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Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca
| Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca | |
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| Acronym | USFX or UMRPSFXCH |
| Nickname | University of San Francisco Xavier, University of Sucre, La Sanfra |
| Motto | "4 Siglos de Ciencia e Innovación" ("4 Centuries of Science and Innovation") |
| Established | March 27, 1624 (March 27, 1624) |
| Founder | Fray Juan Frías de Herrán (founder) Gregory XV (by Papal Bull) Philip III of Spain (by Royal Decree) |
| Type | Public university |
| Funding | State |
| Rector | Eng. Walter Arizaga Cervantes |
| Vice-rector | Ph.D. Erick G. Mita Arancibia |
| Students | 43,085 |
| Undergraduate | Mid-level University Technician, Higher University Technician and Licentiate |
| Postgraduate | Diplomas, Specializations, Master's degrees and Doctorates |
| City |  Chuquisaca |
| Country |  Bolivia |
| Affiliation | National System of Universities, Bolivian University System |
| Address | Central Building: Calle Junín corner of Estudiantes No. 692 |
| Campus | USFX University Campus Calle Destacamento 317 # 573, Sucre |
| Academic colors | Red Blue |
| Sports colors | Red Blue |
| Website | Official website YouTube |
The Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca (Universidad Mayor, Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca) is a Bolivian public university. Based in Sucre, the capital of Bolivia, it is the oldest university in that country. It was founded on March 27, 1624, with the title of Royal and Pontifical University of San Francisco Xavier, by means of the Papal Bull issued by Gregory XV on July 9, 1621, and confirmed by a Royal Decree of King Philip IV of 1622.
It is currently one of the Bolivian universities with the greatest international renown,[1] and its classrooms host students from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru and Venezuela, among others. It is one of the most important and prestigious universities in the country in terms of impact, excellence and openness, standing out for its work in scientific research and for its social interaction and outreach. It has a good number of relationships and agreements with universities in America and Europe.
According to the Ranking Web de Universidades, Webometrics 2022, it is considered the eighth best university in Bolivia.[2] Likewise, it would be the fifth best public university in the country and the best university in Chuquisaca, and therefore the best university in the city of Sucre.
History
The first historical record of the founding of the university cloisters of San Francisco Xavier dates from the year 1600, when several institutions of the then Real Audiencia of Charcas and the Society of Jesus proposed to the Kingdom of Spain the creation of a center of higher education. After an arduous process, the Jesuits obtained authorization from Pope Gregory XV and from King Philip IV to grant academic degrees to the bachelors of the College of Santiago (the predecessor institution of the university); at the moment it was approved and created by Royal Decree, it was granted the title of Royal University.
On March 27, 1624, the fundamental patent erecting the university under the patronage of Saint Francis Xavier was established by papal bull.
The bull was brought to the attention of the Royal and Supreme Council of the Indies, and on May 26 of the same year the bishops of America were authorized to carry it out. Through this bull the Jesuits were authorized to grant academic degrees to those who had studied for five years in the colleges of the Society of Jesus in the Indies and the Philippines, provided that these colleges were at least two hundred miles from any place where there was another university.[3]
The Jesuit university "San Ignacio de Loyola" was a sister of the Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca, which was founded by the same bull.[4]
The Jesuits who arrived in the colonies of America, and settled in the city of La Plata (present-day Sucre, Bolivia), founded a university that will have as its patron the glorious father Saint Francis Xavier and will be called by his name so that, with his patronage and protection, the students may profit.
— [5]
The architects of this historic event were the Jesuit priests Juan Frías de Herrán, its founder, and Luis de Santillán, the first rector of the Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca. The first native minister was Dr. José Manuel de Segovia.
The first subjects taught were Scholastic Theology, Moral Theology, Philosophy, Latin and the native Aymara language. Later, in 1681, under the authority of Archbishop Cristóbal de Castilla y Zamora, canon law was included.
