EAFIT University
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Escuela de Administración y Finanzas e Instituto Tecnológico | |
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| Motto | [Abierta al mundo] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) (Spanish) |
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Motto in English | Open to the World |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 1960 |
| Principal | Juan Luis Mejía Arango |
| Students | 9,200 |
| Undergraduates | 7,890 |
| Postgraduates | 1,310 |
| Address | Carrera 49 N° 7 Sur - 50 , , , |
| Website | www.eafit.edu.co |
Universidad EAFIT (this is the same name in spanish) [1], is a Colombian university located in El Poblado District - Medellín, This private university was created by the enterprise groups of Medellín in order to create a professional background for the development of the industrialization process in Colombia.
It was approved by the Ministry of Education on May 6, 1971 and it has three branches in Bogotá, Pereira and Rionegro. The word EAFIT is a Spanish abbreviation for Escuela de Administracion y Finanzas e Instituto Tecnológico. Initially, EAFIT started off as a "School of Management and Finance". Later on, when two-year technological programs were offered, its Institute of Technology part was created. Finally, the institution organized itself as a university, offering longer, five-year programs, thus receiving its current name "Universidad EAFIT".
History
Universidad EAFIT was founded in 1960 by a group of enterpreneurs in Medellín with the goal to create professionals ready to answer the new challenges in management, finance and technology for the development of Colombia with the compromise of its industrial organization and economic growth.
Professor Javier Toro Martínez was the first rector with a group of 59 students in the school of Business Administration. The Textile Technology, Industrial Programming and Mechanic faculties were opened in 1962. In 1996 EAFIT opened its first branch outside of Medellín in Llanogrande, Rionegro with Business Administration, Civil Engineering and Systems Engineering.
The School of Human Science and Humanities was opened in 1997, a peculiarity in the identity of the educational center dedicated to economics. The new frontiers were beyond that with the creation of the School of Music. In 1999 the Product Design Engineering and Law faculties were created. In 2002 the Mathematics Engineering undergraduate program was created, being the first of that kind in Colombia. In 2004 there were three new faculties: Engineering Physics, Social Communication and Political Science. That same year the administration took the decision to call the campus "Park University" (Universidad Parque) setting an ecological backgroung which includes a lake, a wood and a paving parking area avoiding cement in order to "let the earth breathe". The idea of Principal Dr. Juan Luis Mejía was to integrate the university with the urban body of the city with a compromise for its environment. This project later received the "Premio Lápiz de Acero" (Steel Pen Award) awarded by the Proyecto diseño Magazine of Medellín in the Category "Public Spaces" due to this.
In 2011, Psychology and Marketing undergraduate programs were created. In next years programs of Biology and Sound Engineering will open.
Academics
Universidad EAFIT offers 19 undergraduate programs, which are dividided in Schools. School of Science and Humanities
School of Management
School of Engineering
- Geology
- Civil Engineering
- Product Design Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Process Engineering
- Production Engineering
- Computer Science
School of Law
References
- ^ "Universidad EAFIT, English version". Universidad EAFIT. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
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