 – 23 January 1516), also called Ferdinand the Catholic (Spanish: ''el Católico''), was King of Aragon and Sardinia fro ...

proclaimed the Royal Mandatory Concession. Its foundation was due to the zeal of St.

Vincent Ferrer Vincent Ferrer, OP ( ca-valencia, Sant Vicent Ferrer , es, San Vicente Ferrer, it, San Vincenzo Ferreri, german: Sankt Vinzenz Ferrer, nl, Sint-Vincent Ferrer, french: Saint Vincent Ferrier; 23 January 1350 – 5 April 1419) was a Kingdom of V ...

and to the donation of a building by Mosen Pedro Vilaragut. Only very meagre accounts have been preserved of the practical workings of the university. From the time of its foundation the courses included

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, and

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, and

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. The closing years of the seventeenth, and the whole of the eighteenth century, witnessed the most prosperous era of the university, Greek, Latin, mathematics, and medicine being specially cultivated. Among the names of illustrious students that of

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's friend, noted physicist and author of important mathematical works, stands out prominently. Escolano says that it was the leading university in mathematics, the humanities, philosophy, and medicine. Large anatomical drawings were made by the students. Valencia was the first university of Spain to found a course for the study of herbs. Many of the Valencian graduates of medicine became famous. Pedro Ximeno discovered the third small bone of the ear. He was professor at Alcalá and had for a pupil the celebrated Vallés. Luis Collado, professor of botany, made some valuable discoveries and carried on exhaustive studies of the plants of the Levant;

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wrote works on botany; and the famous botanist Cavanilles was also a student of this university. In the seventeenth century, the university divided into two factions, the

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and the anti-Thomists. The discussions were heated and aroused partisan feelings throughout the entire Kingdom of Valencia. The university possessed a library of 27,000 volumes which was destroyed by the soldiers under the command of General Suchet. Among the most noted professors of the university was D. Francisco Pérez Bayer, a man of wide culture and great influence in the reign of

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. Around the university several colleges for poor students sprang up: the first was founded by St.

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in 1561 and then followed those founded by Doña Angela Alonsar, and Mosen Pedro Martín. The most famous, called Corpus Christi, was founded by Blessed

Juan de Ribera Juan de Ribera (Seville, Spain, 20 March 1532 – Valencia, 6 January 1611) was an influential figure in 16th and 17th century Spain. Ribera held appointments as Archbishop and Viceroy of Valencia, Latin Patriarchate of Antioch, Commander in ...

; Philip II founded that of San Jorge; and Melchor de Villena founded the last in 1643. During the

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, in 1938, a fire badly damaged the library.LOST MEMORY - LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES DESTROYED IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
() Nowadays, it is a modern European public university open to almost every branch of teaching, research and learning in humanities, basic sciences and technology, health sciences, social sciences, and education.

Campuses

The University of Valencia has three main urban campuses located in

city and in Burjassot-Paterna, and some other buildings and facilities in the hearth of Valencia town, such as the Historic Building,

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, Cerveró Palace, the Rectorate and others, and the

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, located in the town of Aras de los Olmos. *The Burjassot Campus houses the colleges of Biology, Pharmacy, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and the School of Engineering. *On the

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Campus the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Psychology, Geography and History, Languages, Physical Education, Physiotherapy and Nursing. *The third campus, Tarongers, houses the Schools of Law, Economics and Business, Social Sciences, and recently the School of Elementary Teacher Training, which moved from its previous location near the Blasco Ibañez Campus.

Schools and Faculties

The University of Valencia has 18 Schools and Faculties located in its three main campuses. Each one allocates different academic departments and offers undergraduate, official masters and PhD programs.

Studying at the University of Valencia

The University of Valencia offers degrees in almost all of the academic fields: arts and humanities, engineering, health sciences, sciences, and social sciences. The exchange programs with foreign universities, as well as other programs of International Cooperation and Development Aid, allow students to study in other academic institutions from Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia. Regarding student mobility through Erasmus program, it is among the top ten universities in Europe. The university has partnered with

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provider based in

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, to bring inbound students from the United States and Canada.

Research

Research is conducted through several ways. The Academic Departments within each School, the Research Institutes, the Science Park and some others. The Research Institutes are conceived as multi-disciplinary research structures beyond the framework of the departments; they aim to meet the demand of the economic and social context in the research and transfer fields.

Notable faculty

* Juan José Martí (1570-1604) - novelist and canon lawyer *

Santiago Ramón y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal (; 1 May 1852 – 17 October 1934) was a Spanish neuroscientist, pathologist, and histologist specializing in neuroanatomy and the central nervous system. He and Camillo Golgi received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or M ...

(1852-1934) - received

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in 1906 * Dámaso Alonso (1898-1990) - poet, philologist, literary critic * Ernest Lluch (1937-2000) - economist and politician * Álvaro López-García (1941-2019) - astronomer *

Carles Solà Carles Solà was born in Xàtiva, Valencia Province on 1 January 1945. He awarded a PhD degree in Chemistry at the UV, he has carried out research in Biochemical Engineering with 130 publications, having tutored 22 doctoral theses and directe ...

(born 1945) - chemist and academic adminisrator *

Josep Guia Josep Guia i Marín (; born 1947, in Valencia) is a Spanish writer, mathematics professor of University of Valencia The University of Valencia ( ca-valencia, Universitat de València ; also known as UV) is a public research university locat ...

(born 1947) - mathematician *

Jon Juaristi Jon Juaristi Linacero (born in Bilbao in 1951) is a Spanish poet, essayist and translator in Spanish and Basque, as well as a self-confessed former ETA militant.

(born 1951) - poet, essayist and translator

Notable alumni

Arts and Science

Juan Luis Vives Juan Luis Vives March ( la, Joannes Lodovicus Vives, lit=Juan Luis Vives; ca, Joan Lluís Vives i March; nl, Jan Ludovicus Vives; 6 March 6 May 1540) was a Spanish ( Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist wh ...

(1493-1540) -

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scholar; father of modern psychology * Joseph Calasanz (1557-1648) - priest * Juan Tomás de Rocaberti (1627-1699) - theologian *

Mathieu Orfila Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila ( Catalan: ''Mateu Josep Bonaventura Orfila i Rotger'') (24 April 1787 – 12 March 1853) was a Spanish toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology. Role in forensic toxicology If t ...

(1787-1853) - toxicologist, founder of science of toxicology *

Graciano López Jaena Graciano López y Jaena (; December 18, 1856 – January 20, 1896), commonly known as Graciano López Jaena, was a Filipino journalist, orator, reformist, and national hero who is well known for his newspaper, ''La Solidaridad''. Philippine ...

(1856-1896) - Filipino journalist * José Martínez Ruiz (1873-1967) - novelist and literary critic *

José Gaos José Gaos (26 December 1900, Gijón, Spain – 10 June 1969, Mexico City) was a Spanish philosopher who obtained political asylum in Mexico during the Spanish Civil War and became one of the most important Mexican philosophers of the 20th cen ...

(1900-1969) - philosopher *

Isabel-Clara Simó Isabel-Clara Simó i Monllor (4 April 1943 – 13 January 2020) was a Spanish journalist and writer. She is considered one of the most important writers in the Catalan language. Simó was awarded several prizes, including the Premi Sant Jordi i ...

(1943-2020) - journalist * Rafael Ninyoles i Monllor (1943-2019) - sociolinguist *

José Luis Soberanes José Luis Soberanes Fernández (b. January 10, 1950 in Santiago de Querétaro) is a prominent Mexican lawyer. He was president of the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico from November 16, 1999 to November 15, 2009.Mexican Mexican may refer to: Mexico and its culture *Being related to, from, or connected to the country of Mexico, in North America ** People *** Mexicans, inhabitants of the country Mexico and their descendants *** Mexica, ancient indigenous people ...

lawyer * Josep Carles Laínez (born 1970) - philologist * Carlos Alós-Ferrer, economist * Etelvina Andreu, physicists, medical doctor, politician * José-Miguel Bernardo, mathematician, statistician * Marti Bonmati Luis, medical doctor * Estrella Durá, psychologist, politician *

María Ángeles Durán María Ángeles Durán Heras (born 30 November 1942) is a Spanish sociologist best known for being a pioneer in research on unpaid work, the social situation of women and their social and work environment, health economics, and inequality in the ...

, sociologist * Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, physicist *

Andrés Piquer Andrés Piquer (1711–1772) was a Spanish physician, philosopher, logician, writer and author. During the eighteenth century, a critique and re-evaluation of the Hippocratic Corpus within Spanish universities was pushed by Galenist scholars. Pi ...

, physician, philosopher * Antoni Roig Muntaner, chemist * Manuel Sánchez Ayuso, economist, politician * Daniel Tordera, chemist *

Hassan Ugail Professor Hassan Ugail is a mathematician and a computer scientist. He is currently working as a professor of visual computing at the Faculty of Engineering and Informatics at the University of Bradford. Ugail is known to be the first Maldivian ...

, mathematician *

Antonio Vidal-Puig Antonio Vidal-Puig (born Valencia, Spain June 12, 1962) is a Spanish medical doctor and scientist who works as a Professor of Molecular Nutrition and Metabolism at the University of Cambridge ( UK), best known for advancing the concept that pha ...

, medical doctor and scientist

Politics

* Gabriela Bravo, politician *

Gema Climent Gema Climent (born in Sagunto, Valencia, Spain in 1971) is a Spanish psychologist and technology entrepreneur in the field of clinical neuropsychology. She is known for her work in the development of neuropsychological tests in virtual reality a ...

, scientist, tech entrepreneur * Esther Herranz García (born 1969), politician * Belén Hoyo Juliá, politician * Joan Lerma, politician *

Enrique Monsonís Enric Monsonís Domingo (June 28, 1931 – October 7, 2011) was a Spanish liberal politician. Monsonís served as the head of the pre-autonomous government of the Consell Pre-autonòmic del País Valencià (''Pre-autonomous Council of the Valencian ...

, politician * María Sornosa Martinez (born 1949), politician *

José Manuel Vela Bargues José Manuel Vela Bargues (1962 – 16 July 2022) was a Spanish economist and politician from the Valencian Community. Vela served as the Valencian from 22 June 2011 until his resignation on 30 November 2012. Vela was a member of the People's ...

(1962–2022), economist and politician

Ranking

Notes

References

External links

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