The University of Valencia ( ), shortened to UV, is a

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Valencia Valencia ( , ), formally València (), is the capital of the Province of Valencia, province and Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, the same name in Spain. It is located on the banks of the Turia (r ...

, Spain. It is one of the oldest 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 taught in

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, however their plan is to increase the number of courses available in

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and English as well. It is located in the Mediterranean Spanish baseline, in the city of

which is the capital and most populous city of the autonomous community of Valencia 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 (; ) 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 geological and ...

and Paterna. The current chancellor is María Vicenta Mestre Escrivá.

History

At the request of James I the Conqueror,

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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 30 April 1499; this is considered to be the 'founding' of the university. In 1501, Pope

Alexander VI Pope Alexander VI (, , ; born Roderic Llançol i de Borja; epithet: ''Valentinus'' ("The Kingdom of Valencia, Valencian"); – 18 August 1503) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 11 August 1492 until his death ...

signed the bill of approval and one year later

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

Vincent Ferrer Vincent Ferrer, Dominican Order, OP ( ; ; ; ; ; ; 23 January 1350 – 5 April 1419) was a Kingdom of Valencia, Valencian Dominican Order, Dominican friar who gained acclaim as a preacher, missionary and logician. After supporting Antipope Benedic ...

(later canonised) 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; Vicente Alfonso Lorente 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 Thomists 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; 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
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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 Avenida de Blasco Ibañez Campus are the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry, Philosophy and Educational Sciences, Psychology, Geography and History, Philology and Translation and Communication, 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, Science, 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 International Studies Abroad, a

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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 Juan José Martí (c. 1570 – 22 December 1604) was a Spanish novelist, who was born at Orihuela, Province of Alicante about 1570. He graduated as bachelor of canon law at Valencia in 1591, and in 1598 took his degree as doctor of canon law ...

(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 * Carmen Aranegui (born 1945) —archaeologist * Carles Solà (born 1945) — chemist and academic administrator *

Josep Guia Josep Guia i Marín (; born 1947, in Valencia, Spain, Valencia) is a Spanish people, Spanish writer, mathematics professor of University of Valencia and political activist within PSAN party. In 1986, he was awarded by Fundació Jaume I. Some of ...

(born 1947) — mathematician * Jon Juaristi (born 1951) — poet, essayist and translator

Notable alumni

Arts and Science

Juan Luis Vives Juan Luis Vives y March (; ; ; ; 6 March 6 May 1540) was a Spaniards, Spanish (Valencian people, Valencian) scholar and Renaissance humanist who spent most of his adult life in the southern Habsburg Netherlands. His beliefs on the soul, insigh ...

(1493–1540) —

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scholar; father of modern psychology * Joseph Calasanz (1557–1648) — priest *

Juan Tomás de Rocaberti Juan Tomás de Rocaberti (Joan Tomàs de Rocabertí in Catalan, 4 March 1627 – 13 June 1699) was a Catalan theologian. Biography Rocaberti was born into a noble family at Perelada, in Catalonia. Educated at Girona, he entered the D ...

(1627–1699) — theologian * Mathieu Orfila (1787–1853) — toxicologist, founder of science of toxicology *

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(1856–1896) — Filipino journalist *

José Martínez Ruiz José Augusto Trinidad Martínez Ruiz, better known by his pseudonym Azorín (; 8 June 1873 – 2 March 1967), was a Spanish novelist, essayist and literary critic. Biography José Martínez Ruiz was born in the village of Monòver, Spain i ...

(1873–1967) — novelist and literary critic * José Gaos (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 in ...

(1943–2020) — journalist *

Rafael Ninyoles i Monllor Rafael Lluís Ninyoles i Monllor (1943 – 25 October 2019) was a Spanish sociolinguist, considered one of the parents of Catalan language, Catalan sociolinguistics along with Lluís Vicent Aracil i Boned. He was born in Valencia, Spain, Valencia ...

(1943–2019) — sociolinguist * José Luis Soberanes (born 1950) — Mexican lawyer * Amparo Acker-Palmer (born 1968) — Spanish cell biologist and

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* Josep Carles Laínez (born 1970) — philologist * Carlos Alós-Ferrer — economist *

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— physicist, medical doctor, politician * José-Miguel Bernardo — mathematician, statistician * Marti Bonmati Luis — medical doctor * Estrella Durá — psychologist, politician * María Ángeles Durán — sociologist *

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (born June 11, 1976) is a Spanish physicist and current Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Biography Jarillo-Herrero was born in Valencia, Spain. In 1999 he received ...

— physicist * Andrés Piquer — physician, philosopher * Antoni Roig Muntaner — chemist * Manuel Sánchez Ayuso — economist, politician * Daniel Tordera — chemist * Hassan Ugail — mathematician * Muriel Villanueva i Perarnau — writer * Antonio Vidal-Puig — medical doctor and scientist * Aquilino Cayuela — writer, columnist, and professor specializing in moral philosophy, politics, bioethics, and theology * Carmen Agulló Díaz — professor, non-fiction author * Jorge Mateu — mathematician, author, and academic * Juan José López-Ibor — psychiatrist

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 — politician * María Sornosa Martinez (born 1949) — politician * José Manuel Vela Bargues (1962–2022) — economist and politician * José Viñals (born 1954) — economist

Ranking

Notes

References

External links

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