The Universidad de Córdoba (UCO), is a university in Córdoba, in Andalusia, founded as such in 1972, has its roots in the Free University that operated in the province at the end of the 19th century and offers century-old courses such as Veterinary Medicine, unique in Andalusia. Its youth and medium size – the UCO has 21,000 students, just over 1,200 lecturers and 700 staff – have given it the dynamism it needs to adapt and enter the 21st century as a university of high teaching quality and proven scientific excellence.

The UCO's courses range from the humanities and legal and social sciences to health sciences and scientific and technical degrees, three areas that correspond to its structure in three large campuses: the legal and social sciences campus, integrated into the city centre; the health sciences campus, to the west of the capital; and the agri-food, scientific and technical campus in Rabanales, in the eastern part of the city. In addition, the UCO has the Belmez Polytechnic School, located sixty kilometres from the city of Cordoba. The Rabanales campus is the best example of the modernisation process that characterises the University.