Colegio de San Nicolás Obispo (Pátzcuaro 1540, Valladolid de Michoacán 1580)

The college Vasco de Quiroga founded in Pátzcuaro to train clergy who could preach in Tarascan. A royal patent of 1543 describes its intake in its own words — sons of legitimate Spaniards, mestizos, and some Indians admitted because they were "Lenguas". Its collegians elected their own rector. It moved to Valladolid with the cathedral chapter and absorbed a Franciscan college in 1580, and it closed for thirty-seven years after 1810.