The founding of the Royal Carolina Academy in 1776 was fundamental. Although it was an institution directly dependent on the Real Audiencia of Charcas, it kept a natural bond with San Francisco Xavier, since it received the most outstanding and renowned intellectuals and students of the time. Owing to this particularity they became known as the "Doctors of Charcas", who played an important and leading role in the libertarian Cry of the Chuquisaca Revolution of May 25, 1809, and in the independence revolutions that were unleashed from it. Standing out in this group are the brothers Manuel de Zudáñez and Jaime de Zudáñez, Bernardo Monteagudo and Manuel Rodríguez de Quiroga, who are also credited with authorship of the doctrinal documents that inspired the revolutions in Charcas, Argentina, Chile and Peru.
The university, from its founding to the present day, represents an important influence on the entire City of Sucre and on the country.
Title of Major, Royal and Pontifical University
Pontifical University
When the founding of the university was being planned, a process begun on February 2, 1622, by the Royal Decree issued by King Philip IV and revalidated by the Papal Bull of August 8, 1623, issued by Gregory XV, it was determined that the house of higher studies would be born with the titles of "Royal and Pontifical". Therefore San Francisco Xavier, together with other of the oldest Catholic universities in the world, bears this designation of Pontifical University.
Although all ecclesiastical universities, given their Christian work and mission, also bear this title, granted only by the Pope, it does not necessarily mean that the other universities that also enjoy this designation have these characteristics (as is the case of the USFX).
Royal University
This title was granted to the university when its creation was being processed by means of the Royal Decree of Philip IV of Spain prior to its founding, as it was considered a university born by disposition of the Hispanic Monarchy.
Major University
Finally, this title was granted to it when it was recognized as the first university after the founding of Bolivia, whereby the influx of students, historical relevance and political importance of the time were recognized by this title. After the USFX, the same title would be borne by the Major University of San Andrés (UMSA), founded in 1830 in the city of La Paz, and the Major University of San Simón (UMSS), founded in 1832 in the city of Cochabamba.
The Carolina Academy
Founded in 1776, it took the name of the Emperor Charles III, the monarch responsible for introducing the Enlightenment to Spain. This institution began to operate within the classrooms of San Francisco Xavier, although it was dependent on the Real Audiencia of Charcas.[6]
It was aimed at reorienting the approach to the study of law within the University, clearly linking it to the concrete juridical activities carried out by the Real Audiencia. As a complementary part of their curricular training, the trainees had to practice in the courts of the Audiencia for two years before graduating, and another two years after their graduation. This situation allowed many young lawyers to work closely with the oidores, keeping them informed not only of important aspects of political life within the colonial administration, but also of details of the social and even personal life of the rulers who served in La Plata.[6]
The trainees of the Carolina Academy had to be bachelors in Law and had to follow a strict two-year program of studies, meeting three times a week and following subjects related to Law, the natural sciences, logic and metaphysics, which prepared them for the performance of the activities and juridical procedures proper to the bar.[7]
At the end of the 18th century, the Academy was the only institution of juridical studies of importance in the Viceroyalty of the Río de La Plata and, consequently, numerous students from other countries came to it to prepare in the study of law. From its founding until the year in which the events of May 25 broke out, the Carolina Academy had graduated three hundred sixty-two doctors. Free from scholastic and religious influences, it became a forum for discussion of juridical questions and also of advanced philosophical and political theories, including the origin of authority in society and the rights of the people, themes proper to a nascent modernity. In its classrooms an independent spirit was cultivated, not only with regard to the classical molds that had guided studies until then, but also—encouraged by the important social events that took place in the United States in 1776 and in France in 1789—in the face of the possibility of establishing a government independent of Spain. As a clandestine expression of the spirit cultivated within the Carolina Academy, from the late 17th century a variety of anonymous lampoons and squibs with witty verses criticizing the Spanish authorities circulated through the streets of La Plata. Because of these characteristics, the Carolina Academy became, in the words of the French historian Clément Thibaud, a true "school of leaders for independence".[7]
Forerunner of the Pro-Independence Movements in Hispanic America
The historians Mesa and Gisbert say of the university:
"The ideas that were forerunners of independence were not formed only in the Carolina Academy, but had been maturing in the classrooms of San Francisco Xavier".
It is here that the men who forged the revolutionary process of Upper Peru and of America were formed. The influence of the university on the founding of the republic is indisputable; it was in the classrooms of San Francisco Xavier that the doctrine was born that moved the entire emancipatory process of South America.
