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==Overview==
<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;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span>[http://www.um.edu.uy/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">University of Montevideo</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>] <span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(UM) </span>started off in 1986 as the Institute of Business Studies of Montevideo (IEEM). Some months later the IEEM started a postgraduate in business law. From there the IEEM continued incorporating new courses mixing law and business, such as seminar in management, business administration, master's degree in business law and much more.</span></span><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;">[http://www.um.edu.uy/ <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"></span>]</span></span>[[File:Logo-umUniversidad de Montevideo.png|alt=|thumb|400x150px341x341px|Logo-um.png|link=Special:FilePath/Logo-um.png|alt=]]
<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>
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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 25 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-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is an increasing number of students who choose to become entrepreneurs at Universidad de Montevideo. 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 and entrepreneurship minaste. 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>
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