Main campus UAM's Cantoblanco Campus is home to most of the university's facilities. It is located 15 km north of Madrid and has an extension of over 2,200,000 m2. Of these are nearly 770,000 are urbanised and about a third of them are garden areas. The campus was designed as a
university town that was to be self-sufficient, but also would be situated away from Madrid in order to keep student activity against the
Francoist dictatorship away from the capital. Initially, the campus held the faculties of
philosophy and
liberal arts,
law,
economics,
business management, and
science, as well as the rectorate, several other service buildings and sports facilities. The university's other facilities, the faculty of
medicine and the
teacher training Santa Maria school are in downtown Madrid. There are two other teacher training schools in
Segovia and in
Cuenca. Over the years, the faculty of
psychology, the
biology building of the faculty of sciences, the new faculty of law (that allowed the transfer of the teacher training school to the main campus, and that was later transformed in faculty of education and teacher training) along with its
political science annex building, the
polytechnic school (initially superior technical school of computing engineers), the libraries of
humanities and sciences, as well as the
Erasmus of Rotterdam dormitory have been built on the main campus. The original faculties were housed in interconnected buildings with several patios in between them. Characteristic to each building is a large number of stairs in its corridors, initially designed to prevent students from running in case of police raids. Currently, this fact has been considered by many university officials as a setback in the integration of handicapped students. The newest facilities were built in a contemporary style, being more accessible and allowing more free movement to students. Sporting facilities include two swimming pools (an indoor one and an outdoor one), two multiple-use pavilions, and outdoor tennis, football, basketball, paddle tennis, rugby, and futsal and beach volleyball courts. Other services on campus include 16 cafeterias and other eating facilities, medical services, a pharmacy with optic care, a foreign languages pavilion, and a bookstore. The campus also houses several research facilities partnered with the Spanish Scientific Research Council (
CSIC). Cantoblanco Campus is accessible by train belonging to
Renfe Cercanias Commuter service (station Cantoblanco-Universidad), or by the Madrid Region Commuter Bus service. The campus is located in the B1 area of the
Madrid Transports Consortium.
Medicine campus UAM's faculty of medicine is located north of Madrid near
La Paz teaching hospital (that acts as one of the faculty's teaching hospitals, as Puerta de Hierro Majadahonda Hospital,
La Princesa Hospital, Niño Jesús Hospital and Fundación Jiménez Díaz do). It was inaugurated in 1969. Juan Luis Vives Residence Hall was UAM's first residential facility. It is located in the Plaza Castilla area in northern Madrid. It has 130 residents and holds several cultural activities for the university.
La Cristalera La Cristalera residence is located in
Miraflores de la Sierra, a village north of Madrid that was acquired by the university in 1989. It is used for conferences and meetings and is the main centre of UAM's summer courses. ==Academic organization==