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National University of Chimborazo (Unach) was

born as a sign of transformation of the city of

Riobamba, which struggled to have a university,

capable of training the greatest human talent, in

order to promote local development. In this

historical context, since 1995 we have offered

quality education, leading new scientific proces-

ses that allow us to become leaders in knowled-

ge creation and academia in Ecuador.

Our current administration focuses its work on

constantly evaluating all the academic

programs, in order to guarantee their quality and

relevancy. It also centers attention on the gene-

ration of national and international relations with

public and private institutions, to jointly face the

youth´s training needs, processes of permanent

improvement, team action, intellectual produc-

tion and the desire to excel of the members of

the university community.

OUR HISTORY

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF

CHIMBORAZO

Nicolay Samaniego Erazo, Ph.D.

RECTOR

The National University of Chimborazo has three domains, which constitute the strengths and

potentialities in certain areas of its actions, which respond to the needs of Zone 3; they address

social problems such as health, education, housing, economy, democratic and citizen

institutions, territoriality, productivity, habitat and quality of life. These are:

1. Health as a social product, oriented to Good Living.

2. Socioeconomic and educational development for the strengthening of democratic and

citizen institutions.

3. Territorial development, productive and sustainable habitat to improve the quality of life.

RESEARCH DOMAINS

In 2014, Riobamba was declared "Academia

City", as a recognition of the work, influence and

social development, generated by its higher

education institutions. Unach, as a part of this

process, promotes the internationalization of the

local culture, as well as its scientific and

economic production, which has unique

characteristics to share with the world.

Riobamba was founded in the sixteenth

century B. C. by the Spanish community,

settled in the ancient capital of the indigenous

people called "Puruháes", who inhabited the

region from the 6th century B.C. At the

moment, it occupies a different territory, due to

the destruction of the city in 1797, expanding

from the old historical center towards the four

cardinal points.

OUR CITY

The city sponsors an Economic Development

Agenda, in which our university is involved, to

create value-adding spaces to boost the local

agriculture production and the tourism industry,

among others. To meet this need, Unach

stablished in 2018 the Innovation and

Entrepreneurship Network together with other 7

universities in the region. One of our goals is to

industrialize and export traditional products such

as chocho, quinoa, amaranth and sangorache,

after discovering a new nutraceutical and

biopharmaceutical potential of these Andean

plants.

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OURINTERNATIONALIZATIONMISSION

With the maturity reached in our 23 years of institutional life, Unach has

debated the concept of internationalization, trying to answer the ques-

tion: What model will frame our actions against the problems of globali-

zation ?

In this context, we are focused on cultivating a cosmopolitan culture, we

reformulate our curricula in order to train global professionals, we enhan-

ced our faculty and student mobility programs and we developed colla-

borative research relationships

Located on Av. Antonio José de Sucre, Km. 1

½, Riobamba –Ecuador. It is our largest

campus, where three of our four schools

operate, in addition to the administrative

offices, the Olympic pool, gymnasium,

coliseum, theater and auditoriums.

It is the historic campus of our university,

located on Av. Eloy Alfaro and 10 de Agosto.

Formerly, the buildings from this campus

where used as an academy for priests. In

1990 all of them where donated by Bishop

Leonidas Proaño Villalba, Bishop of

Riobamba to the University. The Faculty of

Education, Humanities and Technologies

and the Office of the Vice-Rector for

Postgraduate Studies and Research

operate on this campus.

It is the institution's newest campus,

located on Duchicela and Princesa Toa

streets. Our Architecture and Dentistry

undergraduate programs operate here, as

well as an attention office of the National

Assembly of Ecuador. This campus has one

of the most beautiful historical buildings of

Riobamba, called "Casona Universitaria", a

building of the early twentieth century, with

a privileged view of the city.

OURCAMPUSESNorth Campus

Campus La Dolorosa

Downtown Campus

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OURUNDERGRADUATE

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We offer 31 undergraduate programs, which

are part of four school. Currently, we have

10,012 students from all of our schools; each

year we receive around 9,000 applications, and

we accept around 1800 people.

