Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
The Universidad Torcuato di Tella (also called UTDT or Di Tella) is a private university and was founded in 1991. It is located in the district of Belgrano in Buenos Aires , Argentina and has 1,200 enrolled undergraduate and 1,300 graduate students. The focus is primarily on the social sciences and humanities. At the bachelor level, the university offers the following courses: Business Administration, Economics, Law, Political Science, International Relations, Social Sciences, History and Architecture. At the master’s level, the university has a wide range of over 34 graduate programs.
In various rankings, especially in the master’s courses: Politics, International Relations and Economics (MBAs / Master of Economics), the UTDT took top positions in Latin America.
history
Background and foundation
The concept of the new university was developed by the first president of the UTDT, Gerardo della Paolera, and the then Argentine ambassador to the USA, Guido Di Tella. At that time they decided to adapt an American university model that focuses on research, small teaching classes and professors with an international background and recognition.
The University of Torcuato di Tella was founded in 1991 with the aim of forming a new generation of academic, economic, social and political leaders. It was founded by the Torcuato di Tella Foundation, which made use of its experience and the resources of the Torcuato di Tella Institute. The latter, which was founded in 1958 as a non-profit institute with the aim of promoting research into the scientific, cultural and artistic development of Argentina, became a leading local center for avant-garde art during the 1960s. Torcuato di Tella, who gave the institute its name, was one of the leading Argentine industrialists at the time and founder of the Siam di Tella conglomerate in 1911.
The university, which offered exclusive economics as the first course in 1992, has expanded considerably since then and its range of courses currently also includes business administration, political science, international relations, law, history, architecture and various master’s courses.
Gerardo della Paolera held the post of Dean of the university from its foundation until 2001, when he was replaced by the economist Juan Pablo Nicolini. Nicolini was re-elected as dean in 2005 and held the office until the end of his second term in September 2010, when he was no longer available for election due to the university regulations, which stipulate a maximum of two terms of office. Manuel Mora y Araujo, a recognized sociologist and political analyst, was elected as dean on May 14, 2009 and held this post until his resignation for personal reasons in May 2011. Ernesto Schargrodsky was elected as his successor, who until then headed the business faculty would have. In 2014 he was finally re-elected for a full four-year term. Juan José Cruces, who had also headed the Faculty of Economics until then, was elected as his successor in May 2019.
Relocation to the Figueroa Alcorta Campus
In March 2013, the university moved from the old campus to the new campus on Avenida Figueroa Alcorta. The main building of the new campus, which has an area of 13,700 m 2 , was modeled on the former building of the national waterworks, which was built between 1937 and 1942. In 1998, after the Obras Sanitarias de la Nación was privatized , the building was put out to tender and the design submitted by the university won. This was developed in a collaboration by a group of architects led by Clorindo Testa, Juan Fontana, Juan Barros Tomé and Horacio Rodrigo.
Construction work on the building began in 2002. The Faculty of Economics has been based on the Figueroa Alcorta campus since 2004 and has an area of 1200 m 2 itself .
campus
The faculty consists of 77 full-time professors, most of whom have attended one of the UTDT's graduate programs, while the remainder are foreign visiting professors. The university offers its students at Bachelor's and Master's level the opportunity to take part in a study exchange at over 50 foreign partner universities in Europe, North and South America, Australia, Africa and Asia. UTDT is also a popular destination for foreign students, which is why numerous exchange students spend one or two semesters at Di Tella every year. The expansion of the campus, which has meanwhile been suspended for economic reasons, is being continued steadily in order to cope with the steady growth in students and courses, and most recently resulted in the construction of a new building on the campus. Juan José Cruces is the president of the university.
Business school
The Faculty of Economics has 20 full-time professorships and is responsible for the Bachelor's degree in Business Administration as well as the MBA, Executive MBA and Master in Finance.
Since 2010 the UTDT has been listed in the ranking of the Chilean business magazine America Economia in the top 10 business schools in Latin America.
The MBA program is also accredited by the London-based Association of MBAs (AMBA).
