Universidad de los Andes | |
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Latin: Universitas Andiensis[citation needed] | |
Type | Private |
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Established | 16 November 1948[2] |
Rector | Raquel Bernal Salazar |
Academic staff | 1,457a |
Administrative staff | 2,416[3] |
Students | 24,653b |
Undergraduates | 14,337[3] |
Postgraduates | 2,515[3] |
276[3] | |
Other students | 1,688 (Specialization)[3] 7,677 (Continuing education)[3] |
Location | , 4°36′06″N 74°03′55″W / 4.601613°N 74.065173°W |
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Colours | Black and Yellow |
Nickname | Uniandes |
Affiliations | Universia,[5] Asociación Colombiana de Universidades |
Mascot | Séneca the Goat |
Website | www |
a This is a total of 581 FTE professors, 105 faculty developing teachers, and 771 tenured professors.[3] |
The University of the Andes (Spanish: Universidad de los Andes), also commonly self-styled as Uniandes,[1] is a private research university located in the city centre of Bogotá, Colombia. Founded in 1948 by a group of Colombian intellectuals led by Mario Laserna Pinzón, it was the first Colombian university established as nonsectarian (independent from any political party or religious institution).[2][6]
The university is academically composed of nine schools, three special academic entities[7]—the Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government, the Center for Research and Training in Education (Spanish: Centro de Investigación y Formación en Educación, CIFE), and the Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies (Spanish: Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre Desarrollo, CIDER)—and a joint academic venture with the medical institution Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation,[8] offering 31 undergraduate, 18 doctoral, and 38 graduate degree-granting programs[3] in areas of human knowledge such as medicine, engineering, science, law and others.[6][9]
As of 2011, the university had produced 128 research groups recognized by Colciencias, most of them in the social sciences, mathematics, physics and engineering.[3] By 2017, the number of groups recognized by Colciencias has increased to 153 research groups. It is one of the few Colombian universities to have received the maximum high quality institutional accreditation by the Colombian Ministry of Education, given in January 2015.[10]
El símbolo de la Universidad de los Andes es el escudo. (The symbol of Los Andes University is the Shield).