Federico Villarreal National University (, UNFV) is a public university located in

Lima Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. It was named in honor of the Peruvian mathematician Federico Villarreal.

History

It first functioned as a branch of the Community University of the Center - Universidad Comunal del Centro (UCC) based in Huancayo. That same year, the Peruvian geographer, philosopher, historian and politician Javier Pulgar Vidal was commissioned to manage the university. The

branch of the UCC began its activities in a rented house, located at 262 Moquegua street. The entrance exams were set for the month of August 1960 and classes began on 16 September of the same year. In 1961, the Community University of the Center was nationalized as the National University of the Center of Peru. Due to the emergence of disagreements with the central headquarters in Junin, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre promoted the creation of the Lima branch and thus managed to declare its autonomy in January 1963. The Federico Villarreal National University was created by Order Nº 14692 on 30 October 1963. The law to create the university was presented by the APRA parliamentary bench, exposed and defended by Luis Alberto Sánchez, and promulgated by Fernando Belaunde Terry.

Organization

The UNFV is organized into 18 faculties: * Administration *

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s - Hipolito Unanue (located near the Hipolito Unanue National Hospital in

El Agustino El Agustino is a district of the Lima Province in Peru. It is part of city of Lima. Officially established as a district on January 6, 1965. The current mayor (''alcalde'') of El Agustino is Richard Robert Soria Fuerte. The district's postal code ...

) *

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political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

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Education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture, including Philosophy, certain fundamental questions asked by humans. During the Renaissance, the term "humanities" referred to the study of classical literature a ...

Civil engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

* Industrial and

systems engineering Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering and engineering management that focuses on how to design, integrate, and manage complex systems over their Enterprise life cycle, life cycles. At its core, systems engineering uti ...

* Geographical, Environmental and Ecotourism Engineering *

Oceanography Oceanography (), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. It is an Earth science, which covers a wide range of to ...

Fisheries Fishery can mean either the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish and other aquatic life or, more commonly, the site where such enterprise takes place ( a.k.a., fishing grounds). Commercial fisheries include wild fisheries and fish farm ...

, Food Sciences and

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* Electronic and

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Natural Sciences Natural science or empirical science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer ...

and

Mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

odontology Dentistry, also known as dental medicine and oral medicine, is the branch of medicine focused on the teeth, gums, and mouth. It consists of the study, diagnosis, prevention, management, and treatment of diseases, disorders, and conditions of ...

Medical technology Health technology is defined by the World Health Organization as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of liv ...

Psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both consciousness, conscious and Unconscious mind, unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feel ...

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s, * engineering sciences *

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

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s Together they are offering 60 bachelor programs, 52 master programs, and 13 doctorates.

Rankings

Federico Villarreal National University is one of the best public universities of Peru. In 2021, the ''

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'' of the

Spanish National Research Council The Spanish National Research Council (, CSIC) is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. Its main objective is to develop and promote research that will help bring about scientific and techn ...

(CSIC) ranked the Federico Villarreal National University in the 27th place in the

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, in its ranking.

Notable alumni

''See also Federico Villarreal National University alumni'' * Laura Bozzo (TV talk show presenter and lawyer) *

Mercedes Cabanillas Mercedes Cabanillas Bustamante (born May 22, 1947) is a Peruvian educator and politician. A prominent member of the Peruvian Aprista Party, she served as Minister of Education in the first presidency of Alan García, making her the first woman ...

(educator and politician) * César Hildebrandt (journalist) * José Luis Pérez-Albela (doctor-writer, former athlete and lecturer) * Alejandro Aguinaga (administrator, surgeon and politician) * Arturo Cavero Velásquez (singer of Creole music) * José Antonio Chang (industrial engineer, rector and politician) * Teófilo Cubillas (soccer player, accountant) * Liliana La Rosa (nurse, university professor and former minister) * Luis Nava Guibert (lawyer and politician) * Julián Pérez Huarancca (novelist and short story writer) * Nidia Vílchez (public and political accountant) * César Villanueva (administrator and politician) * José Watanabe (poet) * Juan Sheput (industrial engineer, politician and university professor) * Zulema Tomás (doctor, politician and ex health minister)

Cooperations

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- Laspau * Virginia International University *

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* Autonomous University of Asunción * Technical University of Machala * Municipal University of Sao Caetano do Sul *

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* University of Atlántico Continuing on the route of internationalization, since 2017, UNFV joined the Compostela Group of Universities.

References

External links

Official site

Comunidad UNFV
{{Authority control Federico Villarreal National University Universities and colleges established in 1963 1963 establishments in Peru Lima District San Miguel District, Lima