University of Vigo

University of Vigo

Universidade de Vigo
Shield of University of Vigo
Type	public
Established	1989 [1]
President	Domingo Docampo Amoedo
Location	Vigo , Galicia , Spain
Campus	Vigo, Pontevedra, and Ourense
Website	www.uvigo.es

The University of Vigo (Galician: Universidade de Vigo) is a public university centered in the city of Vigo, Galicia. There are three campus:

• Lagoas-Marcosende, between the municipalities of Vigo and Mos;
• A Xunqueira, at Pontevedra;
• As Lagoas, at Ourense;

It's understood to be the most technical of the universities of Galicia, as there are studies of Mining, Telecomunications and Industry Engeneering. Another prestigious centers are Translation and Interpreting, Private investigator and Security or Sea Sciences (more than Oceanography).

History of the University in Galicia

• POLITICAL BACKGROUND

Following the introduction of the new Spanish Constitution of 1978 and the arrival of Democracy, the new elected president of Spain, Felipe Gonzalez Marquez leader of the Spanish Socialist Worker’s Party (PSOE) will introduce 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 with 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 transform.

• FROM ONE UNIVERSITY TO MANY

To begin with, Galicia never had University till 1495 when the University of Santiago de Compostela was created, and from that date onwards, Galicia will have no other university till the early 1980s when two university campuses dependant of the University of Santiago de Compostela will be created in A Corunna and Vigo.

Before that, the only institution which shared “Official Degree Studies” in Galicia was the “School of Naval and Industrial Engineers” of Ferrol (which at the time was called “El Ferrol del Caudillo”), which was created by a Ministerial Order under the initiative of General Francisco Franco in the early 1960s. This School was directly dependant of the Ministry of Education in Madrid though in 1992 will be amalgamated to the University of A Corunna.

In the late 1980s, the two university campuses of A Corunna and Vigo, which were created as dependant of the University of Santiago de Compostela will became fully independent Universities being able for the first time to issue their own official university degree titles.

• FROM 1990s TO THE PRESENT

A few years later, in the early 1990s Galicia has three universities, each of them with campuses of their own.

University of Santiago de Compostela – With two university campuses, one in Santiago de Compostela and the other in Lugo.

University of A Corunna – With two university campuses, one in A Corunna and the other in El Ferrol.

University of Vigo – With three university campuses, one in Vigo, and the other two in Orense and Ponteverda.

Notable alumni

• Anxo Quintana

References

• Law 11/1989, July 20, of Ordenation of the Galician University System (Spanish)

See also

• Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín
• University of Santiago de Compostela
• University of A Coruña