Francisco de Vitoria University began its journey in the 1993-1994 academic year as an affiliated center of the Complutense University of Madrid, under the name Francisco de Vitoria University Center. In that same academic year, the Faculty of Communication Sciences was created, offering a degree in Journalism with the aim of becoming a leading center for its approach to communication science education focused on the individual. A few years later, it achieved full accreditation as a private university through Law 7/2001 of July 3, which granted full official recognition to all of its degree programs. In the 2003-2004 academic year, the affiliated center became Francisco de Vitoria University and began offering its official degree programs, which it continues to do today.
From 2008 onwards, the existing degrees at the Faculty (Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations, Fine Arts and Design) were adapted to the EHEA as Bachelor's Degrees.