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Torcuato Di Tella University (UTDT) is a private, nonprofit university founded in 1991 in Buenos Aires, with the mission of contributing to academic life and education through training the new business, political, academic, social and artistic generations of Argentina. The spirit of the university comes from Engineer Torcuato Di Tella, founder of SIAM, one of the most dynamic metalworking industries of the time in Latin America.His sons were inspired to create the the Torcuato Di Tella Institute in 1958 to promote high-level study and research, without losing sight of the Latin American context. Since then the institution has acted as a cultural landmark and entrepreneurship beacon, guiding artists professionals and academics.The university houses nine main academic units, focused on social sciences in the fields of economics, historical and social studies, mathematics and statistics, business administration, law, political science, international relations, social sciences and architecture. Graduate PhDs (two) and master's degrees (18) including an MBA accredited by AMBA are available and taught by the school’s 77 full-time professors, most of who are graduates of the school itself or visiting professors.The university maintains its international ties through offering exchange programmes with one of 90 universities in Europe, North America, South America, Australia, Africa and Asia. The university also has a sizeable number of international students that study for a semester or two.In 2013, the university relocated to its new Figueroa Alcorta campus, a renovated 13,700 m² waterworks building. Within that premises it has been able to house the Center for Financial Research, the Entrepreneurship and New Business Development Center, the International Studies Center, the Crime, Institutions and Policy Research Laboratory and the Center for the Evaluation and Study in Social Economics for Poverty Relief.