Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
| Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Spanish) | |
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Other name
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PUCV; UCV |
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Former name
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Catholic University of Valparaíso |
| Motto | Fides et labor (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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"Faith and work" |
| Type | Private, Traditional |
| Established | 15 March 1928 (88) |
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Religious affiliation
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Catholic Church |
| Budget | CLP$ 61 879 000 000 (year 2013) |
| Chancellor | Mgr. Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar SS.CC. |
| Vice-Chancellor | Pbr. Dietrich Lorenz Daiber |
| Rector | Claudio Elórtegui Raffo |
| Secretary-General | Juan Carlos Gentina Morales |
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Academic staff
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1341 |
| Students | 14 923 |
| Undergraduates | 13 520 |
| Postgraduates | 1403 |
| 327 | |
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Other students
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851 (International student exchange) |
| Location |
Valparaíso, Region of Valparaíso,  Chile33°2′41″S 71°36′20″W / 33.04472°S 71.60556°WCoordinates: 33°2′41″S 71°36′20″W / 33.04472°S 71.60556°W |
| Campus | Urban 255 089 m² of land 143 817 m² built |
| Language | Spanish |
| Colors |
Dark blue Dark red Golden |
| Website | pucv |
The Pontificial Catholic University of Valparaiso (Spanish: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso) (PUCV), also known as Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (UCV), is a university of approximately 14,000 students located in Valparaíso, Chile.
PUCV attracts students from different areas of Chile, as well as hundreds of exchange students from Europe, North America and several countries from South America, due to its convenient student exchange programs. It is recognized as a traditional institution with high academic prestige and as a complex university due to its important research and educational development in the fields of science, engineering, humanities and arts. As a Catholic university, it answers directly to the Holy See and the Bishopric of Valparaíso. It is a private university with state support.
PUCV is an urban university. It has a central campus known as Casa Central (Central House) located in downtown Valparaíso, only a few blocks away from the Chilean Congress, the Metro, and the Pacific Ocean. One of the drawbacks of being an urban university is the difficulty of growing at the original site of its foundation. Several PUCV buildings are on the historic palm-tree-lined Avenida Brasil, but most of its schools are dispersed in throughout Valparaíso, Viña del Mar, Quilpué and Quillota.
It was positioned 29th at the QS Latin America University Ranking 2014 (5th nationwide). At the 2014 edition of the América Economía magazine university ranking, it was positioned 5th nationwide and first in the Region of Valparaiso.
The UCV offers undergraduate degrees in more than 50 subjects, including architecture, design, horticulture, industrial engineering, business, law and Spanish.
The school of architecture, also called "The Valparaíso School" in architectural circles, constructed an experimental city called the Open City, a few kilometers North of Valparaíso, where the professors teach and live in the houses that they and the students design and build. PUCV architects have a reputation for being highly creative, having studied at a school that mixes the architectural design and building processes with poetry and physical activities. Similarly, in the Quillota campus the program in horticulture is offered within an experimental station. This campus is visited by more than 1,500 people each year, and has outstanding collections of subtropical and temperate fruit trees, a nursery. The station of 500,000 square metres has more than 50,000 square metres of greenhouses.
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