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University of Santiago de Compostela

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The University of Santiago de Compostela - USC (Galician: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela - USC, Spanish: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela - USC) is a public university located in the city of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. A second campus is located in Lugo, Galicia. It is one of the world's oldest universities in continuous operation.

University of Santiago de Compostela
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
MottoLatin: Sigillum Regiae Universitatis Compostellanae
TypePublic
Established1495; 529 years ago (1495)
Academic affiliations
Leading member and founder of Compostela Group of Universities[1]
Budget€228 million (2011)[2]
RectorProf. Dr. Antonio López Díaz[3]
Undergraduates23,835
Postgraduates1,716
2,697
Location
Santiago de Compostela
,
Galicia
,
Spain

42°53′19″N 8°32′42″W / 42.88852250°N 8.54497260°W / 42.88852250; -8.54497260
CampusSantiago de Compostela and Lugo (both urban)
Faculty2,149
Websitewww.usc.gal/en

The university traces its roots back to 1495, when a school was opened in Santiago.[4] In 1504, Pope Julius II approved the foundation of a university in Santiago[5] but "the bull for its creation was not granted by Clement VII until 1526".[6] In 1555 the institute began to separate itself from strictly religious instruction with the help of Cardinal Juan Álvarez de Toledo and started to work towards developing other academic fields, including the emerging science fields.

Today the university's facilities cover more than 130 hectares (320 acres). In terms of human resources, the university has more than 2,000 teachers involved in study and research, over 42,000 students, and more than 1,000 people working in administration and services. Moreover, in 2009, the university received the accreditation of Campus of International Excellence by the Ministry of Education, recognising USC as one of the most prestigious universities in Spain.

The university ranks 5th in Spain's best universities ranking by Complutense University of Madrid and IAIF and 4th amongst public universities.[7]

History edit

The roots of the university go back to 1495, when the Santiago de Compostela solicitor López Gómez de Mazoa founded, with the help of the abbot of San Martiño Pinario, a school for the poor known as "Grammatic Academy" in the monastery of San Paio de Antealtares. Early on, the success of the school was in doubt due to a lack of economic resources. But in the year 1504, Pope Julius II issued a papal bull recognizing the institution and allowing for the institution of higher learning in the "Gramatic Academy".

 
Alonso III de Fonseca

The definitive consolidation of the university comes with Alonso III de Fonseca, named archbishop of Santiago de Compostela in 1507. Fonseca was an extremely erudite man, a Renaissance man and patron of numerous artists of the time, who was in touch with important thinkers such as Erasmus of Rotterdam. At this time the old Pilgrim's Hospital was purchased with the aim of transforming it into a university college. The Santiago Alfeo College, today known as the Fonseca College, was also built, which became the centre of the university life until the second half of the 18th century and still remains emblematic in today's university. At the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries the San Patricio College, or College of the Irish, was created and the San Xerome College was moved to its current location.

In contrast to current practice, these colleges agglutinated all the seats of learning in the same building, where students lived as boarders. At this time, there were the main disciplines: Theology, Grammar and Arts, which were soon complemented with the study of Law (paying special attention to ecclesiastical law) and Medicine, more preoccupied with the health of the soul than about the care of the body.[citation needed]

The 18th century witnessed a profound transformation in the University of Santiago. Not only was it the era when the university escaped completely from the control of the religious orders of the Catholic Church, but it was also a time when the university lost part of its autonomy to the centralising forces of the Spanish monarchy. It was during this period that Charles III granted the title of "Regia" (in English, Royal) to the university. The university seal is enriched with the Royal Crown over the coat of arms of Castilla, León and Galicia, as well as the most important founders' emblems.

After expelling the Jesuits, Charles III granted their land and buildings in Santiago to the university, thus establishing the core of the new university. Immediately, the university recuperated to its plan of studies disciplines that had been previously given to certain religious congregations, including academic degrees and schools for Experimental Physics or Chemistry.

 
Interior of Fonseca College

The beginning of the 20th century produced a new generation of intellectuals closely tied to the university who would make up the core of a revival in the cultural life of Galicia. At the same time, there was a wide acceptance and support to the modern currents of thought. This introduced key figures from different scientific fields in our institutions. This is when the USC experiences a significant growth in the number of students as well as in careers, which also meant a significant growth in infrastructures. Thus, it continued to develop with new buildings, the enlargement of the University Building, the Faculty of Geography and History, and further on accommodation buildings, the College of Veterinary (Galician Parliament), the College of Deaf and Dumbs (Seat of the Xunta de Galicia) and the Faculty and Medicine. Another great project was the establishment of the Hall of Residence in 1930. Definitively, it is a period of great quantitative and quality changes with an important increase in infrastructures along with the regionalisation of studies in search for a best adaptation to the Galician reality.

