Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Spanish:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 by F. Jorge Dintilhac as Peru's first non-profit private institution of higher learning. A motto (from Italian) is a phrase or a short list of words meant formally to describe the general motivation or intention of an entity, social group, or organization. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... Year 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate someone who is in charge of something. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... Nickname: City of the Kings Location within Lima Region Coordinates: Country Peru Region Lima Region Province Lima Province Settled 1535 Government  - Mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio Area  - City 804. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... A private university is a university that is run without the control of any government entity. ... Nickname: City of the Kings Location within Lima Region Coordinates: Country Peru Region Lima Region Province Lima Province Settled 1535 Government  - Mayor Luis Castañeda Lossio Area  - City 804. ... Year 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ...

History

The University received the title of "Pontificia" in 1942 given by Pope Pius XII. The University conferred the academic title of Doctor Honoris causa to the pope Benedict XVI (cardinal Ratzinger, at that time) in 1986. Pope Pius XII (Latin: ), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, and sovereign of Vatican City State from March 2, 1939 until his death. ... Honoris causa (plural: Causae) is a Latin term meaning for the sake of honor, abbreviated as . ... This article is becoming very long. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Academic Development

The Pontificia Universidad Católica began its academic activities in 1917 with two faculties: Letters and Laws. In 1933, when the university had more than 500 students, two new faculties were established: Engineering and Political and Economical Sciences. In 1935, the Education School appeared. Later, in 1939, the Academy of Catholic Art was founded having Adolf Winternitz as its director; this turned the PUCP into one of the very few universities offering the arts major in Perú even today.

Development process of the university started in 1932, by the creation of new academic units.

Today

Today, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú is a top-quality private education institution. There are currently 16,000 undergraduate students who pursue 43 different specialties in 9 faculties. An investigation by APOYO shows that Peruvians consider it the best private university in the country^{[citation needed]}. Its campus is located in the district of San Miguel.

This high-technology campus holds over four thousand (internet enabled) PCs; PUCP was the first Peruvian academic institution providing email^{[citation needed]} in 1992 and the first Peruvian campus connected to the internet^{[citation needed]} in February 1994, just when internet arrived in Peru. It also was the first Peruvian campus with an internal broadband network^{[citation needed]} which, in terms of reliability and speed, can be compared with many universities in developed countries. The campus also features a wireless high-speed internet connection, called wifipucp', available to the whole PUCP community. E-mail, or email, is short for electronic mail and is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Broadband in telecommunications is a term which refers to a signaling method which includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies which may be divided into channels or frequency bins. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Outside the campus, there are other facilities such as language-learning centers, a cultural center (CCPUCP) located in the San Isidro District. A business center featuring MBA programs, called CENTRUM, is also part of PUCP and is located in the Santiago de Surco district. High-rise buildings dominate the skyline San Isidro is a district of the Lima Province in Peru, and one of the upscale districts that comprise the city of Lima. ... Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a tertiary degree in business management. ... Santiago de Surco, commonly known simply as Surco, is a district of Lima, Peru. ...

References

• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú -History and general reference. Official university site. Retrieved on May 25, 2005. (in Spanish)

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See also

• List of universities in Peru

This is a list of officially recognized public and private universities in Peru, sorted by region. ...

External links

• Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú website