Tumaco - Pacifico Campus (Implementation Phase)

The project entails the construction of a univerisity campus of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNC), with a capacity for 3,500 students and with a surface area of 10,000 m2. Undergraduate and graduate programmes will be offered with efforts to include the minorities and poor of the region. The graduate programmes that will be offered will have direct relevance to the region. The project will also provide virtual or online education in both undergraduate and graduate programs similar to the programmes running in all of UNCs other campuses.The project fits within a strategy by the Colombian government aimed at making higher education available in the more remote areas of the country. UNC's Tumaco Pacifico Campus will be part of the Colombian higher education system. It will be functionally integrated into all UNC systems (academic information financial system administration management and recruitment). This will guarantee immediate access to academic services teachers researchers software data bases laboratory networks library networks research network and the legal system of the University.