Course offer
The university offers the following bachelor's degree programs:
- National economy
- Business administration
- Political science
- International Relations
- Social sciences
- Law
- history
- architecture
- design
In addition, the following master’s courses and doctorates:
- Doctorate in Political Science and Government
- Doctorate in International Relations
- PhD history
- MBA
- Executive MBA
- Master of Finance
- Master history
- Master in Economics
- Master of Applied Economics
- Master in Econometrics
- Master in Political Science
- Master in Law and Economics
- Master of Tax Law
- Master of Criminal Law
- Master of Urban Economics
- Master's in History and Culture of Architecture and the City
- Master in International Relations
- Master in Public Policy
- Master in Education Management
- Master's education strategy
- Master of Journalism (in collaboration with La Nación newspaper )
Furthermore, specialization courses in educational management, in educational strategy, tax law, criminal law, architecture and technology, architecture and landscape, preservation and preservation of cultural assets, advanced economics, econometrics and management of NGOs (in cooperation with the University of San Andrés and CEDES) as well as a specialization are offered offered in executive business education .
Faculty
The university is made up of 258 academics, 77 of whom do research on a full-time basis. They are divided into seven departments:
- Law Faculty
- Business Faculty
- Politics Faculty
- Department of Economics
- Political Science and International Relations Department
- History Department
- Department of Mathematics and Statistics
- Architecture faculty
- Department of Art
Political scientist Natalio R. Botana, economist and historian Pablo Gerchunoff, sociologist and Peronism expert Juan Carlos Torre, architect Jorge Liernur and historian Ezequiel Gallo are professors emeritii. Historian Tulio Halperín Donghi, economist Ana María Martirena-Mantel and Nobel Prize winner Finn Kydland are honorary professors at the university.
Research center
The University has opened the following centers: the Center for Financial Research, the Center for Entrepreneurship and New Business Development, the Center for International Studies, the Crime, Institutional and Policy Research Laboratory, and the Center for Evaluation and Research of Social Economy for the Poverty reduction.
The Center for Financial Research publishes the consumer confidence index, the inflation expectation index and the leadership index, which tries to identify changes in economic cycles.
The Crime, Institutional and Policy Research Laboratory publishes the Victimization Index, which measures the percentage of people who have been victims of crime in the past 12 months.
ENI DI TELLA is a think tank dedicated to promoting the development of an inclusive economy through the creation and dissemination of knowledge and experience. ENI has published a number of academic papers and studies in the following fields: First Survey of Inclusive Businesses in Argentina - Entrepreneurships and Small Enterprises (2012–2013); Characterizing Emerging Markets (2012), The Service Dominant Logic: A Conceptual Foundation to Address the Underserved (2012).
The university opened its own neuroscientific laboratory in 2014 in the presence of Lino Baraño, Argentina's Minister for Science, Technology and Product Innovation, and conducts research in the fields of neuroscience and experimental psychology in an interdisciplinary manner. The dean described the event as the “first step in the direction of hard science” for the university. The directorate of the laboratory with 13 researchers is held by Mariano Sigman.
Library
The library primarily focuses on social sciences and is one of the best in Latin America. It was founded by Torcuato Di Tella's private collection and has since expanded with the growth of research at the university and the institute.
The library contains over 95,000 books, over 2,500 newspaper collections and 6,000 digital documents. Original versions of books from the 17th century are also part of the library, as is access to various online databases. The university recently made its online catalog freely available to the public.
The library also includes the collections of Max Harwell, Carlos Escudé, Christiaan Huygens and Fernando Nadra. It also includes a number of documents from various unions in Argentina, which have served as a source for various historical and sociological studies in Latin America.
Art collection and lessons
Following the tradition of the Torcuato di Tella Institute, the University of Torcuato Di Tella has a modern art collection and in 2004 inaugurated the former waterworks building, which has since been renovated by architect Clorindo Testa, as a center for visual arts. The heart of the collection consists of the Edward Shaw and Maria Padilla de Shaw collection, which includes over 100 paintings by contemporary artists such as Antonio Berni, Guillermo Kuitca, Antonio Seguí, Luis Fernando Benedit and Emilio Torti. The collection is permanently on display in both university buildings.
Following the tradition of the Di Tella Institute, the university organizes various prestigious art programs and workshops. Every year 12 artists are awarded a Kuitka scholarship, which allows them to meet the artist Guillermo Kuitca every week and to discuss their art with him.
Since April 2013 the university has been examining the possibility of using its infrastructure and offering a bachelor's degree in art.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
- ↑ Primer puesto en Sudamérica
- ↑ Las Mejores Escuelas de Negocios de América Latina
- ↑ Juan José Cruces asumió como nuevo rector de la Torcuato Di Tella University. May 9, 2019, Retrieved June 6, 2019 (Spanish).
