National University of Distance Education

UNED is aware of how important it is for you, as a new student, to know your University and to integrate into it in the best possible way. UNED is thus particularly keen to put all possible resources at your disposal to develop the skills necessary to be a distance student. To this end, UNED offers you a Welcome Plan for New Students. This plan has three main objectives:

• Offer you the best information to facilitate your integration into the University.
• Better orient you during the enrollment process to matriculate what best suits you and meets your needs and characteristics.
• Provide you with a range of support resources during your first year and during your formative courses on the specific methodology of distance learning and the competencies needed to undertake independent learning controlled and regulated by you.

UNED has developed and continues to develop a wide range of online and face-to-face activities to meet the plan's objectives. The National Distance Education University (UNED) has as its mission the public service of higher education through distance education.

Facts and data about UNED:

• At more than 205,000 students, UNED has the largest student population in Spain and is one of Europe's largest universities.
• Since 1972, UNED has sought to translate into action the principle of equal opportunity in access to higher education through a methodology based on distance learning principles and focused on the needs of the student.
• UNED is the leader in implementing cutting-edge technologies applied to learning, with the most extensive virtual courses in Spain.

Through its extensive distribution of centers, classrooms, libraries, and professor-tutors throughout Spain and abroad, UNED puts at your disposal the services, qualifications, and resources that any traditional university can offer; however, through UNED, you have the freedom to reconcile work and family life with the educational improvement required by the knowledge society in a global world.

UNED is a university where distance is no object because, through its educational methodology, UNED is the only University that offers the possibility of obtaining formal qualifications adapted to the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) from anywhere in the world. Likewise, UNED is the only University with centers in the Americas, Africa, Europe, and all the Autonomous Communities of Spain. Finally, training at UNED is carried out using new technologies, principally the Internet.