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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It wasn't until April 29 of 1997 that the IEEM was approved to function as a university and from there it's known as the </span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Universidad de Montevideo</span><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. To be legally approved as a national university it was demanded the existence of three areas of knowledge, these were:</span></span>
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<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Law</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Business Science and Economics</span></span></li>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engineering</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size:smaller;">''<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Engineering of Universidad de Montevideo</span>''</span>
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<span style="font-size:smaller;">''<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Business Science and Economics, and Communication of Universidad de Montevideo</span>''</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now the UM has 9 different schools including schools for graduate students:</span>
<li><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Center for tertiary training in services and innovation</span></span></li>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b984-1eb4-e878-222ca03f82c4"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Actually the UM offers 20 different majors for undergraduate students and 28 majors for graduate students, through the schools listed above, also it has been ranked the best university in Uruguay by the QS ranking and it is among the 500 best Universities in the world.</span></span>
==Promoting Student Innovation and entrepreneurship==
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-91110eb2-b99f-09bc-5342-55512aba2428"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); verticalfont-alignsize: baseline14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is an increasing number of students who choose to become entrepreneurs at Universidad de Montevideo. Most of them start this path before graduating but it is also often that alumni become entrepreneurs after some professional experience or completing an MBA. To accompy this entreprenurial Spirit UM has created INITIUM. This center has created different courses and workshops stimulating students and professors to develop new skills and attitudes with an innovation Innovation and entrepreneurship mindsetminaste. It is There are also a place for connection between students, alumni entrepreneurs, accelerators and other extracurricular entities. For example, this year was created Agents of Change, a group of students interested courses that stimulate innovation in innovation and entrepenuershiptheir areas, they meet every week with the help of Romina Dominzainsuch as Engineering Labs, former Fellow and part of Initium</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Investment Projects, to learn about Design Thinking, Life Design, communication and multiple skills valued in the area </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurial Initiative or </span></spanstyle="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Creativity and Innovation where students are working in a very interesting project for the women's Prison of Montevideo.</span>
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are also other courses that stimulate innovation in their areas, such as Engineering Labs, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Investment Projects, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Entrepreneurial Initiative or </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Creativity and Innovation where students are working in a very interesting project for the women's Prison of Montevideo.</span>Some