University of La Laguna

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Welcome to the Universidad de La Laguna, the oldest university in the Canary Islands. The main campus of our university is located in San Cristóbal de La Laguna, a city that has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, however the University also has centres in Santa Cruz and Adeje on the island of Tenerife, as well as on the island of La Palma.
Our university was created in 1792 and ...since then it has continually aspired towards excellence in teaching, research and knowledge transfer as part of its efforts and commitment towards 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 the aforementioned, we also have an extensive course catalogue that includes the University’s own non-official programs and also 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 history and traditions of the institution. They have served to instill both 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 Island archipelago and for their participation in dealings at a national and international level. People make places, and it is the people who have either currently or previously formed part of the university as students, teachers, researchers, admin staff or support staff that make it a great institution.
Today, the Universidad de La Laguna is laying the foundations needed in order to be a key actor on the global stage. We are mindful that a university education is crucial for both personal and social wellbeing, and that the promotion of knowledge 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 own capital resources, acting independently in accordance with 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 – whilst at the same time guaranteeing freedom of speech, the right to spread knowledge, and artistic, humanistic, scientific and technical production and creativity.
Pursuant to the organic law regulating universities the Universidad de La Laguna is democratically organised so as to ensure that its governance, and that of the different centres, includes 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 who are either students, academic or research staff, or administrative staff and service personnel.
The university’s course catalogue 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. In addition, 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 an important educational, scientific and cultural beacon in the Canary Islands. It has pushed forward progress in our community and contributed greatly towards the modernization of our society.
Continuing this tradition, the Universidad de La Laguna’s main 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 the activities of all its members. In their efforts, members should strive to: continuously update their skills, demonstrate professional and scientific rigour, be honest and take full responsibility for their own work, and defend tolerance and the critical spirit. It therefore commits itself to transmitting these ideals and the important task of delivering a well-rounded education to its students to instil 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 be able 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 for intercultural dialogue offered by the geographical location of the Canary Islands 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 as well as 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 networks for scientific and educational exchanges.
We want the hallmark of the Universidad de La Laguna to be the quality of its teaching and to be able to publically demonstrate continuous steps are always being taken to improve educational excellence. We want the Universidad de La Laguna to be recognised as a centre of excellence in research based on the work of its groups of excellent researches. We want the Universidad de La Laguna to play an importance 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 that is 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.