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The "Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario" (Our Lady of the Rosary Major College University) is a university originally founded on Roman Catholic principles, in 1653 by Fray Cristobal de Torres. Located in Bogotá, Colombia, due to its important place in Colombian history, it is known as "the cradle of the republic". Most faculties reside in the main campus in the historic-geographical centre of Bogotá in the historic district of La Candelaria. Now days this institution is based on secular ideas and is very influential in Colombian culture and public life. At least 28 of the Colombia's presidents have been students of this university and it has influenced and participated in very important transitional processes like the revolution for the independence from Spain and the Political National Constitution of 1991. As a curious fact one of the most important times of the 1886 Constitution's Supreme Court (1936), the so called golden court, was composed in its majority by lawyers from the Faculty of Jurisprudence.
Currently, the University has seven faculties and one school which offer both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. There are a total of 20 undergraduate programs:
- Faculty of Jurisprudence (Law)
- Faculty of Medicine
- Faculty of Rehabilitation and Human Development
- Physiotherapy
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Faculty of Business Administration
- Business Administration
- International Businees Administration
- Logistic and Production Administration
- Faculty of Economics
- Economics
- International Finance and Trade
- Faculty of Political Science and Government
- Political Science and Government
- Urban Administration and Development
- Faculty of International Relations
- School of Human Sciences
- Anthropology
- History
- Philosophy
- Sociology
- Journalism and Public Opinion
- Studies of Liberal Arts in Social Sciences
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