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The National Technical University (Universidad Técnica Nacional) (UTN), was founded on 4 June 2008 as the fifth public university of Costa Rica.Its purpose is to provide the means for scientific and technical education to pursue the requirements of the country.
Its main campus is located in the Dulce Nombre district of Cartago canton in the Cartago Province of Costa Rica, 24 km (15 mi) east of the capital San José. [ 1 ] The TEC is a national autonomous institution of higher education, dedicated to teaching, research and extension in technology and associated sciences.
The School of Architecture of the University of Costa Rica was founded in 1971. Prior to that year, the few architects that were in the country, had studied mainly in Mexico, Chile, and the United States, which means that construction was primarily regulated by civil engineers, who left their mark and perspective around the entire country, but with the insertion of many new architects, it is ...
Currently, all of the degrees offered are accredited by SINAES, being one of the few universities in Costa Rica that achieves this. Moreover, in 2019 the university's medical school achieved an international accreditation by the Consejo Mexicano para la Acreditación de la Educación Médica (COMAEM), which guarantees the excellence of the ...
The first institution dedicated to higher education in Costa Rica was the University of Saint Thomas (Universidad de Santo Tomás), which was established in 1843.That institution maintained close ties with the Roman Catholic Church and was closed in 1888 by the progressive and anti-clerical government of President Bernardo Soto Alfaro as part of a campaign to modernize public education.
In 1960, IICA's General Directorate was moved from Turrialba to San José, Costa Rica; research and teaching activities continued in Turrialba. Agriculture, from the beginning, implied a broad spectrum of activities and disciplines including crop production, livestock management, renewable natural resources and the social and economic ...
The National University of Costa Rica was created in 1973 in the province of Heredia.Uladislao Gámez Solano, The Minister of Public Education under the government of José Figueres Ferrer, approved the creation of the university on 15 February 1973, through law #5182.
Education in Costa Rica is divided in 3 cycles: pre-education (before age 7), primary education (from 6-7 to 12-13), and secondary school (from 12-13 to 17-18), which leads to higher education. School year starts between the second and third week of February, stops at the last week of June, it continues again between the third and fourth week ...