Technical University of Madrid

The Technical University of Madrid is a public technical university in Madrid, Spain, founded in 1971 through the integration of the Madrid higher technical schools, and it teaches over 35,000 students across its Ciudad Universitaria, Montegancedo, South and Downtown campuses.马德里理工大学是位于西班牙马德里的公立技术大学，于 1971 年整合马德里各高等技术学校而成立，在蒙克洛阿大学城、蒙特甘塞多、南区与市中心四个校区培养逾 35,000 名学生。

Although the university itself dates from 1971, the origin of most of its constituent schools reaches back to the eighteenth century, when teaching in engineering and architecture was established during the reign of King Charles III.虽然大学本身创立于 1971 年，但其多数组成学校的历史可追溯至 18 世纪，当时工程与建筑教学在国王卡洛斯三世治下相继设立。

In the 2027 QS World University Rankings it is placed 364th, it stands in the 1001-1200 band of the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, it is 682nd in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities, and it falls in the 501-600 band of the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, while OpenAlex credits it with 79,523 research works.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 364，在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中处于 1001 至 1200 名区间，在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 682，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中处于 501 至 600 名区间；OpenAlex 统计其研究成果达 79,523 项。

History

• The Royal Academy of Mathematics in Madrid was founded in 1582 by King Philip II shortly after his visit to Portugal, and it taught military and technical mathematics until it was closed in 1643.马德里皇家数学学院由国王腓力二世在 1582 年访问葡萄牙后不久创办，教授军事与技术数学，直至 1643 年被关闭。

• The Corps of Army, Cities, Ports and Frontiers Engineers, an ancestor of the engineering schools, was founded by King Philip V in 1711.陆海城港与边防工程师兵团是各工程学校的前身，由国王腓力五世于 1711 年创建。

• In 1716 King Philip V created the Royal Military School of Mathematics in Barcelona, which opened in 1720 and moved to Madrid in 1722.1716 年，国王腓力五世在巴塞罗那创建皇家军事数学学校，该校于 1720 年开办，并于 1722 年迁往马德里。

• On 18 July 1744 the Foundation Assembly of the Royal Academy of the Three Noble Arts of Saint Ferdinand met, setting up the body that would train architects for the Spanish Crown.1744 年 7 月 18 日，圣费尔南多三大高艺皇家学院举行创立大会，建立了此后为西班牙王室培养建筑师的机构。

• Architecture classes began in the Casa de la Panadería on the Plaza Mayor and the academy moved in 1773 to the former palace that became its permanent seat.建筑课程最初在市长广场的面包房之家授课，学院于 1773 年迁入此前的宫殿，并以此作为常设院址。

• The Special School of Fine Arts, which grew out of the architecture academy, was founded in 1845.由建筑学院发展而来的美术专门学校于 1845 年创办。

• On 24 December 1770 King Charles III ordered the creation of the Corps of Naval Architects, and on 13 August 1772 the School of Naval Architecture was founded and opened at El Ferrol, the chief naval base of the Spanish fleet.1770 年 12 月 24 日，国王卡洛斯三世下令创建海军造船师兵团；1772 年 8 月 13 日，海军造船学校成立并开办于西班牙舰队的主要基地埃尔费罗尔。

• The School of Naval Architecture was reopened in 1848 in the Arsenal de la Carraca at Cadiz, where the naval dockyards provided ships for practical instruction.海军造船学校于 1848 年在加的斯的拉卡拉卡兵工厂重新开办，当地的海军船坞为实务教学提供了舰船。

• King Charles III established the School of Mining Engineering in 1777 at Almadén in Ciudad Real, home of the famous mercury mines, making it the first Spanish engineering school of a civil character.国王卡洛斯三世于 1777 年在雷阿尔城的阿尔马登创办矿业工程学校，该地以著名的汞矿闻名，这是西班牙第一所具有民用性质的工程学校。

