Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango

The Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango (Juarez University of the State of Durango, or UJED) is a public research university in the state of Durango, Mexico. Founded in 1856 as a small state college, the university underwent a series of expansions over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, emerging as a full-scale public research institute in the 1970s with the addition of a medical school and an institute of scientific research. Today the university is one of the largest in the state of Durango, with an enrollment of over 14,000 students.