The Universidad de Zaragoza (UZ) is the only public university in Aragon and the main centre of technological innovation in the Ebro valley. With an excellent reputation among Spanish and European universities, the UZ offers teaching in all disciplines in science, technology and the humanities, and combines a long tradition with firm support for modernity. Like many European universities, the UZ is a decentralized institution with specialized campuses in Huesca, Teruel, Zaragoza and La Almunia de Doña Godina. Currently, it has some 35,000 students.

The University of Zaragoza was originally an estudio de artes, created by the Church in the twelfth century, which taught grammar and philosophy, and awarded bachelor’s degrees. At the request of Prince Ferdinand the Catholic, Pope Sixtus IV raised the university to the category of Universitas magistrorum (the same rank as the University of Paris) on 13 December 1474. The disposition was ratified by the Pope in 1476 and by King John II of Aragon in 1477. However, the University’s true starting-point dates from rather later. At the meeting of the Cortes of Aragon in Monzón on 10 September 1542, Emperor Charles V signed a privilege at the request of the city’s representatives, which raised the estudio de artes to the rank of «general university of all the sciences». In 1554 a Bull issued by Pope Julius III approved the foundation of a Studium Generale, which was confirmed by Julius’ successor, Pope Paul IV, the following year. For this reason, the University of Zaragoza is the only Spanish university to bear the image of St Peter in its seal. In November 1582 Pedro Cerbuna, prior of the Cathedral of San Salvador in Zaragoza and later Bishop of Tarazona, provided funding for the opening of the new university, which was inaugurated on 24 May 1583, with Faculties of Theology, Canon Law, Law, Medicine and the Arts. After a period of considerable achievement, the University fell into decline during the eighteenth century, when it was unable to introduce new studies (such as Mathematics, Botany or Political Economy) for which other institutions had created chairs. When several universities were closed in 1807, the University of Zaragoza remained open and received a set of statutes that followed the model of the University of Salamanca. In 1845 the University had only three faculties – those of Philosophy, Jurisprudence and Theology – but in the following years the University was reorganized, with the closure of the Faculty of Theology, the reopening of the Faculty of Medicine, and the creation of a new Faculty of Sciences. In the years immediately after the First World War, the University was radically restructured in an attempt to respond to the country’s new needs. In 1921 a new set of autonomous statutes were passed, and doctoral studies (which since 1845 had been taught exclusively at the Central University of Madrid) were introduced. Academic activity intensified, and in 1927 the summer courses in Jaca (the first of their kind in Spain) were launched, with the aim of promoting the Spanish language. In the early 1970s, the University of Zaragoza introduced new diploma courses and technical engineering courses and created university colleges in some of the cities under its jurisdiction (Huesca, Logroño, Soria and Teruel), as well as new faculties. Academic staff and student numbers increased significantly, as did the number of degree courses taught. Spanish universities recovered their autonomy in the mid-1980s. As part of the reforms introduced at this time, the jurisdiction of the UZ was now limited to the Autonomous Community of Aragon and the responsibility for higher education in La Rioja, Navarre and Soria passed to other government offices. The University Statutes were approved in 1985, and the process of decentralization began: faculties were created in the cities of Huesca and Teruel, and student numbers rose significantly. The University’s most famous alumni over its five centuries of history include the botanist and economist Ignacio de Asso, the bibliographer Felix de Latassa, the geographer Isidoro de Antillón, the physician Santiago Ramón y Cajal (winner of the Nobel Prize in 1906) and the liberator of Cuba, José Martí. The University has also conferred its highest honour, the honorary doctorate, on figures such as Luis Buñuel, Ramón J. Sender and Rigoberta Menchú.

The Universidad de Zaragoza offers courses at their campus in Huesca, La Almunia de Doña Godina, Teruel and Zaragoza. In its catalog of degrees are offered 56 undergraduate programs, 53 Masters programs and 47 Ph.D. programs. 

