University of the Andes, Chile

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University of the Andes
Universidad de los Andes

Established:	September 8, 1989
Type:	Private, Roman Catholic
Chancellor:	Orlando Poblete I.
Faculty:	785 professors
Students:	4,800
Location:	Santiago, Chile
Campus:	Santiago (100.1 acres)
Website:	http://www.uandes.cl/ (in Spanish)

The University of the Andes (Uandes) (Spanish: "Universidad de Los Andes") is a conservative Catholic university located in Santiago, Chile. It is particularly known for the MBA program at its graduate business school, ESE Business School, but it also has many other degrees.Each year a growing number of foreign students from South America come to this university to study medicine in its medicine school.

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It was founded on September 8, 1989 as a corporate work of the apostolate of Opus Dei. In 1990 it opened a law faculty. Its medicine faculty (inaugurated in 1991, the first Chilean private university to do so), is nowadays within the three best in Chile, according to yearly press surveys and its National Medical Exam results in the last five years.^{[citation needed]}