The University of Manizales is a regional educational entity that began its history on July 24, 1972, as a Cooperative for the Promotion of Higher Education. In 1983, it became the Manizales University Foundation; and, finally, the Ministry of National Education, through Resolution No. 2317 of 1992, granted it institutional recognition as a University. On Monday, July 24, 1972, at 6:30 in the afternoon, 200 students began classes in Public Accounting, Law, Economics, and Psychology, at the headquarters of the Industrial Technological Institute. Currently, the University of Manizales has about five thousand students, who pursue their professional careers in academic programs, distributed in five fields of knowledge: social sciences, economic sciences, engineering sciences, legal sciences, and health sciences. . This panorama of knowledge is duly certified with the high-quality accreditations of its academic programs, which are supported by the qualification that 158 ​​of its members have as masters, including teachers and administrators; and 18 doctors, also distributed among professors and administrators.

School Director: Duván Emilio Ramírez Ospina

Population: 9000

Population of Teaching Staff: 500

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