Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) is a top Spanish polytechnic university founded in 1971, offering specialized courses at the specialist, undergraduate, master and doctoral levels, with two departments: Informatics and Sports and Activities Sciences, as well as the Higher Institute of Architecture and Technology, the Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Technology, and the Higher Institute of Agriculture. The University has 18 faculties, including the Faculty of Information Technology and the Faculty of Sports and Activities Sciences, as well as the Higher Institute of Architecture and Technology, the Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Technology, and the Higher Institute of Agricultural Technology, which have trained many people in the field of science and technology, as well as many Nobel Prize and National Architecture Prize winners.