University of Santiago de Compostela
University of Santiago de Compostela | |
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founding | 1495 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Santiago de Compostela and Lugo |
country | Spain |
Rector | Antonio López Díaz |
Students | approx. 45,000 (2005) |
Employee | approx. 2,200 (2005) |
Networks | CGU |
Website | www.usc.es |
The University of Santiago de Compostela ( Galician : Universidade de Santiago de Compostela ; Spanish : Universidad de Santiago de Compostela ) - USC for short - is a state university founded in 1495 by Don Lope Gómez de Marzoa in the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela and another location in the city of Lugo - both in northwestern Spain .
Around 70 courses and 50 doctoral courses are offered in the more than 80 buildings that belong to USC and are spread over the two locations.
The university has around 45,000 students and 2,200 academic staff. The rector of the university is Juan J. Casares Long. The official language of the university is Galician , which is used as the language of instruction in an average of 20% of the courses.
Faculties
There are 19 faculties :
- Faculty of Labor Sciences
- Faculty of Business Administration and Administration
- Faculty of Biology
- Faculty of Chemistry
- Faculty of Geography and History
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Communication Studies
- Faculty of Nursing
- Faculty of Mathematics
- Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
- Faculty of Optics and Optometry
- Faculty of Education
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Philosophy and Literature
- Faculty of Philology
- Faculty of Physics
- Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
- Faculty of Psychology
- Faculty of Law
See also
Web links
- http://www.usc.es/ (Official website of the University of Santiago de Compostela)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.usc.es/gl/goberno/reitoria/
- ↑ Member universities. In: web.gcompostela.org. Compostela Group of Universities, 2019, accessed on September 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Christian Gänshirt: Head, Belly and Wings - New Building for the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Santiago , in: Bauwelt No. 25/2000, pp. 12-17