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Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP)
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru, founded in 1917.
- Type
- Private university
- Location
- Lima, Peru
- Founded
- 1917
- Teaching language
- Spanish
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The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) is a private, non-profit university in Lima, founded in 1917. It is the oldest private university in Peru.
Its main campus in the San Miguel district hosts faculties of architecture and urbanism, art and design, administration and accounting, social sciences, science and engineering, communication, law, education, economics, management and high direction, letters and human sciences, psychology, and arts and performing arts, together with the CENTRUM business school. Undergraduates begin in general studies before entering their faculty.
Teaching is in Spanish. Admission is through PUCP's own processes, and tuition is scaled according to students' socioeconomic circumstances.
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Courses at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) are taught in Spanish.
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Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) was founded in 1917.
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