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PUCPR School of Law in Ponce, Puerto Rico. The School of Law houses a major research library with a collection of about 207,095 volumes and extensive computer-assisted research capabilities including Lexis/Nexis, Westlaw, and MICROJURIS.COM with wireless access to the Internet from anywhere in the law school campus.
In 1961, the university started the School of Law providing graduate law studies and student exchange programs with other law schools in the United States and in Spain. The school has been host to famous and respected Puerto Rican law professors, including former Puerto Rico governor Rafael Hernández Colón .
The enrollment is above one thousand fivehundred students and the faculty part-time and full-time is composed of about one hundred professors. [ 1 ] Its academic offers include non-university technical certificates in various concentrations.
In 2009, the campus population was composed of 12,108 students, 1,924 regular staff members, and 1,037 members of the education staff. [6] In 2013, the student population remained relatively steady at 11,838, but the instructional faculty dropped to 684. [7] In the second semester of 2019 around 12,166 students were enrolled. [8]
The Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture is an institution of higher learning granting degrees in the field of architecture.It is located in the Ponce Historic Zone, across from Plaza Las Delicias. [6]
The school opened on 23 August 1970 as Colegio Regional de Ponce de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (often shortened to Colegio Regional de Ponce). [9] In 1982, the school starts offering four-year degrees and its name is changed Colegio Universitario Tecnológico de Ponce (CUTPO [10]) to reflect this. [11]
The university has 360 students in its medical school and, as of 11 February 2019, was authorized to increase the student body at the medical school to 600 which, when fully in place, will make it the largest private medical school in Puerto Rico and one of the largest under the American flag. [4]
According to the university's reports, during the academic year 2009-2010, a total of 52,791 students were enrolled across all campuses. However, by the academic year 2014-2015, this number had decreased to 47,314 students, and in the academic year 2022-2023, the university had an enrollment of 44,233 students across its 11 campuses. [28] [19]