University of Puerto Rico at Ponce
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The University of Puerto Rico at Ponce (UPRP or UPR-Ponce) is a state university located in the municipality of Ponce
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce is both a city and a municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico. The city is the seat of the municipal government.The city of Ponce, the fourth most populated in Puerto Rico, and the most populated outside of the San Juan metropolitan area, is named for Juan Ponce de León y Loayza, the...

, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

. UPRP is the only campus
Campus
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...

 of the University of Puerto Rico System
University of Puerto Rico
The University of Puerto Rico is the state university system of Puerto Rico. The system consists of 11 campuses and has approximately 64,511 students and 5,300 faculty members...

 in the southern region of the island. It is also known as CUTP from its former name of Colegio Universitario Tecnológico de Ponce in Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

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General information

The campus, with about 3.265 students, is very close to many tourist attractions the city of Ponce offers. The school offers associate and bachelor degrees in the following areas:
  • Associate Degree in Civil Engineering Technology in Architectural Delineation
  • Associate Degree in Technology in Civil Engineering Construction
  • Associate Degree in Industrial and Physical Therapy
  • Bachelor of Natural Science with concentration in Biology or Biomedical with areas of emphasis in Biodiversity Assessment, Biotechnology and Marine Coastal Environment Assessment.


The UPRP has programs that combine study and work concurrently (practice) in the following areas: Physical Therapy
Physical therapy
Physical therapy , often abbreviated PT, is a health care profession. Physical therapy is concerned with identifying and maximizing quality of life and movement potential within the spheres of promotion, prevention, diagnosis, treatment/intervention,and rehabilitation...

, Athletic Therapy, Office Systems, Pedagogy
Pedagogy
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, Forensic Psychology
Forensic psychology
Forensic psychology is the intersection between psychology and the criminal justice system. It involves understanding criminal law in the relevant jurisdictions in order to be able to interact appropriately with judges, attorneys and other legal professionals...

, Psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

 and Mental Health, Accounting, Finance
Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...

 and Information Systems
Information systems
Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...

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The University of Puerto Rico at Ponce also serves as a starting point for students interested in applying to engineering programs at the Mayagüez Campus through what is known as articulated transfer.

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