The Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) is an innovative institution, based on certain guiding principles. UPC educates, investigates, and promotes knowledge, culture, and development. Its objectives are completed with quality, modernity, efficiency, and competitiveness on an international level. The UPC takes into consideration that each individual possesses diverse potentials and possibilities. The student's academic work consists of discovering and developing these different potentials.
MISSION
We educate honorable leaders and design innovative proposals to foster creativity in the context of a new reality.
ACADEMIC ORGANIZATION
The academic year is divided into two terms of four months each, running March-July and August-December.
An intensive, two-month summer term runs from January to March. During the summer term, the academic burden is twice as heavy as in the other two; only 12 credits can be taken.
BASIC FORMATION AREA
Basic Formation consists of a number of courses that prepare students for their professional studies.
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These courses are: - Anthropology - Ecology - Art - Computer Sciences - Culture - Ethics - Geography - History - Photography - Sociology - Mathematics and Sciences |
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UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
Undergraduate studies lead to a bachelor's degree and, ultimately, to a professional title. It takes about five years to achieve a bachelor's degree, including Basic Formation. It must be noted that specialized subjects are equivalent to the "senior level" or" upper division" and even to the Master's level.
DEPARTMENTS AND MAJORS:
School of Business Administration: Marketing / Finance / Accounting
School of Communications: Journalism / Advertising
School of Engineering: Civil Engineering / Industrial Engineering
Systems Engineering/Electronic Engineering
School of Architecture: Architecture
School of Law: Law
EDUCATIONAL QUALITY DEPARTMENT
This department guarantees that students will be taught according to an educational methodology based on standards emphasized by the UPC. It also safeguards the well being of its students both in and outside the classroom until they are ready to practice their profession.
The structure of this Department is as follows:
TRAINING AREA
Organizes teacher-training courses and workshops according to the University's pedagogical principles in order to meet the needs of future professionals.
It also establishes monitoring and support strategies to make sure the faculty will use active and participatory learning techniques, and will evaluate each student's achievements according to the aims and objectives of the course.
GUIDANCE AREA
Provides guidelines to encourage values as a basis for vocational and occupational decisions, assists in adjustment to university life and developing good study habits.
This area provides the following services:
Advisories: by qualified university staff.
Tutorials: by professors to help maintain academic standards.
Counseling Services: by psychologists who help students understand and solve personal problems.
Follow Up Area: the educational methodology and the quality and efficiency of the academic areas and services of UPC are continuously evaluated through surveys, reports, classroom observations, meetings with faculty and interviews with student delegates and students.
CAMPUS LIFE
This area promotes a healthy institutional environment along with personal and professional enhancement. To meet this goal, the area:
Encourages the exchange of information through publications, debates or meetings with teachers and career tutors.
Organizes workshops, clubs or personal development programs, in order to promote individual skills and resources, as a complement to the students' academic development.
Provides the university with alternative services, sports, artistic and social activities that enable students to accumulate the extra-academic credits needed to graduate.
Promotes the exchanges and interaction with other universities and the community.
Organizes internal events such as "Campus Week", "Cultural Thursdays", end-of-term acting performances, and sports encounters, among others.
PRE-PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS
This area arranges for internships for students in companies or institutions, according to their fields of expertise. It monitors the internship period, provides advice and is responsible for the evaluation made by a career tutor. This area has contacts with large companies in different lines of business, such as América Television, Arthur Andersen, Backus y Johnston, Peruvian Credit Bank, Wiese Sudameris Bank, Bellsouth, Cosapi, El Comercio (most important newspaper in Peru), General Motors, IBM Peru, Interbank, Keystone Distribution Peru, Microsoft Peru, Motorola, Procter & Gamble, Southern Peru Copper Corporation, Telefónica, District of Lima, Nestle Peru, Pacifico Peruano Suiza, Panamericana Televisión, Reuters, Warner Lambert, Xerox Peru and others