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.
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 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. 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. THE World University Rankings 2021 and 2022 have included CEU among the best universities in the world.
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History
It is run by the San Pablo CEU University Foundation which is the biggest private educational group in Spain, which includes two other universities (CEU San Pablo University in Madrid and CEU Abat Oliva University in Barcelona), as well as many primary and secondary schools. It has been associated to the University of Valencia since the early 1970s. The history of CEU UCH dates back to 1971, when the first private school of Law was founded in Valencia. The university gained its current name in 1999. The Foundation inaugurated its work in Valencia in 1971 and in Elche in 1994. The Generalitat Valenciana approved the law of the creation of the now University CEU Cardenal Herrera, which has been functioning since the 2000–2001 year. Now almost 10,000 students from around the world study in the university, with 35% of the student community being international.
The University Cardenal Herrera takes part in the Program of Academic Excellence and the Organization of the Knowledge "Platon" of the San Pablo CEU Foundation has started in collaboration with Harvard University and it belongs to the system of European Higher Education Area. The aim of "Platon" is the strengthening of the system of tutorships for the students and the teacher who accompanies to the implementation of a system of continuous assessment.
Schools and faculties
CEU Cardenal Herrera University has five faculties:
Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences:
Degrees in Journalism, Advertising, Audiovisual Communication, Sports, and Education
ESET Technical School of Engineering:
Degrees in Architecture and Industrial Design
Faculty of Law, Business and Political Science:
Degrees in Law, Political Science, Marketing, and Business Administration
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine:
Degree in Veterinary Medicine
Faculty of Health Sciences:
Degrees in Physiotherapy, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Medicine
University Masters
Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences :
Master in Communication and Digital Branding
Master's Degree in Creative Advertising and Branding
European master's degree in Public Relations MARPA
Master's Degree in Teacher Education Secondary Education and High School
Faculty of Law, Business and Political Science
Master's Degree in Equal Opportunities Agents (online training)
Master's Degree in Marketing
Master in Finance (with access to a PhD)
Master's Degree in policies and instruments for reducing CO2 emissions.
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Master's Degree in Clinical Practice Management and Veterinary Centers
ESET Technical School of Engineering
Master in Sustainable Architectural Design and Building Energy Assessment,
Master in Architectural Industrialisation and prefabrication,
Master in Engineering Design (with access to doctors),
Master's Degree in Technological Innovation and Technical Textiles,
Campus
CEU Cardenal Herrera University has three different campuses located in Alfara del Patriarca (Valencia), Elche and Castellón. All the main facilities, such as the central library and the International Relations Office, are located in its main campus in Alfara del Patriarca. The campus is very well connected to Valencia city centre, with a direct metro line (Line 1) and frequent bus service. It is also close to some of the privately run student accommodation residences. The university's brand new central library is a 5,000-square-metre (54,000 sq ft) building with a capacity for up to 700 students. Its learning facilities include several computer laboratories, 12 group study rooms and 7 research rooms. Audiovisual and Internet reference points are available in the Periodical and Media Libraries.
Medical students study at a newly built medical school building in Castellón de la Plana, which is an attractive town about an hour away from Valencia. The town is very close to Benicàssim, which is a popular beach resort. Despite its quiet and relaxed atmosphere, students can still enjoy great nightlife in the historical centre of Castellón de la Plana. The town is home to a large university hospital.
Student life
At the moment, there are around 10,000 students in the university from all around Spain, especially Valencia, Murcia, Mallorca, Ibiza, and Albacete. Every year 700 students from other countries come to study their degree at the university, adding to those who come under European Exchange Programmes like Socrates, Erasmus and Leonardo.
The CEU Cardenal Herrera University has its own facilities for practical training of students, as the Center for Media Production and Multimedia, of 3,300 square metres (36,000 sq ft), with television sets, radio and photography, the Veterinary Hospital, a reference in the area of Valencia, the Zoological Faculty, with various types of livestock, the University Dental Clinic, with outpatient care, laboratory practices in basic biomedical sciences and clinical simulated for the area of health. They also have a Central Library Newspaper Library, with 700 seats for consultation and over 100,000 volumes.
The CEU Cardenal Herrera University publishes a monthly newspaper, The Rotary Diary, and also features a fully operational radio station, Radio CEU, which broadcasts for 12 hours daily and media company CEUMedia which has more TV Channel; both are run from the Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences
The university features a number of social and sports-related groups. The university counts on a strong Erasmus-support group and every school features a Tuna, La Tuna del CEU-Cardenal Herrera (traditional Spanish band), which compete in the nationwide competitions and CEU Theatre, a formation in the classroom and the human growth across the art of the theatre.
In terms of sports, aerobics, gym, yoga, tennis, diving, tai chi, and numerous other courses are offered. In terms of team sports, the CEU UCH features male and female basketball, soccer, and volleyball divisions, chess, table-tennis and more. CEU UCH hosts regular sport competitions such as golf, football and volleyball tournaments. Internal university games are held several times a year, with all of the different schools competing.
