The University of Vigo ( gl, Universidade de Vigo) is a

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located in the city of

Vigo Vigo ( , , , ) is a city and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. Located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits on the southern shore of an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, the ...

in the

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. There are three campuses: * Campus of Vigo in Lagoas-Marcosende, between the municipalities of

and

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, 15 kilometres away from the city centre. Also known as CUVI (Ciudad universitaria de Vigo, University city of Vigo); * Campus of Pontevedra in A Xunqueira,

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a Spanish city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the '' Comarca'' (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rías Baixas in Galicia. It is also the capital of its own municipality wh ...

, and in the city centre; * Campus of Ourense in As Lagoas,

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. Considered the most technical of the universities of

, it offers engineer degrees in

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, Forestry Engineering,

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and

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History of the university in Galicia

Political background

Following the introduction of the new

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and the arrival of

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, the newly elected president of

, Felipe Gonzalez Marquez, leader of the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE), introduced legislation from

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to transform the hitherto centralized Spanish State into an amalgamation of autonomous regions with different degrees of self-administration. 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 created

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would bring new legislation for the autonomous community. And it was in this set of circumstances that the university map in Galicia was transformed.

From one university to many

Galicia's first university, the

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, was created in 1495. This was the only university in Galicia had no other university until the early 1980s, when two satellite campuses of the

were created in

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and

. Before that, the only other institution in Galicia with the power to grant degrees was the

School of Naval and Industrial Engineers The School of Naval and Industrial Engineers (also Escuela de Peritos Navales de Ferrol and Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería Técnica Naval de Ferrol) was created in 1963 by a Ministerial Order from Madrid, in accordance with a direct initiativ ...

of Ferrol, which was created by a ministerial order under the initiative of General

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in the early 1960s. This school was directly dependent on the Ministry of Education in

, although in 1992 it was amalgamated with the University of A Coruña. In the late 1980s, the two university campuses of

and

, which were created as dependent on the

, became fully independent universities, being able for the first time to issue their own official university degree titles.

From the 1990s to the present

As of the early 1990s, Galicia had three universities, each of them with its own satellite campuses. These were the

with two university campuses, one in

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and the other in

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; the

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with two university campuses, one in

and the other in Ferrol; and the University of Vigo with three university campuses, one in

, one in

, and one in

Campus of Vigo (Lagoas Marcosende, 15 kilometres away from Vigo) - CUVI

* School of Industrial Engineering * School of Mining Engineering
Faculty of Philology, Translation and Interpretation

Faculty of Juridic and Labour Sciences

Faculty of Economy, Business and Management Sciences

Superior Technical School of Mining Engineering

Superior Technical School of Telecommunication Engineering

Faculty of Biology
* Faculty of Marine Science.
Faculty of Chemistry

Center of Technological and Scientific Support for Investigation
Downtown: * School of Industrial Engineering * School of Nursing (at Hospital of Meixoeiro or at Povisa Policlinic Center).
School of Business Studies
* School of Teaching for Primary Education.

Campus of Pontevedra (downtown)

* School of Nursing.
School of Forest(ry) Engineering

Faculty of Physiotherapy
*

Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra The Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra is a Spanish art faculty founded in 1990 in Pontevedra. It is housed in the former Maestranza and Saint Ferdinand Barracks, an neoclassical building from the early 20th century in the city of Pontevedr ...

Faculty of Education Sciences

Faculty of Social, Media and Communication Sciences

Faculty of Management and Public Administration
Marín:
Defence University Centre at the Spanish Naval Military Academy