The Universities Of My Country
Bogotá D.C
Bogotá D.C ANDES University
Pontifical Javeriana Medellín: Antioquia University
ANDES UNIVERSITY
Los Andes University is a private university based in Bogotá and Cartagena. It was founded in 1984 with the purpose of creating a higher education institution.
It has more than 700 teachers, and 10 faculties that offer:
43 Undergraduate Programs
33 Specializations
17 PhDs
Investigation groups
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DEGREES
• ADMINISTRATION
• ECONOMY
• GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
• BIOLOGY
• PHYSICS
• GEOSCIENCES
• MATH
• MICROBIOLOGY
• MEDICINE
• ARCHITECTURE
• DESIGN
• ART
• HISTORY OF ART
• LITERATURE
• MUSIC
• DIGITAL NARRATIVES
• ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
• FOOD ENGINEERING
• BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
• CIVIL ENGINEERING
• ELECTRIC ENGINEERING
• ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
• INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
• MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
• CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
• COMPUTER AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
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INTRODUCTION WEEK
Los Andes University in the induction week for new students aims to motivate them in the world of higher education, strengthen their professional vocation and provide information and contact with teachers and colleagues to start their studies, this week they take activities such as:
Meeting with the Rector and Dean of the faculty
Meeting with the academic coordinators
Meeting with the professors of the academic program
Uniandes Fair - integration activities
Meeting with the induction teachers and cards are delivered
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TIME TABLES
UNDERGRADUATE:
Undergraduate students can take their classes in person and virtual sessions enabled from Monday to Friday between 6:30 am to 9:00 pm. Saturday between 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
POSTGRADUATE:
Specializations and Masters students take their classes during the day from Monday to Friday between 6:00 am to 10:00 pm according to academic responsibilities; Saturdays between 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
DOCTORATE:
PhD students take their advisory sessions on Friday from 3:00 pm to 10:00 pmSaturdays from 7:00 am to 3:00 pm
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FACILITIES: Sports
The University offers a wide portfolio of services for the Uniandina community in terms of physical activity, sports and recreation. The university has a Sports Center that offers various possibilities such as:
Tennis
Squash
Swimming
Idoor cycling
Multiple court
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FACILITIES Library
The Uniandes library facilitates the acquisition of books, institutional articles and academic resources for the Uniandes community within the campus. Additionally, it generates spaces for interaction between the Uniande authors and the university community for the dissemination of their works.
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FACILITIES University Home
The University provides housing service to the members of its community, in a safe and comfortable environment that facilitates adaptation to the university environment, good academic performance, integration, development of social skills and cultural exchange.
Unandina homes, beyond a place to live, are an experiential learning opportunity
FACILITIES: REINFORCEMENT RESOURCES
At Uniandes they are concerned with giving students the tools to fulfill their academic responsibilities, which is why they offer them spaces for academic support, therefore they have trained teachers and monitors to support students in difficulties with subjects, advice to strengthen the communication and reading skills in English.
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FACILITIES
FOOD SERVICE
The university offers a good eating plan in its restaurant, with varied and balanced menus, additionally the students have:
Microwave oven spots
Vending machines
Another Food places
Shop: Place where students can buy clothes, books, technology and university products
https://tienda.uniandes.edu.co/es/
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OTHER FACILITIES
Uniandes Medical Center: Medical and psychological care for students, teachers, administrators, contractors and visitors.
Classroom Services: Access to the loan of laptops and internet connection. If the student needs software to carry out their academic activities, they use the Nukak program, a virtual room that has licensed software applications to connect freely
Parking Service
Locker Service
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EXAMS
For the admission process to an undergraduate degree, the applicant must fill out a form, the university only receives high school graduates or applicants who are in the last grade and have submitted the 11th grade saber test.
The Medicine and Music programs have additional processes with specialized exams that the applicant must take to access the career.
All students in the first and second semester must take the Spanish Diagnostic Test, it is a requirement to be able to take the University Writing course.
Most of the careers require new students to present diagnostic tests in mathematics and English that determine the student's level in these areas in order to access the first semester classes
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CAMPUS
The University campus has more than 166,653 built square meters that meet the technical quality and high-tech requirements necessary to provide an environment that facilitates academic activity and the well-being of all students. Currently, the Campus is made up of 83 buildings, various academic spaces and green areas.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
The Andes University has a financial support plan that allows applicants with economic difficulties to enter and successfully develop their studies at the Institution.
With this support, the purpose of the University is to have students of great academic and intellectual conditions, who can better contribute to the advancement of knowledge and science in the country.
