University of Montevideo

University of Montevideo

Universidad de Montevideo
Type	Private University
Established	1986
Rector	Juan Manuel Gutierrez Carrau
Location	Montevideo , Uruguay
Website	www.um.edu.uy

The University of Montevideo (Spanish: Universidad de Montevideo; UM) is a private (catholic, Opus Dei) university in Montevideo, Uruguay. It opened in 1986, and obtained the right to be legally named a university in 1997. It has been ranked as the number one University in Uruguay by the QS World University Rankings four years in a row. As of 2019, the UM reached the TOP 500 in the general rankings according to the international organization.^[1]