Rafael Landívar University

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University of Rafael Landívar
Universidad Rafael Landivar de Ciudad de Guatemala
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founding 1961
Sponsorship Roman Catholic Church ( SJ )
place Guatemala City
country GuatemalaGuatemala Guatemala
Rector Eduardo Valdés Barría, SJ
Networks FIUC
Website www.url.edu.gt

The University of Rafael Landívar ( Spanish Universidad Rafael Landivar ; English Rafael Landívar University ) is a Catholic university based in Guatemala City , Guatemala .

The college, founded and run by Jesuits in 1961, was named after the Guatemalan Jesuit priest and poet Rafael Landívar y Caballero (1732–93). It is the oldest private university in Guatemala. The university has a large central campus in the capital and ten locations inland. The most important regional campuses are located in Quetzaltenango , Cobán , Huehuetenango , Zacapa and Santa Cruz del Quiché . There are also smaller regional branches in Coatepeque, Escuintla , Antigua Guatemala , Jutiapa and Retalhuleu . With over 11,000 students and over 1,000 lecturers on the central campus alone, the Rafael Landivar University is the largest private university in Central America .

Faculties

Central Campus, Building H.
Central Campus, Sophienkapelle

The university has nine faculties:

  • Faculty of Architecture and Design
  • Faculty of Environmental and Agricultural Sciences
  • Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
  • Faculty of Economics
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Political Science
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Engineering
  • Faculty of Theology

However, all nine faculties are only represented on the central campus and the regional campus in Quetzaltenango.

As the first private university in Guatemala, the university began offering postgraduate studies in 1974. With the exception of the Faculty of Theology, all faculties now offer Master’s degrees, and the Faculty of Law also offers doctoral studies.

Institutes

In addition to the nine faculties, the university has eleven research institutes, all of which are located on the central campus:

  • Institute for Economic and Social Research (IDIES)
  • Institute for Linguistics and Intercultural Studies (ILI)
  • "Monseñor Luis Manresa Formosa, SJ" Institute for Musicology (IMUS)
  • Institute for Political Science (INGEP)
  • Institute for Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment (IARNA)
  • Institute for Legal Research (IIJ)
  • Institute for Conflict Research (INTRAPAZ)
  • Institute for Humanities Research (IEH)
  • Institute for Religious Studies (IIHR)
  • Institute for Development Sciences and Technology (InCyTDe)
  • Institute for Research in Architecture and Design (INDIS)

Cross-faculty institutions

Central campus, library building
Central campus, TEC Landivar
  • Library "Dr. Isidro Iriate ” : The library on the central campus, named after one of the founding fathers of the university," P. Isidro Iriarte, SJ ", has 206,000 books, around 80,000 electronically available theses ( tésis ) and a newspaper archive . There are also libraries at the other locations that are connected to the library on the central campus via the “Landivarian Libraries Network”. It is also linked to the libraries of the Universidad Centroamericana “José Simeón Cañas” in El Salvador and the Universidad Centroamericana in Nicaragua via the joint digital catalog of the Jesuit university libraries in Central America .
  • TEC Landivar : The "TEC Landivar" technology center with a wide variety of technical and scientific laboratories, including an observatory and a meteorological measuring station, is the largest of its kind in Central America. It is primarily available to the various faculties, but also to schools, companies and other external users.

Eminent teachers and students

Gabriel Edgardo Aguilera Peralta diplomat * 1940 Professor (Law)
José Roberto Alejos Cámbara Politician * 1961 Student (law)
Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen President (1996-2000) * 1946 Student (law)
Óscar Berger Perdomo President (2004-2008) * 1946 Student (law)
Ramiro de León Carpio President (1993–1996) 1942-2002 Student (law)
Anamaría Diéguez Arévalo Diplomat * 1952 Student (Political Science and Sociology)
Mario David García Velásquez Lawyer and politician * 1946 Student (law)
Luis Manresa Formosa Bishop of Quetzaltenango 1915-2010 Rector 1981–1992
Rodolfo Quezada Toruño Cardinal and Archbishop of Guatemala 1932-2012 Professor (Canon Law)
Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano Lawyer and politician 1960-2009 Student (law)
Jorge Skinner-Klée Arenales diplomat * 1957 Student and Professor (Law)
Josef Thesing Deputy Secretary General of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation * 1937 Honorary doctorate and honorary professor

Web links

Commons : Universidad Rafael Landivar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://principal.url.edu.gt/index.php/home/historia
  2. ↑ Members. In: www.fiuc.org. International Federation of Catholic Universities, accessed September 19, 2019 .

Coordinates: 14 ° 35 ′ 42.9 ″  N , 90 ° 29 ′ 3 ″  W.