University students of Charcas analyzed the Spanish situation and reached the following conclusions:
- King Charles IV had abdicated in favor of his son Ferdinand VII, who was the only legitimate king. He in turn, influenced by Napoleon Bonaparte, abdicated in his favor. Napoleon placed his brother, Joseph I Bonaparte, at the head of the Spanish monarchy, which is what is known as the Abdications of Bayonne.
- In view of this situation, sovereignty had returned to the Spanish people, who organized juntas and prepared to confront the invader.
- Although the juntas organized in Spain were expressions of popular sovereignty, this did not take hold among the Americans, since they did not consider themselves vassals of the Spanish people but of the King. Therefore, sovereignty should return to the American people.
The role of the University was very important because it was there that the revolutionary ideas were incubated and generated; all the French and English political thinkers of the time were studied there, as well as the independence of the United States of North America, the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Spain.
With all these ideas, the atmosphere of the city of La Plata or Chuquisaca was ready for rebellion. Tempers flared further at the possibility of arrangements with Princess Joaquina Carlota, sister of Ferdinand VII, who aspired to the throne. Upon the arrest of the prosecutor Jaime de Zudáñez, the riot began, and with it the war of Independence.
This revolution, called the Chuquisaca Revolution or the Revolution of May 25, marks the starting point of a chain of emancipatory movements throughout Latin America. Various revolutionaries who would begin revolts in the rest of the continent had matured their ideas in the classrooms of the Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier, as is the case of the revolutionary Mariano Moreno in Argentina, Mariano Alejo Álvarez in Peru, Jaime de Zudáñez himself in La Plata, Pedro Domingo Murillo in La Paz, and later but no less representatively José Mariano Serrano, who would declare the independence of Bolivia in 1825.
The university has received various recognitions for being considered the cradle of the emancipatory movements that gave freedom to Hispanic America.
Role in the War of Independence and the founding stage of Bolivia 1810–1825
The role of the university was decisive because it guided the drafting and approval of the first constitutions that would define the structure and organization of the state.
Being the only university in operation throughout the entire stage of the war of independence in the present territory of Bolivia, and also the only university in operation in the first years of the Republic, until the founding of the Major University of San Andrés of La Paz in 1830, the classrooms of San Francisco Xavier were centers of permanent debate and discussion about the future of the new nation. Its students' facility in the field of law helped them become the main advocates of the first laws of the first constitutions of the nascent republic.
Many of the professionals who had been trained at the Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca would assume posts of great importance with the birth of Bolivia, serving as presidents and as representatives in the various assemblies that would shape the character of the nation.
An outstanding case is that of José Mariano Serrano, who was twice interim president of Bolivia and former president of the Assembly that declared the Independence of that country.
Forerunner of University Autonomy in Bolivia
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the universities of Latin America received the influence of liberal, positivist and Marxist doctrines, which to some extent inspired the drafting of the Córdoba Manifesto, which in 1918 proclaimed the autonomy of the universities with respect to the state and the church.
This revolutionary current reached San Francisco Xavier in 1922 and 1923, when the government of President Bautista Saavedra Mallea (1870–1939) decided to shut down the operation of the Federation of Students of Chuquisaca with excessive police force. Later, in 1924, while the Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca was celebrating the 300th anniversary of its founding, the student sector issued a Manifesto to the Nation for University Autonomy, arguing for it as the way out of the crisis this house of higher studies had been going through.[8]
This manifesto would unleash a series of student movements at the national level advocating the need to implement autonomy for the universities of the national system.[8]
In 1925, on the occasion of the Centennial of the Republic, the Pedagogical Congress presided over by Dr. Daniel Sánchez Bustamante (1871–1933) expressly declared itself in favor of University Autonomy; he later incorporated University Autonomy into the Statute of Public Education of July 25, 1930.
Then, on September 15, 1927, the Rector of the Royal and Pontifical University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca, Dr. Renato Riverin Azurduy, proposed to the Minister of Instruction, Dr. Víctor Muñoz Reyes, the University Reform "its cornerstone being economic autonomy"; the project was sent to the Legislative Branch in November 1927, but the project was classified as deficient and misguided.