Another characteristic of the 20th century was the establishment of agreements with foreign institutions of university education, at first with Portuguese universities. From then on, academic halls were established for women, who became members of the university in the 1913–1914 academic year. Moreover, the number of books of the institution has been increased with new endowments, such as that of the American Library.

The military rising against the Republic and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War meant a period of change in the University of Santiago. The military coups dominated the city council, imposing on the university a new rector and new norms such as praying before and after each lesson. Precisely, the Santiago de Compostela anti-Franco opposition came from "middle class intellectuals" and students of the university and not from the working-class movements, as happened in Coruña, Vigo or Ferrol.[citation needed]

Recent history edit

 
Geography and History building

The University of Santiago de Compostela was the first university in Galicia. In the 1980s, two additional university campuses in A Coruña and Vigo were established, fully dependent of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Later that decade the two became independent universities, able for the first time to issue their own official university degree titles. Prior to that, the only institution which shared "Official Degree Studies" in Galicia was the "School of Naval and Industrial Engineers" of Ferrol, which was created by a ministerial order under the initiative of General Francisco Franco in the early 1960s.

This school was directly dependent of the Ministry of Education in Madrid though in 1990 will be amalgamated to the University of A Coruña.

Following the introduction of the new Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the arrival of democracy, the new elected president of Spain, Felipe González Márquez leader of the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE) introduced legislation to transform the previous centralised Spanish State, into an amalgamation of autonomous regions with different degrees of self-administration.

The north-western corner of the Iberian Peninsula gained the autonomous status and the Spanish language now is imposed over the indigenous Galician language, now official. Galicia now has three universities, each of them with campuses of their own:

University of Santiago de Compostela, University of A Coruña (with two campuses, one in A Coruña and the other in Ferrol), and University of Vigo (with three campuses, one in Vigo, and the other two in Ourense and Pontevedra). In the last decades, the universities of Coruña and Vigo already segregated, the USC student population numbers over 45,000.

The university celebrated its 500th anniversary in 1995.[4]

University life edit

 
South campus

The university is organised into three campuses, North Campus and South Campus in Santiago and Lugo, which together include 30 centres, nearly 80 departments and more than 60 degrees, apart from numerous installations such as research institutes, halls of residence, sports and cultural facilities, and libraries.

Library edit

The university's library, at the present (2012) has more than 1,000,000 volumes and several manuscripts of incalculable value. More recent data in the library website (busc.usc.es)

ConCiencia edit

Main article: Program ConCiencia

In 2006, the university along with the Consortium of Santiago de Compostela established the Program ConCiencia. The program has organized visits to Santiago from the world's leading scientists. Since 2008 it has awarded the Fonseca Prize in science communication.

Memberships and partner institutions edit

The university is the partner of College of Law in Wroclaw.[8]

Academics edit

Faculties edit

The University of Santiago de Compostela offers a wide range of degrees in 19 faculties:

Degrees edit

University of Santiago de Compostela offers degrees in the following fields:

  • Health Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Technical
  • Humanities

Institutes edit

Notable alumni and professors edit

The University of Santiago de Compostela produced a prime minister and many Spanish ministers, magistrates, mayors and all the presidents of the Xunta de Galicia.

Government edit

Others edit

See also edit

Notes and references edit

  1. ^ Compostela Group of Universities webpage. "Compostela Group of Universities".
  2. ^ Fírgoa Universidade Pública - Espazo Comunitario. "USC: La USC tendrá un presupuesto de 228 millones este ejercicio".
  3. ^ "Rector - Rectorship - USC".
  4. ^ a b "La Universidad de Santiago cumple 500 años". El Mundo (in Spanish). March 22, 1995. Retrieved 2009-09-11.
  5. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Santiago de Compostela" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 191.
  6. ^ Quoted from: Encyclopædia Britannica: A New Survey of Universal Knowledge, 1956. Article "Universities".
  7. ^ El País. "Clasificación de las universidades españolas".
  8. ^ "Studia Prawo". Wyższa Szkoła Prawa (in Polish). Retrieved 2021-07-07.
  9. ^ "Antonia Ferrín Moreiras. La primera astrónoma gallega" (in Spanish). Retrieved June 28, 2016.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to University of Santiago de Compostela.
  • Official website  
  • Compostela Group of Universities - a network of universities established by the University of Santiago to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of the Way of St. James pilgrim route to Compostela
  • University of Santiago de Compostela - Spanish courses for foreign students
  • Fernández, Teodoro Rodríguez y (1912). "University of Santiago" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  • Scholars and Literati at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1526–1800), Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae – RETE

