Universidad de Cartagena
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Other name | UniCartagena |
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| Motto | Siempre a la altura de los tiempos |
| Type | Public research university |
| Established | 1827; 197 years ago (1827) |
Academic affiliations | ASCUN, AUIP, SUE |
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, Colombia 10°25′32″N 75°32′59″W / 10.4255339°N 75.5498131°W / 10.4255339; -75.5498131 |
| Colors | Black and gold |
| Website | unicartagena.edu.co |
The University of Cartagena (Spanish: Universidad de Cartagena), also called UniCartagena, is a departmental public coeducational research university based primarily in the city of Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia. The university offers education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, which includes two doctorates.
The university is member of the Association of Colombian Universities,[1] the Iberoamerican Association of Postgraduate Universities,[2] and the State University System (Spanish: Sistema Universitario Estatal). On March 26, 2014, the University of Cartagena received from the Ministry of Education Institutional Accreditation of High Quality, becoming the first and only public university in the Caribbean region with this type of accreditation.
In 1826, General Francisco de Paula Santander's decree cleared the way for the creation of a university in the Caribbean Region of Colombia and was chosen to host Cartagena de Indias. On October 6, 1827, the Liberator Simon Bolivar formalized, thus was born the University of Magdalena and the Isthmus, because at that time Panama was part of Colombia. Subsequently, due to changes in territorial and political type, and University of Central Magdalena became the University of Cartagena in the Cloister of St. Augustine, then had only two undergraduate: Law and Medicine.
In the 1950s, they officially adopted the current shield of the university. In 1989, the university inaugurated the Health Campus, which moved the faculties of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry. In 2001, he moved to Stone Bolivar Campus Faculty of Science and Engineering and in 2003 he moved to the same venue the faculty of Economics.
In 1993, the university established distance learning through the Regional Centers for Distance Education (CREAD). The U of C has programs in the municipalities of Simiti, South Santa Rosa, Carmen de Bolivar, San Estanislao, Turbaco, Carmen de Bolivar, and San Marcos Magangué.
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Master's degrees are offered in the fields of: Nursing, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics, Education, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Biochemistry, Clinical Toxicology, Microbiology, Pharmacology, Clinical Epidemiology and Immunology, Philosophy.
The University of Cartagena offers other graduate programs that do not meet the range of expertise and therefore do not give access to any PhD ( in Colombia to these types of programs are called specializations).
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