The project of Rector Riverin Azurduy clearly called for granting freedom of teaching, of thought and the free administration of its resources, and therefore economic autonomy. This project was rejected by the government of Hernando Siles Reyes and years later served as the base document for drafting the Decree of July 25, 1930.[8]
Among the most prominent autonomists are Rector Renato Riverin Azurduy, Professor Ramón Chumacero Vargas and Dr. Jaime Mendoza Gonzales, the first rector of San Francisco Xavier once the law putting university autonomy into effect was approved in 1930.
Symbols of the university
University Coat of Arms
Father Juan Frías de Herrán, in issuing the Constitutions in 1624, described the seal and coat of arms of the university as follows:
"And because it is fitting that there be a particular seal to mark the titles of the degrees, and for the other dispatches of the University, a seal shall be made of suitable proportion and size containing within it the arms of the University, which are likewise to be fixed above the main door of the University, placing in the upper part Jesus (IHS), and on the right hand the arms of the King Our Lord, and on the left those of the Lord Patron of the University (the glorious Father Saint Francis Xavier, apostle of the Indies), and in the lower part those of the City, in the form that can best be arranged; and these same are always to be drawn and placed in illumination or painting on all the titles of the Degrees."
On the titles issued, the university seal for Bachelors was the following:
"The upper part divided into two quarters; in the right one the arms of Castile (two towers with two rampant lions), in the left Saint Francis Xavier with a cross in his hand. In the lower quarter the two-headed eagle in the middle of the Pillars of Hercules."[9]
The first coat of arms described is found on the façade of the historic central building of the USFX; this coat of arms is currently not used as the official coat of arms of the university, and most of the university's students and the general population of Sucre are unaware of its existence.
The second coat of arms that Frías de Herrán describes, as the university seal for bachelors' titles, is the one that the university has modernized and adapted for its official use at present.
The current coat of arms of the university is present at many points of the city, on faculty, program and administrative buildings, on historic buildings belonging to the university, and also on monuments. A special case is that the current coat of arms is present on the façade of the historic Casa de la Libertad of the City of Sucre, a building that historically served as the Main Hall or Aula Magna of the Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca and which today is the most important national museum of Bolivia.
University Flag
It was created on July 8, 1944, by the Honorable University Council and the then rector Dr. Aniceto Solares by means of a resolution which, considering that the Seminary of San Cristóbal and the College of San Juan Bautista were the nucleus from which the university would be founded, and that these institutions used red and blue insignia respectively as their emblems, resolved:
Art. 1.- The Flag of the University shall consist of two horizontal stripes, one red and the other blue, and in the center the coat of arms of the University.[9]
The University Flag is carried at all official ceremonies of the university together with the flag of Bolivia. The flag can be seen raised on all the university's buildings on the anniversary of its founding.
Today the color formula and its respective arrangement have become a national symbol representative of the university community, having been adopted over the years by various universities of the Bolivian University System, and they are even the official colors of the Executive Committee of the Bolivian University (CEUB).
University Anthem
Written in a document of 1909 with lyrics by Jorge Suástegui Mendieta and music by Alfredo Jáuregui Rosquellas, taken from the archive of the Casa de la Libertad.[10] The anthem of the USFX is sung at all public events of the university.
| We have no other weapons in the struggle than the study that teaches us to win nor have we any faith but in science nor have we any law but knowledge |
| On the path of the light of the idea of science let us march onward and let us climb up there where shines progress as the only sun |
| Let us raise the august labarum that marks the triumphal road that leads to the dreamed-of goal where the supreme ideal reigns |
| We have no other weapons in the struggle than the study that teaches us to win nor have we any faith but in science nor have we any law but knowledge |
| Let us pursue art, which is glory let us pursue glory, which is light and let us tear apart the mists that ignorance weaves in its dense hood |
| Forward! Science is victory it shall crown us with laurels if we scale the glorious summit ours, ours shall be the future |
| We have no other weapons in the struggle than the study that teaches us to win nor have we any faith but in science nor have we any law but knowledge. |
Structure and Organization
It is administered by an Internal Council and a University Council.
Rectorate: General Secretariat, DTIC, Internal Audit, Institutional Planning and Evaluation, Directorate of International Relations.
