University of Vigo

University of Vigo

Universidade de Vigo
Motto	Innovadora, pública, de calidade
Type	Public University
Established	1990
Rector	Salustiano Mato
Administrative staff	1,500
Students	21,263 (2006)
Location	Pontevedra, Ourense, Vigo, Galicia, Spain
Campus	Multiple
Website	www.uvigo.gal

The University of Vigo (Galician: Universidade de Vigo) is a public university located in the city of Vigo, Galicia, Spain. There are four campuses:

Considered the most technical of the universities of Galicia, it offers engineer degrees in Mining, Telecommunications, Forestry Engineering, Computer Science and Industrial Engineering.

Following the introduction of the new Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the arrival of Democracy, the newly elected president of Spain, Felipe Gonzalez Marquez leader of the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE) introduced legislation from Madrid to transform the, until that date, centralized Spanish State, into an amalgamation of autonomic regions with different degrees of self Administration.

The north-western corner of the Iberian Peninsula will be raised to the “Status” of Autonomic Region, and the Spanish Language will have to co-exist with the new official language: Galician.

A new Parliament and a new government have been created in Galicia for its people. And from the Galician Capital, Santiago de Compostela, the newly created Galician Parliament will bring new legislation for the autonomic community.

And it is in these states of affairs that the University Map in Galicia will be transformed.

To begin with, Galicia never had a University until 1495 when the University of Santiago de Compostela was created, and from that date onwards, Galicia had no other university until the early 1980s when two university campuses dependent from the University of Santiago de Compostela were created in A Coruña and Vigo.