University of La Sabana
| Universidad de La Sabana | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1979 |
| Principal | Obdulio Velásquez Posada |
| Students | 8,500 |
| Location |
Chía, Cundinamarca, Colombia 4°51′40″N 74°2′1″W / 4.86111°N 74.03361°WCoordinates: 4°51′40″N 74°2′1″W / 4.86111°N 74.03361°W |
| Campus | Puente del Común |
| Nickname | La Sabana |
| Mascot | Great egret |
| Website | www.unisabana.edu.co |
The University of La Sabana (Spanish: Universidad de La Sabana), is a Colombian private higher education institution founded in 1979. It is located in the municipality of Chía, 7 km north of Bogotá. The university has been given the High Quality Institutional Accreditation by the National Ministry of Education.
The university uses non-intellectual programs for students.
La Sabana has 21 research groups classified by Colciencias, the government office that certifies the quality of research groups in Colombian universities. There are also 20 emerging groups that promote “semilleros de investigación” (research “offshoots”) for students in all programmes.
The university currently runs 18 undergraduate programmes. There are also 31 specialization programmes and five master’s programmes: Master in Education, Master in Process Management and Direction, Master in Business Administration (MBA), Master of Nursing, and Master in English Language Teaching – Autonomous Learning Environments. The university expects to have 17 masters programmes and two Ph.D. programmes in the future.
The construction of the present premises of Universidad de La Sabana—University Campus “Puente del Comun”—started in 1987 in Chía. This academic complex was planned to focus on the development of the surrounding area. The campus grounds cover 62 hectares. Of these, three hectares are sports fields and spaces for outdoor activities.
The Universidad de La Sabana is carrying out a project for the expansion of its campus and the updating of its laboratories and technological equipment. At present, over 32,000 square meters have been built. The buildings include 29 laboratories, nine buildings with academic and administrative spaces, and the Octavio Arizmendi Posada Library. The library currently holds 79,761 titles with 116,434 volumes, subscriptions to 245 journals and magazines, subscription to two bibliographic information networks, and subscriptions to 12 Internet data bases.
Other resources are:
Media Production Centre CPM: The faculty of Communication’s Media Production Centre CPM—where students are provided resources with the same standards as the ones owned by the country’s most important media companies.
Studium: A strategy for the development of autonomy in foreign language learning. The Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures has consolidated its leadership both in the university and in the country’s public and private sectors by means of educational initiatives like free courses, diploma courses, research projects and other academic programmes. The academic and student community of the university has, in turn, access to English, French and Mandarin language courses.
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