• The mining school was transferred in 1785 to the viceroyalty of New Spain in Mexico, later returned to Spain, and was inaugurated in Madrid on 7 January 1835 by the Interior Minister Martín de los Heros.矿业学校于 1785 年迁往新西班牙总督区墨西哥，其后回到西班牙，并于 1835 年 1 月 7 日由内政大臣马丁·德洛斯埃罗斯在马德里主持开办。

• In the 1890s the School of Mining Engineering moved into a new building in Madrid designed by the architect Ricardo Velázquez Bosco.1890 年代，矿业工程学校迁入马德里一座由建筑师里卡多·贝拉斯克斯·博斯科设计的新楼。

• The School of Civil Engineering was founded in 1802 at the initiative of the engineer and inventor Agustín de Betancourt, and it occupied the Palacio del Buen Retiro until May 1808.土木工程学校于 1802 年在工程师兼发明家阿古斯丁·德贝坦库尔的推动下创办，1808 年 5 月之前一直设于丽池宫。

• In 1889 and 1890 the School of Civil Engineering moved into a new building on the street of Alfonso XII, and its degrees were later certified by ABET.1889 至 1890 年，土木工程学校迁入阿方索十二世街的新楼，其学位后来获得 ABET 认证。

• Forestry engineering teaching was created by Royal Decree in 1835, and classes began in 1848 at Villaviciosa de Odón before the school settled in Madrid.林业工程教学依 1835 年王室法令设立，1848 年在比利亚维西奥萨德奥东开课，其后学校方迁至马德里。

• A Royal Decree of 18 August 1842 opened the way to industrial engineering studies, and a further Royal Decree of 4 October 1850, signed by Minister Seijas Lozano, created the Royal Industrial Institute and its degree in industrial engineering.1842 年 8 月 18 日的王室法令为工业工程教育开辟了道路，1850 年 10 月 4 日由塞伊哈斯·洛萨诺大臣签署的又一王室法令设立了皇家工业学院及其工业工程学位。

• The Central Agriculture School was founded on 1 October 1855 by the Minister of Public Works Manuel Alonso Martínez at the La Flamenca estate in Aranjuez, was closed on 3 November 1868, and was moved to Madrid by a decree of 28 January 1869, receiving the La Florida and La Moncloa properties.中央农业学校由公共工程大臣曼努埃尔·阿隆索·马丁内斯于 1855 年 10 月 1 日在阿兰胡埃斯的拉弗拉门卡庄园创办，1868 年 11 月 3 日被关闭，又依 1869 年 1 月 28 日的法令迁往马德里，并获得拉佛罗里达与拉蒙克洛阿两处地产。

• The General School of Telegraphy was founded by a decree of 3 June 1913, and a decree of 22 April 1920 created the qualification of Telecommunication Engineer, the school occupying a building on the Paseo de Recoletos between 1912 and 1935.电报总学校依 1913 年 6 月 3 日的法令创办，1920 年 4 月 22 日的法令设立电信工程师资格，该学校在 1912 年至 1935 年间设于雷科莱托斯大道的一座建筑内。

• Aeronautical engineering education dates from 1926 and 1928, when the qualification of Aeronautical Engineer and the Higher School of Aeronautical Engineering were created, and the school took its present name under the education law of 20 July 1957.航空工程教育可追溯到 1926 年与 1928 年，当时设立了航空工程师资格与高等航空工程学校；该校在 1957 年 7 月 20 日的教育法之下取得现行名称。

• Madrid's Institute of Computer Sciences was created in 1969, its studies became part of the university in 1976, the first lectures were held in October 1977, and since 1988 the school has been based on the Montegancedo campus.马德里计算机科学学院创建于 1969 年，其教学于 1976 年纳入大学体系，1977 年 10 月首次开课，自 1988 年起该学院落户蒙特甘塞多校区。

