Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is a public university in the Madrid region, founded in 1989 and named for King Charles III. It was set up as a European-style research university with a legal, economic, and engineering core. Teaching is split among campuses in Getafe, Leganés, Colmenarejo, and Madrid-Puerta de Toledo.

Academic organization groups social sciences and law, humanities, communication, and engineering. The university is known for economics, business, law, and industrial and telecommunications engineering. Research units include the Figuerola Institute of History and Social Sciences and engineering laboratories on the Leganés campus. Many graduate degrees are offered in English or in bilingual Spanish-English format.

Enrollment is about 21,000, including several thousand master's students. International students form a large share of graduate cohorts and come mainly from Europe and Latin America. Academic staff number about 2,000. Alumni work in Spanish and European public institutions, finance, and engineering firms.

Graduate study centers on one- and two-year official master's degrees, including Erasmus Mundus and other joint European programs, combining coursework with a thesis. The academic year uses two semesters. Scholarships from the university and Spanish ministries support a portion of master's students. Getafe and Leganés are suburban campuses south of Madrid, linked by metro and commuter rail to the city center.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid lists 4 graduate programs in economics, all of them master's programs.