Andrés Bello National University

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Andrés Bello University
Universidad Andrés Bello
  • Logo-unab.svg
Seal of the Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello
MottoTradición y Modernidad
Motto in English
Tradition and Modernity
TypePrivate
Established1988
RectorJulio Castro Sepúlveda
Students56,164 (2021)
Undergraduates49,103
Postgraduates7,061
Location
Chile Santiago, Viña del Mar Concepción
,
Chile
Websitehttp://www.unab.cl

The Andrés Bello National University (Spanish: Universidad Andrés Bello or Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello es:Universidad Andrés Bello) (UNAB) is a Chilean private university established in 1988. It belongs to the Laureate International Universities group of private universities.

UNAB is ranked 56th of Latin American universities in 2022.[1] Andrés Bello University currently ranks as the 8th Chilean university according to the webometric CSIC.[2]

History

Foundation and definition of project

The university was formally founded in October 1988. In its early years, the university offered careers that demanded an infrastructure and basic equipment. The first specializations offered were Law, Architecture, Engineering, Business and Journalism. Civil Engineering was then added in its various expressions, Construction, Certified Public Accountant and Psychology.

Engineering in Aquaculture, which offered tuition since 1993, was an initiative with the University Andres Bello. Associated with this teaching program, simultaneously born Marine Research Center located in the Caleta de Quintay. Through the Marine Research Center, has become the leading provider of seeds of sea urchins in the country.

In 1996, when the university had nearly six thousand students and offered thirteen specializations, the founding partners Luis Cordero, Ignacio Fernandez and Marcelo Ruiz would form the Board. The eight members incorporated supporters Mr. Alvaro Saieh, Miguel Angel Poduje, Selume Jorge Andres Navarro and Juan Antonio Guzman.

Máximo Pacheco Gómez and William Elton Alamos, who alternate in the Vice President of the Board, contribute to the project, and academics, Joaquín Barceló and Manuel Krauskopf, who come to defog after ownership of the rectory.

New institutional mission and autonomy

In Tables academic influence in the areas of science stressed under the experience gained in the Marine Research Center Quintay, creating an area of biological sciences, increasingly incorporating doctors in Jor-nothing regime complete. Later, the same is done in the areas of chemistry, physics, mathematics, philosophy and history.

Development of the Philosophy and History programs also included a full program of Bachelor of Science and Humanities and the incursion into numerous other health careers, supported by extensive clinical agreements with various public and private fields.

Similarly, in the same period began the development of graduate programs, with many graduates, masters and doctoral highly complex personalities by the world des sciences.

Internationalization and accreditation

From 2000 onwards, the University Andres Bello became the leading private university in the country. Each year shows a significant increase in students with indirect fiscal contributions, a government subsidy that is granted to the 27,500 best scorers of the University Selection Test.

After evaluating alternatives, Chileans elected holders as a strategic partner to Laureate Education Consortium, bringing together two essential attributes for this alliance was an opportunity to have a significant financial contribution and, on the other hand, as a portfolio of academic experiences prestige in Europe and the United States accumulated through a network of universities and educational institutions, all accredited by agencies specializing in quality assurance.

Thus, Laureate Education Consortium, through various educational projects held in Chile and are aimed at different segments of higher education, has reached an important presence in the country's higher education, transcends offer programs ranging from technical education to higher education more demanding and prestige.

The internationalization of the university, has allowed its undergraduate and graduate students to validate and complete their studies abroad, programs addressing the double titling and incorporate English as a second language in all their careers. This objective, involved in a very short-term consolidation of a Department of English to serve the entire university community, and create a modern career with the best technological support to graduate teachers of this language in the context of national and international experiences.

The U. Andrés Bello, in 2003, was the first private university to adhere to the establishment of a national system of quality assurance in Chile, whose purpose is prudential institutions of higher education provision, in the processes that develop mechanisms to ensure the compliance of academic standards of quality and continuous improvement. The university was one of the first three institutionally accredited private universities in Chile, for the period between 2004 and 2008, a certification that came to reaffirm the Andrés Bello University is part of a select group of ten universities most complex and successful national system of higher education, even though it is one of the youngest in the country.

All this is confirmed in the successes achieved in gradual accreditation of each of its undergraduate programs, and especially in the accreditation of their degrees, an area where the University Andres Bello shows an undisputed leadership in the amount and complexity of the programs offered, and have also begun to be accredited by their merits and achievements.

The year 2007 reaches the university in a first level course in terms of prestige, in all private universities, and in many ways, ahead of many traditional universities. In 2008, the university, with an enrollment of around 30,000 students, ranks as a national benchmark, which leads her to decide to open a place of conception, at the beginning of the academic year 2009, as the only way provide opportunities to students in the south, to have an alternative that is certainly chosen by many students from diverse sectors of the country. The University Andres Bello corroborated by that act which is a university of national characteristics, inserted in the national ideology and strongly committed to developing human and social capital that shapes the Chilean identity.

The university is accredited internationally by MSCHE.[3]

Corporate seal

In the gallery of Doctor Honoris Causa, and contains the names of the poet Gonzalo Ro-jas (1998), National Book Award and the Cervantes Prize, Dr. Per-Ingvar Brane-mark (2002), father of the Osseo-integrated implant, the psychiatrist Otto Kernberg (2003), director of the Institute of personality disorders New York Hospital and author of numerous texts of psychiatry Maximo Pacheco (2004), noted scholar, Minister of State, Senator and Chilean diplomat, and Dr. Alfred Sommer (2006), for their contribution to global health and welfare of the human person. They joined José María Aznar (2006), for his record of public service, his commitment to education, and work for the integration of Spain and Hispanic countries, the President of Colombia Alvaro Uribe (2006) and Chilean soprano Cristina Gallardo-Domas (2007).

Large academic and national awards as Miguel Arteche, 1996 National Book Award, Alberto Israel, National Advertising Award 1995, Humberto Maturana, National Natural Science Award 1994, Hugo Montes, Award 1995 National Education, Gonzalo Ro-jas, 1992 National Prize for Literature, Pablo Valenzuela, National Applied Science Award 2002 and Sergio Villalobos, National History Prize 1992.

External links

Organization

Hospital Naval Almirante Nef, Campus Clínico, Viña del Mar.

Faculties

The university has 14 faculties and a Liberal Arts Program

AIEP Professional Institute

The AIEP Professional Institute within UNAB is an institute for technical and professional careers.

Sites and Campuses

References

  1. ^ Topuniversities (2012). "QS World University Rankings". Retrieved June 24, 2012.
  2. ^ Webometrics. "Chile | Ranking web of universities". Retrieved July 26, 2013.
  3. ^ "Institutions Archive - Middle States Commission on Higher Education". Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

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