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The University of Santiago de Compostela USC Galician Universidade de Santiago de Compostela USC Spanish Universidad de Santiago de Compostela USC is a public university located in the city of Santiago de Compostela Galicia Spain A second campus is located in Lugo Galicia It is one of the world s oldest universities in continuous operation University of Santiago de CompostelaUniversidade de Santiago de CompostelaMottoLatin Sigillum Regiae Universitatis CompostellanaeTypePublicEstablished1495 529 years ago 1495 Academic affiliationsLeading member and founder of Compostela Group of Universities 1 Budget 228 million 2011 2 RectorProf Dr Antonio Lopez Diaz 3 Undergraduates23 835Postgraduates1 716Doctoral students2 697LocationSantiago de Compostela Galicia Spain42 53 19 N 8 32 42 W 42 88852250 N 8 54497260 W 42 88852250 8 54497260CampusSantiago de Compostela and Lugo both urban Faculty2 149Websitewww wbr usc wbr gal wbr enThe university traces its roots back to 1495 when a school was opened in Santiago 4 In 1504 Pope Julius II approved the foundation of a university in Santiago 5 but the bull for its creation was not granted by Clement VII until 1526 6 In 1555 the institute began to separate itself from strictly religious instruction with the help of Cardinal Juan Alvarez de Toledo and started to work towards developing other academic fields including the emerging science fields Today the university s facilities cover more than 130 hectares 320 acres In terms of human resources the university has more than 2 000 teachers involved in study and research over 42 000 students and more than 1 000 people working in administration and services Moreover in 2009 the university received the accreditation of Campus of International Excellence by the Ministry of Education recognising USC as one of the most prestigious universities in Spain The university ranks 5th in Spain s best universities ranking by Complutense University of Madrid and IAIF and 4th amongst public universities 7 Contents 1 History 1 1 Recent history 2 University life 2 1 Library 2 2 ConCiencia 2 3 Memberships and partner institutions 3 Academics 3 1 Faculties 3 2 Degrees 3 3 Institutes 4 Notable alumni and professors 4 1 Government 4 2 Others 5 See also 6 Notes and references 7 External linksHistory editThe roots of the university go back to 1495 when the Santiago de Compostela solicitor Lopez Gomez de Mazoa founded with the help of the abbot of San Martino Pinario a school for the poor known as Grammatic Academy in the monastery of San Paio de Antealtares Early on the success of the school was in doubt due to a lack of economic resources But in the year 1504 Pope Julius II issued a papal bull recognizing the institution and allowing for the institution of higher learning in the Gramatic Academy nbsp Alonso III de FonsecaThe definitive consolidation of the university comes with Alonso III de Fonseca named archbishop of Santiago de Compostela in 1507 Fonseca was an extremely erudite man a Renaissance man and patron of numerous artists of the time who was in touch with important thinkers such as Erasmus of Rotterdam At this time the old Pilgrim s Hospital was purchased with the aim of transforming it into a university college The Santiago Alfeo College today known as the Fonseca College was also built which became the centre of the university life until the second half of the 18th century and still remains emblematic in today s university At the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries the San Patricio College or College of the Irish was created and the San Xerome College was moved to its current location In contrast to current practice these colleges agglutinated all the seats of learning in the same building where students lived as boarders At this time there were the main disciplines Theology Grammar and Arts which were soon complemented with the study of Law paying special attention to ecclesiastical law and Medicine more preoccupied with the health of the soul than about the care of the body citation needed The 18th century witnessed a profound transformation in the University of Santiago Not only was it the era when the university escaped completely from the control of the religious orders of the Catholic Church but it was also a time when the university lost part of its autonomy to the centralising forces of the Spanish monarchy It was during this period that Charles III granted the title of Regia in English Royal to the university The university seal is enriched with the Royal Crown over the coat of arms of Castilla Leon and Galicia as well as the most important founders emblems After expelling the Jesuits Charles III granted their land and buildings in Santiago to the university thus establishing the core of the new university Immediately the university recuperated to its plan of studies disciplines that had been previously given to certain religious congregations including academic degrees and schools for Experimental Physics or Chemistry nbsp Interior of Fonseca CollegeThe beginning of the 20th century