Bachelor official studies (recognized by Spanish & European authorities)

(http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/inter/folletos/GradoIngles.pdf)

The official courses leading to the award of a Bachelor degree are intended to provide academic and professional training, with the purpose of incorporating students to national and European job market. Full information at: http://ebro3.unizar.es:8080/acad/ (English) and http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/primer/ (Spanish) 

Postgraduate official studies (recognized by Spanish & European authorities)

(http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/inter/folletos/posgradoingles.pdf) 

- Master programs

The official courses leading to the award of a Master’s degree are intended to provide advanced specialized or multidisciplinary training, aimed at academic or professional specialization, or an introduction to research work leading to a doctorate program and obtaining a PhD.  Full information at:

http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/estud/titul.html (English)

http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/pops/ofert/ofert.html (Spanish)

- Ph.D. programs

The Ph.D. program is intended to give students advanced training in research techniques. It can include courses, seminars and other activities directed at research training, and will include creating and presenting a doctoral thesis consisting of an original research project. The satisfactory completion of these courses entitles students to obtain the official qualification of DOCTOR from the Universidad de Zaragoza.  Full information at:

http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/estud/doctor/acces/noHomol/proce.htm (English) 

Access the database degrees (full information with detail and content of bachelor and Master's courses) can be found at: http://psfunizar7.unizar.es/acad/iInicio.php 

In addition to official studies, the University of Zaragoza offers more than a hundred of specific studies (UZ lifelong learning strategy). These studies are programs organized by the UZ, which represent a more flexible, diverse and versatile model of education, completing those fields of knowledge not included in official studies. Full information at: http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/estud/propi/regul.htm (English) and http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/epropios/epropios.html (Spanish). UZ Specific courses brochure

http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/inter/folletos/posgradoingles.pdf 

About the learning of foreign language, the University Centre of Modern Languages is a centre of the Universidad de Zaragoza, providing practical teaching in modern languages with a view to promoting and facilitating their use among members of the university community through a program of language courses, practice and training, and by providing texts and audiovisual materials for loan to students. Enrolment in the University Centre of Modern Languages is open to members of the university community and postgraduates who provide proof that they hold a university degree, as well as to students who have passed high school level, the second level of vocational training or the university admissions test for adults over 25 years old. Language studies are organized in general courses taught during the entire school year, although offerings may include courses of a specific nature, intensive courses of variable duration, as well as self-study courses and conversation courses.

Full information at: http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/gral/idiom/idiom.htm (English) and

http://www.unizar.es/idiomas/ (Spanish) 

Apart from foreign language learning, the Universidad de Zaragoza offers Courses of Spanish as Foreign Language which is carried out throughout the year in Zaragoza while in the summer they are transferred to the tourist resort of Jaca (Huesca) in the Pyrenees, less than two hours away. The Universidad de Zaragoza has been a pioneer in teaching Spanish to foreign students since 1927. It has agreements with a number of public and private institutions around the world, working directly with various official bodies to promote the Spanish language (the Cervantes Institute, the Aragon Regional Government, the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Foreign matters) and it’s the Official Examination Centre for the Diploma of Spanish as a Foreign Language (DELE, with exams in May and November). Full information at: http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/gral/spani/spani.htm (English) and http://wzar.unizar.es/uz/difusion/unizar_0.html (Spanish)

The Universidad de Zaragoza is the principal research centre in the Autonomous Community of Aragon. Its research institutes, laboratories and research groups are interdisciplinary in nature, permitting them to acquire the infrastructure and technology that could hardly have been achieved by an individual centre or group. In 2009, the Universidad of Zaragoza had 202 research groups (2486 researchers), 820 contracts & research projects and got about 65 million euros for research activities. 233 doctoral theses were defended, of which, 38 were European thesis.

The Universidad de Zaragoza has seven research institutes in its structure of investigation and one more as associated Institute. The essentials goals of these centers are the research in basic fields of knowledge and its application to the civil society through the promotion of technology transfer between university and industry.

· University Institute for Bio-computation and Physics of Complex Systems (BIFI)

· University Institute of Research in Homogeneous Catalysis (IUCH)

· Aragon University Research Institute in Environmental Science (IUCA)

· Aragon University Institute of Engineering Research (I3A)

· University Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IUMA)

· Aragon University Institute of Research in NanoScience (INA)

· Centre of Research for Energy Resources and Consumption (CIRCE)

· Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC) in association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Full information at: http://www.unizar.es/gobierno/vr_investigacion/iui.html (English & Spanish) 

