University of Leon - July 17, 2008

We visited the University of Leon, the oldest public university in Nicaragua. The university will be celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2012. There are 15,000 students currently enrolled in one of the 36 major programs. Diversity at the university is scare, only 520 students enrolled are from rural areas, the rest are from urban areas. The reason is that the rural primary schools do not provide students with the necessary skills to be successful in the university.