Vice-Rectorate: Academic Secretariat, Procedures Office, Academic Commission, Center for Postgraduate Studies and Research (CEPI).
Faculties: Faculty of Agrarian Sciences, Faculty of Architecture and Habitat Sciences, Faculty of Public Accounting and Financial Sciences, Integral Faculty Defenders of the Chaco, Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Faculty of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Dentistry, Faculty of Technology, Faculty of Chemical-Pharmaceutical and Biochemical Sciences, Faculty of Health Technologies, Faculty of Mechanical - Electrical - Electronic Engineering.
Institutes: Institute of Pathology, Blood Bank, Institute of Oncology, Nuclear Institute, Institute of Food Technologies.
Administrative units: Administrative and Financial Directorate, Department of Finance, Department of Infrastructure, Directorate of Social Interaction and University Extension, Directorate of University Welfare, Directorate of Research, Science and Technology, Directorate of Human Resources, Payroll Division, Teaching-Administrative Division.
It also has its own health centers: the USFX University Hospital, the University Social Insurance (SSU) and the Student University Social Insurance (SSUE).
Infrastructure
The university is considered to be set within an urban campus, that is, its various programs, institutes, offices, etc. are located throughout the city, although it is normal for certain buildings of a common faculty to be in the same geographic area, as is the case of the Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences or the Faculty of Science and Technology.
The university's buildings are characteristically white, like the university's historic central building; this distinctive color is used to respect the heritage center of the city of Sucre, which gains its appeal because all the buildings surrounding the old quarter of the city are of this same color.
The rest of the buildings farther from the heritage center are distinguished by their delicately bricked walls, always bearing the name of the program or faculty and a coat of arms of the university in view.
Historic Central Building
It is located in the old quarter of the city of Sucre, with a characteristic white color with golden details. The main administrative and academic offices of the university operate in this building, and it also houses the so-called University Paraninfo, hall of honor or Aula Magna of the University. From the viceregal era to the present, this building has become a characteristic icon of the capital.
On its front stand out the university's coat of arms of 1624 (no longer in use) and the word "Universidad", both highlighted in gold.
Former Faculty of Law
Located just a few meters from the central building of the university, this faculty stands out for the uniformity of what were then the classrooms of the University's Faculty of Law; through these classrooms passed the great thinkers and revolutionaries who influenced the continent with their respective pro-independence movements. Although it housed the courses of only one program, it was called a Faculty because of its majesty and historical importance. This grand building is characterized by the imposing tower of the Church of San Miguel that rises in its background. Today, this building is used as administrative offices of the university and as a library, and important institutional events are also held in its courtyard.
It is in this building that the College of Santiago, the predecessor institution of San Francisco Xavier, was run.
This faculty is depicted on the first-series 100 bolivianos banknote that is still in circulation, with the text "Universidad de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca".
USFX University Campus
It is a campus belonging to the Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca located in the city of Sucre. This campus houses in its facilities the Faculty of Architecture and Habitat Sciences and the Faculty of Civil Engineering, in addition to the offices of the Academic Services Division (DSA). In its vicinity are the Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Health Technological Sciences and one of the buildings of the Technical Faculty.
Academics
Faculties and Programs
The Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca (USFX) has its seat in the City of Sucre (concentrated area) and distributes its various faculties and programs among facilities throughout the city. The university also extends its academic offering to other localities in the territory of Chuquisaca (deconcentrated areas).
The academic structure of the university is divided into 4 major areas of knowledge: Social Sciences and Humanities, Economic and Financial Sciences, Health Sciences, and Technological and Agricultural Sciences. From these areas derive 16 faculties.
The university also has a concentrated campus called the USFX University Campus in the Ex-Refisur area of the City of Sucre, which concentrates several Faculties in its facilities, in addition to academic services offices and other kinds of administrative offices.
The USFX's undergraduate academic offering focuses mainly on the Licentiate level, although it also offers a variety of programs at the Mid-level University Technician (TUM) and Higher University Technician (TUS) levels.
| Faculty | Program | Location |
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| Faculty of Architecture and Habitat Sciences | - USFX University Campus (Ex-Refisur), Sucre. | |
| Faculty of Agrarian Sciences | - Calle Calvo No. 132, Sucre.
