Welcome to the Universidad de La Laguna, the oldest University in the Canary Islands. Our University's main campus is located in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, and a city declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site. However, the University also has centers in Santa Cruz and Adeje on the island of Tenerife and the island of La Palma.
Our University was created in 1792. Since then, it has continually aspired towards excellence in teaching, research, and knowledge transfer as part of its efforts and commitment to building a better society for all.
We offer a wide selection of official undergraduate degrees and master's degrees that, together with our range of doctorate programs, cover all subject areas: the Experimental Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. In addition to those mentioned above, we also have an extensive course catalog that includes the University's non-official programs and our university extension courses. Furthermore, we offer a rich mix of cultural activities.
Although the University is firmly faced towards the future, we still value the institution's history and traditions. They have served to instill social and professional leadership skills in our students, empowering them with invaluable skills that are of the utmost importance for the development of the Canary Islands archipelago and their participation in dealings at a national and international level. People make places. The people who have either currently or previously formed part of the University as students, teachers, researchers, admin staff, or support staff make it a great institution.
Today, the Universidad de La Laguna is laying the foundations needed to be a key actor on the global stage. We are mindful that a university education is crucial for personal and social wellbeing and that knowledge promotion is the best way to ensure peace and international development.
The central campus of the Universidad de La Laguna is located in the city, after which it takes its name, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, which is located on the island of Tenerife. It is from here that the University carries out all of the activities assigned to it by law across the Archipelago. According to its statutes, the Universidad de La Laguna is a public institution that is a legal entity with its capital resources, acting independently following the Spanish Constitution and Spanish law, whose purpose is to provide higher education as a public service. Its activity is founded on the principle of academic freedom. This freedom allows professors to teach what they see fit and researchers to carry out the studies and research that they wish to pursue – so long as it falls within the law – while at the same time guaranteeing freedom of speech, the right to spread knowledge, and artistic, humanistic, scientific and technical production and creativity.
Under the organic law regulating universities, the Universidad de La Laguna is democratically organized to ensure that its governance and that of the different centers include the participation of the different sectors that form the academic community. Today the Universidad de La Laguna has 23,000 students, 1,695 professors, and 851 administrative and service employees.
Two hundred years after it was founded, the Universidad de La Laguna continues to be a beacon for society in the Canary Islands that, using the Atlantic as a bridge, has stretched out its hand to the rest of the world. Currently, this public institution is home to more than 25,000 individuals: students, academic or research staff, or administrative staff and service personnel.
The University's course catalog includes 45 undergraduate degrees, 21 official graduate courses in the process of being phased out, and 30 official master's degrees, 52 doctoral programs, and 25 master's degrees unique to this University. Besides, 17,813 students are currently enrolled in degrees, and 2918 in courses in the process of being phased out.
In the two hundred years since it was founded, the Universidad de La Laguna has served as an essential educational, scientific, and cultural beacon in the Canary Islands. It has pushed forward progress in our community and contributed significantly towards the modernization of our society. Continuing this tradition, the Universidad de La Laguna's primary mission is to contribute towards the general wellbeing of citizens of the Canary Islands by guaranteeing them quality in higher education, by fostering economic development through scientific and technical research, and by propagating culture, scientific knowledge and the arts across the entire Archipelago through its main activities and university extension programs.
To deliver on its promises, the Universidad de La Laguna has laid down some basic principles to guide all its members' activities. In their efforts, members should continuously update their skills, demonstrate professional and scientific rigor, be honest, take full responsibility for their work, and defend tolerance and the critical spirit. It, therefore, commits itself to transmit these ideals and the critical task of delivering a well-rounded education to its students to instill in them an entrepreneurial spirit, critical thinking skills, and a sense of solidarity in order to make them committed to improving the future of their community and the world at large.
The Universidad de La Laguna wants to ensure that as an institution that generates public goods for the social environment, both society and institutions can appreciate the quality and value of its services. It wants people to view these outputs as tangible services whose efficiency can be measured against those of other institutions or universities. As such, the University has sworn to be permanently accountable for the effective management of its accounts and the quality of its services.
Over the next decade, the Universidad de La Laguna aims to seize the advantages of intercultural dialogue offered by the Canary Islands' geographical location and has set forth a strategic goal of turning itself into the European Atlantic University. Under this strategy, it would become a site for distance teaching and research, making it the preferred destination for students and researchers in the Canary Islands and the rest of the Atlantic region. At the same time, the University is working towards making a large proportion of its members part of the most prestigious scientific and educational exchanges.
We want the Universidad de La Laguna's hallmark to be the quality of its teaching and to be able to publicly demonstrate continuous steps are always being taken to improve educational excellence. We want the Universidad de La Laguna to be recognized as a center of excellence in research-based on its groups of excellent researchers. We want the Universidad de La Laguna to play an essential role in designing a sustainable social, cultural, and economic model for the Canary Islands, transmitting its educational and cultural action plans to all citizens across the Canary Islands and participating in the creation of new initiatives governing technological development and innovation, such as adequate means through which to create sustainable development in the Archipelago, social cohesion, and shared civic values amongst the population. We want the Universidad de La Laguna to be a modern organization concerned about the quality of the services it offers to society. We want its members to feel strongly identified with the improvement targets. We want a stable organizational structure that is capable of reacting quickly and efficiently to management needs.
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