A university questioned by the General Nursing Council promoted itself with the Government's image
The private institution of Costa Rica included the Ministry of Health as a collaborating entity until the IB-Salut complained
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 to have known 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 several private entities as collaborators, and only two public ones: the Balearic Islands Ministry of Health and the Alt Pened猫s-Garraf Health Consortium. Furthermore, it adds the official logo of the Government of the Balearic Islands at the end of the document.
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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, might not be internationally valid nor recognized in Spain. The organization also alerted the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities about the situation.
The IB-Salut says it knew nothing about it
Sources from IB-Salut state that neither the Ministry of Health, nor the Health Service, nor Primary Care have any agreement with Mundae Universidad to train their professionals. According to them, 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 this material. Sources from the Health Service 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 available to students today.
