The Universidade de Vigo is a young public academic institution officially founded in 1990 which is organized in three Campuses, placed in three different cities, Vigo, Pontevedra and Ourense- all of them in the South of Galicia, Northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. It has around 21,000 students in 39 degrees, 74 postgraduates and 42 PhD programs. Our institution leads a Campus of International Excellence, awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2010, a Campus of the Sea, which gathers the teaching and researching efforts of seven public universities in Galicia and North of Portugal, as well as two national research organisms.
As regards its scientific production, the Universidade de Vigo has been ranked 15th on the list of Spanish universities.

On the last Shanghai Ranking it was on the top 500.