National University of Colombia
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The Universidad Nacional de Colombia (National University of Colombia), also called UNAL or just UN, is a public
Public university
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, national
National university
A national university is generally a university created or run by a government, but which at the same time operates autonomously without direct oversight or control by the state. Some national universities are closely associated with national cultural or political aspirations...

, coeducation
Coeducation
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al, research
Research
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 university
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

, located primarily in Bogotá, Medellín
Medellín
Medellín , officially the Municipio de Medellín or Municipality of Medellín, is the second largest city in Colombia. It is in the Aburrá Valley, one of the more northerly of the Andes in South America. It has a population of 2.3 million...

, Manizales
Manizales
Manizales is a city and municipality in central Colombia, capital of Department of Caldas and part of the region of Colombian Coffee-Growers Axis, near the Nevado del Ruiz volcano....

 and Palmira
Palmira
Palmira is a city and municipality in southwestern Colombia in the department of Valle del Cauca, located about east from Cali, the department's capital and main city.-Geography :...

, Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

. Established in 1867 by an act
Statute
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 of the Congress of Colombia
Congress of Colombia
The Congress of the Republic of Colombia is the name given to Colombia's bicameral national legislature.The Congress of Colombia consists of the 102-seat Senate , and the 166-seat Chamber of Representatives ...

, the university is the largest and most important higher education institution of the country with more than 44,000 students, the largest number of graduated professionals per year, and number of academic programs at undergraduate and postgraduate
Postgraduate education
Postgraduate education involves learning and studying for degrees or other qualifications for which a first or Bachelor's degree generally is required, and is normally considered to be part of higher education...

 levels, with 423 academic programs, which includes 94 graduate diploma
Graduate Diploma
A Graduate Diploma is generally a postgraduate qualification, although some graduate diplomas involve the study of undergraduate level courses...

s, 61 Academic specialization
Academic specialization
In academia, specialization may be a course of study or major at an academic institution or may refer to the field that a specialist practices in....

s, 38 medical specialties
Specialty (medicine)
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, 131 Master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...

s, and 46 doctorate
Doctorate
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s. It is also one of the few universities that employs post-doctorate fellows
Research fellow
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 in the country.

The university is member of the Association of Colombian Universities
Association of Colombian Universities
The Association of Colombian Universities , also known as ASCUN, is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, that congregates the public and private Colombian universities...

 (ASCUN), the Iberoamerican Association of Postgraduate Universities
Iberoamerican Association of Postgraduate Universities
The Iberoamerican Association of Postgraduate Universities , also known as AUIP, is an international non-governmental organization, recognized by the UNESCO, whose primary objective is the promotion of postgraduate and doctoral studies in Ibero-America...

 (AUIP), and the Iberoamerican University Network Universia
Universia
Universia is a network that consists of 1,1000 Universities in 15 countries: Andorra, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela. It has 12 internet sites, one for each country, and another global site...

. Along with the Antioquia
University of Antioquia
The University of Antioquia , also called UdeA, is a public, departmental, coeducational, research university based primarily in the city of Medellín, Antioquía, Colombia. It is the largest higher education institution by student population in the northwest of the country, and the second in...

 and Valle
University of Valle
The University of Valle , also called Univalle, is a public, departmental, coeducational, research university based primarily in the city of Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. It is the largest higher education institution by student population in the southwest of the country, and the third in...

 universities, it conforms what is known as the Golden Triangle
Golden Triangle (Colombian Universities)
Golden Triangle is an informal expression used to refer to the top three public universities of Colombia, which are the National University of Colombia at Bogotá, and the Universities of Antioquia and Valle...

of higher education in Colombia, being among the most selective and competitive universities in the country. A study by Universia found it to be the Colombian university producing the largest number of scientific papers published in peer-refereed publications in 2005, and the 45th most prolific in Latin America.

Campus

The University City of Bogotá
University City of Bogotá
The University City of Bogotá , also known as the White City , is the flagship campus of the National University of Colombia, located near Teusaquillo, in Bogotá, Colombia. It is the largest university campus in Colombia, with an overall area of and a constructed area of , giving it ample green...

