Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Established	1997
Type	Public
Rector	Juan Jimenez
Students	9,600
Location	Seville, Andalusia, Spain
Campus	346 acres (1.4 km²)
Website	[1]

The Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Pablo de Olavide University) is a public university in Seville, Spain. It is smaller than the older and better-known University of Seville.

The Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) was founded in 1997^[1], making it the newest public university in Spain. Additionally, with only 9,069 students, it was the sixth smallest school during the 2005/2005 school year^[2], despite having grown constantly since its inception. The campus of approximately 346 acres ^[1] is located just outside of Seville, the capital of Andalusia, to the southeast of the city.

The school is named after the Spanish-Peruvian politician Pablo de Olavide (1725-1803), who contributed notably to planning the city and reforming the University of Seville^[3]. The name was chosen to express the openness towards Latin America^[1]; the school cooperates culturally and scientifically with Latin American universities.

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