 Seal of Universidad San Francisco de Quito | |
| Motto | Studium, Progressus, Labor (in Latin) |
|---|---|
Motto in English | Study, Progress, Work |
| Type | Private university |
| Established | August 16, 1988 |
| Chancellor | Santiago Gangotena, Ph.D. |
| Rector | Diego Quiroga, Ph.D. |
Academic staff | 300 full-time faculty |
Administrative staff | 160 |
| Students | 9,044 |
| Undergraduates | 8,700 |
| Postgraduates | 300 |
| Location | , 0°11′48″S 78°26′09″W / 0.19667°S 78.43583°W |
| Campus | Three throughout Ecuador, in Cumbayá-Quito, Galápagos Islands, and Tiputini Biodiversity Station, next to the Yasuni National Park |
| Umbrella organization | Corporación de Promoción Universitaria |
| Colours | Red |
| Affiliations | Berklee International Network UNIGIS Institut Paul Bocuse Worldwide Alliance Confucius Institute CLI |
| Mascot | Dragon |
| Website | usfq.edu.ec (in Spanish) |
Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ (informally Universidad San Francisco, or simply USFQ) is a liberal-arts, private university located in Quito, Ecuador. It was the first totally private self-financed university in Ecuador and the first liberal-arts institution in the Andean region.[1][2]
Academically, USFQ ranks as one of the three-top universities (category A) in the ranking of Ecuadorian universities (being the only totally private university to qualify for the highest category), issued by the Ecuadorian Council of Evaluation and Accreditation of High Education (Consejo Nacional de Evaluación y Acreditación de la Educación Superior CONEA).[3][4] In 2009, it was ranked first in Ecuador in relation to the number of peer-reviewed scientific publications.[5]
The university now enrolls 5,500 students, 4,500 of whom are undergraduates. The university each year has about 100 indigenous students and 1,000 international students participate in USFQ academic programs. USFQ has developed a scholarship program for indigenous students, offering full scholarships to the best students of public high schools throughout Ecuador.[6] Although USFQ receives no funding from the government of Ecuador, its faculty comprises one-half of all the people in that nation who hold a Ph.D.[1]
The main campus of USFQ is located in Cumbayá, outside of Quito (capital city of Ecuador), where students use a library, education and research laboratories, classrooms, and seven restaurants. USFQ is the only university in the world that owns a campus in the Galapagos Islands, and a campus in the Yasuni Biosphere Reserve (Tiputini Biodiversity Station), one of Earth's most biodiverse areas.[1][2]
- ^ a b c Sobre la USFQ "Páginas - SobreUSFQ". Archived from the original on 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2014-11-26..
- ^ a b Universidad San Francisco de Quito @QSTopUniversities "Universidad de San Francisco de Quito - Topuniversities". Archived from the original on 2011-10-11. Retrieved 2014-11-26..
- ^ "Calificación de las universidades según el CONEA". Vistazo.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-11. Retrieved 2012-05-17.
- ^ CONEA: sólo 11 Universidades tienen calificación "A" y 9 calificación "B" [1]
- ^ Orbe, T. 2009. Ecuador produce pocas publicaciones científicas. Scidev.Net [2].
- ^ David E. Weaver. 2008. Transforming universities: The expediency of interculturality for indigenous superior education in Ecuador. MS Thesis, Tulane University. https://books.google.com/books?id=e6dkwYIabIYC