Universidad Metropolitana

Metropolitan University

Universidad Metropolitana
Universidad Metropolitana Seal of Metropolitan University
Motto	[Enseñando el Camino] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) (Spanish)
Motto in English	Teaching the Way
Type	Private
Established	1970
Rector	José Ignacio Moreno León
Students	5,000 (approx.)
Location	Caracas , Venezuela
Campus	Urban, 247 acres (1.00 km2)
Website	www.unimet.edu.ve

The Metropolitan University (Template:Lang-es) was founded in 1970 by a group of entrepreneurs led by Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa. It is located in the city of Caracas, Venezuela, near Petare.

Today, the University has 5,000 students and approximately 500 professors. It is a business oriented University, Business Administration being one of the most important courses offered.

The academic under-graduate courses include: Economics, Accounting, Business Administration, Law, Education, Modern Languages, Engineering (Chemical, Mechanic, Systems, Electrical, Civil & Production), Psychology and in 2003, it became the first University in Venezuela to offer the Liberal Studies course.

Degrees

It offers the following undergraduate programs (B.Sc.):

• College of Arts and Sciences:
  • Applied Mathematics
  • Psychology
  • Modern Languages
  • Education

• College of Engineering:
  • Civil Engineering
  • Chemical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Production Engineering
  • System Engineering

• College of Social and Humanistic Sciences:
  • Business Administration
  • Economics
  • Public Accounting

• College of Political Studies
  • Law
  • Liberal Studies

It offers post graduate studies as well.

Campus

Art

Aside from the gardens themselves, there are several works of art all over the campus. Inside the library and the Rectoral building there are art galleries as well as there are works of art constantly displayed and renewed inside and outside the library.

External links

• Universidad Metropolitana