Curriculum Cost:
18,000,000 any degree per semester
26,000,000 medicine per semester
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ENGLISH
All students must take an English placement test to determine their level of reading comprehension in English. From the result of this test there are two options:
• Take the courses suggested by the placement exam and pass up to the English 6 course (LENG-1156), • If the result in the placement exam is higher than English level 6, this requirement is automatically fulfilled.
Students who already have an international exam in ENGLISH with the scores required by the University must take a validation exam.
The university has a provision that the student must take a minimum of 1 hour of English daily
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DESCRIPTION
The Pontificia Javeriana University is a Colombian private university based in Bogotá and Cali. It was founded in 1623, it is a Catholic institution of higher education, founded by the Society of Jesus. It is the first university to obtain high-quality accreditation and is listed as one of the best in the country, offering educational plans in:
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Undergraduate majors
103 Specializations
76 Master’s degrees
13 PhDs
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Ecclesiastical
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DEGREES:
The following careers are highlighted:
Architecture and design
Arts
Sciences
Economic and Administrative Sciences
Legal Sciences
Political Science and International Relations
Social Sciences
Communication and language
• Education
• Nursing
• Environmental and Rural Studies
• Medicine
• Engineering
• Odontology
• Psychology
• Theology
Canon law
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INDUCTION WEEK
The University welcomes new students who are beginning their professional training, with the aim of strengthening their decisions to access higher education and advance a good academic project that allows students to become excellent professionals.
During the induction week, the students receive a welcome from the rector of the University, who informs them of the different guidelines and student regulations to follow for their professional training at the Javeriana University.
The new students are called Neojaverianos who during the week have various spaces and activities to get to know the University, its academic proposal and the national and international exchange opportunities arranged in the different careers. A large number of integration activities are carried out on the university campus.
During this week, students get to know all the managers, professors, and classmates, as well as the different facilities that the university offers for their well-being and academic development.
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TIME TABLES
The Pontificia Javeriana University offers the following class schedules in the different study plans:
• Undergraduate careers: Monday to Friday 7am to 5pm
• Postgraduate: Monday to Friday from 5pm to 10pm
• Masters: twice a week between Monday and Friday from 6pm to 10pm and Saturday from 8am to 12pm
• Doctorate: Monday to Friday from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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FACILITIES
The Pontificia Javeriana University offers students excellent spaces to carry out different physical and sports activities such as:
Gym
Swimming
Tennis
Squash
Multiple Courts
They hold sports championships and tournaments to strengthen the competition of the students.
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FACILITIES
the Pontificia Javeriana University offers students a large library that is part of the Association of Universities entrusted to the Society of Jesus in Latin America, and works in a network with other libraries around the world.. Today students have access to:
443066 physical books
588619 e-books
38069 electronic journals
68347 Theses and degree works
Among others
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FACILITIES
Restaurants to eat vending machines
Cafeteria
Shop: where the student can buy clothes, books, technology and university products
tienda.javeriana.edu.co
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FACILITIES
Cultural Management Center
It carries out activities through the formation and presentation of artistic and cultural expression groups
Center for Psychological and Health Counseling
It offers services to students to improve their emotional stability and strengthen their learning and healthy living.
St. Francis Xavier Pastoral Center
It provides spaces for students to live and potentiate their religious convictions, as well as carry out activities of service to others.
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EXAMS
For admission to the Javeriana University, it is required to present the degree certificate or high school diploma as well as excellent results in the State Exam saber 11 or equivalent and proof of payment of registration fees.
The University's admission process is based on three groups of criteria with written tests and interviews on issues related to Attitude, Ability and/or Knowledge, in which the applicant will be evaluated for admission to each academic program.
If the applicant is applying for an undergraduate program in Visual Arts or Visual Communication Design, they need to scan or generate a PDF or JPG document of their portfolio of drawings, illustrations, paintings or designs.
For the medicine study plan, in addition to presenting an entrance exam, the applicant must take a premedical course.
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FINANCE SUPPORT
Javeriana University offers credit possibilities to students to pay their tuition in up to six monthly installments during the academic period.
The average cost of a semester of a career other than medicine is between 15 to 18 million Colombian pesos and Medicine around $29,000,000 Within the framework of the Academic Excellence Policy for Javeriana Students, the Pontificia Javeriana University assigns Scholarships to Outstanding Bachelor students every semester for 80% of the tuition fee, through calls that are held every semester.
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The minimum levels of competences required by the University, in accordance with the standards proposed in the "European Framework of Reference for Language Learning, Teaching and Assessment" and as indicated by the direction of each career are B2, B1 or the A2.
