Created in 1989, it has over 17,300 students and around 1,900 faculty of proven competence, noted for its outstanding facilities to develop research. UC3M is among the best universities in Spain and is included in the last QS ranking (2013) of the top 50 universities worldwide under 50

The Department of Telematics Engineering group focuses its research on communication network architectures, communication protocols, distributed services, and network design. The most relevant activities along these lines are: Future Internet, Big data and traffic measurements and analysis, Data Mining, Architecture of distributed networks and services, Communication Protocols, Security in Communication Networks, etc.