• 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

• Students with unemployed parents, students from low income households, single mothers or students who have to work to support their families: this is the situation of more than 2,300 youngsters who entered Universidad de Santiago this year, thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government. All of them have something in common: they had lost all hope of pursuing higher education.

This important benefit bridges gaps and opens new paths to inclusion and promotes equity and social mobility, confirming that education is a right and not a consumer good.

“As a mother, I thought I had to quit my future, because you cannot afford a degree when you are paid the minimum wage. My parents could not help me either. This is as a godsend, because the possibility of studying at no cost was just a beautiful aspiration,” Eillene Zúñiga, a student at the Computing and Informatics Engineering program, said.

“I come from another university and this is an incentive to complete my program. I am being provided with the tools I require to focus on studying,” Gustavo Hurtado, a student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

“It is important to us to have access to tuition-free education, without grants or complementary loans, because you start feeling that education- although the benefit is still  for some students- is for us, that it is not a business for which we have to pay millions,” Catalina Yáñez, another student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

For his part, Alejandro Marín says that his father is currently unemployed, so he could not think of any possibility of entering the university. “This will help me to focus on studying and my only goal will be to complete the Publicity program,” he said.

Finally, Alejandra Gallardo’s case is not different from the ones above. She is the first person of her family to enter higher education. “I am very happy. I have never thought of it, as my mother works at a fruit and vegetable market. She considers attending the Building Technology program a “big challenge”.

Thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government, they have now the possibility of pursuing higher education.

Translated by Marcela Contreras

• As the Executive Director of the Propedéutico Program of Universidad de Santiago and on behalf of academics from five national higher education institutions with inclusion experiences, professor Lorna Figueroa took part in the 4th Latin-American Conference on Higher Education Dropout (Medellín, Colombia), presenting an article that collects the experiences of universities that have successfully implemented the Propedéutico program, like Universidad de Santiago, among others.

 The initiatives driven by Universidad de Santiago to promote inclusion and equity in the access to higher education have been highly valued both in Chile and abroad. Recently, in Colombia, an article on the experience of Propedéutico programs in our country was awarded recognition. This project has been supported from the beginning by our state and public University.

• 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

• Students with unemployed parents, students from low income households, single mothers or students who have to work to support their families: this is the situation of more than 2,300 youngsters who entered Universidad de Santiago this year, thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government. All of them have something in common: they had lost all hope of pursuing higher education.

This important benefit bridges gaps and opens new paths to inclusion and promotes equity and social mobility, confirming that education is a right and not a consumer good.

“As a mother, I thought I had to quit my future, because you cannot afford a degree when you are paid the minimum wage. My parents could not help me either. This is as a godsend, because the possibility of studying at no cost was just a beautiful aspiration,” Eillene Zúñiga, a student at the Computing and Informatics Engineering program, said.

“I come from another university and this is an incentive to complete my program. I am being provided with the tools I require to focus on studying,” Gustavo Hurtado, a student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

“It is important to us to have access to tuition-free education, without grants or complementary loans, because you start feeling that education- although the benefit is still  for some students- is for us, that it is not a business for which we have to pay millions,” Catalina Yáñez, another student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

For his part, Alejandro Marín says that his father is currently unemployed, so he could not think of any possibility of entering the university. “This will help me to focus on studying and my only goal will be to complete the Publicity program,” he said.

Finally, Alejandra Gallardo’s case is not different from the ones above. She is the first person of her family to enter higher education. “I am very happy. I have never thought of it, as my mother works at a fruit and vegetable market. She considers attending the Building Technology program a “big challenge”.

Thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government, they have now the possibility of pursuing higher education.

Translated by Marcela Contreras

• As the Executive Director of the Propedéutico Program of Universidad de Santiago and on behalf of academics from five national higher education institutions with inclusion experiences, professor Lorna Figueroa took part in the 4th Latin-American Conference on Higher Education Dropout (Medellín, Colombia), presenting an article that collects the experiences of universities that have successfully implemented the Propedéutico program, like Universidad de Santiago, among others.

 The initiatives driven by Universidad de Santiago to promote inclusion and equity in the access to higher education have been highly valued both in Chile and abroad. Recently, in Colombia, an article on the experience of Propedéutico programs in our country was awarded recognition. This project has been supported from the beginning by our state and public University.

• Students with unemployed parents, students from low income households, single mothers or students who have to work to support their families: this is the situation of more than 2,300 youngsters who entered Universidad de Santiago this year, thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government. All of them have something in common: they had lost all hope of pursuing higher education.

This important benefit bridges gaps and opens new paths to inclusion and promotes equity and social mobility, confirming that education is a right and not a consumer good.

“As a mother, I thought I had to quit my future, because you cannot afford a degree when you are paid the minimum wage. My parents could not help me either. This is as a godsend, because the possibility of studying at no cost was just a beautiful aspiration,” Eillene Zúñiga, a student at the Computing and Informatics Engineering program, said.

“I come from another university and this is an incentive to complete my program. I am being provided with the tools I require to focus on studying,” Gustavo Hurtado, a student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

“It is important to us to have access to tuition-free education, without grants or complementary loans, because you start feeling that education- although the benefit is still  for some students- is for us, that it is not a business for which we have to pay millions,” Catalina Yáñez, another student at the Informatics Civil Engineering program, said.

For his part, Alejandro Marín says that his father is currently unemployed, so he could not think of any possibility of entering the university. “This will help me to focus on studying and my only goal will be to complete the Publicity program,” he said.

Finally, Alejandra Gallardo’s case is not different from the ones above. She is the first person of her family to enter higher education. “I am very happy. I have never thought of it, as my mother works at a fruit and vegetable market. She considers attending the Building Technology program a “big challenge”.

Thanks to the tuition-free education program enacted by the Government, they have now the possibility of pursuing higher education.

Translated by Marcela Contreras

• As the Executive Director of the Propedéutico Program of Universidad de Santiago and on behalf of academics from five national higher education institutions with inclusion experiences, professor Lorna Figueroa took part in the 4th Latin-American Conference on Higher Education Dropout (Medellín, Colombia), presenting an article that collects the experiences of universities that have successfully implemented the Propedéutico program, like Universidad de Santiago, among others.

 The initiatives driven by Universidad de Santiago to promote inclusion and equity in the access to higher education have been highly valued both in Chile and abroad. Recently, in Colombia, an article on the experience of Propedéutico programs in our country was awarded recognition. This project has been supported from the beginning by our state and public University.