The National University of Cajamarca ( es, Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca), or UNC for short, is a major public

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located in

Cajamarca Cajamarca (), also known by the Quechua name, ''Kashamarka'', is the capital and largest city of the Cajamarca Region as well as an important cultural and commercial center in the northern Andes. It is located in the northern highlands of Peru ...

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; capital of the department of

. The university was formally established on February 13, 1962, in accordance with a government decree. UNC currently has approximately 8,152 students in ten different academic faculties, making it one of the largest universities in the north of the

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. The current

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is Carlos Tirado Soto.

Organization

UNC is organized into ten faculties which contain twenty-five professional academic schools.

External links

Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca
''Official Site''

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