CEU Cardinal Herrera University

History

It is run by the CEU Foundation which is the biggest private educational group in Spain. Centro de Estudios Universitarios includes two other universities (CEU San Pablo University in Madrid and CEU Abat Oliva University in Barcelona), many primary and secondary schools and different centres of study (MBA, Senior University, etc). It has been associated to the University of Valencia since the early 1970s. The history of UCH-CEU 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 of Cardenal Herrera, which has been functioning since the 2000-2001 year. Now more 10,000 students from all over Spain, especially the regions of Valencia, Murcia, Majorca, Ibiza, and Albacete and international students with programs like European Erasmus Programme study there.

The University Cardenal Herrera takes part in the Program of Academic Excellence and the Organization of the Knowledge "Platon" of the CEU Foundation has started in collaboration with Harvard University and it belongs to the system of European Higher Education Area. The program 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: Health; Veterinary Science; Humanities & Information Technology; Law, Business & Political Science & Teaching Techniques.

Faculty of Humanities and Communication Sciences: Degree immunication, Double Degree in Journalism + Advertising and Public Relations, Public Relations

ESET Technical School of Engineering: Degree in Architecture Energy engineering Engineering design Industrial Engineering Engineering Chemistry Research

Faculty of Law, Business and Political Science: Degree in Political Science, Double Degree in Political Science + Business Management, Double Degree in Political Science & Journalism, Degree in Political Science + Advertising and Public Relations, Bachelor of Laws, Bachelor Journalism, Dual Degree in Law + Advertising and Public Relations, Bachelor of Business, Degree in Business & Law, Degree in Marketing, Degree in Marketing + Advertising and Public Relations

Faculty Of Veterinary: Degree in Veterinary (Spanish), Degree in Médecine Vétérinaire (French), Degree in Veterinary (English)

Faculty Of Health: Degree in Physiotherapy, Degree in Nursing (Spanish), Degree in Nursing (English), Degree in Dentistry (Spanish), Degree in Dentistry (English), Degree in Pharmacy Double Degree in Pharmacy & Optometry, Degree in Physiotherapy, Double Degree in Physical Therapy + Nursing, Degree in 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, Master's Degree in Fashion Design Management and Operations

Business School Master's Degree in Management and Project Management Centres and Sociosanitarios, Master in Cultural Management, Master's Degree in Occupational Health and Safety Faculty of Health Sciences Master in Pharmaceutical Care and Pharmacy Care (with access to doctors), Master's Degree in Care physiotherapists in Physical Activity and Sport (with access to doctors), Specialisation master's degree in Nursing Care (with access to doctors), Master's Degree in Neurorehabilitation, Master's Degree in Organic Chemistry, Experimental and Industrial, University Master Osteopathic Manual Therapy (with access to doctors), Master in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics master's degree Specialization in Nursing Care, Master in Pharmaceutical Care and Pharmacy Assistance, Physiotherapeutic Care Master in Physical Activity and Sport, Master in Neurorehabilitation, Master's Degree in Applied Nutrition to Health, Master's Degree in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Master's Degree in Organic Chemistry, Experimental and Industrial, Master in Food Safety, Master's Degree in Osteopathic Manual Therapy

Elche Center Master's Degree in Teacher Education Secondary Education and High School Specialisation master's degree in Nursing Care (with access to doctors) University Master Osteopathic Manual Therapy (with access to doctors)

Campus

Valencia Campus has more extension and offers more services. Are attended almost all grades offered by the university and includes almost all pupils. Castellón campus and Elche campus are two locations to help the educational task although they hardly offer educational services. For example, dentistry students are based in the Moncada campus, while medical students will be studying in Castellon de la Plana.

Students like on the dentistry programme study in Moncada, the main campus of UCH-CEU. All the main facilities, such as the Central library and International Office, are located nearby. 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 meter 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 Castellon de la Plana, which is an attractive town about an hour away from Valencia. The town is very close to Benicassim, which is a popular beach resort. Despite its quiet and relaxed atmosphere, students can still enjoy great nightlife in the historical centre of Castellon 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, Majorca, Ibiza, and Albacete. Every year 500 students from other countries come to study at the University with the European Programme like Socrates, Erasmus and Leonardo and more than 400 students from all five continents study at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University.