• The Technical University of Madrid was founded in 1971 by integrating the higher technical schools that until then had formed the Higher Technical Institutes, and the university schools joined the following year.马德里理工大学于 1971 年整合此前构成高等技术学院体系的多所高等技术学校而成立，大学所属学校则于次年并入。

• On 14 September 1998 the Institute of Physical Education, known as INEF, was affiliated to the university, and on 1 October 2003 it was fully integrated as a faculty.1998 年 9 月 14 日，名为 INEF 的体育学院附属于该校，2003 年 10 月 1 日则完全并入成为学院。

• In 1972 the Spanish State acquired the collection of the INEF museum, whose core is a nineteenth-century gymnasium later restored under an agreement with the General Directorate of Fine Arts and Archives.1972 年，西班牙国家购得 INEF 博物馆的藏品，其核心是一座 19 世纪的体操馆，后依与美术与档案总局签署的协议得到修复。

• Over the twentieth century the university extended into new campuses and research facilities, adopting the Montegancedo campus for computer science in 1988 and later developing the Parque UPM science park for university spin-off companies.在 20 世纪，该校不断扩展新的校区与研究设施，1988 年为计算机科学启用蒙特甘塞多校区，其后又建设帕克 UPM 科技园供大学衍生企业进驻。

Academics

• The university is organised into 21 schools, comprising 12 higher technical schools and 9 university schools, with about 3,000 teaching staff and more than 2,000 administrative and support staff.该校设有 21 个学院，包括 12 所高等技术学院与 9 所大学学院，约有 3,000 名教师以及 2,000 余名行政与辅助人员。

• Its higher technical schools cover civil, industrial, telecommunication, aeronautical, mining, forestry, agricultural, naval, computer and architectural engineering, making it the principal provider of engineering education in Spain.其高等技术学院涵盖土木、工业、电信、航空、矿业、林业、农业、造船、计算机与建筑工程，是西班牙工程教育的主要提供者。

• The university teaches over 35,000 students across its campuses, graduating around 5,000 students a year, of whom about 20 per cent take part in international projects, and it awards some 200 doctorates annually.该校各校区共培养逾 35,000 名学生，每年毕业约 5,000 人，其中约 20% 参与国际项目，每年还授予约 200 个博士学位。

• The bachelor's degree in Biotechnology offered by the agricultural school has one of the highest admission grades in Spain, at 12.914 out of 14.农业学校开设的生物技术学士课程录取分数位居西班牙最高之列，满分 14 分中需 12.914 分。

• The Civil Engineering School is certified by ABET and was rated the best civil engineering school in Spain by El Mundo, while the Telecommunication Engineering School has been ABET accredited since 2008.土木工程学院获 ABET 认证，并被《世界报》评为西班牙最佳土木工程学院；电信工程学院则自 2008 年起获得 ABET 认证。

• The university receives about 360 million euros in annual research funding, of which around 100 million euros comes from abroad, and it is the largest recipient of European Community research and development funding among Spanish universities, taking some 15 per cent of the national total.该校每年获得约 3.6 亿欧元研究经费，其中约 1 亿欧元来自海外；它是西班牙各大学中获得欧洲共同体研发经费最多者，约占全国总量的 15%。

• Its research institutes and centres include the Solar Power Institute, the Institute of Solar Energy, the Microgravity Institute Ignacio da Riva, the Spanish User Support and Operations Centre E-USOC, the Laser Centre, the CeDInt Centre for the Development of Smart Technologies and the CeSViMa supercomputing centre.其研究机构与中心包括太阳能电力研究所、太阳能研究所、伊格纳西奥·达里瓦微重力研究所、西班牙用户支持与运行中心 E-USOC、激光中心、智能技术发展中心 CeDInt 以及 CeSViMa 超级计算中心。

