Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
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| Motto | "Veritas et Scientia" (Truth and Science) |
| Established | September 9, 1962 |
| Type | Private, Catholic |
| Rector | Agripino Núñez Collado |
| Location | Santiago de los Caballeros , Puerto Plata, and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| Website | http://www.pucmm.edu.do/ |
"Pontifical Catholic University Mother and Teacher" Spanish: "Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra" (PUCMM) is the private, Catholic university in the Dominican Republic and is considered the country's premier institution of higher education. PUCMM has several "firsts", like being the first private university in the country and the first in offering Industrial, Electrical, Mechanical and Electronics Engineering. At this very moment PUCMM is the only university in the Dominican Republic offering Telematics Engineering. PUCMM is also the institution in charge of assigning the internet domains in the Dominican Republic.
It was founded on September 9, 1962, and opened its doors on November 15th of that year. Its main campus is in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, and it has smaller campus extensions in Puerto Plata, and Santo Domingo. The main campus offers a variety of degrees ranging from health sciences, to trade school associate degrees. It offers graduate level degrees, and dual degrees with associated universities in the United States and France. Its current rector is Agripino Núñez Collado.
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The students at PUCMM are generally very well off and are not average Dominicans, though they may think they are. They are very fashion oriented; the men wear Pumas, fitted jeans and polo shirts, while the women wear even tighter jeans, high heels, matching jewelry, and would never leave home without a full face of makeup. Students do not wear backpacks, though the females always carry purses with them. Their notebooks are very feminine and often have pictures of kittens or butterflies.
Dominicans love to chat, and so the students spend a lot of their time between classes (and sometimes during) on campus talking, especially around the "kiosko", a kiosk in the middle of campus that sells food, beverages, and provides seats and shelter from the almost daily rain showers.
There appear to be hardly any copyright laws in the Dominican Republic, because textbooks rarely exist at PUCMM; rather, professors make a photocopied packet of all the articles they expect their students to read, and place them in the copyroom at the kiosk for students to make copies of. The majority of students study medicine.
