The Institución Universitaria Politécnico Grancolombiano, often abbreviated only as Politécnico Grancolombiano, is a private university in Colombia. It was granted legal status by the Ministry of National Education on 4 November 1980.1 On 23 March of the following year, it began its academic work as a Technological Institution, with the following programmes: Banking Administration, Cost Management and Auditing, Insurance Administration, Financial Administration and Systems Administration.