The Autonomous University of Madrid is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 alongside the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV), in Barcelona and Bilbao, respectively.
The campus of the university spans a rural tract of 650 acres, mostly around metropolitan Madrid. Founded in 1968, its main campus, Cantoblanco, is located near the cities of Alcobendas, San Sebastián de los Reyes and Tres Cantos. UAM’s Cantoblanco Campus holds most of the university’s facilities. It is located 15 km north of Madrid and has an extension of over 2,200,000 m². Of these are nearly 770,000 urbanised and about a third of them garden areas. UAM offers 94 doctorate programs in all of the universities studies. It also offers 88 master’s degrees. According to a study carried out by the newspaper El Mundo, in 2013, UAM was the best university in the country to study Biology, Nursing, Medicine, Physics and Law, within the 50 careers with the highest demand.
Academic organization
The UAM is divided into eight faculties and superior schools that support and coordinate most of the university’s academic and administrative activity. Each faculty is divided into departments that coordinate the teaching and research of the different subjects. Researchers can organise into research institutes in order to coordinate their activities in a specific research field. The university totals up to 59 departments and eight research institutes. In addition to these, the UAM has seven associate schools, which are not completely part of UAM’s administrative structure, but issue UAM-recognised titles and are under UAM’s academic regulations.
Faculties and superior schools:
- Faculty of Philosophy and Liberal Arts
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Economical Science and Business Management
- Faculty of Sciences
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Psychology
- Engineering School (until 2002 Superior School of Computer Engineers)
- Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (until 2002 Santa Maria School of Teacher Training)
Associate schools are:
- Red Cross School of Nursing
- Puerta de Hierro School of Nursing
- Jimenez Diaz Foundation School of Nursing
- ONCE School of physiotherapy
- LaSalle Institute of Higher Education
- Escuela de Gemología