Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) (Spanish: University of Santiago, Chile) is one of the oldest public universities in Chile. Subject: Universidad de Santiago de Chile shield Source: Universitys official web site [1] This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Satellite image of Santiago Santiago (full form Santiago de Chile) is the capital of Chile. ... Urban is in or having to do with cities, as distinct from rural areas. ...

The institution was born as Escuela de Artes y Oficios (Spanish School of Arts & Crafts) in 1849, under the government of Manuel Bulnes. It became Universidad Técnica del Estado (Spanish Technical University of the State) in 1947, with various campuses throughout the country. In 1981, as a consequence of a reform on higher education under the government of Augusto Pinochet, it became to what is now known as Universidad de Santiago de Chile, with all activities centered in a single 340,000 m² campus in the capital Santiago. 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Manuel Bulnes Prieto Manuel Bulnes Prieto (1779 - 1866) was a Chilean political figure. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Campus is Latin for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Reform can refer to: Reform (think tank) Reform, Alabama Reform Judaism Reform movement Reform Party (disambiguation page) See also: Reformation, Reformed This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Higher education is education provided by universities and other institutions that award academic degrees, such as university colleges, and liberal arts colleges. ... General Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (born November 25, 1915) was head of the military government that ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. ... Satellite image of Santiago Santiago (full form Santiago de Chile) is the capital of Chile. ...

The university houses over 18,000 undergraduate students in 55 different majors, in the following faculties: In some educational systems, an undergraduate is a post-secondary student pursuing a Bachelors degree. ... An academic major is a general scholarly pursuit in a specific area of study which often yields, at the end of a tenure usually of four years, a bachelors degree. ... Faculty is the scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff. ...

• Engineering (Ingeniería),
• Bachelors Program in Arts and Sciences (Bachillerato),
• Business Administration & Economics (Administración y Economía),
• Chemical & Biology (Química y Biología),
• Medical Sciences (Ciencias Médicas),
• Sciences (Ciencias),
• Humanities Faculty (Humanidades),
• School of Architecture (Escuela de Arquitectura), and
• Technology Faculty (Facultad Tecnológica).

Engineering is the application of science to the needs of humanity. ... A bachelors degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Administration Organisational use In some organisational analyses, administration can refer to the bureaucratic or operational performance of mundane office tasks, usually internally oriented. ... Economics (deriving from the Greek words οίκω [oeko], house, and νέμω [nemo], distribute) is the social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources through measurable variables. ... Chemistry (in Greek: χημεία) is the science of matter and its interactions with energy and itself (see physics, biology). ... Biology is the science of life (from the Greek words bios = life and logos = reasoned account). ... What is science? There are different theories of what science is. ... The humanities are a group of academic subjects united by a commitment to studying aspects of the human condition and a qualitative approach that generally prevents a single paradigm from coming to define any discipline. ... Architecture (in Greek αρχή = first and τέχνη = craftsmanship) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ... Technology (Gr. ...

External links

• Official web site (http://www.universidaddesantiago.cl)
  • English version (http://www.universidaddesantiago.cl/en/)
• Official web site (http://www.usach.cl) (alternative URL)
  • English version (http://www.usach.cl/en/)