History
Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) was founded in 1982. It was an initiative of the founders of the "Professional Institute of Sales and Advertising (IPEVE)" which at that time (1963) had already been in existence for almost 20 years.
In 1983, the University embarked on its academic programme with the creation of three faculties: the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Administrative Sciences, and the Faculty of Psychology. In 1989, two new faculties were created, the Faculty of Information and Communications and the Faculty of Engineering Sciences.
In 1991, the University voluntarily decided to undergo the process of national accreditation with the aim of subsequently attaining the status of Autonomous University.
On March 18 1993, the Superior Council for Education in plenary session ratified Universidad Diego Portales as successfully fulfilling its institutional mission, for which it was designated as having “Full Institutional Autonomy”, authorized to bestow all categories of academic degree and title independently. Since 1993, the University has embarked on a process of consolidation and growth in its academic programme.
In 1994, degree courses in Advertising and Design were transferred from IPEVE to Universidad Diego Portales, and the Bachelor of Arts degree programme was introduced. Five years later in 1999, the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts was created and the Faculty of Humanities founded.
In 2002, Universidad Diego Portales took a transcendental step in its growth as an academic institution with the creation of new programs and its incursion into two new fields of knowledge: Health and Education.
Aware of the tremendous challenges in the fields of education and the pursuit of excellence, UDP that same year designed a plan for long-term infrastructural growth, involving the issue of a Security Bond guaranteed by the World Bank for the sum of approximately US$ 25 million, thus becoming the first educational institution to utilize this type of financing.
In 2004 Universidad Diego Portales became one of the first private universities to achieve institutional accreditation as a university from the National Undergraduate Accreditation Commission (CNAP) in three areas: Institutional Management, Undergraduate Teaching, and Equipment and Infrastructure. This recognition confirms the quality standards of the institution and demonstrates once again the ongoing academic, institutional and infrastructural efforts and achievements of UDP since its inception in the realm of private-sector higher education.
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