- Hernando Siles University Property "El Bañado", Av. Porvenir Final, Monteagudo. - Camargo - Alcalá - Redención Pampa | |
| Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences | - Calle Padilla s/n (Los Álamos Urbanization), Sucre.
- Av. Gualberto Villarroel, north zone, Villa Serrano. | |
| Faculty of Nursing and Obstetrics Sciences | - Calle Honduras s/n, Santa Bárbara zone below Delicias, Sucre.
- Padilla. - Monteagudo. | |
| Faculty of Chemical-Pharmaceutical and Biochemical Sciences | - Calle Dalence No. 51, Sucre.
- Calle Dalence No. 235 (Laboratories), Sucre. - Padilla. - Monteagudo. | |
| Faculty of Science and Technology | - Calle Regimiento Campos 6 de Infantería No. 180, Sucre. | |
| Faculty of Health Technological Sciences | - Calle Germán Mendoza corner of Mejillones s/n, Sucre. | |
| Faculty of Public Accounting and Financial Sciences | - Calle Grau No. 117, Sucre.
- Padilla - Camargo | |
| Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences | - Calle Colombia between Destacamento 220 and Av. Germán Mendoza, Sucre. | |
| Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences | - Calle Nicolás Ortiz No. 182, Sucre. | |
| Faculty of Civil Engineering | - USFX University Campus (Ex-Refisur), Sucre. | |
| Integral Faculty Defenders of the Chaco | - Villa Vaca Guzmán, Muyupampa. | |
| Faculty of Mechanical - Electrical - Electronic Engineering | - Calle Regimiento Campos 6 de Infantería No. 180, Sucre. | |
| Faculty of Medicine | - Calle Colón No. 1, Sucre. | |
| Faculty of Dentistry | - Calle Pastor Sainz corner of Colón, Sucre. | |
| Technical Faculty |
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- Calle Regimiento Campos 6 de Infantería No. 180, Sucre.
- USFX University Campus (Ex-Refisur), Sucre. - Candelaria - Sopachuy |
Since 1985, the university has promoted postgraduate training, whose academic offering is administered by the Center for Postgraduate Studies and Research (CEPI), dependent on the Vice-Rectorate of the USFX, offering each year various programs of Diplomas, Specializations, Master's degrees and Doctorates in different areas of knowledge, not only in Sucre but also at the sub-campuses of La Paz, Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, Potosí and Oruro.
Admission methods
- Admission exam: Admission by Exam, as an evaluation test, is one of the mechanisms by which applicant high school graduates may acquire the status of regular student and continue university studies. It consists of a knowledge exam, a single digital test, differentiated by areas of knowledge with specific subjects and weightings.
- Pre-university courses: Two tests, with respective preparation in courses managed by the university itself, differentiated by areas of knowledge with specific subjects and weightings.
- Science Olympiad: A knowledge competition that grants each of its winners the right to a place in one of the pre-established programs.
- Open admission: Direct admission, in force for higher technical level programs, with certain exceptions: In the City of Sucre: Informatics, Petroleum and Natural Gas (of the Technological area), Interior Design of the (Architecture) Area, Clinical Laboratory (of the Health Sciences area). In deconcentrated programs, Petroleum and Natural Gas T.S. of the (Technological) area, Public Accounting T.S. (of the Financial Sciences area). They may pursue higher studies without having fulfilled the admission exam requirement.
- Best student: The University grants the best high school graduates of each school in Chuquisaca the right to a place in a program of their choice, provided that there is a place available in it, with priority given to those with the highest averages. Admission involves a prior accreditation procedure.
- Special admission: A method of direct admission for professionals or graduates of a university of the system or of entities recognized by it.
- Sporting merit: An extension of the admission exam for young people who represent the Institution, obtaining achievements and recognition at the Departmental, National or International level.
- National agreements: Direct admission of high school graduates within the framework of agreements between the USFX and universities of the Bolivian University system.
- Foreign agreements: Admission of foreign students in accordance with international, bilateral agreements.
Sports
The university has sports teams in Football, Basketball, Volleyball and Futsal. There are currently more than 10 different facilities for practicing them.
