Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"

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name = Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeon Cañas"


motto = University for Social Change
established = September 15 1965
type = Private Non-Profit
president = José María Tojeira
undergrad = 8,000
postgrad = 664
city = San Salvador
country = El Salvador
campus = Urban, 15 ha
affiliations = Society of Jesus
nickname = UCA
mascot = Owl
website= [http://www.uca.edu.sv]

Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" is a private university with non-profit purposes in San Salvador, El Salvador, Central America run by the Society of Jesus. It was founded in September of 1965 at the request of a group of Roman Catholic families who appealed to the Salvadoran government and to the Society of Jesus to create another university as an alternative to the National University of El Salvador (Universidad Nacional de El Salvador).

UCA has since evolved to be one of the best universities in Central America.Fact|date=September 2008 In the 1970s and 1980s during the Civil War in El Salvador, UCA was known as the home of several important Jesuit scholars and intellectuals, including Jon Sobrino, Ignacio Ellacuría, Ignacio Martín-Baró, and Segundo Montes. They were outspoken against the abuses of the Salvadoran military and government, and carried out research to demonstrate the effects of the war and poverty in the country. The last three, along with three other Jesuit professors, their housekeeper and her daughter, were murdered by the Salvadoran Armed forces on November 16, 1989 in one of the most notorious episodes from the Civil War.

Faculties

Faculty of Humanities

*Department of Philosophy
*Department of Theology
*Department of Literature, Communication and Journalism
*Institute of Foreign Languages

Faculty of Engineering and Architecture

*Department of Architecture
*Department of Natural Sciences
*Department of Mathematics
*Department of Technology, Processes and Systems
*Department of Energetic and Fluid Sciences
*Department of Structural Mechanics
*Department of Space Organisation
*Department of Informatics

Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences

*Department of Mathematics
*Department of Business Administration
*Department of Law
*Department of Sociology and Political Science
*Department of Economics
*Department of Psychology
*Department of Education
*Department of Health
*Department of Master's in Business Administration and Organisation

External links

* [http://www.uca.edu.sv/ University homepage]