Universities in Spain

Notable Universities in Spain

A closer look at 20 universities in Spain. Founding year and language are from Wikidata, and what each publishes most research in is from OpenAlex (papers since 2020). A dash means the source has nothing.

School	City	Type	Founded	Language	Publishes most in
Universidad de Salamanca	Salamanca	Public	1218	Spanish	MedicineSocial SciencesArts and Humanities
Universidad de Valladolid	Valladolid	Public	1241	Spanish	MedicineSocial SciencesArts and Humanities
Universidad Complutense de Madrid	Madrid	Public	1970	Spanish	MedicineSocial SciencesArts and Humanities
Universitat de Lleida	Lleida	Public	1300	Catalan	MedicineAgricultural and Biological SciencesSocial Sciences
Universitat de Barcelona	Barcelona	Public	1842	Catalan	MedicineSocial SciencesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
University of Barcelona	Barcelona	Public	1842	Catalan	MedicineSocial SciencesBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela	Santiago de Compostela	Public	1495	Galician, Spanish	MedicineSocial SciencesEnvironmental Science
Universidad de Alcalá de Henares	Alcalá de Henares	Public	1977	Spanish	MedicineSocial SciencesEnvironmental Science
Universidad de Valencia	Valencia	Public	1499	Spanish	MedicineSocial SciencesPhysics and Astronomy
Universidad de Sevilla	Seville	Public	1505	Spanish	MedicineSocial SciencesEngineering
Universidad de Granada	Granada	Public	1531	Spanish	MedicineSocial SciencesArts and Humanities
Universidad de Zaragoza	Zaragoza	Public	1542	Spanish	MedicineSocial SciencesEngineering
Universidad de Oviedo	Oviedo	Public	1608	Spanish	MedicineEngineeringSocial Sciences
Universidad de La Laguna	San Cristóbal de La Laguna	Public	1927	Spanish	Physics and AstronomyMedicineSocial Sciences
Universidad de Deusto	Bilbao	Private	1886	Spanish, Basque	Social SciencesMedicinePsychology
Universidad Pontificia Comillas	Madrid	Private	1890	Spanish	Social SciencesEngineeringMedicine
Universidad de Murcia	Murcia	Public	1915	Spanish	MedicineSocial SciencesArts and Humanities
Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo	Santander	Public	1932	Spanish	—
Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca	Salamanca	Private	1940	Spanish	Social SciencesMedicineArts and Humanities
Universidad de Navarra	Pamplona	Private	1952	Spanish	MedicineSocial SciencesArts and Humanities