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UNIVERSITY OF ANTIOQUIA MY SOUL OUR SOUL

The curriculums of the institution focus on research, aiming at a comprehensive education and making student mobility possible. Criteria of academic excellence and of scientific and social relevance are significant regarding the students’ response to the needs of the country. The constant search for interdisciplinarity, institutional integration and insertion into the local, national and international scientific community confer the University an influential educational place in Colombia. The University offers 208 undergraduate programs, 163 graduate programs (21 Doctoral programs, 97 Master’s Programs and 45 Specializations). Quality policies find support in a school undergoing a permanent qualification process through graduate studies, research and outreach projects, and by participating in academic encounters. Through the University Graduate System, interdisciplinarity, integration among academic units and the organization of specializations; medical, clinical and surgical specializations, master's programs and doctoral programs are made possible, following criteria of autonomy, decentralization and coordination. Programs are grouped in three areas: the Natural and Exact Sciences, Economics, Engineering and Technology; Health Sciences; and the Social and Human Sciences. All of them linked to research projects, in consonance with social development. The quality assurance process guarantees an offer of academic excellence and international projection (self-evaluation, assessment by national and international peers, future accreditation and joint granting of degrees), thus responding to the needs of the country.