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Universidade de Vigo | |
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| Motto | Innovadora, pública, de calidade |
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| Type | Public university |
| Established | 1990 (1990) |
Academic affiliations | Compostela Group of Universities |
| Rector | Manuel Reigosa Roger |
Academic staff | 1400 |
Administrative staff | 793 |
| Students | 18577 |
| Undergraduates | 15770 |
| Postgraduates | 1122 |
| 665 | |
| Location | ,, 42°10′11″N8°41′04″W / 42.16976320°N 8.68457840°W /42.16976320; -8.68457840[1] |
| Campus | Vigo,Pontevedra,Ourense |
| Website | www |
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| University rankings | |
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| Global – Overall | |
| ARWU World[2] | 501–600 (2023) |
| QS World[3] | 851-900 (2026) |
| THE World[4] | 801–1000 (2024) |
| USNWR Global[5] | =866 (2023) |
TheUniversity of Vigo (Galician:Universidade de Vigo) is apublic university located in the city ofVigo in theProvince of Pontevedra,Galicia,Spain. There are three campuses:
Considered the most technical of the universities ofGalicia, it offers engineering degrees inAerospace Engineering,Mining,Telecommunications,Forestry Engineering,Computer Science andIndustrial Engineering.[6][7]
Following the introduction of the newSpanish Constitution of 1978 and the arrival ofdemocracy, the newly elected Prime Minister ofSpain,Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, leader of theSpanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), introduced legislation fromMadrid to transform the hitherto centralized Spanish State into an amalgamation ofautonomous regions with different degrees of self-administration.[8]
The northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula was thus raised to the status of autonomous region, and the Spanish language had thereafter to co-exist with the new official language: Galician. A new parliament and a new government were created in Galicia for its people. And from the Galician capital, Santiago de Compostela, the newly createdGalician Parliament would bring new legislation for the autonomous community. And it was in this set of circumstances that the university map in Galicia was transformed.
Galicia's first university, theUniversity of Santiago de Compostela, was created in 1495. This was the only university in Galicia until the early 1980s, when two satellite campuses of theUniversity of Santiago de Compostela were created inA Coruña andVigo.
Before that, the only other institution in Galicia with the power to grant degrees was theSchool of Naval and Industrial Engineers ofFerrol, which was created by a ministerial order under the initiative of GeneralFrancisco Franco in the early 1960s.This school was directly dependent on the Ministry of Education inMadrid, although in 1992 it was amalgamated with the University of A Coruña.
In the late 1980s, the two university campuses ofA Coruña andVigo, which were created as dependent on theUniversity of Santiago de Compostela, became fully independent universities, being able for the first time to issue their own official university degree titles.
As of the early 1990s, Galicia had three universities, each of them with its own satellite campuses. These were theUniversity of Santiago de Compostela with two university campuses, one inSantiago de Compostela and the other inLugo; theUniversity of A Coruña with two university campuses, one inA Coruña and the other inFerrol; and the University of Vigo with three university campuses, one inPontevedra, one inOurense, and one inVigo.
Lagoas Marcosende - CUVI (15 kilometres away from Vigo downtown):
Downtown:
A Xunqueira:
Downtown:
Marín:
The University publishes the interdisciplinary journal of marine sciencesThalassas.
(in English)