Autonomous University of Madrid

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The Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM; German Autonomous University of Madrid ) is a public comprehensive university in Madrid, which was founded in 1968. In 1971 she moved to the campus in Canto Blanco, where since that time almost all faculties are gathered. Starting this year, it was expanded and expanded until it was home to more than 30,000 students and more than 2,000 teachers in the academic year 2007/8.

Since its inception, the UAM is one of the most important universities of Spain. It lies under the Spanish universities at number 1 in the rankings of the newspapers El Mundo and Times as well as in the Jiao Tong University Shanghai ranking.

At the UAM following faculties are located:

• Natural Sciences ( Ciencias )
• Law ( Derecho )
• Arts and Humanities ( Filosofía y Letras )
• Psychology ( Psicología )
• Medicine ( Medicina)
• Economics ( Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales )
• Education ( Formación de Educación y profesorado )

In addition, there are a number of university schools, such as for the training of nurses.