The University of the Balearic Islands (Catalan: Universitat de les Illes Balears, UIB; IPA: [univərsiˈtad də ɫəz ˈiʎəz βəɫəˈas]; Spanish: Universidad de las Islas Baleares) is a Balearic Spanish university, founded in 1978 and located in Palma on the island of Majorca. To find the origins of the establishment of the University in the Balearic Islands, we have to refer to the year 1483, the year in which King Ferran II authorized the founding of the General Lulian Study (from Ramon Llull) in the city of Majorca, the first real college on the Balearic Islands. This Centre was operational until 1835, when, after intense debate between the Spanish government and society Majorcan finally got abolished. Since that time, all pupils in the Balearic Islands who wanted to continue higher education had to move up Cervera first and then to Barcelona. The Balearic Islands had no institution dedicated to teaching higher until 1949 when he returned to found the General Lulian Study under the auspices of the University of Barcelona, which for a time offered courses in philosophy and philology recognized by the University of Barcelona.