University of the Andes, Chile

Universidad de los Andes, Chile
Universidad de los Andes, Chile
Motto	Universitas Studiorum Andinensis
Type	Private
Established	1989; 35 years ago
Chancellor	José Antonio Guzmán Cruzat
Academic staff	1,300+ (2022)
Students	11,000+ (2022)
Undergraduates	8,900+ (2022)
Postgraduates	2,100+ (2022)
Address	Avenida Monseñor Álvaro del Portillo 12455. Las Condes., Santiago, Chile, Chile
Campus	52 ha (128 acres) Santiago
Website	http://www.uandes.cl/ (in Spanish)

Universidad de los Andes (Spanish: Universidad de los Andes) (UANDES) is a private catholic-inspired higher learning institution that carries out non-profit education, research, and assistance activities, and was founded in 1989 in Santiago de Chile by a group of academics and professionals.^[2]

UANDES is currently^{[as of?]} accredited by the National Accreditation Commission for a period of 5 years out of a maximum of 7 in five areas: pre- and postgraduate teaching, research, community engagement, and institutional management. ^[3] Since 2019 it is a member of the Council of Chancellors.^[4]

History

The university was founded on September 8, 1989, by Eduardo Fernández León, Matías Izquierdo Menéndez, and Eduardo Gulisasti Gana, and others.^[5]

The faculty of law was the first to begin, in 1990, followed by the medical faculty and the institute of philosophy. Over the years, new majors were added on today reaching a total of 22 undergraduate majors, 10 associate degree programs, 1,700 academics, 4 doctorates, 8 postgraduate programs, 21 master's programs, 25 advanced-study programs and 27 specialties in the health field.^[6]

Students

Its 9,000 students are currently studying one of the 28 undergraduate majors it offers in the fields of humanities, engineering, and healthcare, and 11 associate degree programs. Its postgraduate programs, which include PhD, master, and medical specialty programs, have over 1,500 students enrolled. Located on its sole campus are the Clinica Universidad de los Andes, the CiiB (Center for Research and Biomedical Innovation) and the ESE Business School. The Universidad de los Andes Health Center 1, located in the district of San Bernardo in southern Santiago, was also created as a service to the local community as well as a hands-on teaching facility.

Infrastructure

On the San Carlos de Apoquindo Campus, the university has nine buildings, including the ESE Business School, the engineering building, a library, and the central building which houses the offices of most of the support units, classrooms, a degree room, and academic staff offices. ^[7] It also has two clinical halls of its own, one of them is a health center located in San Bernardo^[8] and Clinica Universidad de los Andes, which is integrated onto the university campus.^[9]

Chancellors

Chancellor of the University of Los Andes, José Antonio Guzmán Cruzat.

1989-1998: Raúl Bertelsen Repetto
1999-2003: Oscar Cristi Marfil
2004-2013: Orlando Poblete Iturrate
2014-To date: José Antonio Guzmán Cruzat

Academic programs and schools

Universidad de los Andes offers 29 undergraduate degrees leading to professional degrees. It also dictates 11 associate degree programs, which can be continued here or at other higher learning institutions.^[10]

Health department

Universidad de los Andes was the first private Chilean university not belonging to the Council of Chancellors to teach medicine.^[11]

Medicine
Dentistry
Nutrition and dietetics
Nursing
Psychology
Physical therapy
Occupational therapy
Speech therapy
Obstetrics and childcare

Engineering and administration department

Service administration
Business administration
Environmental civil engineering
Civil engineering in public works
Industrial civil engineering
Electrical civil engineering
Civil engineering in computer science

Humanities department

Law
Journalism
Philosophy
Literature
History
Advertising
Media and communications

Education department

Early childhood education
Elementary education
Bilingual elementary education
High school education
High school education in Roman Catholic theology
In 2018 enrollments were closed and with it the majors for high school history, literature, and philosophy.

Associate degree programs

Associate degree in medicine
Associate degree in dentistry
Associate degree in psychology
Associate degree in service administration
Associate degree in nursing
Associate degree in engineering
Associate degree in business administration
Associate degree in civil engineering
Associate degree in humanities
Associate degree in law
Associate degree in health care
Associate degree in obstetrics and childcare

Faculties and academic units

Currently,^[when?] the university has nine faculties, eleven schools and three other independently governed academic units:

School of service administration
- Service administration
School of psychology
- Psychology
Faculty of economics and business
- Business administration
Faculty of communications
- Media and communications
- Journalism
- Advertising
Faculty of law
- Law
Faculty of education
- Early childhood education
- Elementary education
- High school education
- Bilingual elementary education
- High school education in Roman Catholic theology
Faculty of nursing and midwifery
- School of nursing
- School of obstetrics and childcare
Faculty of philosophy and humanities
- Institute of history
- Institute of philosophy
- Institute of literature
Faculty of engineering and applied sciences
- Environmental civil engineering
- Civil engineering in public works
- Industrial civil engineering
- Electrical civil engineering
- Civil engineering in computer science
Faculty of medicine
- School of speech therapy
- School of physical therapy
- School of medicine
- School of nutrition and eietetics
- School of occupational therapy
Faculty of dentistry
- Dentistry
Institute of family sciences
Associate degree programs
- Associate degree in service administration
- Associate degree in law
- Associate degree in nursing
- Associate degree in numanities
- Associate degree in engineering
- Associate degree in business administration
- Associate degree in healthcare
- Associate degree in medicine
- Associate degree in dentistry
- Associate degree in obstetrics and childcare
- Associate degree in psychology
Center for general studies

International agreements

The university has a significant number^[vague] of international agreements with universities around the world and houses different research centers and institutes.

Notable alumni

List of students of Universidad de los Andes (Chile)

Politics

Joaquín Lavín León
Lucia Pinto

Journalism

Manuel de Tezanos-Pinto
María Luisa Godoy
Catalina Edwards

Film

Law

Carlos Charme
Jorge Alessandri Vergara
Felipe Ward
Felipe Alessandri
José Luis Uriarte
Enrique Guzmán Blanco
Alejandro Rubilar Camurri

Student participation

In 2012, the first election for a student gederation was held, resulting in the election of the "construye" (build) list led by civil engineering student Nicolás Peñafiel. Currently,^{[as of?]} the student federation is represented by Ignacio Cruz.^[12]

Some past student federation presidents have been:

2020: Ignacio Cruz (MED), University Renewal Movement.
2019: Florencia Barañao (NUR), Create Uandes Movement.
2018: Valentina Guerrero (LAW), Forward Uandes Movement.
2017: Álvaro Arriagada (BA), Create Uandes Movement.
2016: Vicente Chomon (LAW), Forward Uandes Movement.
2015: Patricio Werner (MED), student council chosen by the presidents of the various student councils.
2014: Constanza Astorga (NUR), Build Uandes Movement.
2013: María Teresa Urrutia (LAW), Build Uandes Movement.
2012: Nicolás Peñafiel (ENG), Build Uandes Movement.