Among all these teams, Club Universitario de Sucre stands out; thanks to the format of promotion and relegation to the professional categories of the Bolivian Professional Football League and the Bolivian Football Federation, it was able to become a professional team twice, and even managed to win the professional championship of the aforementioned League (LFPB) twice: the 2008 Bolivian Primera División and the 2013–14 Bolivian Primera División. Consequently, thanks to its most outstanding campaigns, the Club went on to play in the Copa Libertadores de América on 3 occasions and in the Copa Sudamericana on 2.
Club Universitario de Sucre currently plays in the Bolivian second division.
Culture
A group of museums located in the historic center of the city of Sucre depend on the Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca:
- Anthropological Museum, which houses around 3,000 archaeological pieces related to the pre-Hispanic past of various cultures of Bolivia, dating from 1200 BC to the 15th century of our era.
- "Charcas" Colonial Museum, considered one of the most important reference museums of art in Bolivia and South America, houses collections of pictorial works of great value belonging to European masters of Mannerism and the Baroque, as well as by notable artists of the Real Audiencia of Charcas and different viceregal schools of mestizo painting. It possesses valuable collections of painting, sculpture, silverwork and furniture belonging to the viceregal era, consisting of approximately 1,800 works. In the same facilities there is a Gallery of Modern Art with iconic and representative works by artists from Chuquisaca, Bolivia and many other artists from other countries of the continent and the world.
- "Casa Deheza" University Museum of Customs, a colonial building from the year 1800, presents an exhibition of costumes, dresses and objects from the late 19th century and early 20th century, in situations of the popular and daily life of the different social groups; it shows the experience of the golden age that the City of Sucre went through, and conveys the historical context of public, private and popular life based on an extensive collection.
- Dr. Alfredo Gutiérrez Valenzuela Museum, offers the public an abundant collection of decorative objects from renowned European firms that reflect the taste and luxury of the 19th and 20th centuries in Sucre society.
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In addition to museums, sports centers, and administrative, faculty and program buildings, the university owns several historic buildings located in the old quarter of the capital, among which the Gran Mariscal Sucre Theater stands out. The university also has a series of monuments to historical figures at various points in the city, in small squares, squares, etc.
The presence of the university's metropolitan campus, with its 16 faculty units distributed around the city, has led Sucre to be considered the "university city" of Bolivia. According to the data published by the Directorate of Academic Planning and Evaluation of the USFX itself, at the beginning of the 2024 academic year the university had 43,085 students, distributed among 85 programs. Of all of these, 29,281 individuals come from the Department of Chuquisaca, while 13,161 (that is, 30.5%) are natives of departments of the interior of the country and 643 (that is, 1.6% of the total) come from abroad. The distribution of students by departments and countries (abroad) breaks down as follows:
- Chuquisaca: 29,281
- Potosí: 7,801
- Santa Cruz: 1,774
- Tarija: 1,361
- La Paz: 850
- Abroad: 643
- Cochabamba: 626
- Oruro: 497
- Beni: 232
- Pando: 20
The university stands out for its leading role in the conservation, training and dissemination of the cultural and artistic heritage of the Department of Chuquisaca, with museums, theaters and artistic training centers in the capital.
Likewise, Radio Universitaria 94.0 FM - Sucre and Televisión Universitaria - Sucre "TVU" depend on the Royal and Pontifical Major University of San Francisco Xavier of Chuquisaca. The university and its various faculties and programs also produce written publications such as the magazine Expresión, the journal Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, the journal Investigación & Negocios and the Boletín Económico Virtual.
The university has granted Doctor Honoris Causa titles[11] and also grants its characteristic distinction, the Fray Juan Frías y Herrán Medal, to intellectuals and altruists distinguished for their academic merits and their research work.
Notable students
See also
- Spanish universities in the Golden Age
- Universities of Bolivia
- Presidents of Bolivia
- Education in Bolivia
References
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External links
- De la Universidad de Chuquisaca surgió la idea de la Independencia, La Razón, August 6, 2005.
- Universidad de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca
- Casi la mitad de los estudiantes de la U no han nacido en Sucre, Correo Del Sur, March 20, 2024.