The Universidad de Zaragoza has the Research Support Services with the goal of supporting (from an administrative and technical point of view) all research activities of UZ departments and research institutes. Since then, these services have offered to the university community a series of benefits and products that facilitate research in the scientific, technological, biomedical and humanistic-social fields. They comprise a series of interdisciplinary laboratories and workshops that enable them to be used by a broad spectrum of departments and institutions, thus rationalizing and optimizing the use of available resources (Central Analysis Service, Electronic Microscopy Service- Biological System and Material engineering Area, Service of X Beam Diffraction and Fluorescence Analysis, Digital Image treatment Service, Scientific Instrumentation Service, Service of rock preparation and hard material, Glass Service, Laboratory of Historic and geographical Sciences, Centre of Services of Laboratories in Biomedical Research, Cryogenic liquids Service, Administrative Services for supporting the Research activities, Service of Animal Experimentation and Mechanics Precision Service)

The Vice-Rector for Social and Cultural Outreach, through the Office of the Secretary for Cultural Activities, is the entity that co-ordinates the Cultural and Leisure Activities of the university. These are planned by the respective committees for cultural activities within the different university institutions and by the University Committee, supporting those that are of interest for the overall education of all members of the university community. It is also the mission of this office to sponsor and promote the University Cultural Groups, in which all students who wish to become members may participate. The Office of the Secretary for Cultural Activities co-ordinates the publication of a “Cultural Agenda” which monthly reflects the activities available in the areas of Film and Image, Music, Theatre, Exhibitions, Series, Lectures, Literary Activities and Courses, as well as the activities of the Cultural Groups and Culture Committees in Zaragoza, Huesca and Teruel. Full information at:

http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/gral/cultu/cultu.htm (English)

http://moncayo.unizar.es/unizara/actividadesculturales.nsf (Spanish) 

The Summer Courses of the Universidad de Zaragoza take place during July, August and September, each year from 2001 in Jaca (Huesca). Programmed courses have up to 30 hours of duration and different thematic areas: sciences, nature, environment, economy, juridical sciences, technology, languages, history, art, education, health… Full information at: http://moncayo.unizar.es/cv/cursosdeverano.nsf (Spanish) 

The main goal of the UZ Sport Activities Service is to facilitate the practice of sports and physical activities among the members of the university community, to contribute to their personal education and improve their quality of life. It organizes a variety of activities and services in different areas: sponsorship, competitions and natural environments; and facilitates the development of activities organized by the sports committees of the university’s institutions. In the main university campus (San Francisco Campus) there is a complete sports complex with a gym, indoor and outdoor courts for basket ball and ?ve-a-side football, an athletics track, a volley ball court, football pitch, etc. Furthermore, teams may be formed to take part in intramural leagues in some of those sports. Full information at:

http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/gral/depor.htm (English) and http://www.unizar.es/deportes/ (Spanish)

The main objective of the vice-rector International Relations Office is to support UZ faculty, staff and students activities in the fields of research, teaching, administration and training for achieving its objectives in the international area.

For that, activities such as the increase of the  mobility programs for student/staff/faculty, the internationalization of the academic offer, the  international promotion -in terms of generating information, in English and French about the UZ- the international student recruitment, the presence of the UZ at international fairs and expositions are given priority attention

In terms of university cooperation for development, the accession of the UZ to the Spanish universities' conduct code, determines the University's strategy in this area. This strategy is essential to promote cooperative activities among students (through specific mobility schemes) and the PDI/PAS (through university cooperation projects in collaboration with the Grupo 9 de Universidades and the development cooperation services of the Government of Aragon and the Provincial Councils of Zaragoza and Huesca and the Zaragoza city council).Updated data from the UZ mobility can be found at:

http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/inter/estadisticas/estadisticas.html (Spanish)

Facilities

The University of Zaragoza has an annual budget of 284.2 million euros. The built area is 454,536 m² and the useful area is 393,083 m². UZ buildings and facilities are distributed in five cities in Aragon:

City of Zaragoza

• Campus San Francisco (Colleges of Sciences, Social and Labor Sciences, Law, Education, Fine Arts, Medicine, School of Health Sciences and University Hospital)
• Campus Paraninfo (UZ Headquarters, College of Economy and Business and School of Tourism)
• Campus Río Ebro (College of Engineering, School of Business and Military College)
• Campus Veterinaria (College of Veterinary Sciences) 

City of Huesca, where are located the Colleges of Health and Sport Sciences, Human Sciences and Education, Engineering, School of Business and the School of Nursing.

City of Teruel, where are located the College of Social and Human Sciences, the School of Engineering and the School of Nursing.

City of La Almunia de Doña Godina (Zaragoza), where are located the Polytechnic School…

and the university residence hall of Jaca (Huesca), home city of the UZ summer courses.

