History
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. Thirteen years later renamed University of Cantabria. 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:
- 1829: The School of Commerce and Navigation, currently School of Nautical Studies.
- 1901: The School of Industries, the origin of which is the Polytechnic School of Industrial Engineering and Telecommunications.
- 1915: The Normal School, which is the origin of the current Faculty of Education.
- 1929: The Valdecilla Hospital School of Nurses, School of Nursing today.
- In the 50s Torrelavega welcomes School of Mines and Mining-Metallurgical and Mining-Chemical Factories, which will become the School of Technical Mining Engineering.
- 1966: School of Civil Engineering, under the University of Valladolid.
- 1969: School of Social Graduate, then belonging to the University of Oviedo and origin of the Diploma in Labour Relations attached to the School of Law.
- 1969: College of Sciences, initially only with the specialty of Physical and dependant of the University of Valladolid.
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 1971 the University District of Santander was established. In 1973 the Medical School was established. In 1978 the new College of Humanities consolidated the autonomy of the University of Cantabria.
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