The head of Hematology at Son Espases joins the management team of CEU Beato Luis Belda
The center will start the 2026-2027 academic year with Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Psychology and will progressively expand its academic offerings in the following years
PalmThe Beato Luis Belda University Center, affiliated with CEU San Pablo University, has already filled all places for the Medicine degree, set to begin next September. More than 80% of the admitted students are from the Balearic Islands, predominantly from Mallorca. With this first cohort, the center makes its debut with the aim of consolidating a health sciences faculty on the island with strong territorial roots, aimed at alleviating the shortage of healthcare professionals. Hematologist Antònia Sampol, currently an associate professor at the UIB and head of the Hematology and Hemotherapy service at Son Espases Hospital, will be part of the management team of CEU Beato Luis Belda.
The new institution will begin academic activity in the 2026-2027 academic year with degrees in Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Psychology, while the rest of the studies will be implemented progressively. Thus, for the 2027-2028 academic year, the incorporation of Pharmacy and Dentistry is planned.
Regarding the facilities, teaching activities will begin at the Son Serra Parera estate, recently acquired, provisionally while the renovation of the old Riskal building progresses. For the first academic year, this space will only have the laboratories operational, which are essential for practical sessions. Once the works are completed, the Riskal building will become the main campus headquarters, while the estate will house administrative departments of the center.
The project details were presented this Wednesday during an informative breakfast. In this context, the director of the San Pablo CEU University Foundation, Javier Tello, highlighted the commitment to launch a project in Mallorca with its own identity, conceived "from the Balearic Islands and for the Balearic Islands," in terms of both faculty and students.
As Tello explained, the faculty will have a high-level teaching team, mainly composed of professionals residing in the archipelago. In its first year of activity, the center will have more than forty teaching and management staff, a figure that is expected to quadruple as the full training offer is rolled out.
Regarding the social response, the foundation has highlighted the interest of Balearic families in the project. The enrollment process is progressing well and, in the case of the Medicine degree, the 55 available places for the first year have already been filled. Most of the students come from the Islands, a fact favored by an access system that prioritizes residents. The rest of the degrees have also received a lot of interest, according to Tello. The center's objective is to contribute to reducing the deficit of professionals in the field of health sciences in the Balearic Islands, while also fostering the retention of talent trained in the territory.
For her part, the rector of CEU San Pablo University, Rosa Visiedo, has highlighted the institution's trajectory in this field and has emphasized the desire to transfer its main values to the Balearic Islands, among which stand out internationalization, research, employment placement, social commitment, and a vocation for service.
Biosanitary campus
The project includes the creation of a biosanitary campus in Palma with the capacity to host around 2,000 students. In a context marked by a shortage of healthcare professionals, the initiative aims to train new generations of specialists in disciplines such as Medicine, Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Psychology.
The campus headquarters will be located in the old Riskal building, which will be rehabilitated following sustainability criteria, with the aim of taking advantage of existing structures and integrating them into the urban environment of Palma. The complex will include specialized laboratories, an advanced clinical simulation center, a university dental clinic with a social vocation, and spaces adapted to innovative teaching methodologies.
During the presentation, the practical nature of the training was also highlighted, which will be reinforced through a network of agreements and alliances with companies and institutions. Among these are Juaneda Hospitals, RCD Mallorca, the College of Physicians of the Balearic Islands, the Official College of Psychology, and the College of Pharmacists.