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 meters, 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. UCH-CEU 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 ofer 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 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 at 6 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 has been highly ranked by many international university rankings in 2013. The various international rankings that assess the quality of scientific research in universities place CEU-UCH at the top of the 23 Spanish private universities. In these studies, which apply, inter alia, scientific production criteria of the research production as well as the number of international publications and the number of citations of its authors, the CEU-UCH always ranks among the top four private universities in research. In both aspects, the growth of the CEU-UCH has been steady in recent years.

According to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University which applies to Spanish universities criterion which develops the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), the CEU-UCH is the second Spanish private university, after the University of Navarra, in terms of research excellence. This ranking takes into account criteria such as the number of articles in index-linked publications by the Science Citation Index-Expanded and Social Science Citation Index in the year prior to evaluation.

According to IUNE Observatory ranking, which evaluates the research in Spanish universities, among the 23 private universities that exist in Spain, the CEU-UCH is placed fourth in terms of scientific publications taking into consideration the universities and professors. It is also fourth in terms of publications of first quartile, while it holds the third position regarding the citations that the professor is being received.

In the case of SCImago Institutions Rankings, which measures the quality of international research, CEU-UCH ranks among only four Spanish private universities that appear in this ranking, as the rest do not reach the minimum indicators to be a part of this classification. Another world ranking of universities, which evaluates institutional prestige, academic performance, the value of information and utility of services offered in its website, is Webometrics Ranking of World Universities by Webometrics. The CEU-UCH is placed in the first third of this ranking among all evaluated national and international universities, with significant improvement in their scores on all variables.

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.

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: 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, Unit etilogía and animal welfare

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, Adult mesenchymal cells in the control of the inflammatory process in humans, Brain damage and Neuroregeneration, Development of dosage forms of application to the skin, Design and synthesis of compounds with therapeutic activity, Molecular diagnostics in clinical microbiology, Study of human milk: composition, manipulation and functional properties, GIDRAQ (Group for Research and Resource Development in Chemical Analysis), Neurodegenerative and neuroprotective mechanisms CEU Dentistry Clinic, equipped with dental laboratories, X-ray and sterilization rooms. In addition to this, has advanced technology and equipment as directed by the European guide lines in the dentistry industry. In 2014 professors of Medicine Degree at the CEU-UCH and the Provincial Hospital of Castellón have described the first case of catatonic psychosis caused by a synthetic derivate of Cannabis: the spice. The relation between the consumption of this substance, a psychotic break and some locomotor system problems, similar to the ones caused by Parkinson, have been described for the first time. The international medical magazine Psychiatry has published the discovery, which is the first one of its kind.

Faculty of humanities and communication Communication, participation and environmental awareness on the Internet, Communication campaign analysis and news coverage in the press, Bioethics Research Group, GIDYC. Research Group on disability and communication, OIMED (Centre for Research in Digital Media)

E.S.E.T Technical School: Algorithms and numerical methods for large systems, Biomedical Engineering, Composites, Robotics and Industrial Control. Students participate on Solar Decathlon many years. The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon is an international competition that challenges 20 collegiate teams to design, build, and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar-powered house. The competition is presented by the U.S. Department of Energy and organized by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). There is also a Solar Decathlon Europe, which was established by a 2007 agreement between the United States and Spain. Students pariticipate on Eco-marathon too. The Eco-Marathon is an annual competition sponsored by Shell, in which participants build special vehicles to achieve the highest possible fuel efficiency.

In 2012 CEU-UCH was one of the six universities in the world have been selected to present the best packaging designs of their respective countries in this “barometer” of international packaging design trends in order to award the best international packaging design on Salon International Emballage 2012. CEU Cardenal Herrera University’s students on the Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering degree course at CEU-UCH presented its work with the rival proposals from five of the best Design schools in the world: Université du Québec à Montréal from Canada; Lahti University of Applied Sciences from Finland; Hochschule Hannover, Germany; Politecnico di Milano from Italy and Strate Collège from France who organized the competition.

Faculty of law and political science Cooperation and Development, Deliberative democracy, communication and citizenship, Taxation and climate change, ADEC Group (Water: law, business, political science and communication), Research Group in financial economics, Research Group on International Protection of Human Rights, Legal protection of investors in emerging markets unregulated rights GHG emission, The region as a historical paradigm, International Financial Reporting Standards in the field of International Carbon Markets, Religion and Right to Environment

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 notorial honoris causa: