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The tuna beca is a piece of clothing of great importance as part of a tuna suit, always combined with a capa (tuna cape).

Description
It is the most important and most symbolically charged element of the suit. It is a band worn over the chest and shoulders on top of the jacket. The material typically used for its confection is colored felt, cloth or silk, and it is embroidered with the coat of arms of the university, faculty, or school to which the tuna is attached.

Typically, a beca is only worn by members baptized as veterans, or distinguished as "honorable tunos". Exceptionally, two tunas that do not wear this piece of clothing exist, and they are distinguished by their coat of arms being directly embroidered on the suit on the chest. These are the Tuna Compostelana (which wears the Cross of Santiago) and the Tuna del Distrito de Grana (which wears the crest of the University of Granada, which is the same as the coat of arms of Carlos V).

Usually, the becas worn by tunas representing a university, undergraduate faculties, or higher engineering schools are of a single color. Double-colored becas correspond to graduate studies or technical engineering faculties.

Colors
The color(s) of a beca are associated with different studies and universities:


 * red: corresponds to the faculty of Law
 * fuchsia pink: corresponds to the study of Dentistry
 * yellow: corresponds to the study of Medicine
 * light blue: corresponds to studies of the Humanities (Philosophy and Literature) and to Computer Science
 * cobalt blue and purple: Sciences and Architecture
 * turquoise: studies of Optician and Optometry
 * green: Business, Pedagogy, Veterinary Medicine, Nutrition and Dietetics.
 * orange: Economics and Business
 * Brown, blue and purple: Engineering
 * naranja óxido: Ingeniería Agroalimentaria
 * violeta: Farmacia
 * morado: Ingenierías (también azul) y Psicología, aunque en un primer momento se adoptó el color "oro viejo" por corresponder a una escisión de Medicina
 * blanco: Bellas Artes, Música, Teología, Arquitectura Técnica y Facultad de Arte
 * gris plomo: Ciencias de la Información, aunque se podría tildar como tirando a azul celeste por tratarse de unos estudios considerados como humanísticos en un primer término.
 * morado o cardenalicio: Color del Cardenal Cisneros Fundador de la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares (Complutensis Universitas). Por ello se ha popularizado este color entre las tunas correspondientes a universidades (véase la tuna de la Universidad de Alcalá, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad San Pablo CEU de Madrid, Carlos III o Rey Juan Carlos)
 * obispo: corresponde a las tunas de distrito