Universidad de Cantabria

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Universidad de Cantabria
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Universidad de Cantabria (UC) is a young and modern public institution that aspires to encourage social progress through its commitment with teaching and scientific excellence. In order to achieve such goals, it is constantly looking for quality improvement, and thus it is involved in an improvement process concerning its teaching, research and administrative activities. This demanding vocation explains why it is regarded as one of the best ten universities in Spain for its scientific quality and productivity, being awarded the International Excellence Campus distinction.

Universidad de Cantabria provides its students with a wide variety of degrees, which, since its establishment in 1972, have allowed to train nearly 36.000 graduates. Commitment with academic excellence is one of the highlights of a degree catalogue that is guaranteed by the scientific prestige of its professors and preserved by its own quality control system.

Universidad de Cantabria puts at students' disposal a wide choice of resources to allow them to obtain an all-round education. In this context, syllabuses are designed to achieve balance between theory and practice, including several additional services: on-the-job training programmes, language courses, access to new technologies, exchange programmes with European and American universities, guidance and tutorial activities, etcetera.

Also, Universidad de Cantabria's campus offers a wide range of cultural activities and sports and allows students to develop programmes through student associations and to participate in university's government through representative bodies.

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