Autonomous University of Bucaramanga

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The Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga (Autonomous University of Bucaramanga) is a private post-secondary education institution in Bucaramanga, Colombia. It was founded in 1952 under the name of Instituto Caldas. In 1956 the instiution was recognized as a law school, and became a university under the current name in 1987. Administration, Law and Public Accounting are its oldest programs, although it currently offers 19 programs in a wide variety of fields.

From their beginnings, the University has had as guide the execution of its missions; a cultural one: the conservation and enrichment of the national culture; a scientist: the investigation and the progress of the science; a professional: the preparation of the experts and the technicians that it requires the society; an educational one: the student's integral formation and the development of their personality; a social one: the service to the community, the diffusion of sciences and the elevation of the patriotic and moral spirit. All this inspired by the teaching freedom and of investigation.

Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga has been characterized by its cultural impulse in the region, offering diverse academic programs, among which it stands out the program of Right for its high level of quality and its internships in the Tribunal Internacional de La Haya.

Other academic programs it can stand out that of Medicine like an enriching program equally in investigation and genetics, among others.

The Ability of Social Communication, with their two emphases, Organizational and Journalism, it was credited by Consejo Nacional de Acreditación of Colombia by six years like program of High Quality, becoming this way one of the six abilities of Communication of the country with this title. Also, UNAB received the certification of Acreditación of international Quality that grants the Consejo Latinoamericano deAcreditación de la Educación en Periodismo, CLAEP that stands out the "execution of the norms of quality and excellence in the formation of journalists for the period 2006-2012" and it locates it like one of the ten better programs of Latin America.

The two recognitions sink to other important achievements of the Ability of Social Communication of the UNAB in the last year, among those that deserve to stand out: the best position at national level in the tests of academic quality, Ecaes; the reward given to the Periódico 15, organ of practical of the students of the Ability, as the "better university newspaper" of Colombia, besides another dozen of recognitions that has added in only three years of circulation. The last of them, the Simón Bolívar Prize, in the category better Interview that the journalist Pastor Virviescas received, current boss of Writing of that means.