Universidad Andrés Bello

Andrés Bello University

Universidad Andrés Bello
Seal of the Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello
Motto	Tradición y Modernidad
Motto in English	Tradition and Modernity
Type	Private
Established	1988
Rector	José Rodríguez Pérez
Students	30,565
Location	Santiago, Viña del Mar Concepción, Chile
Website	http://www.unab.cl

The Andrés Bello National University (Spanish: Universidad Andrés Bello or Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello ) (UNAB) is a Chilean private university created in 1988. It belongs to the Laureate International Universities group of private universities.

In the 2012 QS World University Rankings, UNAB was ranked as the ninth best university in Chile and the second best private university. It also received the ranking of 64 of Latin American universities in the same category.

Andrés Bello University currently ranks as the 12th Chilean university according to the webometric CSIC.

The University, conceived as an academic project essentially pluralistic, wanted to collect the best of Chilean university tradition and align it with the great challenges of modernity. That was the vision of its founders, who were characterized as professionals in various areas, formed in different universities and different social visions. This rich, so relevant, their first strategic definitions.

The University was formally created in October 1988, as a contribution to the development of higher education and having, as one of its fundamental purposes, meeting a profound social role: contributing to the overall effort, which should make the country to offer to all high school graduates equal opportunities in access to higher education and university degrees and titles, which would allow progress to occur.

The University offered, in the early years, careers that demanded an infrastructure and basic equipment. In any case, its corporate seal was always quality. The first specializations offered were Law, Architecture, Engineering, Business and Journalism. Civil Engineering was then added in its various expressions, Construction, Certified Public Accountant and Psychology. Nevertheless, it was always among its objectives to address all disciplines and areas of knowledge, including scientific complexity.

The first step in this direction was the creation of the Engineering in Aquaculture, which offered tuition since 1993, an initiative with the University Andres Bello became the first private university that implemented a program of greater complexity, assuming the responsibility to comply with the requirements of infrastructure and equipment that demand this type of project. Associated with this teaching program, simultaneously born Marine Research Center located in the Caleta de Quintay, now proud of their level of development, scientific and technical successes have been achieved in many of their research projects, and their valuable work in support of numerous inlets of fishermen.