The University of Costa Rica is the oldest university in Costa Rica: when it opened its doors on March 1941 with the schools of Law, Agriculture, Pharmacy and Fine Arts. The University is comprised of a community of professors, students and administrative employees dedicated to teaching, investigation, social action, study, meditation, artistic creation and diffusion of knowledge.
This public university is split into five main areas: Fine Arts and Language, Basic Sciences, Social Sciences, Health and Engineering. Under these 5 areas is where the different faculties are located. The faculties grouped under each area are in charge of coordinating academics under the Dean and Faculty Assembly supervision. Each faculty contains the different schools, which are the units where the actual teaching, investigation and social action take place. About 100 careers exist under this regime, ending in Bachelors’ and “licenciatura” degrees, as well as pregrad programs of technical degrees and associate’s degrees in specific areas.
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