It teaches Philosophy, Theology, Classical Philology, Canon Law and Religion Sciences with official validity in all the universities of the Catholic Church.

Under the motto "Veritatis Verbum communicantes", the University performs a task of training aspirants to the priesthood or other forms of consecrated life, although it is open to anyone who wants to deepen scientifically and rigorously in the Catholic faith.

On December 22, 2011, the theologian Javier Maria Prades Lopez was appointed first rector of the Ecclesiastical University San Damaso, position of which takes possession on January 27, 2012.

[2] This university center has had a number of distinguished personalities and students, including the renowned Spanish philosopher Xavier Zubiri, who began his studies in what was then only Madrid Seminary.

Outstanding were the visits of then Cardinal Ratzinger, then Pope Benedict XVI, the famous theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar or who later became secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer.

It is worth noting the large library, which has many volumes, some of a certain value and antiquity; many of them saved by Jose Maria Garcia Lahiguera during the course of religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War.