Pontifical Comillas University of Madrid
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Private university
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located in Madrid
Madrid
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, Spain
Spain
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. It is a Catholic university
Catholic University
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run by the Society of Jesus
Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...
.
The university ranks 5th in Spain's best schools of law ranking by El Mundo
El Mundo (Spain)
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, 4th in best industrial engineering schools and 3rd in best social work schools.
It is involved in a number of academic exchange programmes, work practice schemes and international projects with over 200 Higher Education Institutions in Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia.
History
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII
Pope Leo XIII , born Vincenzo Gioacchino Raffaele Luigi Pecci to an Italian comital family, was the 256th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, reigning from 1878 to 1903...
founded the Pontifical Seminary of Saint Anthony of Padua in 1890 in the town of Comillas
Comillas
Comillas is a small township and municipality in the northern reaches of Spain, in the autonomous community of Cantabria. The Marquisate of Comillas, a fiefdom of Spanish nobility, holds ceremonial office in the seat of power at a small castle which overlooks the town.-Marquis of Comillas:The first...
(Cantabria
Cantabria
Cantabria is a Spanish historical region and autonomous community with Santander as its capital city. It is bordered on the east by the Basque Autonomous Community , on the south by Castile and León , on the west by the Principality of Asturias, and on the north by the Cantabrian Sea.Cantabria...
, Spain) in response to efforts made by the Marquis of Comillas to build an institution for educating candidates to the priesthood. At the time of its foundation, the Seminary was entrusted to the Society of Jesus
Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...
. In 1904, the Pontifical University was established when Pope Pius X
Pope Pius X
Pope Saint Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was the first pope since Pope Pius V to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox...
granted the Seminary the power to confer academic degrees in Theology, Philosophy and Canon Law.
In 1969 the university was moved to Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
, where its doors were opened to a wider range of students.
In 1978 the Jesuits incorporated into the university their Madrid's higher education
Higher education
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institution ICAI-ICADE, the resultant entity of the merge in 1960 of ICAI
ICAI
ICAI may stand for* Institute of Chartered Accountants of India* Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland* ICAI, Instituto Católico de Artes e Industrias of the Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid, Spain....
and ICADE
ICADE
ICADE is the brand name by which two schools of the Comillas Pontifical University, located in Madrid , are known. It stands for Instituto Católico de Administración y Dirección de Empresas , the name of an Institute that merged with the Comillas Pontifical University in 1978, giving birth to two...
, two institutes established in 1908 and 1956 respectively. They are today the ICAI School of Engineering, the ICADE School of Law and the ICADE School of Business and Economics.
Several other schools, like the San Juan de Dios School of Nursing, were incorporated later on, to reach the structure of 6 colleges and schools that the university has today:
- Facultad de Teología (Theological College)
- Facultad de Derecho Canónico (Canon Law College)
- Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (Human and Social Sciences College)
- Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería ICAI (ICAI School of Engineering)ICAI MadridICAI School of Engineering is the school of engineering of the Comillas Pontifical University, located in Madrid, Spain....
- Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales ICADE (ICADE School of Business and Economics)ICADEICADE is the brand name by which two schools of the Comillas Pontifical University, located in Madrid , are known. It stands for Instituto Católico de Administración y Dirección de Empresas , the name of an Institute that merged with the Comillas Pontifical University in 1978, giving birth to two...
- Facultad de Derecho ICADE (ICADE School of Law)ICADEICADE is the brand name by which two schools of the Comillas Pontifical University, located in Madrid , are known. It stands for Instituto Católico de Administración y Dirección de Empresas , the name of an Institute that merged with the Comillas Pontifical University in 1978, giving birth to two...
- Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería y Fisioterapia "San Juan de Dios" (San Juan de Dios School of Nursing and Physiotherapy)
In recent years, new study and research centres and institutes have been created (Institute for Research in Technology
IIT Madrid
IIT is the research institute of the ICAI School of Engineering of the Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid, Spain. IIT stands in Spanish for 'Institute for Research in Technology'. It was established in 1984....
, Institute for Liberalism, Krausism and Freemasonry Research, Graduate Studies Institute, Institute for Educational Science, Institute for Migration Research, Faith and Secularism Institute, Law Innovation Center, Modern Language Institute, University Institute on the Family).