Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
motto	Universidad del Perú, Decana de America (University of Peru, Dean of the Americas)
founding	May 12, 1551
Sponsorship	state
place	Lima
country	Peru
Rector	Orestes Cachay Boza
Students	43,294
Employee	3,233 scientific staff
Networks	CGU
Website	www.unmsm.edu.pe

The Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos ( UNMSM ; in German usually called Hauptnationaluniversität San Marcos ) is an autonomous university in Lima , Peru . The German Tower in Parque Universitario is in front of the site .

There were 43,294 students enrolled in the 2017 academic year, 10,632 of them for postgraduate studies .

history

It was founded on May 12, 1551 at the behest of Charles V and is considered the oldest university that still exists today on the American continent . It is named after the evangelist Mark .

Faculties

There are faculties :

1. Faculty of Human Medicine (Medicina Humana)
2. Faculty of Law and Politics (Derecho y Ciencia Política)
3. Faculty of Humanities (Letras y Ciencias Humanas)
4. Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry (Farmacia y Bioquímica)
5. Faculty of Dentistry (Odontología)
6. Faculty of Education (Educación)
7. Faculty of Chemistry (Química e Ingeniería Química)
8. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Medicina Veterinaria)
9. Faculty of Administration (Ciencias Administrativas)
10. Faculty of Biology (Ciencias Biológicas)
11. Faculty of Accounting (Ciencias Contables)
12. Faculty of Economics (Ciencias Económicas)
13. Faculty of Physics (Ciencias Físicas)
14. Faculty of Mathematics (Ciencias Matemáticas)
15. Faculty of Social Sciences (Ciencias Sociales)
16. Faculty of Geosciences (Ingeniería Geológica, Minera, Metalúrgica y Geográfica)
17. Faculty of Engineering (Ingeniería Industrial)
18. Faculty of Psychology (Psicología)
19. Faculty of Electrical Engineering (Ingeniería Electrónica y Eléctrica)
20. Faculty of Systems Science and Computer Science (Ingeniería de Sistemas e Informática)

Around 40 different courses are offered at these.

Illustrations

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Personalities

• Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo
• José María Arguedas (1911–1969), writer
• Jorge Basadre (1903–1980), historian
• Alfredo Bryce Echenique (* 1939), writer, literary scholar and lawyer
• Daniel Alcides Carrión
• Honorio Delgado (1892–1969), natural scientist, physician, psychiatrist, philosopher, humanist and author
• Alan García (1949–2019), lawyer and politician
• Gustavo Gutiérrez (* 1928), priest, Dominican and university professor
• Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (1895–1979), politician
• Javier Heraud Pérez (1942–1963), poet and writer
• Cayetano Heredia (1797–1861), physician and professor
• Luis Alberto Sánchez (1900–1994), literary scholar, journalist, historian, writer and politician
• Bruno Moll (economist) (1885–1968), economist and professor at the University of Leipzig
• Julio C. Tello (1880–1947), physician, anthropologist and archaeologist
• Hipólito Unanue (1755–1833), botanist, physician, meteorologist, natural scientist, university professor and politician
• Abraham Valdelomar (1888–1919), writer and journalist
• César Vallejo (1892–1938), poet, writer and journalist
• Mario Vargas Llosa (* 1936), writer, politician and journalist, Nobel Prize for Literature 2010
• Federico Villarreal

See also

• List of colonial universities in Latin America
• List of universities in Peru

Web links

Commons : Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member universities. In: web.gcompostela.org. Compostela Group of Universities, 2019, accessed on September 14, 2019 .  
2. ↑ Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos: Compendio estadístico UNMSM 2018 , p. 2.