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This list of universities and colleges in Puerto Rico includes colleges and universities in Puerto Rico that grant bachelor's degrees and/or post-graduate master's and doctorate degrees. The list does not include community colleges (alternatively called junior colleges ) that grant two-year associate's degrees .
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico Escuela de Arquitectura: Tercero: C. Marina at Plaza Las Delicias: Private: Roman Catholic: 2009 [8] 289 (2019) [9] 6: Universidad Ana G. Méndez [d] Machuelo Abajo: PR-14 EB, Avenida Tito Castro: Private: For profit: 2005 [10] Unk 7: Universidad de Puerto Rico: Playa: Ponce Bypass and PR-12 ...
Over half of the students entering college level institutions in Puerto Rico, never graduate: 41% of four-year students in public universities and 33% in private institutions get a diploma. [29] 8.90% of people in Puerto Rico earn an associate degree and 6.30% of people get graduate or professional degrees. [30]
University in Río Piedras, circa 1900-1917 The University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras campus, and its iconic clock tower, the Roosevelt Tower. In the year 1900 the Escuela Normal Industrial (Normal Industrial School) was established in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, as the first institution of higher education in Puerto Rico dedicated to train those who would become teachers and educators. [10]
The University of Puerto Rico (UPR) is the main public university system of Puerto Rico and a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico. It consists of 11 campuses and has approximately 58,000 students and 5,300 faculty members. [ 1 ]
The University of Puerto Rico ranked 18th and University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez ranked 78th by Webometrics in Latin America. [39] The UPR is the number one university in the Caribbean according to Webometrics. [40] The system's only school of engineering at the Mayagüez campus is accredited by ABET and graduates more than 600 engineers ...
In 1927, the first high school class graduation took place. In 1944, the institute was accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, thus becoming the first liberal arts college to receive such accreditation in Puerto Rico, as well as the first outside the continental United States. This accreditation has been ...
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (English: University of the Sacred Heart), abbreviated "USC" and often called simply Sagrado, is a private Catholic university in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is one of the oldest and largest educational institutions in Puerto Rico with origins dating back to the 1880 establishment of an elementary school ...