Founded in 1971, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is one of Europe’s top universities, renowned for its academic and research quality, innovation and close ties with society.
With over 36,000 students and 2,900 academic staff, its activities (teaching, research and technology transfer) focus on all branches of engineering, architecture, sports science and fashion design. According to the QS World University Rankings, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid is one of the 100 best universities in the world in the field of engineering and technology. UPM is also one of the best world universities for employability, ranking as the top Spanish technical university.
The UPM attaches huge importance to international education as a means of learning about different cultures, relating to other societies and, ultimately, rounding out student training and improving their integration into a multicultural environment. UPM leads the Magalhaes academic exchange network, as well as cooperation between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean and has two permanent international representations: UPM Representation to North America (based at Harvard University) and UPM Representation to Asia and Oceania (based at Tongji University). The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid leads the EELISA alliance. EELISA brings together a higher education community of over 180,000 students, 16,000 academic, and 11,000 administrative and service staff that will benefit from the initiatives developed across this new European network.
For more information, see https://www.upm.es/
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