Human resources & training
One of the main values of Asturias that the foreign companies installed in the region, highlight is the existence of a highly qualified human capital, which in turn allows to offer to the investors the appropriate personnel to cover all their necessities in all the sectors.
The University of Oviedo, founded in 1608, offers degree courses in most of the environments of knowledge: technical teachings, experimental sciences and of the health, juridical-social sciences and humanities, etc.
Almost a third of the students are enrolled in technical studies, such as computer engineering, Industrial minning, telecommunications, chemical engineering, geology, etc. This University also offers a great variety of post graduate degree studies (Masters and Doctorates) in subjects such as Bussiness Administration (MBA), Alimentary Biotechnology, Web Engineering, integrated Systems of administration of quality, Environment and Prevention of Labour Risks, etc.
The Asturian University is one of the few higher education centers that has a code source of Microsoft and it develops a strong activity in the environment .NET that has been worthy in the last three years of the corporate investigation prizes (Microsoft Research Award in Rotor) together with another three European universities.
Other formation centers:
The complete Professional Formation the technical qualification of the future Asturian manpower, in which combines the theoretical formation with the practices in the companies. Numerous centers of professional formation distributed in the whole geography exist. In definitive, the human capital is without a doubt one of the main values that Asturias offers to the private investors. The academic tradition of a University with 400 years of history that also has an International Relations Office that facilitates the adaptation to the foreign visitor, and guarantees a rich, kind and friendly formation.
