Alberto Hurtado University is a Jesuit university located in downtown Santiago

Santiago, Chile

Santiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level...

. Established in 1997, the university was created from the merger of three separate institutes,Instituto Latinoamericano de Doctrina y Estudios Sociales (ILADES), the Centro de Investigación, Desarrollo de la Educación (CIDE), and the Fundación Educacional Roberto Bellarmino. The university is named after a famous Chilean Jesuit Saint, Father Alberto Hurtado

Alberto Hurtado

Saint Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga , popularly known in Chile as Padre Hurtado , was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker and writer of Basque origin, founder of the Hogar de Cristo foundation...

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Location

The school is located in downtown Santiago, one subway stop west from the Presidential Palace

Palacio de La Moneda

Palacio de La Moneda , or simply La Moneda, is the seat of the President of the Republic of Chile. It also houses the offices of three cabinet ministers: Interior, General Secretariat of the Presidency and General Secretariat of the Government...

. As the school has grown since its inception it has bought several of the larger homes in the area to create class space and faculty offices. One of the buildings the university bought was the former headquarters of the soccer team Club Deportivo y Social Colo Colo.

Schools

The University is split into six schools. Consisting of the School of Psychology, the School of Education, the School Philosophy and Humanities, the School of Law, the School of Economics and Business, and the School of the Social Sciences.

The school of Economics and Business is closely connected with its Jesuit peer institution Georgetown University

Georgetown University

Georgetown University is a private, Jesuit, research university whose main campus is in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1789, it is the oldest Catholic university in the United States...

. It is possible to earn a Georgetown Masters of Arts degree in Economics by taking all of the classes in Chile.

Social Justice

The school takes a social justice mandate very seriously. In fall of 2007 the school proposed an increase in tuition. Students, many of which were first generation college students, objected to the increase. The students went on strike to protest the tuition increase. The University was understanding of the students' complaints and allowed the strike to proceed on campus. Ultimately the issue was settled to mutual satisfaction of both sides.
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