The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Colima Campus (in Spanish: Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Colima) commonly shortened as Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Colima or ITESM Campus Colima, is a campus of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education

The Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education commonly shortened as Monterrey Institute of Technology or Monterrey Tech is one of the largest private, nonsectarian and coeducational multi-campus universities in...

 private

Private university

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 university system

University system

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 in Colima, Colima

Colima, Colima

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, Mexico

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The campus is sponsored by Educación Superior de Colima; a non-profit organization

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 founded in 1980 by Guillermo Ramos Brun. It has an extension of 5.2 hectares (13 acre) and concentrates on high school education while also offering post-graduate courses through the Institute's Virtual University.