The UZ administered directly two residence halls on the campus of San Francisco de Zaragoza: The Pedro Cerbuna (250 rooms) and the Santa Isabel (192 rooms), and two more in the cities of Huesca and Teruel (Ramon Acin, 125 rooms) and Teruel (Pablo Serrano, 96 single rooms), respectively. 

Services

The University Information Service (CIUR) provides information concerning the Universidad de Zaragoza in terms of University admissions, pre-enrolment openings, orientation, teaching and programs of study, graduate programs, UZ study programs, faculties & colleges, departments, cultural and sports activities, scholarships and grants, university residence halls, housing (database searches), language courses, Spanish courses for foreign students, addresses of interest, summer courses at Jaca, students associations, counseling, administrative information, lodging complaints.

Full information at: http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/gral/centrInfor.htm (English) and http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ciur/ (Spanish) 

The UZ University library functions as a support unit for teaching and research. It comprises all the bibliographic, documentary and audiovisual collections acquired by the University Institutes and services, those acquired as bequests, donations and exchanges, and those purchased for the University by other entities. They are all safeguarded at various locations and different University buildings. The UZ University Library is constituted by the General Library, the 21 libraries of the UZ centres and the University Departments library sections. The total bibliographic collection contains more than 1,000,000 volumes and almost 33,500 magazine titles. The computer catalogue of the university bibliographic collection (the ROBLE database) and magazine titles (the FARO database) are accessible from any point on the network (http://roble.unizar.es). Full information at: http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/gral/bibio/intro.htm (English) and  http://biblioteca.unizar.es/ (Spanish) 

The Computer and Communication Centre of the UZ is devoted to disseminating computing as the working tool of all university students and to giving computerized support to teaching, research and management in the University. As well as equipped classrooms for regular courses, open-access PCs are available in computer rooms located in Faculties & Colleges of the UZ. All UZ computers are connected to internet and wi? covering is provided in all UZ buildings. Any student of the University is allowed to use UZ computer facilities according the UZ rules. Full information at: http://sicuz.unizar.es/ (Spanish) 

UNIVERSA is the Company Placements Service of the Universidad de Zaragoza which, sponsored by the Universidad de Zaragoza and the Government of Aragon and through the Institute of Employment of Aragon, seeks to bring together educational institutions and businesses. The principal objective of this service is the management of voluntary training periods in companies and institutions for students who have completed 50% of the credits toward their degree and the placement of university graduates in the job market. Full information at: http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/gral/otros/unive.htm (English) and http://www.unizar.es/universa/ (Spanish) 

About Housing and Residential life, besides the four previously mentioned University Halls (two in Zaragoza, one in Huesca and another in Teruel), in the city of Zaragoza, there are also private residence halls (9) (not UZ dependent). The Universidad de Zaragoza has also a housing service to help students looking for a room/?at. http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ciur/alojamiento.htm (Spanish) 

Full information at: http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/gral/aloja/coleg.htm (English) and http://www.zaragozavivienda.es/vivirzaragoza/pgA001.htm (Spanish) (a recent incorporation to the offer of University Residences Halls) 

Zaragoza University Press (“Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza”) is the publishing house of the Universidad de Zaragoza. It has been publishing and printing books since its foundation in the 16th century. It publishes academic books in all areas of human knowledge: Social Science, Humanities, Image and Communication, Women and Gender, Classics, Science, Biomedical Science and Textbook collections. In addition, it publishes books of creative literature in its collection “La Gruta de las Palabras”. It also manages the distribution and sale of other publications of the departments, faculties, research institutes and other official entities of the Universidad de Zaragoza. “Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza” maintains a registry of all of the publications published at the University of Zaragoza and provides the corresponding ISBN. Full information at: http://wzar.unizar.es/servicios/ingles/gral/otros/prens.htm (English) and http://wzar.unizar.es/spub/ (Spanish)

With more than 450 years of history, the University of Zaragoza combines tradition with a firm commitment to modernity. The UZ offers teaching in all disciplines in science, technology, and the humanities, in order to respond to the social and cultural needs of our times. Like many European universities, it is a decentralized institution, with a main campus in the city of Zaragoza and specialized campuses in three other towns in Aragon – Huesca, La Almunia and Teruel. The University works in close cooperation with universities and research centres in Europe, Latin America and the US, an involvement that reflects its clear international vocation. http://www.unizar.es - ciu@unizar.es

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