The student will be able to certify the command of a language, at the level and at the time that their career indicates in the following ways: International Exam Certification, or Diploma from a Bilingual, Binational or International Baccalaureate School from one of the schools indicated in the list proposed by the University.
All students must take an English placement test to determine their level of English comprehension.
Students can take their English classes from Monday to Friday between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., and on Saturdays between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m., according to the programming of each academic period in virtual and face-to-face modality
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ENGLISH
CAMPUS
DESCRIPTION
The Antioquia University is a public university based in Medellín. It was founded in 1803, this university is recognized as one of the best in the entire country.
In addition to standing out in the academic field and in research, it also stands out as an important cultural center.
It is made up of 26 academic units divided into 14 faculties, which offer:
130 undergraduate programs
58 specializations
46 medical specialties
66 master's degrees
33 PhDs
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DEGREES
The university offers more than 130 academic programs in the following faculties:
• Arts
• Agricultural Sciences
• Economic Sciences
• Exact and Natural Sciences
• Pharmaceutical and Food Sciences
• Social and Human Sciences
• Communication and Philology
• Law and political science
• Education
• Nursing
• Engineering
• Medicine
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Odontology
• Public health
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INDUCTION WEEK
Induction Week:
In the induction week for new students of the University of Antioquia, information is disclosed about the academic programs and about the dynamics of the University.
Various integration activities are carried out between teachers and students to welcome them to university life. In it you will receive important information about the University, talks by the administrative team of each faculty, an explanation of what it means to be a UdeA student, the regulations to comply with and the welfare benefits and services that can be found at the university.
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TIME TABLES
UNDERGRADUATE:
Undergraduate students can take their classes enabled from Monday to Friday between 6:30 am to 10:00 pm.
POSTGRADUATE:
Graduate students and Masters take their classes during the night from Monday to Friday between 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm according to academic responsibilities; Saturdays between 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
DOCTORATE:
PhD students take their consultancies with their teachers at agreed times to review their research Usually Friday from 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm - Saturdays from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm
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FACILITIES
CULTURAL CENTERS:
The university promotes culture and fosters artistic activities, which is why it has several institutions that develop different educational and cultural programs and projects for students
LIBRARY:
In the university, the students have 14 Libraries, the main is the Central Library, there is a wealth of collections of books and magazines with a catalog of more than 650,000 reference texts.
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FACILITIES
SPORT CENTER:
At the university there are sports spaces for the benefit of students, employees and teachers with the aim of forming healthy habits and lifestyles, the use of free time in: Swimming, running track, gym, field tennis courts.
HEALTH SERVICES:
The purpose of the Health Program of the University of Antioquia is to guarantee the efficient, timely and adequate administration and delivery of the health services required by the students.
FOOD SERVICE:
For undergraduate students from strata 1 - 2 and 3, the university provides a food or lunch voucher which is totally free.
In addition to this, there are other spaces in which recreational and cultural activities take place. Some of them are: Coffee Shop, University Theater, Cinematheque,Arts room, University Museum
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It establishes the need for all undergraduate programs at the University of Antioquia that lead to a professional degree to incorporate five levels of English and an evaluation and Certification in a Foreign Language into their study plans.
The University of Antioquia gives newly admitted students the opportunity to take a qualifying exam in English if they have knowledge of this language, which merits them continuing in a course above the first level.
The university carries out the exam through the PIFLE Institutional Foreign Language Program, which seeks to promote the learning of a foreign language. Once the results are available, students who do not pass the certification in English must enroll at the respective level in the PIFLE program.
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ENGLISH
EXAMS
Undergraduate admission is made through a knowledge test that is held twice a year and is administered by the Department of Admissions and Registration.
The admission exam is an instrument that measures basic skills and knowledge learned during high school, as well as knowledge in the area to which you want to apply.
The exam consists of two components: Test of Reading Competence (Mother Language) with a weighting of 50% of the test, Test of Logical Reasoning (Mathematical Logic) with a weighting of 50%. To be admitted, you must pass a minimum cut-off score and also be within the number of places available for each race.
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FINANCIAL SUPPORT
The costs of studying at the University of Antioquia are none for many students, since it is a public university, but in general, students who must pay tuition pay between $200,000 - $1,800.000, the cost depends on the socio-economic status of the student and/or their parents' income statement..
Thanks to this great advantage, there are few cases of undergraduate students who must apply for credit.
If credit is required, the university has financial agreements that allow the processing of money disbursements for the payment of the respective semester.
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CAMPUS
The University of Antioquia has four areas in the city of Medellín that stand out for concentrating a large part of the students, which are: the San Ignacio Building, the University City, the Health Area, and the Robledo Citadel.
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