Universidad Veracruzana (UV), founded in 1944, is one of Mexico’s largest public higher education institutions. In addition to undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, it also offers non-formal education programmes in a wide variety of academic areas. At present, student enrollment exceeds 80,000. UV also carries out other substantive activities such as research, cultural dissemination and social responsibility. UV is present throughout the state of Veracruz in 5 university campus: