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San Francisco University of Quito ( USFQ ) — private nonprofit higher education institution in Ecuador. USFQ began its work in the year 1988. The main building of the university proudly stands in Quito inside an urban campus.
The composition of the university.
San Francisco University of Quito is medium in scale, teaching no more than 9 thousand students at a time. Foreign citizens can submit their applications along with the local students. USFQ has around 8% of foreign students. The education is conducted by 400 teachers and professors. The majority of academic staff at USFQ consists of foreign specialists. The university participates in a variety of international exchange programs between students and academic staff. The university is present on social media: Flickr , Twitter , Facebook , Linkedin , so if you want to know more about its daily happenings and events this is the place to go.
Infrastructure of USFQ.
There is a library on the campus. In addition to the Asociación Latinoamericana de Población (ALAP) the university is also a part of the following associations — Institute Paul Bocuse Worldwide Alliance, Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE), Centro Latinoamericano de Innovación Logística (CLI).
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Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) is an Ecuadorian private non-profit liberal-arts university. Founded in 1988, USFQ was the first totally private self-financed university in Ecuador. It is known as a liberal arts institution that promotes the quest for knowledge, individual liberties, and the entrepreneurial spirit as a means for the development of Ecuadorian society through excellence in teaching, supported by qualified and committed faculty, comprehensive and rigorous curricula, and adequate resources. Goodness, beauty, and truth are the guiding principles under which the university was created. USFQ students shall have instilled in them a passion for learning, love for justice, and the need for freedom in order to be citizens of the world objectively celebrating differences and strongly promoting free enterprise as a means for a better future The university now enrolls 5,000 students, 3,300 of whom are undergraduates. Although USFQ receives no funding from the government of Ecuador, its 230 full-time and 450 part-time faculty comprise one-half of all the people in that nation who hold a doctorate. Their main campus is located in Cumbaya, outside Quito, recognized as the most beautiful campus in the country, students enjoy of their library, wireless connection, laboratories, classrooms and seven themed restaurants….