University of the Andes (Colombia)

University of los Andes

Universidad de los Andes
Type	Private
Established	November 16, 1948; 69 years ago (1948-11-16)
Affiliation	Nonsectarian
Rector	Pablo Navas Sanz de Santamaría
Academic staff	1,457a
Administrative staff	1,910
Students	24,653b
Undergraduates	12,497
Postgraduates	2,515
Doctoral students	276
Other students	1,688 (Specialization) 7,677 (Continuing education)
Location	Bogotá, Colombia 4°36′06″N 74°03′55″W / 4.601613°N 74.065173°W / 4.601613; -74.065173Coordinates: 4°36′06″N 74°03′55″W / 4.601613°N 74.065173°W / 4.601613; -74.065173
Campus	Urban 24 acres (97,124.6 m2)
Colours	Black and Yellow
Nickname	Uniandes
Affiliations	Universia,Asociación Colombiana de Universidades
Mascot	Séneca the Goat
Website	www.uniandes.edu.co
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The University of los Andes (Spanish: Universidad de los Andes), also commonly self-styled as Uniandes, is a private research university located in the city centre of Bogotá, Colombia. Founded in 1948 by a group of Colombian intellectuals led by Mario Laserna Pinzón, it was the first Colombian university established as nonsectarian (independent from any political party or religious institution).

The university is academically composed of nine schools, three special academic entities — the Alberto Lleras Camargo School of Government, the Center for Research and Training in Education (Spanish: Centro de Investigación y Formación en Educación, CIFE), and the Interdisciplinary Center for Development Studies (Spanish: Centro Interdisciplinario de Estudios sobre Desarrollo, CIDER) — and a joint academic venture with the medical institution Santa Fe de Bogotá Foundation, offering 31 undergraduate, 18 doctoral, and 38 graduate degree-granting programs in areas of human knowledge such as medicine, engineering, science, law and others.

As of 2011, the university had given birth to 128 research groups recognized by Colciencias, most of them in the social sciences, mathematics, physics and engineering. By 2017, the number of groups recognized by Colciencias has increased to 153 research groups. It is one of the few Colombian universities to have received high quality institutional accreditation by the Colombian Ministry of Education, given in January 2015. Los Andes has consistently been regarded as one of the best Colombian universities, one of the top 10 in Latin America and one of the top 300 world universities according to both the QS World Top University Ranking and the Times Higher Education Classification.