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The University of Talca ( es, Universidad de Talca) is a
Chile
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an
university
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located in the cities of
Talca
Talca () is a List of cities in Chile, city and Communes of Chile, commune in Chile located about south of Santiago, Chile, Santiago, and is the capital of both Talca Province and Maule Region (7th Region of Chile). As of the 2012 census, the ...
,
Curicó
Curicó (), meaning "Black Waters" in Mapudungun (originally meaning "Land of Black Water"), is the capital city of the Curicó Province, part of the Maule Region in Chile's central valley.
The province lies between the provinces of Colchagu ...
,
Linares,
Santa Cruz and
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whose ...
. Its headquarters and largest campus are located in the city of Talca. It is part of the
Chilean Traditional Universities In Chile, universidades tradicionales ("traditional universities") is the group of universities founded before the 1980s. It usually includes universities derived from traditional ones. A more precise term is ''Universidades del Consejo de Rectore ...
, the
Consortium of State Universities and the
Group of Regional Universities of Chile.
University of Talca is considered as the best public university outside Santiago by various rankings. It offers ten PhD programs and 27 Master programs. It was accredited for five years (2014-2019) by the
Comisión Nacional de Acreditación (National Accreditation Commission).
History
The Universidad de Talca was founded in 1981, upon the fusion of the seats in Talca of the
Universidad de Chile
The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843. and the
Universidad Técnica del Estado. For this reason it is known in the Chilean system as a "derivative university". In 1998, the
Faculty of Engineering
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* Faculty (instrument), an instrument or warra ...
was founded and established in the city of
Curicó
Curicó (), meaning "Black Waters" in Mapudungun (originally meaning "Land of Black Water"), is the capital city of the Curicó Province, part of the Maule Region in Chile's central valley.
The province lies between the provinces of Colchagu ...
, 60 km north of Talca. The university has expanded to other cities in recent years: Santiago in 2005, where a new campus was inaugurated in 2013, a ''Technological Institute'' in
Santa Cruz in 2007, and a campus in
Linares, in 2017.
Organization
The university has five campuses.
* Campus Talca (''Campus Lircay)''
Located in northern Talca, it is the largest university campus, with an extension of more than 90 hectares. It hosts the buildings of the faculties of Health Sciences, Agricultural Sciences, Economics and Business Sciences and Law and Social Sciences. Other Institutes, Schools, Vice-Presidencies, Technological Centers and various other agencies and administrative services are distributed in the campus as well. Here are also found a Sculptures Park, including part of the National Museum of Sculpture, and the Botanical Garden (6.5 hectares).
* Campus Curico (''Campus Los Niches)''
It is located in the Los Niches sector, to the South-East of the city of Curicó, 50 km north of Talca, and concentrates the programs of the Department of Engineering: Industrial Civil Engineering (day and evening), Computer Sciences Civil Engineering, Mechanical Technical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Construction Engineering and Civil Engineering in Mines. Postgraduate programs are also offered.
* Campus Santiago
The Santiago Campus emerged as a space to promote the development of graduate programs of academic excellence and to train highly qualified human resources. In its building at 415 Quebec Street, Providencia district, are located the study premises attached to the Department of Law and Social Sciences and to the Business School, various graduate programs are taught and an exhibition gallery operates. On the new campus building at 2222 Santa Elena, the undergraduate programs are concentrated: Auditing and Control Management Engineering, Business Engineering, Law and Political Sciences and Public Administration.
* Campus Colchagua
It is located in the city of Santa Cruz and was created by the joint effort of a group of businessmen from the O'Higgins Region and the Universidad de Talca to develop a project linked to the needs of regional development. It is an academic unit devoted to training Professional Technicians, continuing education for professional and research and development for the regional and national productive sector in strategic areas related to the wine industry.
* Campus Linares
It was inaugurated in 2017 and it host the Faculty of Education Sciences and offers also the undergraduate program on Public Auditor-Accountant. Its modern facilities have 6 300 squares meters.
Faculties and Schools
The university has nine faculties, three schools and six institutes.
Faculties
* Faculty of Architecture, Design and Music
* Faculty of Forest Sciences
* Faculty of Agricultural Sciences
Faculty of Economics and Business* Faculty of Education Sciences
* Faculty of Health Sciences
* Faculty of Law and Social Sciences
* Faculty of Engineering
* Faculty of Psychology
Schools
* School of Architecture, created by Juan Román Pérez in 1998. He founded an innovating pedagogy, connecting architecture and territory, awarded a
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture
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in 2015.
* School of Design
School of German Pedagogy
* School of Music
Institutes
* Institute of Cell Biology and Biotechnology
* Institute of Mathematics
* Institute of Educational Research and Development
* Institute of Chemistry of Natural Resources
* Institute of Humanist Studies "Juan Ignacio Molina"
* Technological Institute Colchagua
Rankings
In 2017,
Times Higher Education
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Ownership
TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
ranked the university within the 801-1000 band globally
and 31-35 in Latin America.
In the 2018
QS World University Rankings
''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the ...
is ranked 801-1000 globally, 101-150 for under 50 universities and 79 in Latin America.
Notable faculty (partial list)
*
Ricardo Baeza Rodríguez
Ricardo Baeza Rodríguez is a Chilean mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Talca.. He earned his Ph.D. in 1970 from Saarland University, under the joint supervision of Robert W. Berger and Manfred Knebusch. His research int ...
*
Patricio Court Javier Pinedo*
Álvaro Rojas Marín
*
Christian Suárez Crothers
References
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Universities in Chile
Educational institutions established in 1981
Forestry education
1981 establishments in Chile