 , also known as the White City , is the main campus for the University. It is located in the Teusaquillo
Teusaquillo
Teusaquillo is the 13th locality of Bogotá, capital of Colombia. It is located in the geographic center of the city, to the northwest of downtown. It is an urbanized locality with several green zones in its parks, avenues, and the campus of the National University of Colombia...

 locality, northwest of the historical center. It is also the largest campus in Colombia, with an extension of 1200000 m² (296.5 acre) and a constructed area of 308541 m² (76.2 acre), making it an ample campus with several green areas, open spaces, and pedestrian paths. Among its buildings there are 17 which have been declared national monuments and, as a whole, it is a representation of the last 60 years of architecture
Architecture
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 in Colombia.

The campus was designed by German architects Fritz Karsen and Leopold Rother
Leopold Rother
Leopold Siegfried Rother Cuhn was a German architect, urban planner and educator. He developed important projects particularly in Colombia. The most known project was the design of the Campus of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá.- External links : - Biography...

, and its construction began in 1935, under the government of Alfonso López Pumarejo
Alfonso López Pumarejo
Alfonso López Pumarejo was a two-time Colombian president and political figure, as a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. He served as president of Colombia for the first time between 1934 and 1938 and again between 1942 and 1945....

. It is organized as an ellipse, divided in five parts, each containing one of the academic divisions and its respective dependencies. The buildings were constructed as prismatic blocks, and painted white, in order to give an austere and clean look.

Some landmarks in the campus are the León de Greiff
León de Greiff
Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler , was a Colombian poet of the 20th century he is notable for his stylistic innovations and eclectic deliberate use of obscure lexicon. Best known simply as León de Greiff, he often used different pen names of which the most popular were Leo le Gris...

 Auditorium, and the Francisco de Paula Santander Plaza, also known unofficially as the "Ché Plaza", in honor to Ernesto el Ché Guevara
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...

. The campus has its own stadium
Alfonso López Pumarejo Stadium
The Alfonso López Pumarejo Stadium is a soccer stadium of National University of Colombia located at University City of Bogotá. It is named after Alfonso López Pumarejo....

, where sometimes matches for the national soccer championship are held.

Academics

The National University of Colombia has 20 schools distributed among Bogotá, Medellín, Manizales and Palmira:

Colleges in Bogotá:
  • Agronomy
    Agronomy
    Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, feed, fiber, and reclamation. Agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. Agronomy is the application of a combination of sciences like biology,...

  • Dentistry
  • Economics Sciences
  • Engineering Faculty
  • Fine Arts
  • Human Sciences
    Social sciences
    Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...

  • Law, Social and Political Sciences
    Political science
    Political Science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior...

  • Medicine
  • Nursing Faculty
    Nursing
    Nursing is a healthcare profession focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life from conception to death....

  • Science
    Science
    Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...

  • Veterinary Medicine
    Veterinary medicine
    Veterinary Medicine is the branch of science that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals...

     and Animal Management


Interfaculty institutes
  • Institute of Biotechnology
  • Institute of Science and Food Technology - ICTA
  • Institute of Environmental Studies -IDEA-
  • Institute of Studies in Communication - IECO-
  • International institute of Political Studies and Relations -IEPRI-
  • Genetics Institute


Museums in Bogotá Campus:
  • Casa Museo Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Museum
    Jorge Eliecer Gaitan Museum
    - History :The house Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala lived in from the beginning of the 1930s until the day of his murder on April 9, 1948, is located on Calle 42 No. 15 , 52 of the Santa Teresita neighborhood in Bogotá. It was also part of the design planned in 1928 for this area by the “Davila Holguin...

