Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) (Spanish University of Santiago, Chile) is one of the oldest public universities in Chile.
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.
The university houses over 18,000 undergraduate students in 55 different careers, in the following faculties:
