Universidad Central del Ecuador

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Universidad Central del Ecuador
Central University of Ecuador
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motto Omnium Potentior est Sapientia
founding 1826
Sponsorship state
place Quito , Ecuador
Rector Fernando Sempértegui Ontaneda
Students approx. 42,000
Website www.uce.edu.ec

The Universidad Central del Ecuador ( UCE ; German Central University of Ecuador ) is the oldest and largest university in Ecuador . Their campus is in Quito . It was formally founded in 1826, but had already existed in a number of educational institutions before that. The most important predecessor institution was the Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino , founded in 1688 by the Order of the Dominicans , which had been secularized as the Royal University in 1787.

The Universidad Central has over 40,000 undergraduate students and 1,500 postgraduate students (2004 data). The UCE has long had significant financial problems affecting study and research.

Faculties

Faculty of Public Administration
Faculty of Law
UCE campus
UCE Campus, north entrance
  • Architecture and urban planning ( Arquitectura y Urbanismo )
  • Arts ( artes )
  • Administrative science including business administration ( Ciencias Administrativas )
  • Agricultural Science ( Ciencias Agrícolas )
  • Economics (Economics) ( Ciencias Económicas )
  • Medicine ( Ciencias Médicas )
  • Psychology ( Ciencias Psicológicas )
  • Chemistry ( Ciencias Químicas )
  • Communication Studies / Journalism ( Comunicación Social )
  • Law, Political and Social Sciences ( Jurisprudencia, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales )
  • Veterinary Medicine ( Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia )
  • Philosophy, Philology and Education ( Filosofía Letras y Ciencias de la Educación )
  • Geosciences (geology, mining, oil and environmental sciences; Ingeniería en Geología Minas, Petróleos y Ambiental )
  • Engineering, Physics and Mathematics ( Ingeniería, Ciencias Físicas y Matemática )
  • Dentistry ( Odontología )
  • Chemical Engineering ( Ingeniería Química )

Former students

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. "The power of all things is wisdom", a quote from the book of wisdom in the Vulgate

Coordinates: 0 ° 11 ′ 59.3 "  S , 78 ° 30 ′ 20.2"  W.