Universidad EAFIT
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| Motto | Inspira Crea Transforma (Spanish) |
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Motto in English
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Inspire Create Transform |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1960 |
| Principal | Juan Luis Mejía Arango |
| Students | 11,970 |
| Undergraduates | 9,500 |
| Address |
Carrera 49 N° 7 Sur - 50, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia  6°11′59.04″N 75°34′43.27″W / 6.1997333°N 75.5786861°WCoordinates: 6°11′59.04″N 75°34′43.27″W / 6.1997333°N 75.5786861°W |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.eafit.edu.co |
Universidad EAFIT is a private Colombian university located in Medellín offering 21 undergraduate programs, 70 specializations, 34 masters, and six doctoral programs. The university offers degrees in various disciplines through its schools of Management, Engineering, Law, Finance and Economics, Science, and Humanities. Universidad EAFIT was approved by the Colombian Ministry of Education on May 6, 1971. It has three additional branches in Bogotá, Pereira, and Rionegro.
The university has received the Ministry of National Education's Institutional High Quality accreditation twice in a row, making it the first Colombian university to earn that recognition. This accreditation is valid through the end of 2018.
EAFIT is the most prestigious private university in Medellin. It is approved and recognized by the National Education Ministry, based on act 759 from May 6 of 1971. The university's main campus is in the neighborhood of El Poblado, Medellín. It has additional campuses in Bogotá, Pereira and Llanogrande Rionegro (Antioquia).
It is considered one of the top tier universities in Colombia by QS Rankings and MIDE.
Universidad EAFIT was founded in 1960 by a group of entrepreneurs in Medellín. Its main goal was to educate professionals who would address new challenges in management, finance, and technology. EAFIT started as a "School of Management and Finance." Two-year technological programs were offered when its Institute of Technology division was created. The institution organized itself as a university in 1975, when it started offering five-year programs in engineering.
Professor Javier Toro Martínez was the first rector with a group of 59 students in the school of Business Administration. The Textile Technology, Industrial Programming and Mechanic faculties were opened in 1962. In 1996 EAFIT opened its first branch outside of Medellín in Llanogrande, Rionegro, offering degrees in Business Administration, Civil Engineering, and Systems Engineering.
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