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Comillas is a Catholic university that has been run for over a century by the Society of Jesus, a private institution that manages several universities throughout the world. Our university mission has always been based on a combination of the educational experience built up over our extensive history and constant evolution in response to social change. Being open to society is extremely important under the trying circumstances in which we live, and now more than ever, good communication between universities and society is essential. This is why Comillas has always worked in ongoing and close collaboration with business-related, professional, and social organizations. After a century of university experience at COMILLAS, we are keenly aware that many things have changed since the University was founded. Spanish universities have moved on from the education of a select social minority toward a universal social mission. Catholicism is no longer the Official State Religion, and the Church has lived through the fruitful opening of the Second Vatican Council. Spanish society has assumed a more European and even global character. The effect of these profound changes on COMILLAS can be seen in the University's move from Comillas to Madrid, in the broad expansion of its educational offer (Humanities and Technical Sciences as well as Ecclesiastic Sciences), and its ongoing commitment to evolution and modernization based on reliable and permanent foundations. Our university mission is firmly rooted within this evolutionary process's framework, of the growing plurality of Spanish universities and new social and ecclesiastic needs and challenges. Our aim is that every person to form part of our University receives a comprehensive education: focusing not only on academic training but also on their own free will, their human, ethical and aesthetic awareness, capacity for personal reflection, and sense of responsibility. In short, COMILLAS aims to contribute to the full personal development of all its students. Values can be described as the things that we, as human beings, value the principles we are prepared to make sacrifices. They give meaning to our existence. They influence the way we think, how we feel, and the action we take. No training or education program for human beings can be permitted the luxury of preceding some values. COMILLAS will select and promote, within its nature. However, always most independently, the personal and social values it feels are fundamental to any given society, and especially in divided and unjust societies: mutual respect interpersonal dialog responsible freedom the search for justice and peace quantified professionalism accessibility helping others solidarity with those who are most in need and a critical, balanced, and long-term outlook A solid base for building a critical approach requires science, the interdisciplinary search for Truth, the assimilation of fundamental values, and a deep understanding of social reality. Only upon these foundations, a genuinely human and global critical approach can be developed and applied. This critical approach must serve to discern any human manifestation. COMILLAS can only promote a critical approach among its students if, as an institution, it also adopts this attitude. Therefore, the University sees self-criticism as a personal obligation, carried out through internal debate and critical analysis of the social and cultural situations in which it is immersed. View full university