University of the Andes, Chile
- University of the Andes, Chile
Infobox_University
name = University of the Andes
native_name= _es. Universidad de los Andes
latin_name =
established = September 8, 1989
type = Private, Roman Catholic
chancellor = Orlando Poblete I.
city = Santiago
country = Chile
students = 4,800
faculty = 785 professors
campus = [http://www.uandes.cl/tour/general.html Santiago] (100.1 acres)
website= [http://www.uandes.cl/ http://www.uandes.cl/] (in Spanish)
The University of the Andes (Uandes) (Spanish: "Universidad de Los Andes") is a conservative Catholic university located in Santiago, Chile. It is particularly known for the MBA program at its graduate business school, ESE Business School, but it also has many other degrees.Each year a growing number of foreign students from South America come to this university to study medicine in its medicine school.
History
It was founded on September 8 1989 as a "corporate work" of the apostolate of Opus Dei. In 1990 it opened a law faculty. Its medicine faculty (inaugurated in 1991, the first Chilean private university to do so), is nowadays within the three best in Chile, according to yearly press surveys and its National Medical Exam results in the last five years.Fact|date=April 2007
ESE Business School
ESE Business School is the University's business school. It was established in 1999.
External links
* [http://www.uandes.cl/ Official Spanish language Website]
* [http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universidad_de_los_Andes_(Chile)/ Spanish Wikipedia Entry]
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