    )
  • Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional de Colombia (National University's Art Museum)
  • Museo de Arquitectura Leopoldo Rother (Leopoldo Rother Museum of Architecture)
  • Museo de Historia Natural (Museum of Natural History)
  • Museo de la Ciencia y el Juego (Museum of Science and Games)
  • Museo Centro de Historia de la Medicina (Museum Center of the History of Medicine)
  • Museo Entomológico (Entomological Museum)
  • Museo Organológico Musical (Organologic Musical Museum)
  • Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (National Astronomical Observatory)


High school (for children of professors, students, and employees):
  • "Arturo Ramírez Montúfar" Pedagogical Institute -IPARM-


Colleges in Medellín:
  • Sciences
  • Agricultural Sciences
  • Mine
  • Economics and Humans Sciences
  • Arquitecture

Museums in Medellín Campus:
  • Earth Sciences Museum
  • Entomological Museum
  • Mycology museum
  • "Gabriel Gutiérrez"Herbarium
  • Xiloteca


Institutes:
  • Center for Research in Extractive Metallurgy - CIMEX
  • Energy Institute
  • Institute for Systems and Decision Sciences
  • System Institute
  • Institute of Materials
  • Water Institute
  • Fuel Center
  • Institute of Environmental Studies - IDEA


Media:
  • Unimedios
    • News agency (Agencia de Noticias UN)
    • Internal newspaper (Carta Universitaria)
    • Radio station (UN Radio
      UN Radio (Colombia)
      UN Radio is the radio station of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá and Medellín. It broadcasts academic programming, news analysis, music, and cultural events related to the university. UN Radio syndicates some programmes from Radio France Internationale and Radio Nederland.- External...

      )
    • Academic newspaper (UN Periódico, with articles ranging from international issues to research within the colleges)
    • UN Televisión (TV production company)
    • Prisma TV (internet television)

List of rectors

  • 1990-1993, Antanas Mockus Sivickas
    Antanas Mockus
    Aurelijus Rutenis Antanas Mockus Šivickas is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician.The son of Lithuanian immigrants, he left his post as the president of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá in 1993, and later that year ran a successful campaign for mayor...

  • 1994-1997, Guillermo Páramo Rocha
  • 1997-2003, Víctor Manuel Moncayo Cruz
  • 2003-2005, Marco Antonio Palacios Rozo
  • 2005-2006, Ramón Fayad Nafah
  • 2006–present, Moisés Wasserman Lérner

Notable alumni

Famous personalities among its alumni include:
  • Fernando Botero
    Fernando Botero
    Fernando Botero Angulo is a Colombian figurative artist. His works feature a figurative style, called by some "Boterismo", which gives them an unmistakable identity...

  • Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
    Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
    Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister and Labor Minister , mayor of Bogotá and one of the most charismatic leaders of the Liberal Party.He was assassinated during his second presidential campaign in 1948, setting off...

  • Gabriel García Márquez
    Gabriel García Márquez
    Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez is a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo throughout Latin America. He is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in...

  • Carlos Jacanamijoy
    Carlos Jacanamijoy
    Carlos Jacanamijoy is a Colombian painter of native South American origin of the Inga people. His artwork has been exhibited in more than 25 individual shows and is part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of the American Indian as well as several Colombian museums...

  • Hernando Osorio
    Hernando Osorio
    Hernando Osorio is a painter and print-maker. Educated at the National University of Colombia, he was a member of the Awuyaka street art group. During his New York City period he focused on etching and lithography. Since 1985 he has been living and working in Vienna, Austria...

  • Manuel Elkin Patarroyo
    Manuel Elkin Patarroyo
    Manuel Elkin Patarroyo is a Colombian pathologist who made the world's first attempt of synthetic vaccine for malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that affects millions of people in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa...

  • Salomón Hakim
    Salomón Hakim
    Salomón Hakim Dow was a Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher, and inventor. A descendent of Lebanese immigrants, he is known for his work on neurosurgery and for the precursor of the modern valve treatment for hydrocephalus....

  • Antanas Mockus
    Antanas Mockus
    Aurelijus Rutenis Antanas Mockus Šivickas is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician.The son of Lithuanian immigrants, he left his post as the president of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá in 1993, and later that year ran a successful campaign for mayor...

  • Jaime Garzón
    Jaime Garzón
    Jaime Hernando Garzón Forero was a Colombian journalist, a comedian, lawyer, peace activist and political satirist. He was very popular on Colombian television during the 1990s, especially for his political satire. In addition to his work on television, he also had roles as a peace negotiator in...

  • Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo

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