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Instituto de formación de postgrado
Institute for postgraduate training (Instituto de formación de postgrado, IUP), this is a Project of different spanish universities: Autonomous of Barcelona, Alicante and Carlos III of Madrid, jointly with the publishing company Santillana Formación, the main thing of this joint venture it was to separate the distance learning from the university, creating a new organization. At the beginning it was called Instituto Universitario de formación de postgrado but they changed the name. This joint venture is to deliver postgraduate courses and degrees through e-learning.
The IUP’s main headquarters are in Spain, but they also have headquarters in Portugal,El Salvador, Mexico, Argentina among other countries in Latin America., in total twelve countries. In this project are enrolled more than 7,000 students belonging to 47 countries.
They offer 11 programmes mainly based on the business field but also ICT related to education, journalism. They offer a programme for companies, they take care of a lot of things, tailored solutions for organizations to cover their needs for management development and generating value for its professional, each company has their own programme developed from IUP, with this the companies have a specialized treatment.
The website is at http://www.iup.es/
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