Ditribuidor metropolitano Caracas, 1060, Miranda, Venezuela
The Metropolitan University (Spanish: Universidad Metropolitana) (Unimet) is a Venezuelan university founded in 1970 by a group of entrepreneurs led by Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa in the terrains donated by the businessman Pius Schlageter, father of the Venezuelan painter Eduardo Schlageter. It is in the Terrazas del Ávila section of Caracas The university started as a nonprofit organization in 1964 with a mission to develop the curricula for what would become the "Universidad Metropolitana". On 1 October 1970, the "Consejo Nacional de Universidades" approved the plans and projects of the fledgling university. The first campus was located on the old building of the "Colegio America" in the district of San Bernardino, and began classes on 22 October of that same year.
School Director: Marisa Guinand
Population: 10000
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