The University of A Coruña () is a Spanish public

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located in the city of

A Coruña A Coruña (; ; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain. It is Galicia's second largest city, behind Vigo. The city is the provincial capital of the province ...

, Galicia. Established in 1989, university departments are divided between two primary campuses in A Coruña and nearby Ferrol. The A Coruña campus is spread over three suburbs on the outskirts of A Coruña: Elviña and Zapateira (near the site of the Battle of Elviña) and Oza (near the As Xubias zone).

History

The first University in Galicia was founded 1495 in University of Santiago de Compostela, and it remained the only university in Galicia until the early 1980s when two university campuses (in A Coruña and

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) were formed from the University of Santiago de Compostela. In the early 1960s, the School of Naval and Industrial Engineers of Ferrol was also established as a degree-granting institution by a Ministerial Order. Until 1990 the school was directly dependent on the Ministry of Education in

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. In 1990 the school was amalgamated with the University of A Coruña. In the late 1980s, the two campuses of A Coruña and

, originally part of University of Santiago de Compostela, became fully independent universities with the authority to issue their own university degrees. In the early 1990s, the universities established further campuses of their own: *University of Santiago de Compostela based in

Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, simply Santiago, or Compostela, in the province of Province of A Coruña, A Coruña, is the capital of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. The city ...

, with a campus in

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*University of A Coruña based in A Coruña, with a campus in Ferrol *University of Vigo based in Vigo, with campuses in

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and

Pontevedra Pontevedra (, ) is a city in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. It is the capital of both the ''Pontevedra (comarca), Comarca'' and Province of Pontevedra, and the capital of the Rías Baixas. It is als ...

Organization

The University of A Coruña uses the

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''Consul'' to let its members propose, debate and decide on issues in administration, teaching and budgeting.

Notable faculty

* Rosa Cobo Bedía (born 1956), feminist, writer, and professor of sociology of gender at the University of A Coruña * Amparo Alonso Betanzos, professor at University of A Coruña, where she leads the Laboratory for the Investigation and Development of Artificial Intelligence (LIDIA)

Notable alumni

* Miguel Dongil y Sánchez (born 1987), historian

References

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