University of Cantabria

[5] The UC is part, as a founding member, of the Group 9 of Spanish Universities (G9), created in 1997 with the aim of promoting collaboration between academic institutions.

[6] Since 2018, it has been present as an institution among the top 1,000 universities in the Shanghai Ranking, in addition to several of its specialized thematic categories.

[8] The institution was established as such on August 18, 1972, by decree of the Council of Ministers of Spain with the name of University of Santander.

It was created by the affiliation of several schools and colleges that were already established either independently or under other universities since the following dates: In 1970 the City and Province Council of Santander gave the grounds of Las Llamas in the city of Santander to create a campus of 600,000 square meters for the new university.

In 1978 the new College of Humanities consolidated the autonomy of the University of Cantabria.

University of Cantabria: Government Pavilion.
University of Cantabria: Interfaculty Building, Faculty of Humanities and School of Teacher Training .
University of Cantabria: Faculty of Sciences.
University of Cantabria: School of Civil Engineering.
University of Cantabria: School of Industrial Engineering and Telecommunications, from the Atlantic Park of Las Llamas.
University of Cantabria: Faculty of Economics and Business Studies and Faculty of Law.