The Autonomous University of Tamaulipa s is a public institution of higher education with greater coverage and enrollment in the state.Currently it serves about 40,000 students in 26 academic units, faculties and schools located in the northern, central and southern areas of the state, as well as its virtual campus through online mode. It also has research and knowledge transfer. It was founded on 30 October 1950 at the port of Tampico as Educación Profesional de Tampico, A.C. (Tampico's Professional Education), a civil organization that sponsored a Faculty of Law and a Faculty of Medicine that were later incorporated into a public school under the auspices of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. On 5 November 1972 it was recognized as an autonomous university.