• Other research bodies include the Institute for Nuclear Fusion, the Institute for Systems and Automation INSIA, the Transport Research Centre TRANSYT and the Centre for Biomedical Technology.其他研究机构还包括核聚变研究所、系统与自动化研究所 INSIA、交通研究中心 TRANSYT 以及生物医学技术中心。

• The university has 87 double degree agreements with international institutions and takes part in the Erasmus programme and in the Top Industrial Managers for Europe network.该校与国际院校签订 87 项双学位协议，并参与伊拉斯谟计划以及欧洲顶尖工业管理者网络。

• The Institute of Physical Education, known as INEF, is the university's faculty for sport and physical activity sciences, teaching degrees in physical activity and sport.名为 INEF 的体育学院是该校的运动与身体活动科学学院，开设身体活动与体育相关学位课程。

• The Ciudad Universitaria campus hosts most of the higher technical schools, while the Montegancedo campus is dedicated to computing, and the agricultural school offers the highest entry grades in the university.蒙克洛阿大学城校区容纳多所高等技术学院，蒙特甘塞多校区专用于计算机学科，而农业学校的入学分数为全校最高。

• The university's degrees and research are concentrated in architecture and in all branches of engineering, giving it a strongly technological and applied character.该校的学位与研究集中于建筑以及工程各分支，使其具有鲜明的技术与应用导向。

• The Spanish User Support and Operations Centre E-USOC at the university supports experiments aboard the International Space Station on behalf of Spanish and European users.该校的西班牙用户支持与运行中心 E-USOC 代表西班牙与欧洲用户，为国际空间站上的实验提供支持。

• The university's automotive research institute INSIA and its transport research centre TRANSYT cooperate with Spanish and European industry on vehicle safety and mobility.该校的汽车研究所 INSIA 与交通研究中心 TRANSYT 同西班牙及欧洲产业界在车辆安全与出行领域开展合作。

• The supercomputing facilities of the university are grouped around the CeSViMa centre and the CeDInt centre, supporting computational science and smart technology research.该校的超级计算设施集中于 CeSViMa 中心与 CeDInt 中心，为计算科学和智能技术研究提供支撑。

• The Institute of Solar Energy and the Solar Power Institute reflect the university's long-standing strength in photovoltaic and renewable energy engineering.太阳能研究所与太阳能电力研究所体现出该校在光伏与可再生能源工程方面的长期优势。

Campus

• The main Ciudad Universitaria campus lies in the Moncloa area of Madrid, where the university shares one of the largest university precincts in Spain with other Madrid institutions.主校区蒙克洛阿大学城位于马德里的蒙克洛阿地区，该校在此与其他马德里的机构共用西班牙规模最大的大学园区之一。

• The Montegancedo campus, used by the computer science school since 1988, forms the university's technology campus to the west of Madrid.自 1988 年起由计算机学院使用的蒙特甘塞多校区，构成该校位于马德里西部的技术校区。

• The South Campus in Vallecas and the Downtown Campus in central Madrid extend the university's teaching and research into other parts of the city.位于巴列卡斯的南区校区与市中心的市中心校区，把该校的教学与研究扩展到城市其他区域。

• The Civil Engineering School occupies a building completed on the street of Alfonso XII in 1889 and 1890, and the Mining Engineering School moved into a Velázquez Bosco building in the 1890s.土木工程学院设于 1889 至 1890 年在阿方索十二世街落成的一座建筑内，矿业工程学院则在 1890 年代迁入由贝拉斯克斯·博斯科设计的大楼。

• The Telecommunication Engineering School occupies premises that were on the Paseo de Recoletos between 1912 and 1935, and its teaching later moved to the Ciudad Universitaria campus.电信工程学院的院址曾在 1912 年至 1935 年间设于雷科莱托斯大道，其教学后来迁往蒙克洛阿大学城校区。

• The Institute of Physical Education INEF has its own campus and museum, whose collection is built around a nineteenth-century gymnasium acquired by the State in 1972.体育学院 INEF 拥有自己的校区与博物馆，其藏品以 1972 年由国家购得的一座 19 世纪体操馆为核心。