CEU UCH offers Summer University which help eternal and new students, the formation in June and July the courses organize in the frame of the Summer university. Also offers Spanish language course' which the International Office helps foreign students with the procedures necessary to study at the university, and also with finding accommodation or learning Spanish. The university runs two Spanish courses per academic year for international students
Academics
CEU UCH's academic programs operate on a semester calendar beginning in late September and ending in June.
University rankings
In 2012 CEU-UCH's ESET Technical School of Engineering was selected as the number two design school by Architectural Digest in the article Top Ten section. Others within the top five include Parsons The New School for Design (1), Royal College of Art (3), Escola de Disseny i Art (4) and Istituto Europeo di Design (5).
El Mundo's "Spain Best Universities Annual Report", placed CEU UCH in 6th position in 2006 2008 and its Degree in Audiovisual Communication ranked fourth "Spain Best Universities to study Audiovisual Communication" in 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. El Mundo said: "The facilities, practical work in small groups and personalized attention are aspects of the race that contribute to achieving and maintaining fourth".
CEU UCH was highly ranked by many international university rankings in 2013.
U-Multirank, an independent ranking with financial support in its initial years from the European Union, stands for "multi-dimensional ranking of higher education institutions". The first ranking assesses the overall performance of 879 universities, 1,200 faculties and 5,000 study programmes from 74 countries placed CEU-UCH as the tenth European university in agreement to regional involvement, scientific productivity and international orientation U-Multirank was launched on 13 May 2014.
As of 2021 and 2022, CEU Cardenal Herrera University has been included in THE World University Rankings, scoring particularly highly for citations of its research and for international outlook and is one of the leading Spanish institutions in these areas.
Research institutes
GROUPS AND RESEARCH
The CEU Cardenal Herrera University has opened research projects in collaboration with Generalitat Valenciana. Some of these lines of research examining issues such as the neural effects of consumption of drugs and alcohol, diseases such as leukemia or diabetes, drug design and media Internet. The university has three research institutes: the IDYCA (Institute of Drugs and Addictive Behavior), the IDIT (Institute of Design, Innovation and Technology) and IDEA (Institute for Environmental law and Ethics). In July 2013, CEU-UCH and Karolinska Institutet from Sweden signed the student's partnership and exchange agreement
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine:
Endocrinology and pathophysiology of reproduction in ruminants and horses,
Research Group on Experimental and Applied veterinary surgery,
Improving food security in the production system and its derivatives,
Veterinary ophthalmology,
Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases,
Pathology and Animal Health,
Food safety in meat products,
Ethology and Animal Welfare Section
Faculty of Health Sciences:
Application of computational methods to the design and development of new compounds with biological activity,
Pharmaceutical Care and Rational Use of Medicines,
Cellular and molecular biology of cancer,
Notable people
Notable alumni includes for example Federico Martínez Roda;, María José Catalá, a Spanish politician who belongs to the People's Party; Santos González, a Spanish professional road bicycle racer who won the Spanish National Time Trial Championship in 1999 and 2001 and won in 2000 a stage in Vuelta a España, where he finished fourth; Spanish actress and model Ana Milán who is the best known for her roles in television series 7 vidas, Camera Café, Yo soy Bea and Física o Química; Joana Chilet who is director of Canal Nou; Pepa Crespo who is Bioparc's director of communication; Máxim Huerta, host at the El programa de Ana Rosa
Notable professors includes for example Manuel Zaera who works as Industrial engineering and Architecture teacher at the CEU-UCH and aerospace engineering at the European Space Agency. He worked ad professor at the Singularity University in 2010; Santiago Vega, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Complutense University of Madrid summa cum laude and master's degree from University of Lleida. Currently he is the Chancellor of the Faculty of Veterinary; José Enrique March, he graduated from CEU-UCH in advertising and currently he works as filmmaker; Manuel Ventimilla, professor at the CEU-UCH and at the Valencian Museum of Enlightenment and Modernity; Joaquín Ruiz, old student and currently audiovisual professor at the CEU-UCH. He won the prize for his documental "Calle Real 70" at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival; Enrique Beltrán, prosecutor at the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Valencia; Susana Sanz who was reelected as expert of the European Commission for the LifeLong Learning Programme
The university has some notarial honoris causa:
Valentín Fuster is a Spanish cardiologist – the only cardiologist to receive the two highest gold medal awards and all four major research awards from the world's four major cardiovascular organizations: The Distinguished Researcher Award (Interamerican Society of Cardiology, 2005 and 2009), Andreas Gruntzig Scientific Award and Gold Medal Award (European Society of Cardiology, 1992-2007 respectively), Gold Medal Award and Distinguished Scientist (American Heart Association, 2001 and 2003 respectively), and the Distinguished Scientist Award (American College of Cardiology, 1993). Fuster made news in 2006 when he managed a patient who underwent successful combined heart and lung transplant, which New York Magazine named one of the year's "11 medical marvels". In November 2012, Dr. Fuster received the highest honor given by the American Heart Association, the Research Achievement Award. Dr. Fuster has ranked among the Top Doctors in the US for the past 13 years and is considered in the top 1% of physicians in the United States by Castle-Connolly.