The Universidad Estatal a Distancia (UNED) of Costa Rica, is the only institution of higher distance education, as well as offering university courses certified by the National Accreditation System of Higher Education (SINAES). It gives you the opportunity to pursue technical careers, as well as free courses in areas such as education, communication and technology, languages, management development, among others.

UNED is the most viable option if you live in remote areas or occupations or their relatives do not allow access to classroom education.

With a career spanning nearly four decades of experience, the Open University is the only public university in the country that allows continuing higher education in the distance mode.

So you ask: what does it mean to study at a distance? Means that the person studying with them must organize your time so that, without substantively neglecting other responsibilities such as family, work, or be forced to make long and expensive travel, to fulfill the study to develop units which offers each academic course or subject.

This will allow not only strengthen their knowledge and skills through their free courses and university degrees, but at the same time can get a degree that certifies and guarantees the recognition in both the labor market and in the academic and social environment.

In particular, one of the great advantages offered by the UNED through the modality of distance learning is that it significantly reduces the need to attend compulsorily to classes, except in those cases in which, for the characteristics of courses, the student's presence is necessary; eg laboratories, workshops, tours and written tests. 

Their primary purpose is to provide study options high academic standards and high social recognition. Success is assured based on the clarity with which you have defined your goals, commitment assumed by the learning process and their determination to advance to complete their studies, always keeping the idea of ​​being at all times the protagonist of his own learning.