Menéndez Pelayo International University

The Summer International University in Santander was created on 23rd August 1932. Once courses began in 1933, under the Rectorship of Ramón Menéndez Pidal and with Pedro Salinas as General Secretary, an intense academic and cultural activity was developed, uniting the best intellectuals of the period.

Menéndez Pelayo International University offers Official Postgraduate Programs, adapted to the European Higher Education Area, leading to nationally recognized Masters' and Doctoral Degrees.

The UIMP already has implemented eight Doctoral Programs which are carried out thanks to the participation and collaboration of the High Council for Scientific Research (6 programs), the Center for Economic, Monetary and Financial Studies, belonging to the Bank of Spain (1 program) and to the those universities which participate in the Interuniversity Program in Contemporary History.