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Origin and presence University of Antioquia...

Universidad de Antioquia, founded in 1803 under the name of Real Colegio de Franciscanos, offers close to thirty six thousand students registered in eighty undergraduate programs, and in more than one hundred eighty graduate programs, including eleven doctoral degrees in different fields of knowledge.
Research and teaching are the main axes of its academic life, and both are articulated with community outreach to achieve its social and academic institutional objectives.
According to COLCIENCIAS, entity that coordinates the National Science and Technology System un Colombia, Universidad de Antioquia is one of the institutions with the highest number of Excellence Research Groups and Centers. It is the leader regarding the number of accredited undergraduate programs and it bears the largest period of institutional accreditation (nine years) granted by the National Ministry of Education to a public university until the year 2012.
As a public university, it is committed to the integral formation of human talent with excellence criteria, with the generation and dissemination of knowledge in the diverse fields, and with the preservation of the cultural patrimony.
The University has a goal to become the main research institution in the country and one of the best in Latin America, with undergraduate and graduate programs of international academic excellence, to become a leader in the contribution to the socioeconomic transformation of the country, and a scenario for diversity and intercultural dialogue, based on respect of diversity and the environment.

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