• The 14^th version of the SIAD Universities’ Fair, the most important professional and vocational guidance fair for high school students in the country, was successfully held last week.

Between October 05^th and 07^th, the SIAD 2016 Universities’ Fair was held at the Estación Mapocho Cultural Center. The activity gathered more than 48 thousand high school students and Universidad de Santiago de Chile was one of the institutions promoting its educational programs in the activity.

More than the 80% of the Chilean higher education institutions and some foreign institutions participated in this version of the fair, considered as the most important professional and vocational guidance and vocational services fair in the country, occasion in which Universidad de Santiago de Chile presented, for the first time, its new Law Program that will be offered as from 2017.

Dr Patricia Pallavicini Magnere, Academic Vice President of Universidad de Santiago, says that the fair offers the advantage of gathering together most of the higher education institutions in the country.

“In this way, students are able to learn in the same place about different institutions, programs, curricula, study plans and the focus of each program. With this information, they can compare different options and make informed decisions,” she says.

New Law School

Pallavicini also highlights the inclusion of the Law Program among Universidad de Santiago’s educational offer.

“We be able to offer this program for the first time in 2017. The admission will be mostly via PSU test and also through a special admission process. We expect to have 80 students enrolled in the program,” she says. 

Likewise, she says that students who already entered the Bachelor’s program will also have the possibility of applying for a slot in the Law program.

During the fair, the students showed high interest for this new Law School. They also requested information about other programs, like Medicine, Mathematical Engineering, Industrial Civil Engineering, Pedagogy, Translation and other programs in the field of Humanities.

Admission Process 2017

Universidad de Santiago will begin its 2017 Admission Process on October 14^th this year. “We will inform about it through the media. This process is a joint and continuous work between the Academic Vice Presidency’s Admission Department and the different faculties,” Dr Pallavicini says.

Universidad de Santiago’s Admission Fair is scheduled for December 26^th, 27^th and 28^th this year.

Translated by Marcela Contreras