The University of Guadalajara is an institution that has inherited an educational tradition of more than two hundred years of history. Currently, the University is developed on the basis of a network model that is made up of six thematic university centres - specialised in a disciplinary field and based in the Metropolitan Area of Guadalajara -, nine regional university centres - with an interdisciplinary character and established in different regions of the State -, a Higher Secondary Education System - with 165 campuses distributed throughout Jalisco -, as well as a Virtual University System, which offers higher education studies in the distance learning modality.