Universidad Veracruzana (UV) is one of the largest public universities in Mexico. It is distributed THROUGHOUT the state of Veracruz in five regional campuses, Offering undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs to over 70,000 students in the academic areas of Arts, Biological and Agricultural Sciences, Health Sciences, Economics and Business Studies, Humanities, and Technical Sciences and Engineering . The University of Veracruz was formally established on September 11, 1944. Its foundation was the consolidation of the colleges of Higher Education in the region.[6] It continued the activities of existing middle and high schools along with nursing and midwifery academies from Orizaba, Xalapa and Veracruz. Immediately after, the Law School, the School of Fine Arts, the Archaeology Department, the Superior School of Music and the University radio station, XEXB, were founded.