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UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES

HISTORY

The Universidad de los Andes is a private university based in Bogotá and Cartagena. It was founded in 1948 by Mario Laserna Pinzón, Francisco Pizano de Brigard, Alberto Lleras Camargo and Nicolás Gómez

Dávila, with the purpose of creating a secular higher education institution independent of the country's political currents.

INTERESTING INFORMATION

The Universidad de los Andes is an autonomous, independent, and innovative institution that fosters pluralism, tolerance, and respect for ideas; that seeks academic excellence and provides its students with critical and ethical training to strengthen their awareness of their social and civic responsibilities, as well as their commitment to the environment.

It has students who, in a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and flexible training environment, are the main agents of their educational process. It facilitates its highly trained faculty to develop an outstanding academic and professional life project, for which it supports a research activity that contributes to the development of the country and its international projection.

https://registro.uniandes.edu.co/index.php/calendario-academico/calendario-academico2023-para-cursos-de-8-semanas

Universidad de los Andes has an orientation session of three days on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the week before classes begin.

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The Universidad de los Andes is the first private university in the country with renewed accreditation for the maximum possible period, ten years, by the Ministry of National Education.

It is projected as a research university, with greater participation in the external sector, greater regional impact and strengthening its international agreements and alliances.

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA JAVERIANA

HISTORY

The College of the Society of Jesus was established in Santafé de Bogotá in 1604 as part of the San Bartolome School and Cloister. In 1623, the Audience and the Archbishop recognized the academic degrees conferred by the college.

INTERESTING INFORMATION

-Pontificia Universidad Javeriana remains the best at the national level and is among the 36% of the best performing universities in the world, occupying position 501-600 within the classification with a score of 38.9/100

-The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana is a Catholic higher education institution, founded and run by the Society of Jesus, committed to the educational principles and guidelines of the founding entity.

-The campus in Cali has sectional divisions of the Bolsa de Valores de Colombia (BVC), Temple University's Fox School of Business, and others.

-The university has 21 undergraduate programs with highquality accreditation, and eight programs in advanced stages of the accreditation process. In graduate programs, quality is acknowledged through the Qualified Registries. The university has 87 graduate programs with Qualified Registries and has presented another 29 to these processes.

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There they teach political science, architecture, psychology, law, insurance, social communication, and clinical epidemiology and many more.

https://www.javeriana.edu.co/recursosdb/20125/720078/CALENDARIO-GENERAL-2023-PUJ.pdf

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They recently received the renewal of the Multicampus High Quality Institutional Accreditation for 10 years, for our Bogota and Cali campuses. (Res. 013170 of July 17, 2020 of the Ministry of National Education).

The Javerianos are invited to study an academic semester at another university, in another city or in another country, with the universities where the Javeriana has agreements.

The Javierian University has four libraries: The General Library, the Mario Valenzuela, S.J., Library, which specializes in philosophy and theology and is rated as the best in these disciplines in Latin America, the Alfonso Llano Escobar, S.J. Bioethics Library, and the CIRE (Centre for Ignatius Reflection and Exercises) Library.

UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA

HISTORY

Universidad de Antioquia was founded in 1803. Since 1789, the institution had served as high school, convent, and headquarters for the military forces. Currently, UdeA is the second most important public university in Colombia.

INTERESTING INFORMATION

-Today, the university continues to be Antioquia’s flagship institution. By 2016, UdeA aims to become the nation’s leading research university and one of Latin America’s top universities.

-The university is committed to providing excellence in education and training and aspires to become a leader in the socio-economic transformation of the country.

- It will continue to promote a learning environment conducive to diversity and dialogue based on respect for pluralism and the environment.

-It is a decentralized entity, organized as an autonomous university entity with a special regime, linked to the Ministry of National Education in the field of policies and planning of the educational sector and in relation to the National System of Science and Technology.

DEGREES & TIMETABLE

FIRST SEMESTER

Offer: April 18, 2022

Registration: April 19, 2022

Adjustments: April 22 to 29, 2022

Beginning of classes: May 02, 2022

40% evaluation limit: June 10, 2022

There they teach agronomy, veterinary, economics, administration, engineering, architecture, social and human sciences, psychology and many others.

End of classes: September 2, 2022

Final exams: September 05 to 09, 2022

Authorization and validation: September 12 to 16, 2022

Official Completion: September 16, 2022

SECOND SEMESTER

Offer: October 25, 2021

Registration: October 26, 2021

Adjustments: October 29 to November 5, 2021

Start of classes: November 02, 2021

40% evaluation limit: December 10, 2021

End of classes: March 18, 2022

Final exams: March 21-25, 2022

Enabling and validation: March 28 to April 1, 2022

Official termination: April 1, 2022

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UdeA’s main campus is located in Medellín and was completed in the mid-sixties. It comprises approximately 287,000 square meters and a built area of 134,000 square meters including sidewalks, pedestrian paths and green spaces.

It houses classrooms, labs, administrative buildings as well as the Museum, the University Theatre, the Library and a large sports complex.

The campus also has a number of sculptures and murals by renowned artists including Francisco Cano, Jorge Cárdenas, Rodrigo Arenas, Salvador Arango, Enrique Grau, Eduardo Ramírez, Alonso Ríos, Eladio Vélez and Martha Villafañe, among others.

On July 26, 2013, UdeA campus was declared a cultural asset of national interest.

Between December 23, 2022 and January 13, 2023, the University of Antioquia received high-quality accreditation for ten of its academic programs from the Ministry of National Education.

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