Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) is a private university in Lima, Peru, founded in 1961.
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Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) is a private, non-profit university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1961 by a group of professors who left the medical faculty of the National University of San Marcos, and it is named after the 19th-century Peruvian physician Cayetano Heredia.
UPCH focuses on health and life sciences, with faculties of medicine, stomatology (dentistry), public health and administration, nursing, sciences and philosophy, veterinary medicine and zootechnics, psychology, and education. Its Alexander von Humboldt Institute of Tropical Medicine and research collaborations make it one of the most research-productive universities in Peru.
Teaching is in Spanish. Admission is through the university's own process, and scholarships are available.
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Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) was founded in 1961.
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