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3 unusual facts about University of Madrid


University of Madrid

Technical University of Madrid, founded in 1971 from the merger of several schools of engineering and architecture, originated mainly in the 18th century

European University of Madrid, a private university founded in 1995 and owned by Laureate Education, Inc.

Complutense University of Madrid, a public research university founded in 1293, historically referred to as the Universidad de Madrid


Aaron Cicourel

Cicourel held a Russell Sage Foundation Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center, a National Science Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship at London University in England, a Guggenheim Fellowship at the University of Madrid in Spain, and was a Fulbright lecturer in Brazil and Spain.

Alejandro Romualdo

He studied literature at the National University of San Marcos in 1946 and then at the University of Madrid in 1951.

Amina Alaoui

Amina went to school at Lycée Descartes and studied philology and Spanish and Arabic linguistics at the University of Madrid and the University of Granada.

Carleton Beals

They left Mexico in 1921 for Europe where Beals studied at the University of Madrid, and then the University of Rome.

Infante Gonzalo of Spain

He studied Engineering at the Catholic University of Leuven, instead of at the University of Madrid as originally planned for him.

Luis Ladaria Ferrer

Luis Ladaria Ferrer was born in Manacor, on the island of Majorca, Spain and studied at the University of Madrid, graduating with a degree in law in 1966.

M. Margaret McKeown

She has also received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Georgetown and studied at the University of Madrid.

Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas

Burelli Rivas, was born in La Puerta, Venezuela, graduated as lawyer with a post-graduate degree in Political Sciences in University of Florence and a post-graduate degree in Law from the University of Madrid, Spain.

Ramon Castroviejo

Born in Logroño, Spain he received his medical education at the University of Madrid.


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José Luis López de Silanes

Mr. López de Silanes began his professional activity as a teacher at the Polytechnic University of Madrid's Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales, and in 1971 he joined Compañía Arrendataria del Monopolio de Petróleos (CAMPSA), where he held various posts as Chief Project Engineer and Technical Area Manager.

Karl Bechert

Under a fellowship of the Rockefeller Foundation, from 1925 to 1926, he accomplished postdoctoral studies and research at the Physics Institute of the University of Madrid.