University Of The Andes (Colombia)
The University of Los Andes (Spanish: Universidad de los Andes), is a coeducational, nonsectarian private university located in city centre of Bogotá, Colombia. Founded in 1948, the University has nine faculties: Administration, Architecture and Design, Arts and Humanities, Sciences, Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Engineering and Medicine, which offer undergraduate and postgraduate programmes; and the Center for Research and Training in Education (CIFE), and the Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies (CIDER), for postgraduate programmes. In addition, the University includes the first private school for public affairs - the Alberto Lleras Camargo Government School, which is named after a former President of the Republic and Rector of the University. Furthermore, the international summer school programme offers its students the opportunity to expand their international perspective by taking advanced courses in specialised areas. A great percentage of professors have gone to the most prestigious universities around the world and the country. Representing a high quality education and an elite institution, it is ranked as a top tier university in Latin America. occupying the sixth place in the subcontinent according to the QS - Times Higher Education classification.
The university was founded by a group of Colombian intellectuals led by Mario Laserna Pinzón, and was the first university in the country to be nonsectarian, that is, independent of political parties or influence from the state or the church. Today, the University seeks to model itself after major research universities through strategies such as greater focus on graduate education and research. As a result of this, the university offers doctoral programmes and new research facilities have been built on campus. The University of the Andes has achieved wide international visibility in the early twentyfirst century: in 2011 it was included among the top 500 universities worldwide (400-450 tier) in the QS - Times Higher Education classification from London. In 2012 it was ranked as the 335th University by the same British institution. It was the only Colombian university included in the scale and it's included in the group of the top 10 Latin American universities.
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