Education Sciences Humanities and Technologies School

This is the oldest academic unit of our University, with 49 years of

existence, in which teaching, research, and university extension is carried

out in order to train professionals highly trained, with the necessary

knowledge to analyze, interpret and propose solutions to the problems of

learning and education, through pedagogical, didactic and

methodological activities

Graphic Design

Pedagogy of History and Social Sciences

Pedagogy of mathematics and physics

Pedagogy of computer science

Pedagogy of Chemistry and Biology

Pedagogy in Arts and Humanities

Pedagogy of national and foreign languages

Basic Education

Initial Education

Pedagogy of Language and Literature

Psychopedagogy

Pedagogy of Physical Education and Sport

Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design

Bachelor’s degree in Pedagogy of History and Social Sciences

Bachelor in Mathematics and Physics Pedagogy

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Pedagogy

Bachelor’s degree in Pedagogy of Chemistry and Biology

Bachelor’s degree of Pedagogy in Arts and Humanities

Bachelor’s degree in Pedagogy of the English LanguageBachelor’s degree of Science in Basic Education

Bachelor’s degree of Science in Initial Education

Bachelor’s degree Pedagogy in Language and Literature

Bachelor’s degree of Psychopedagogy

Bachelor’s degree in Pedagogy of Physical Education and Sport

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Engineering School

This academic unit creates administrative, academic and scientific

processes in order to train humanists professionals, that are innovators

and entrepreneurs who contribute to solve the country's biggest

problems; offering quality education services, permanent staff training,

and guarantying the right allocation of resources in order to implement

new research project.

Telecommunications Engineering

Environmental Engineering

Civil Engineering

Industrial Engineering

Information Technology Engineering

Agro-Industry Major

Architecture

Telecommunications Engineer

Environmental Engineer

Civil Engineer

Industrial Engineer

Information Technology Engineer

Agro-industry Engineer

Architect

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Health Sciences School

This is an academic and administrative unit, which aims to train highly qualified

professionals in the careers of: Physical and Sports Therapy, Clinical and

Histopathological Laboratory, Clinical Psychology, Nursing, Odontology and Medicine.

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Medicine

Nursing

Dentistry

Bachelor’s degree in Physical and Sporting Therapy

Health Sciences in Clinical and Histopathological Laboratory

Clinical Psychology

General Practitioner

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing

Dentistry

Bachelor’s degree of Physiotherapy

Bachelor’s degree in Clinical and Histopathological Laboratory

Clinical Psychology

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Political and Administrative Sciences School

This is the youngest academic unit of the university, which sustains its work in scientific

and technological knowledge, in the practice of humanistic, moral and cultural values,

in order to train professionals and researchers in the legal, economic, social and

administrative fields.

Business Administration

Communication

Law

Economy

Accounting and auditing

Tourism

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration

Bachelor’s degree in Communication

Lawyer

Economist

Bachelor of Accounting and Auditing

Bachelor’s degree in Tourism

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STUDENTBENEFITS

The Department of “Students and University Welfare” is an

administrative unit responsible for providing an environment of

respect, ethical values, physical, psychological and sexual

integrity of the students, teachers, and administrative collabora-

tors of the Institution; provides vocational and professional

guidance services, scholarships, financial aid, medical-dental

service, among others.

It is a unit formed by a multidisciplinary team of health profes-

sionals (doctors, dentists, nurses and laboratory technologist)

whose objective is to provide quality medical, dental, clinical

and nursing laboratory services to our students, teachers and

administrative personal.

A scholarship can be granted on the total or partial amount of the Ecuadorian basic salary, according

to the case. All regular students are eligible for a scholarship, from their second to their last semester

of their education program. The monthly economic amount that is given varies depending on the

annual budget and the number of beneficiaries of each academic period.

Student Wellness

Medical Department

Scholarships

Socio-economic condition

Academic performance

Cultural

Disabilities

Research

Sports

All students enrolled at Unach receive medical insurance, against possible accidents and even

in cases of death, which constitutes an economic aid that is delivered to finance the expenses

acquired during fortuitous events.

