The second best student city in Spain after Barcelona (according to the QS Best Student Cities 2015), Madrid has much to offer as Spain's capital and most populous city, as well as one of Europe's major financial, administrative and cultural centers. The city, a tourist magnet with legendary nightlife and gastronomic tradition, ranks joint 39th in the QS Best Student Cities 2015, alongside Helsinki.
Home to the famous “galacticos” of Real Madrid, this city also boasts some of the world's most important art galleries, such as the Prado, as well as a chic fashion scene. International students may also be interested to know that the city is famed for its outgoing and sociable lifestyle: lengthy siestas, leisurely evenings socializing at the city's innumerable tapas bars, and late, late nights out at the weekends.
Madrid scores well in all of the categories used to compile the QS Best Student Cities, getting its strongest score for “desirability” – a measure of the overall quality of living in the city, including factors such as safety and pollution. Madrid also gains a particularly good score for “affordability”, due largely to the low tuition fees at all four ranked universities in Madrid. Its highest ranked university is the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, placed 178th in the QS World University Rankings® 2014/15.
QS ranked universities
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ; Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) ; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ; Politécnica de Madrid
More about Madrid
| Number of universities ranked by QS | 4 |
| Top ranked institution | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (178th in the world) |
| Population | 5,410,000 |
| Students (% of total population) | 2.3% (based on ranked institutions) |
| International students | 9.0% (of students at ranked institutions) |
| Average tuition fees | US$2,000 |
| Global Liveability Ranking | 44th (out of 140) |
| Mercer Cost of Living rank | 63rd (out of 214) |
| Cost of a Big Mac | US$4.91 |
| Cost of an iPad | US$665.19 |
| Numbeo safety rank | 127th (out of 372) |
| Numbeo pollution rank | 127th (out of 299) |
| Transparency International score | 40th (out of 177) |
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