Type Public Undergraduates 3.890 (2013) Founded 1981 Postgraduates 60 (2013) | President Celso Arias Mora Location Copiapó, Chile Academic staff 194 (2013) | |
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Established October 26, 1981 (35) (Escuela de Minas de Copiapó founded in 1857) Campus Campus Cordillera
Campus Paulino del Barrio
Campus Rómulo J. Peña Address 5, Copiapó, III Región, Chile Similar University of La Serena, University of Antofagasta, Catholic University of the North, University of Tarapacá, Arturo Prat University Profiles | ||
University of Atacama (Spanish: Universidad de Atacama) or UDA is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. UDA is in Copiapó, in the Third Region, Atacama.
The university was created in 1981, as a fusion of the old Mines School of Copiapo, founded in 1857 and very prestigious in the minerals industries. This school was integrated in 1947 in early founded Universidad Técnica del Estado, being the new U.T.E. until 1981 the most important Chilean university in applied sciences and the Normal School of Copiapó, founded in 1905.
UDA has four faculties: Humanities and Education, Law, Engineering, and Natural Sciences, as well as five institutes: the Technological Institute, the Language Institute, the Center for Technical Education (CFT), the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (IDITEC), and INSAMIN.
The University of Atacama campus houses several historical monuments, including the first steam engine to traverse Chile, between Copiapó and the port city of Caldera, in 1851.