History
The university mission statement was defined by an Institutional Declaration and approved by the Board of Governors on 19 July 1998. The statement has two main purposes:
- Service to the faith, which combines Christian inspiration with academic independence.
- Promoting justice that develops a sense of solidarity and service; encouraging comprehensive sustainable development
Education
The IQS School of Engineering aims to provide students with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary education with a special emphasis on both fundamental sciences and applied laboratory work, with a generalist focus that covers the social and economic implications of Engineering, Chemistry and Biotechnology.
The IQS School of Management is one of the best centres in Business Administration and Management and Marketing, distinguished by its Undergraduate Programmes and Master's Degrees, providing comprehensive education for people who study to create, lead and manage industrial and technological organisations.
Research
IQS aims to provide a response to the essential questions that concern the scientific community and business environment at any given time, by educating professionals with a global vision in a constantly changing world.
- Scientific-Technical Area
- Economics-Business Area
- Human Resources Strategy for Researcher (HRS4R)
- IQS Tech Transfer
Career
IQS contributes to society’s economic, scientific, and technological development by training professionals who are capable of taking on positions of responsibility in the companies and industries they join.
At Career Services you’ll find:
- Personalized care, guidance, and advice when searching for Company Internships related to your background.
- Unique opportunities for professional growth.Multiple possibilities to acquire key skills for your professional future.More than 500 companies available to carry out internships nationwide or in other countries.
Short Courses
University Ranking
World University Rankings by Times Higher Education
2024
601 -100
2023
501 -100
2022
401
World University Rankings is a vital resource that provides the definitive list of the world's best universities. They look at how often they're producing new ideas, what their reputation is around the world, and how much they're contributing to science and academic fields. After calculating and comparing these criteria, THE ranks the universities accordingly.
QS World University Rankings by TopUniversities
2024
621 30
2023
651 -50
2022
601
QS World University Rankings is one of the top international rankings measuring the popularity and performance of universities all over the world. They measure university reputation based on the impressions of higher education experts, companies who hire graduates, and teaching quality. QS also considers the ratio of international teachers and students present at universities, as well as the times research papers were mentioned by researchers. After calculating and comparing these criteria, QS ranks the universities accordingly.
Student services
- The International Relations & Student Life service helps foreign students coming to study at IQS (Incoming)and also IQS students who want to study abroad (Outgoing), either to finish a degree or to conduct research.
- At IQS we believe in internationalizing science and business because having more connections with other countries will improve the quality of the students’ education, research and professional opportunities.
- IQS also is firmly committed to characterising international relations not only be academic excellence, but also by promoting service to faith and justice.
Library services
3rd floor (access)
- Information and Loan Desk
- 114 reading points
- Basic bibliography
- Bibliographic news
- Temporary exhibitions
- Newspaper publication
- 4 query computers
- Self-service copier / printer / scanner
- Reference works
- Technical processing clearance
- Slogans
- Surface: Room 176.75 m 2 and Offices 56.42 m 2
- 48 reading points
- Monographs since 1985
- Technical processing offices
- Library management office
ICT services
The use of new information technologies is becoming more and more important in education and daily life in general; IQS promotes all those ICT resources to support teaching. The IQS university community can access on-line tools 24 hours a day to check contents, send or correct work, complete exercises, consult files or get in touch with work teams, either with a class of students or with groups.
Sports facilities
IQS believes that encouraging participation in sports among its students is essential. For this reason, new activities are proposed each year from which students can choose various sports options. For the most competitive students, there are official IQS teams that play against other university teams and which also compete in the famous UNIJES Tournament held each year in a different Spanish city.
IQS fields the following inter-university competition teams, which can be joined by any student at the school as long as the number of registered students is sufficient:
- Men's 7-a-side football
- Women's futsal
- Men's basketball and women's basketball (indoors)
- Volleyball
ABET, Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, ASIIN, ACSB, ECTN, FT