Life and accident insurance

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North Campus 1 stadium,1 coliseum,1 pool,1 gym,external basketball courts, índor and ecuavoley.

Campus La Dolorosa1 Coliseum,external basketball courts,índor and ecuavoley.

All of our sportive spaces count with the appropriate facilities

for the practice of a particular sport, including indoor and

outdoor spaces. All of the members from our community have

free access to all of our spaces.

Sports and Cultural Scenarios

All students enrolled at Unach have their own e-mail address, which serves as the main chan-nel to receive information about the activities carried out at our institution.

Email

To obtain a Wi-Fi key and access to free wireless Internet within all the university campuses, students must access Unach website, following the steps detailed on the site: www.unach.edu.ec, option electronic services.

Wireless network registration

(wifi)STUDENTSERVICES

Central Library

Concentrates the texts of the of Health Sciences,

Engineering and Political and Administrative

Sciences Schools and it is located on the ground

floor of the Educational Technology Center

building, on the North campus.

Open Shelf Library

Located on the second floor of the Building of

Education, Humanities and Technologies, at the

Dolorosa campus. It has books and other

exclusive publications of this specific school.

Scientific Databases (Virtual Library)

It consists of high quality and specialized

information banks. Mainly, it concentrates

indexed and research journal as well as digital

books.

System of LibrariesAll the Libraries at the National

University of Chimborazo, constitute a

system of management of resources of

identification, collection, conservation

and organization of scientific, technical

and cultural information, so that they

contribute with the intellectual and

professional development of the

students, professors, researchers and

the public, in general. These spaces are

actively contributing to social progress;

there are three areas within the Library

System:

Cultural scenarios Each one of our four schools have an auditorium for cultural and academic activities. In addition, the institution has one of the best places in the central region of Ecuador for the realization of artistic and cultural events. This space includes our Theater, where our commencement events take place every semester and where the best artistic events of the city have been developed.

In addition, the university offers cultural training workshops where students can participate and improve their knowledge in music, theater and magic clubs.

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Graphic Design

Pedagogy of History and Social Sciences

Pedagogy of mathematics and physics

Pedagogy of computer science

Pedagogy of Chemistry and Biology

Pedagogy in Arts and Humanities

Pedagogy of national and foreign languages

Basic Education

Initial Education

Pedagogy of Language and Literature

Psychopedagogy

Pedagogy of Physical Education and Sport

Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design

Bachelor’s degree in Pedagogy of History and Social Sciences

Bachelor in Mathematics and Physics Pedagogy

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Pedagogy

Bachelor’s degree in Pedagogy of Chemistry and Biology

Bachelor’s degree of Pedagogy in Arts and Humanities

Bachelor’s degree in Pedagogy of the English LanguageBachelor’s degree of Science in Basic Education

Bachelor’s degree of Science in Initial Education

Bachelor’s degree Pedagogy in Language and Literature

Bachelor’s degree of Psychopedagogy

Bachelor’s degree in Pedagogy of Physical Education and Sport

UNIVERSITYEXTENSION

These are integral, interdisciplinary and multidis-

ciplinary programs or projects of communitarian

service projects, understanding this as the

modality of learning of an ethical-pedagogical

nature, which establishes the articulation

between the theoretical-methodological and

professional performances, destined to strategic

sectors and social networks in context of vulne-

rability.

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In order to graduate at out University,

students must complete 6 semesters in a

foreign language. Our language center

provides quality education in English and

French. Additionally, the center offers transla-

tion services as well as language adaptation

short courses for foreign students.

Language Center

Another graduation requirement is to com-

plete 3 semesters on sport training, in the

discipline of the student’s chose, including

Basketball, Dance, Self Defense, Soccer,

Volleyball; And swimming. Additionally, the

center generates several activities, in which

all students can be involved, such as athletic

races “Unach 5K”, and championship in order

to motivate students to be involved in sporti-

ve activities.

Sports Center

OUR EDUCATIONSUPPORT CENTERS

OurCampuses

North Campus

Campus La Dolorosa

Downtown Campus