Universidad Francisco de Vitoria commenced operations in the 1993-1994 academic year as a center affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid, operating under the name Centro Universitario Francisco de Vitoria. In the same academic year, the Faculty of Communication Sciences was established with a university degree in Journalism. The objective was to become a leading center for training in communication sciences with a focus on the individual. Subsequently, the university was granted full accreditation as a private institution of higher education under Law 7/2001, of July 3, 2001, which confers full official status to all the university degrees it offers. In the 2003-2004 academic year, the Centro Universitario became the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria and began offering its official university degrees.