• The university's estate includes laboratories and research centres such as the Parque UPM science park, which hosts spin-off companies and applied research units.该校的园区包含实验室与研究中心，例如帕克 UPM 科技园，其中进驻了衍生企业与应用研究单位。

• The university library system serves the several campuses, with collections distributed across the Ciudad Universitaria, Montegancedo, South and Downtown sites.该校图书馆系统服务于各校区，藏书分布于蒙克洛阿大学城、蒙特甘塞多、南区与市中心各址。

Reputation

• In the 2027 QS World University Rankings the Technical University of Madrid is placed 364th, making it one of the leading technical universities in Spain.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，马德里理工大学位列第 364，是西班牙领先的技术大学之一。

• In the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings it stands in the 1001-1200 band, and in the 2026-2027 U.S. News Best Global Universities it is placed 682nd.在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校处于 1001 至 1200 名区间；在 2026 至 2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中位列第 682。

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it falls in the 501-600 band, confirming its standing among the stronger technical universities of southern Europe.在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校处于 501 至 600 名区间，印证其作为南欧较强技术大学的地位。

• El Mundo ranked the university first among Spain's public universities for 2006-2007, underlining its leading position in technical education.《世界报》将该校列为 2006 至 2007 年度西班牙公立大学第一，凸显其在技术教育中的领先地位。

• In the 2008-2009 El Mundo ranking the university was placed second among the 71 public universities of Spain.在 2008 至 2009 年度《世界报》排名中，该校在西班牙 71 所公立大学中位列第二。

• It is the largest recipient of European Community research and development funding among Spanish universities, absorbing around 15 per cent of the national total.它是西班牙各大学中获欧洲共同体研发经费最多者，约占全国总量的 15%。

• Its annual research funding of about 360 million euros, of which about 100 million comes from abroad, supports a wide network of institutes and centres.该校每年约 3.6 亿欧元的研究经费中有约 1 亿欧元来自海外，支撑起广泛的研究机构网络。

• OpenAlex credits the university with 79,523 research works, reflecting the output of its engineering, architecture and science schools.OpenAlex 统计该校研究成果达 79,523 项，体现出其工程、建筑与理学院系的产出。

• Its civil engineering and telecommunication engineering schools hold ABET accreditation, and El Mundo has repeatedly rated its civil engineering school the best in Spain.其土木工程与电信工程学院持有 ABET 认证，《世界报》也多次将其土木工程学院评为西班牙最佳。

Student life

• The university's motto is Ingeniamos el futuro, which translates as we engineer the future, summing up its technological identity.该校校训为「Ingeniamos el futuro」，意为「我们设计未来」，概括了其技术取向的办学精神。

• The university offers more than ten sports and leisure activities to its community, among them zumba, pilates, yoga, tennis, padel, weight training, self-defence and kenpo.该校为师生提供十多种体育与休闲活动，包括尊巴、普拉提、瑜伽、网球、板式网球、力量训练、自卫术与剑道。

• Sports are strongly present in the university's schools, both through the Institute of Physical Education and through sports associations and teams in various disciplines.体育在该校各学院中十分普遍，既通过体育学院开展，也通过各运动项目的体育协会与校队进行。

• The INEF museum preserves the university's sporting heritage, its core collection being a nineteenth-century gymnasium bought by the State in 1972.INEF 博物馆守护着该校的体育传统，其核心藏品是 1972 年由国家购得的一座 19 世纪体操馆。

• The museum collection was restored under an agreement signed with the General Directorate of Fine Arts and Archives and documented by the professors Mariano García Carretero and Javier Jiménez Martínez.博物馆藏品依与美术与档案总局签署的协议得到修复，并由马里亚诺·加西亚·卡雷特罗与哈维尔·希门尼斯·马丁内斯两位教授加以记录与研究。

