The National Distance Education University (UNED) has been the only Spanish distance university directly dependent on the Ministry of Education for the last forty years and has over 260,000 students (the largest student population in Spain and one of the largest in Europe). UNED’s courses are taught at a distance for students all over the world. Some Centres abroad are: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Equatorial Guinea, Japan, Marocco and the United States. It offers over twenty-five undergraduate programmes and several post-graduate ones.