College dormitories near Universitat d'Alacant

The University of Alicante was created in October 1979 on the structure of the Center for University Studies (CEU), which had begun to operate in 1968. The Spanish province of Alicante thus recovered the university studies suspended in 1834. , when its predecessor, the University of Orihuela, closed after two centuries of existence. The region has a rich university tradition, the rich heritage of which is reflected in the current Colegio de Santo Domingo, a building of the former University of Orihuela, recovered today, thanks to the agreement between the Diocese and the University.

Present. The University of Alicante has more than fifty degrees, more than seventy university departments and research units and groups in areas of social and legal sciences, experimental, technological, humanities, education ;n and health sciences, five university research institutes. It also has a wide variety of services.

It is structured into eleven centers: five faculties, the Higher Polytechnic School and a university school.