Complutense University of Madrid
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![Cardinal Cisneros expanded the existing Studium Generale into a large five-college University](/Images/godic/202501/05/Cisneros30321.jpg")
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![Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, with Faculty members of the University: Albert Einstein, José Rodríguez Carracido, Blas Cabrera y Felipe, among others, on 11 March 1923.](/Images/godic/202501/05/Einstein_in_Spain0321.jpeg")
The Complutense University of Madrid (Spanish:Universidad Complutense de Madrid or Universidad de Madrid, Latin:Universitas Complutensis) is a public research university located in Madrid, and one of the oldest universities in the world. The university enrolls over 86,000 students , and consistently ranks as one of the top universities in Spain. It is located on a sprawling campus that occupies the entirety of the Ciudad Universitaria district of Madrid, with annexes in the district of Somosaguas in the neighboring city of Pozuelo de Alarcón.