produced a new generation of intellectuals closely tied to the university who would make up the core of a revival in the cultural life of Galicia At the same time there was a wide acceptance and support to the modern currents of thought This introduced key figures from different scientific fields in our institutions This is when the USC experiences a significant growth in the number of students as well as in careers which also meant a significant growth in infrastructures Thus it continued to develop with new buildings the enlargement of the University Building the Faculty of Geography and History and further on accommodation buildings the College of Veterinary Galician Parliament the College of Deaf and Dumbs Seat of the Xunta de Galicia and the Faculty and Medicine Another great project was the establishment of the Hall of Residence in 1930 Definitively it is a period of great quantitative and quality changes with an important increase in infrastructures along with the regionalisation of studies in search for a best adaptation to the Galician reality Another characteristic of the 20th century was the establishment of agreements with foreign institutions of university education at first with Portuguese universities From then on academic halls were established for women who became members of the university in the 1913 1914 academic year Moreover the number of books of the institution has been increased with new endowments such as that of the American Library The military rising against the Republic and the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War meant a period of change in the University of Santiago The military coups dominated the city council imposing on the university a new rector and new norms such as praying before and after each lesson Precisely the Santiago de Compostela anti Franco opposition came from middle class intellectuals and students of the university and not from the working class movements as happened in Coruna Vigo or Ferrol citation needed Recent history edit nbsp Geography and History buildingThe University of Santiago de Compostela was the first university in Galicia In the 1980s two additional university campuses in A Coruna and Vigo were established fully dependent of the University of Santiago de Compostela Later that decade the two became independent universities able for the first time to issue their own official university degree titles Prior to that the only institution which shared Official Degree Studies in Galicia was the School of Naval and Industrial Engineers of Ferrol which was created by a ministerial order under the initiative of General Francisco Franco in the early 1960s This school was directly dependent of the Ministry of Education in Madrid though in 1990 will be amalgamated to the University of A Coruna Following the introduction of the new Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the arrival of democracy the new elected president of Spain Felipe Gonzalez Marquez leader of the Spanish Socialist Worker s Party PSOE introduced legislation to transform the previous centralised Spanish State into an amalgamation of autonomous regions with different degrees of self administration The north western corner of the Iberian Peninsula gained the autonomous status and the Spanish language now is imposed over the indigenous Galician language now official Galicia now has three universities each of them with campuses of their own University of Santiago de Compostela University of A Coruna with two campuses one in A Coruna and the other in Ferrol and University of Vigo with three campuses one in Vigo and the other two in Ourense and Pontevedra In the last decades the universities of Coruna and Vigo already segregated the USC student population numbers over 45 000 The university celebrated its 500th anniversary in 1995 4 University life edit nbsp South campusThe university is organised into three campuses North Campus and South Campus in Santiago and Lugo which together include 30 centres nearly 80 departments and more than 60 degrees apart from numerous installations such as research institutes halls of residence sports and cultural facilities and libraries Library edit The university s library at the present 2012 has more than 1 000 000 volumes and several manuscripts of incalculable value More recent data in the library website busc usc es ConCiencia edit Main article Program ConCiencia In 2006 the university along with the Consortium of Santiago de Compostela established the Program ConCiencia The program has organized visits to Santiago from the world s leading scientists Since 2008 it has awarded the Fonseca Prize in science communication Memberships and partner institutions edit The university is the partner of College of Law in Wroclaw 8 Academics editFaculties edit The University of Santiago de Compostela offers a wide range of degrees in 19 faculties Faculty of Biology Faculty of Chemistry Faculty of Communication Sciences Faculty of Economics and Business Administration Faculty of Education Sciences Faculty of Geography and History Faculty of Law Faculty of