School Profile

School Overview

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile has 18 schools distributed on four campuses in Santiago and one regional campus located in southern Chile. It has more than 24,000 undergraduate students, 3,000 graduate students, and over 900 PhD students distributed among schools. Over the last few years, the University’s leadership in research and graduate programs has had considerable influence on the country’s cultural and scientific development. Among other achievements, are an important number of inventions in chemistry (e.g. a copper-refining process), in engineering (e.g. an induction oven), in medicine (e.g. vaccines). Upon the 130th anniversary of its foundation, the UC continues to make every effort to develop its existing facilities and institutions, as well as to make its intellectual, creative, and spiritual capacity available to the community.

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile ranks #1 in the 2020 QS University Ranking for Latin America, and #127 in the 2020 QS Global World Ranking. Its School of Management has international accreditations by AACSB and EFMD (EQUIS), is ranked between positions 51 and 100 in QS Global University Rankings for Business & Management Studies and has about 3,000 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs –including Executive Education programs. The Executive MBA program offered by the School of Management is consistently ranked first in Latin America according to the QS Executive MBA Ranking 2020.