A university of Costa Rica uses the Government to recruit Nursing students without having any agreement with it

PalmaA private university in Costa Rica operating since 2024, Mundae Universidad, has promoted its Nursing degree using the Balearic Government's logo as a collaborating entity. It still appears in its official student recruitment dossier, while it was removed from the website this Tuesday at the request of IB-Salut, which claims it knew nothing about it. It is a center whose validity was questioned by the General Nursing Council (CGE) in a public warning.

ARA Balears has attempted to contact the university without success. The degree or qualification it markets is aimed primarily at Spanish students. In the official student recruitment dossier, it presents various private entities as collaborators, and only two public ones: the Ministry of Health of the Balearic Islands and the Alt Penedès-Garraf Health Consortium. Furthermore, it adds the official logo of the Government of the Balearic Islands at the end of the document.

The CGE, which brings together more than 345,000 nurses in Spain, warned in February 2025 that this degree, which offers the online teaching modality, could not be valid internationally nor recognized in Spain. The organization also alerted the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities to the situation.

The IB-Salut says it knew nothing about it

IB-Salut sources state that neither the Department of Health, nor the Health Service, nor Primary Care have any agreement with Mundae Universidad to train their professionals. According to their explanation, at a certain point they detected that the Government's logo appeared in the university center's advertising and they contacted Mundae to request explanations and demand its removal.

IB-Salut sent a formal communication to the center in which it warned that there was no justification for its logo to appear in that material. Health Service sources point out that Mundae subsequently removed the logo from its website and from the rest of the advertising materials, although it had still been incorporated into a dossier that is now available to students.