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the UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL OF COLOMBIA-headquarters-Medellín

The Universidad Nacional of Colombia Sede Medellín has two campuses which are: Central Campus and Campus Robledo in studying some 10,447 students. This site offers approximately 29% of the seats for new students nationwide. Central Campus, UN headquarters MedellínCampus Central: Located northwest of downtown, between Cerro el Volador Ecopark and the Medellin River. It is since 1938 the headquarters of the National University of Colombia in Medellin where the School of Tropical Agriculture (now the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences) joined the University. The Central Campus is made up of the Core The Flying which has an area of 272,982 m², the Core River having an area of 31,758 m² and a portion of the Cerro El Volador of about 269,257 m² which belongs to the University. Campus Robledo, UN headquarters MedellínSe highlights the Entomological Museum founded in 1937, the Museum of Mycology created in 1987, the Herbarium "Gabriel Gutierrez," the Xylotheque, the Central Library "Efe Gómez" as attractive artistic and architectural highlights, the totem Mythic created by Maestro Pedro Nel Gómez, the Block 41 declared a Cultural Nation, designed by Engineer Jesus Montoya Mejía which began in 1931 Block 11 is designed by Maestro Pedro Nel Gómez. Campus Robledo Robledo Also called core or more colloquially as the School of Mines, located at the northwestern city of Medellin, in the neighborhood Robledo, consists of three fields separated by Race 80, which has a high vehicular traffic difficult pedestrian connection between the lots that make up the physical structure of the School of Mines, and Ingeominas, recently integrated into the University. It has an area of 100,978.69 square meters. In 1886 he created the School of Mines where he joined the University in 1936, today is the National School of Mines and has approximately 3,500 students. It highlights the Museum of Geosciences, buildings Aula Magna (block M5) and the Bloque M3 designed by Maestro Pedro Nel Gómez for the School of Mines in 1936. Declared National Monument in 1994 thanks to its architectural features and murals done by the same Pedro Nel Gómez. Block 41 declared a Cultural Nation, Central Campus, located in Medellin MedellínLa University has 5 faculties of schools offer 25 races, nearly half of them are engineering from the Faculty of Mines, also has three museums and other services .

The Universidad of Antioquia

Since the late fifties Antioquia University began its transition from a traditional college and elite, to a modern mass transformation closely related to the creation of the Colombian Association of Universities (ASCUN) and with financial support and scientific of the Rockefeller, Kellogg and Ford, whose objectives were to modernize and massification of higher education, to strengthen the national development process. Not only increased the number of students and teachers, but he offered the youth a greater variety of training options. A traditional careers, and the newly created (public health, journalism, library science, languages, veterinary medicine and animal husbandry), joined in later years a large number of races as bacteriology and clinical laboratory, art, biology, physics, mathematics, physical education, social work, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, linguistics and literature, history and biblical studies, among others. At present, the University of Antioquia offers a total of 72 undergraduate programs at its headquarters located in Medellin and its regional headquarters, also of 121 postgraduates, including specializations, master's and doctoral degrees. It has about 1,200 full-time faculty, about 280 teachers and 1,600 occasional chair, which provide educational services to an estimated 28,000 students. It has 143 research groups in the most diverse branches of science, of which 30 have reached the status of excellence, consolidated, and its advances in research have been recognized and awarded at national and international levels.