Educational Quality

Education at the highest international level.

UPC: THE ONLY PERUVIAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONALLY ACCREDITED AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL WITH WSCUC, FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

UPC is proud to be the first Peruvian university institutionally accredited by WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), one of the six regional accreditation bodies of the United States of America, and one of the most internationally prestigious.

According to the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities of the Shanghai Jiao Tong Universityi, 33 out of the 55 best universities in the world are American and all of them have been institutionally accredited by a regional body. Out of these 33, 9 have been accredited by WSCUC, including Stanford University (#2), UC Berkeley (#4), the California Institute of Technology (#7) and the University of California Los Angeles, UCLA (#12).

This important international accreditation represents a valuable contribution to improve the Peruvian higher education system, and reaffirms the strong commitment UPC has with academic excellence and the country’s development.

“Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC), 985 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 100, Alameda, CA 94501, 510.748.9001.”

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ACCREDITATIONS

We have different programs with national and international program accreditations which validate their high academic quality.

• Communication and Journalism program, by the Latin American Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism (CLAEP, in Spanish)
• Communication and Advertising program, by the International Advertising Association (IAA)
• Electronic Engineering, Software­ Engineering and Information Systems Engineering programs, by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) and ICACIT
• Industrial Engineering and Civil Engineering programs, by ICACIT
• Law program, by the Accreditation Council for Legal Education (CONAED, in Spanish).
• Nutrition and Dietetics program, by the National System for Evaluation, Certification and Accreditation of Educational Quality (SINEACE, in Spanish)

WE HAVE THE ISO 9001:2015 QUALITY CERTIFICATION

The only university in Peru with the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Certification: For the design, development and academic processes of all undergraduate, regular and Working Adult (EPE) academic programs, and graduate programs.

INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED WITH 5 STARS BY THE QS STARS RATING

UPC was awarded 5 stars (maximum ‑rating) in four categories of the QS STARS Rating by the British Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rating institution, which assesses the academic quality of universities around the world. We share the same rating, in some categories, with important universities in the world, like MIT (USA), the University of Cambridge (UK) and the University of Oxford (UK).

THIRD PRIVATE UNIVERSITY WITH THE MOST RESEARCH IN PERU

We are the 3rd private university with the most research in Peru and the one that has grown the most in number of indexed publications in internationally renowned scientific journals, duplicating the number of papers in the last three years, according to the 2015 Scimago Ranking.