University of Granada

Description of the University of Granada

The UGR, founded in 1531, is one of the largest and most important universities in Spain. It serves more than 60000 students per year, including many foreign students, as UGR is the leader host institution in the Erasmus program.

UGR is also a leading institution in research, located in the top 4/10 of Spanish universities by a variety of ranking criteria. UGR is one of the few Spanish Universities listed in the Shanghai Top 500 ranking, in which its Engineering/Technology is positioned at the top of the 50 best universities of the world. UGR publishes annually more than 2,500 publications, with a percentage higher than 50 % in the first quartile. Internationally, we bet decidedly by our participation in the calls of the Framework Programme of the European Union. For the duration of the Seventh Framework Programme, the UGR has obtained a total of 66 projects, with total funding of 17.97 million euros, and for H2020, 41 projects with total funding of 11.33 million euros.

We also have more than 1,100 researchers and technicians engaged in various forms of predoctoral staff, postdoctoral contracts, researchers and contractors, representing over 30% more of our teaching staff. UGR is involved in a wide range of international networks thanks to the long list of co-operation partners it has throughout the world such as the International Association of Universities, the European University Association, the Coimbra Group of Universities, which includes over 40 of Europe’s most prestigious universities and the South-American University Association for Postgraduate Studies, which is a UNESCO-recognised non-governmental international organization. At the UGR, internationalization is a political priority. In recognition of its continuing work in the promotion of European mobility since 1987, the UGR was awarded the Erasmus Programme's Gold Star in 2007. Currently, it receives more students on this Programme (about 2,000 per year) than any other European university and it is one of the European universities that sends the most students to other institutions (about 1,650 per year). The UGR also takes part in other mobility initiatives such as the Organisation of Ibero-American States' PIMA, the European Commission's Erasmus Mundus and UNESCO's PEACE programme, as well as programmes organised by the Coimbra Group of Universities