The University of Medellín is located in Medellín, the second largest city in Colombia. It was founded in 1950.
There are seven academic faculties including law, economic and administrative sciences, engineering, communication, design, basic sciences and social and human sciences.
All programmes are taught in Spanish. However, the university language centre offers a Spanish course for international students as well as several other language courses, including English, French, Italian, German and Portuguese.