History
ORT Uruguay was first established as a non-profit organization in 1942 and was officially certified as a private university in September 1996, becoming the first private educational institution in the country to achieve that status. It is a member of World ORT, an international education network founded in 1880 by the Jewish community in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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