University of León

University of León
Universidad de León
Motto Universitas legionensis
Established 1979
Type Public
Endowment € 97 million
President Jose Ángel Hermida
Academic staff 950
Admin. staff 2.034
Students 12.643
Undergraduates 8.739
Postgraduates 488
Doctoral students 1.172
Location León, Castile and LeónProvince of León,  Spain
Campus Urban, 0.5 km2.
Colors Red and Green            
Website http://www.unileon.es

The University of León is a Spanish public university with campus in León and Ponferrada.

The germ of the university is found in 1843, when you create 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.

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