• Each year the university opens a new sporting season with competitions and activities in which the whole university community may take part.每年该校都会开启新的体育赛季，举办面向全校师生开放的比赛与活动。

• Student associations at the several campuses organise academic, cultural and recreational activities tied to the university's engineering and architecture disciplines.各校区的学生社团围绕该校的工程与建筑学科组织学术、文化与娱乐活动。

• Because most of its schools are concentrated in the Moncloa university precinct, student life in Madrid centres on the Ciudad Universitaria campus and its shared facilities.由于多数学院集中于蒙克洛阿大学园区，马德里的学生生活以蒙克洛阿大学城校区及其共享设施为中心。

Notable people

• King Charles III was the founder of several of the schools from which the university descends, and Agustín de Betancourt founded the School of Civil Engineering in 1802.国王卡洛斯三世是该大学多所前身学校的创办者，阿古斯丁·德贝坦库尔则于 1802 年创办了土木工程学校。

• Florentino Pérez, a civil engineering graduate, is chairman of Real Madrid and executive chairman of the construction group ACS.土木工程专业毕业生弗洛伦蒂诺·佩雷斯是皇家马德里俱乐部主席兼建筑集团 ACS 的执行主席。

• Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, an engineering graduate, served as Prime Minister of Spain on seven occasions in the late nineteenth century.工程专业毕业生普拉克塞德斯·马特奥·萨加斯塔在 19 世纪后期曾七度出任西班牙首相。

• Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, a graduate, was Prime Minister of Spain during the transition to democracy, and Josep Borrell, also an alumnus, was President of the European Parliament and later the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs.该校毕业生莱奥波尔多·卡尔沃—索特洛在民主转型期出任西班牙首相，同为校友的何塞普·博雷利曾任欧洲议会议长，其后担任欧盟外交与安全政策高级代表。

• Pedro Duque, an aeronautical engineering graduate, became an astronaut and later Spain's Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities.航空工程专业毕业生佩德罗·杜克成为航天员，后来出任西班牙科学、创新与大学大臣。

• Rafael Benítez, a graduate in physical education, became a football manager in charge of clubs such as Liverpool and Chelsea.体育专业毕业生拉斐尔·贝尼特斯成为足球教练，执教过利物浦与切尔西等俱乐部。

• Leonardo Torres Quevedo, an engineer trained in Madrid, was a pioneer of computing and remote control, and Antonio Luque was a pioneer of photovoltaic solar energy.在马德里受训的工程师莱昂纳多·托雷斯·克韦多是计算与遥控技术的先驱，安东尼奥·卢克则是光伏太阳能的先驱。

• Jaime Caruana, a graduate, was Governor of the Bank of Spain from 2000 to 2006 and later a senior official at the Bank for International Settlements.该校毕业生海梅·卡鲁阿纳于 2000 年至 2006 年任西班牙银行行长，其后在国际清算银行担任高级职务。

• Rafael del Pino, an engineering graduate, founded the infrastructure group Ferrovial, and Rafael Moneo became one of Spain's best known architects.工程专业毕业生拉斐尔·德尔皮诺创办了基础设施集团费罗维亚尔，拉斐尔·莫内奥则成为西班牙最知名的建筑师之一。

• Juan Carlos I, the former King of Spain, studied at the university's schools of engineering.西班牙前国王胡安·卡洛斯一世曾在马德里理工大学的工程学校就读。

• Pedro Almodóvar's collaborators and Spanish public figures from business, engineering and sport count among the university's alumni, reinforcing its role in Spanish technical elites.西班牙商界、工程界与体育界的诸多公众人物均为该校校友，进一步巩固了它在西班牙技术精英中的位置。

• Many of the university's graduates lead Spanish construction, energy and telecommunications companies, reflecting the applied character of its teaching.该校众多毕业生执掌西班牙的建筑、能源与电信企业，体现出其教学的应用导向。