Type Public Endowment € 97 million Academic staff 950 Total enrollment 12,643 (2010) | Established 1979 President Jose Ángel Hermida Phone +34 987 29 10 00 Doctoral students 1.172 Founded 1979 | |
Motto Universitas legionensis Address Campus de Vegazana S/N, 24071 España, León, Spain Notable alumni Sonsoles Espinosa, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, José María Castro Madriz, Florencio del Castillo, Braulio Carrillo Colina Similar University of Oviedo, Universidad de León - Vegazana, University of Valladolid, University of Salamanca, University of Burgos | ||
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The University of León is a Spanish public university with campus in León and Ponferrada.
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The germ of the university is found in 1843, when it was created the Normal School for Teachers or Masters Seminar of Public Instruction and the subaltern school of Veterinary Medicine, founded in 1852, laying the foundations of Leon future university. Founded in 1979 as a splitting of the University of Oviedo, from the various schools and colleges that depend on that, more or less existed long ago in the city of Leon.
In recent years the university has signed important cooperation agreements, among which the one signed with the University of Washington, which has allowed the installation in Leon of the second European Headquarters this university to learn Spanish, with capacity for 500 students, and signed with the University of Xiangtan, which has led to the establishment in the city of Confucius Institute.
Faculties and Schools
The University of Leon has eight Faculties, six Schools and two private associated Schools. It also has the School of Languages and an IT Center, called Crai-tic, where the Calendula supercomputer is located. The Veterinary Hospital of Castile and León is also associated to the University.