primary enrollment rate was 92.9 percent. Primary school attendance rates were unavailable for Uruguay as of 2001. There are three levels of postsecondary education: Tertiary Education level: 1 to 4 years degrees related to technical professions like teachers, professorship (Instituto de Profesores Artigas (IPA)), Technicians and Technologists (CETP, ex-UTU). University level: 4 to 7 years Professional education taught at universities such as the University of the Republic (Uruguay) () and various private universities offering many different degrees like Licentiate, Engineering degree, Medicine degree, various Law degrees, etc. Post-graduate level: This is a specialized and research-oriented education level. It is divided in three levels: Specialist degree for both tertiary and university graduates, meanwhile master's degrees (both professional and academic oriented) and doctorates are for graduated university students. The University of the Republic (Uruguay), (abbreviated UdelaR) is Uruguay's only public, state-owned university. It is the most important, oldest, and largest university in the country, with a student body of more than 130,000 students. It was founded on 18 July 1849, in Montevideo, where most of its buildings and facilities are still located. Its current Rector is Rodrigo Arim. The process of founding the country's public university began on 11 June 1833, when a law proposed by then-Senator Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga was passed. It called for the creation of nine academic departments; the president of the Republic would pass a decree formally creating the departments once the majority of them were in operation. In 1836 the House of General Studies was formed, housing the departments of Latin, philosophy, mathematics, theology and jurisprudence. On 27 May 1838, Manuel Oribe passed a decree through which created the Greater University of the Republic. That decree had few practical effects, given the institutional instability of the Oriental Republic of the Uruguay at that time. The Universidad Católica del Uruguay Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga is one of the many private universities in the country, and has seven schools: Humanities, Management, Law, Engineering and Technologies, Nursing, Dental School and Psychology. Its main campus is located in Montevideo (alongside six others), and some lesser ones are located in Maldonado and Salto. See also British undergraduate degree classification References Academic degrees Undergraduate education