Mathematics Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Faculty of Pharmacy Faculty of Philology Faculty of Philosophy Faculty of Physics Faculty of Political and Social Science Faculty of Psychology Faculty of Veterinary medicine Higher Technical Engineering School Higher Polytechnic School at Lugo campus University School of Labour Relations University School of Optics and Optometry University School of Nursing Degrees edit University of Santiago de Compostela offers degrees in the following fields Health Sciences Physical Sciences Social Sciences Technical HumanitiesInstitutes edit Institute of Agricultural Biodiversity and Rural Development 2001 at LugoNotable alumni and professors editThe University of Santiago de Compostela produced a prime minister and many Spanish ministers magistrates mayors and all the presidents of the Xunta de Galicia Government edit Mariano Rajoy Prime Minister of Spain 2011 2018 and President of the conservative People s Party 2004 2018 Francisco Vazquez Vazquez Spain Ambassador to the Holy See 2006 2011 and Mayor of the city of A Coruna 1983 2006 Candido Conde Pumpido Attorney General of Spain 2004 2011 Elena Espinosa Spanish Minister of Agriculture and Fishing 2004 2010 Francisco Caamano Dominguez Spanish Minister of Justice 2001 2009 Cesar Antonio Molina Spanish Minister of Culture 2007 2009 and writer Jose Manuel Romay Beccaria Spanish Minister of Health 1996 2000 Abel Caballero Spanish Minister of Public Works and Transport 1985 1988 and Mayor of the city of Vigo 2007 Alberto Nunez Feijoo President of Xunta de Galicia 2009 Emilio Perez Tourino 4th President of Xunta de Galicia 2005 2009 Manuel Fraga 3rd President of Xunta de Galicia 1990 2005 and founder of the conservative People s Party Fernando Gonzalez Laxe 2nd President of Xunta de Galicia 1987 1990 Gerardo Fernandez Albor 1st President of Xunta de Galicia 1982 1987 Others edit Carmen Agullo Diaz born 1957 professor non fiction author Maria de los Angeles Alvarino Gonzalez Leading Oceanographer and first female Scientist to work on British and Spanish exploration ships 1916 2005 Celia Branas 1880 1948 scientist and teacher fought for the education and inclusion of women into the scientific community in Spain Aida Fernandez Rios climate scientist and marine biologist Antonia Ferrin Moreiras mathematician professor and the first Galician woman astronomer 1914 2009 9 Jose Daporta Gozalez Professor of Hygiene and Microbiology as well as a prolific fine arts collector 1911 1989 Alfonso Daniel Rodriguez Castelao Writer artist politician and medical doctor 1886 1950 Xose Luis Mendez Ferrin Writer and philologist Gonzalo Torrente Ballester Writer and philosopher 1910 1999 Xose Manuel Beiras Professor of Economy politician and writer Maria Inmaculada Paz Andrade 1928 2022 Director Department of Applied Physics Ramon Otero Pedrayo Professor of Geography writer and politician 1888 1976 Anxeles Penas born 1943 poet Ricardo Carvalho Calero Professor of Galician Language and Literature writer 1910 1990 Fatima Rodriguez b 1961 professor writer translator Dario Villanueva Prieto Professor of Spanish Literature Director of the Real Academia Espanola Darysabel Isales Puerto Rican opera singer and actressSee also editList of early modern universities in Europe List of oldest universities in continuous operation University of A Coruna University of Vigo San Clemente Dormitory Santiago de Compostela Academic Awards in Spain Fonseca PrizeNotes and references edit Compostela Group of Universities webpage Compostela Group of Universities Firgoa Universidade Publica Espazo Comunitario USC La USC tendra un presupuesto de 228 millones este ejercicio Rector Rectorship USC a b La Universidad de Santiago cumple 500 anos El Mundo in Spanish March 22 1995 Retrieved 2009 09 11 Chisholm Hugh ed 1911 Santiago de Compostela Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 24 11th ed Cambridge University Press p 191 Quoted from Encyclopaedia Britannica A New Survey of Universal Knowledge 1956 Article Universities El Pais Clasificacion de las universidades espanolas Studia Prawo Wyzsza Szkola Prawa in Polish Retrieved 2021 07 07 Antonia Ferrin Moreiras La primera astronoma gallega in Spanish Retrieved June 28 2016 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to University of Santiago de Compostela Official website nbsp Compostela Group of Universities a network of universities established by the University of Santiago to preserve the historical and cultural heritage of the Way of St James pilgrim route to Compostela University of Santiago de Compostela Spanish courses for foreign students Fernandez Teodoro Rodriguez y 1912 University of Santiago In Herbermann Charles ed Catholic Encyclopedia Vol 13 New York Robert Appleton Company Scholars and Literati at the University of Santiago de Compostela 1526 1800 Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae RETE Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title University of Santiago de Compostela amp oldid 1209228168, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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