The University of Cantabria is a young modern public institution whose main purpose is to contribute to social progress through a firm commitment to teaching and scientific excellence. In order to achieve its goals, it strives to constantly improve the quality of its work through a process that revises and improves its teaching, research and administrative activities. The application of this process has made the UC outstanding among Spanish universities due to its quality and scientific productivity. The University of Cantabria is the only institution that confers official degrees within the self-governed community of Cantabria. It offers a wide range of degree programmes and, since its creation in 1972, has provided a university education for more than 71,000 students. Its commitment to academic excellence is one of the main characteristics of a teaching offer guaranteed by the scientific prestige of the academic staff and monitored by the quality controls established by the institution itself. The University of Cantabria provides students with a wide variety of resources, enabling them to acquire a well-rounded education.Within this context, its study programmes seek the right balance between practice and theory, which students can choose to supplement with complementary services such as internship programmes, language courses, access to new technologies, exchange programmes with foreign universities, orientation and tutorial activities, etc. Campus life also offers a unique opportunity to enjoy an ample array of cultural and sport activities, to develop projects through student associations or to participate in defining and governing the institution through its representative bodies.