The University of Malaga or, according to its abbreviations, UMA, is an institution of higher education and public ownership founded in 1972. In it about 40,000 students study and about 2,450 teachers work. Offers 65 undergraduate and 120 postgraduate degrees, including doctoral programs, master's degrees and own degrees. The teachings are taught in 19 centers by professors assigned to 81 departments. It is composed of three campuses (Ejido, Teatinos and Ampliación de Teatinos) distributed throughout the city of Málaga, together with two centers affiliated in Ronda and Antequera. It is the driving force, together with the University of Seville, of the Andalucía TECH project, which obtained the category of Campus of International Excellence granted by the Spanish Ministry of Education in 2009. It has a Gender Equality unit, but not of cultural and racial diversity. It is a very collaborative social university.