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National University of Colombia
National University of Colombia , also referred to as UN, considered as the most important university in Colombia; is a public, coeducational research university with its main campus in Bogota, Colombia. The university has six satellite campuses located in the Colombia cities of Medellin, Manizales, Palmira, Arauca, Leticia, and San Andres. It was established in 1867 by an act of the Congress of Colombia.
Description
The National University of Colombia is an independent institution of higher education tied to the Ministry of National Education, with special and defined regime like a national, public university and of the state. Its objective is the development of higher education and investigation, which will be fomented by the state allowing the access to and developing it on a par of sciences and the arts to reach excellence.
The UN is the largest university of Colombia, with a student population totaling approximately 43,341 students, of which 39,382 are studying for an undergraduate degree and 3,959 are studying for a graduate degree. The university offers 98 different academic programs for undergraduate studies in all disciplines, 88 specializations, 40 specialties, 118 master programmes, 30 doctorates, and it is one of the few offering post-doctorates.
The institution offers a wide selection of programmes, such as medicine, nursing, dentistry, engineering, chemistry, pharmacy, mathematics, physics, geology, biology, social sciences, arts , philosophy, and law. In terms of size and geographic reach, the university is the main educational institution of Colombia. The university boasts the largest number of professional graduates per year in the country. A study by Universia found it to be the Colombian university producing the largest number of scientific papers published in peer-refereed publications in 2005, and the 110nd most prolific in Latin America.
Famous personalities who graduated from the national University include Fernando Botero, Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, Toto la Momposina, Jorge Eliecer Gaitan and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Campus
Well-known like the University City or more popularly like the White City, it is the Main Campus of the National University of Colombia, located in the geographic center of Bogota, to the nor-west of the historical center. It is a set of architectonic blocks, of which 17 have been declared National Monument and along with other constructions of the campus represent the last 60 years of the Colombian architecture. The surface of the University City has and about 308,541 m of constructed area, is generous in pedestrian zones, green areas and open spaces.
Buildings in the campus are a common place for left wing slogans. There is a big painting of Che Guevara in the facade of the University's main auditorium called Leon de Greiff. The square by the auditorium is commonly known as Plaza Che (Che Square), but its official name is Plaza Francisco de Paula Santander (Francisco de Paula Santander Square).
The university has its own stadium, the "Alfonso Lopez Pumarejo" where sometimes national championship's games are held. The main campus was designed by German architect Leopold Rother.
Faculties, institutes and other services
The National University of Colombia has 20 faculties or "Facultades" distributed among Bogota, Medellin, Manizales and Palmira:
Colleges in Bogota:
Agronomy
Dentistry
Economical Sciences
Engineering
Fine arts
Human Sciences
Law, Social and Political Sciences
Medicine
Nursing
Science
Veterinary Medicine and Animal Management
Institutes interfaculties
Institute of Biotechnology
Institute of Science and Food Technology - ICTA
Institute of Environmental Studies -IDEA-
Institute of Studies in Communication - IECO-
International institute of Political Studies and Relations -IEPRI-
Institute of Genetics
Pedagogical institute "Arturo Ramirez Montufar" -IPARM-
Colleges in Medellin:
Architecture
Agricultural Sciences
Human and Economical Sciences
Mines
Science
Colleges in Manizales: Engineering and Architecture, Sciences and Administration.
Colleges in Palmira: Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Administration.
Museums in Bogota Campus:
Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional de Colombia (National University's Art Museum)
Museo de Arquitectura Leopoldo Rother (Museum of Architecture Leopoldo Rother
Museo de Historia Natural (Museum of Natural History)
Museo de la Ciencia y el Juego (Museum of Science and the Game)
Museo Centro de Historia de la Medicina (Museum Center of History of the Medicine)
Museo Entomologico (Entomological museum)
Museo Organologico Musical (Organologic Musical museum)
Observatorio Astronomico Nacional (National Astronomical Observatory)
Museum in Medellin Campus:
Entomological Museum
Mycology Museum
Museo de Geociencias (Mineralogical museum)
Herbario Gabriel Gutierrez
Xiloteca
Media:
Radio station
Newspaper (With Internet version) with articles ranging from international issues to research within the colleges.
Presidents
1990-1993, Antanas Mockus Sivickas
1994-1997, Guillermo Paramo Rocha
1997-2003, Victor Manuel Moncayo Cruz
2003-2005, Marco Antonio Palacios Rozo
2005-2006, Ramon Fayad Nafah
2006-, Moises Wasserman Lerner
Gallery
Bogota
Medellin
Manizales
Satellite photographs
External links
National University of Colombia Main Page
National University of Colombia OCW
National University's Art Museum
Leopoldo Rother Architecture Museum
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