The University of Chile is a public university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842 and inaugurated on September 17, 1843, it is the most prestigious in the country. It was established as the continuation of the former colonial Royal University of San Felipe, has a rich history in academic and social outreach; the university seeks to solve national and regional issues and to contribute to the development of Chile. It is recognized as one of the best universities Latin America for its leadership and innovation in science, social sciences, arts through the functions of creation, extension and research, its five campuses comprise more than 3.1 square kilometres of research buildings, health care centers, theaters and sports infrastructure. The institution has more than 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students, offering more than 60 different bachelor and professional degrees, 38 doctoral programs and 116 master programs. Notable alumni include Nobel laureates Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral, twenty Chilean presidents.

The QS University Ranking ranks the University of Chile as the sixth in Latin America and 208 in the world. The school boasts an outstanding 100 points in both Employer Reputation categories; the world ranking of universities, elaborated by Shanghai JiaoTong University and the European Union based on research sciences indicators, places it among the 400 best universities in the world. SCImago Institutions Rankings makes a characterization of institutions based on research and visibility on the web, in 2017 report on investigation, which included more than 4,500 institutions of higher education and other centers in the world, the University of Chile ranked first in Chile, 10 in Latin America and 424 in the world. Another study which highlights the performance of this institution is the Ranking Web of Universities, which measures the presence and impact on the web of over 11,000 universities and qualifies this college as leader of the country, six in Latin America and 371 worldwide. In the 2016 version of the ranking made by AméricaEconomía, University of Chile was ranked first in Chile with the top rating in quality indicators of research, accreditation and inclusion.

In December 21, 2011 the University of Chile was notified by the National Accreditation Commission of the positive evaluation in all obligatory areas and electives. Thus the University is accredited by seven years, the maximum awarded by the agency, for the period between 2011 and 2018; the University of Chile, the Catholic University and the University of Concepción are the only institutions in this country that have the highest accreditation. In 1841 the minister of public education, Manuel Montt, conceived the idea of funding a corporation for the "advancement and development of sciences and humanities". Andrés Bello a Venezuelan poet and humanist, formulated the project which with small modifications became a law on November 19, 1842, creating the Universidad de Chile; the foundation answered the need to modernize the country which a little more than two decades before had become independent from Spain. It replaced the Real Universidad de San Felipe, established in 1738; the University was formally opened on September 17, 1843.

During this period, the university consisted of five faculties: Humanities & Philosophy, Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Law & Political Sciences and Theology. During its first years the University gave considerable support to education, institutional organization, the building of the road network to join together the territory, the energy and production infrastructure. By 1931, the number of colleges had increased to six: Philosophy & Education Sciences, Legal & Social Sciences, Biology & Medical Sciences, Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Agronomy & Veterinary, Fine Arts; the institution has contributed to the formation of the intellectual elites and leaders of the country. Most of the Chilean presidents have studied in its lecture halls, as well as people with prominent roles in politics and culture. During Augusto Pinochet's military regime from 1973 to 1989, the University experienced many profound changes. On October 2, 1973, Decree number 50 of 1973 stated that the University's presidents would be designated by the military regime.

The second major change came on January 3, 1981, when another decree restructured the University. All of its provincial campuses were separated, cojoined with provincial campuses of the Universidad Técnica del Estado and designated as separate universities, such as the Universidad de Talca, Universidad de Valparaiso, the Instituto Pedagógico, the Universidad de Antofagasta, the Universidad de Tarapacá, Instituto Professional de Osorno, Instituto Professional de Chillán, Universidad de la Frontera, Universidad de la Serena; some faculties, such as the one located in avenida Portugal and which now belongs to the Universidad Mayor, were privatized and sold at bargain prices to Pinochet cronies. These changes were orchestrated by influential advisors to the dictatorship as a way to moderate the University's influence on the nation's politics, public policies and intellectual movements, considered leftist by Augusto Pinochet and other righ

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