The Public University of Navarre (; ), alo known by its acronym UPNA or NUP, is a public university created in 1987 by the government of the Spanish autonomous region of Navarre (, Basque: Nafarroa). Its activity began in 1989. The main campus is located in Pamplona, at the outskirts of the city, near the CA Osasuna's El Sadar Stadium, and a new campus was opened in Tudela, a city in southern Navarre, for the 2008-09 academic year. The Health Sciences building (Spanish: Ciencias de la Salud) was placed off-campus near the two biggest hospitals of the city. Currently there are about 10,000 students taking twenty-five different degrees, the most popular of which are Business Administration and several different engineering degrees. There are also many foreign students taking part of Erasmus programme, International Student Exchange Programs, Virrey Palafox, or other exchange programs. History The Public University of Navarre was created in 1987 by the Parliament of Navarre, as an initiative by then president Gabriel Urralburu. In 1989, classes started in El Sario building, and the construction of the main building of the campus (Aulario) began. In 1990, the library and department buildings were finished. In 1993, the university elected its first rector. In 1995, they approved their first statutes, and in 1996 it already had 10,000 registered students. In 1997, the Grupo 9 de Universidades (G9 of Universities) was founded as an alliance between nine Spanish universities, with its headquarters being in the Arrosadia Campus of the Public University of Navarre. In 1998, both the dining room and the cafeteria were inaugurated. Two years later it already had a sports center (the Pabellón Universitario de Navarra), a modern facility with fronton, sports court and swimming pool. In 2006, the university began its activities in Tudela. A year later it opened the student resident Los Abedules, and in 2008 the Tudela campus was finished. That year they also celebrated the first plenary session of the Student Council. In 2011, Campus Iberus was created, a consortium with the universities of Zaragoza, Lleida and La Rioja, which serves as an international excellence campus for universities located alongside the riverbank of the Ebro. In 2019, they began teching a degree in Medicine, and in 2022 the university surpassed 10,000 pre-registrations. Since the year 1998, the Brunet Foundation, part of the university, awards the Jaime Brunet International Prize and the Jaime Brunet University Prize. Teaching