Editing Concepción, Chile (section)

==Education==
Concepción is known as "the university city"<ref>{{Cite web |title=Concepción |url=http://www.bblatinamerica.com/es/chile/20-biobio/56-concepcion.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019014107/http://www.bblatinamerica.com/es/chile/20-biobio/56-concepcion.html |archive-date=October 19, 2012 |website=bblatinamerica.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Turismo en Concepción 2017: Vacaciones de verano en Concepción |url=http://www.welcomechile.com/concepcion/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203114648/http://www.welcomechile.com/concepcion/ |archive-date=February 3, 2013 |access-date=January 16, 2013 |website=welcomechile.com}}</ref> thanks to the numerous universities within the urban agglomeration,<ref>{{Cite web |last=www.universia.cl |title=MAPA GEOGRAFICO DE LAS UNIVERSIDADES SOCIAS DE UNIVERSIA |url=http://servicios.universia.cl/contenidos/mapas/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204094950/http://servicios.universia.cl/contenidos/mapas/ |archive-date=December 4, 2013 |access-date=January 16, 2013 |website=universia.cl}}</ref> such as the [[Universidad de Concepción]], [[Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción]] and [[Universidad del Biobío]]. This city also has numerous headquarters for many other universities. In addition, this metropolis has a large educational offer, focused on institutes, centers of technical formation and the universities aforementioned.
[[File:Campanil udec.jpg|thumb|180px|The campanile of the [[Universidad de Concepción]]]]
[[File:San andres ucsc.JPG|thumb|180px|[[Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción]]]]
[[File:Siglo XXI de la Universidad del Bío-Bío.jpg|thumb|180px|Siglo XXI at the [[University of the Bío Bío]]]]
[[File:Uss.jpg|thumb|180px|The [[Universidad San Sebastián]], Concepción headquarters, located at the [[Laguna Las Tres Pascualas]]]]

===Universities===
The University Pencopolitana whose name was '''Pontificia Universidad Pencopolitana de La Concepción''' (Pontifical Pencopolitana University of The Conception) was an old university founded through a decree of the Bishop of Concepción, delivered to the administration of the [[Society of Jesus]] which functioned between the years 1724 and 1767. On May 24, 1751, an [[1751 Concepción earthquake|earthquake]] followed by a [[tsunami]], ravaged the city causing serious damage, including the destruction of the library of the university and all of its funds. As a product of the fury of the waters, a rich collection of texts of the governance of southern Chile were lost, which resulted in a disaster for the culture and collective memory of the city. Due to the natural disasters, it was decided to relocate the city to the called [[Valle de la Mocha]], location where it is currently situated. Slowly the seminary was revived in the new location, in a period of decline in academic activity in Chilean monastic universities after the creation of the [[Universidad de San Felipe]], yet some degrees continued to be granted before the [[Suppression of the Society of Jesus]] in 1767.
The aforementioned University is considered to be the natural and legitimate predecessor of the [[Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción]] (UCSC), erected by the Archbishop of Concepción in 1991, from the [[Talcahuano]] Regional Headquarters of the [[Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile]].

The image of the Pontifical University of Concepción Pencopolitana, is still valid, for His Majesty [[Juan Carlos I of Spain|King Juan Carlos I of Spain]] in his 1990 speech on the occasion of his inauguration as Doctor Honoris Causa in the [[University of Chile]], in Santiago de Chile, said: "The work of the Pontifical University Pencopolitana should not be ignored, even before the creation of the University of San Felipe" (Juan Carlos's account fails to acknowledge the existence of San Felipe's predecessor, the Dominican Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino, from the sixteenth century in Santiago).

Meanwhile, the University of Chile allowed schools in the city to teach courses in law which allowed men to obtain a law degree. Among its students was Henry Urrutia Manzano, who decades later became president of the Supreme Court of Chile.

The [[Universidad de Concepción]] was created in 1919 by a group of citizens including [[Enrique Molina Garmendia]], its first rector.

Eventually, the university began to receive state support, becoming part of the [[Chilean Traditional Universities|traditional universities]], becoming one of the three most important universities in the country, and the most important at the regional level.

====Traditional universities====
* [[Universidad de Concepción]]
* [[Universidad del Bío-Bío]]
* [[Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción]]
* [[Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María]]

====Private universities====
* [[Universidad del Desarrollo]]
* [[Universidad Andrés Bello]]
* [[Universidad de Artes y Ciencias Sociales|Universidad Arcis]]
* [[Universidad San Sebastián]]
* [[Universidad Santo Tomás (Chile)|Universidad Santo Tomás]]
* [[University of the Pacific (Chile)]]
* [[Universidad de las Américas (Chile)|Universidad de Las Américas]]
* [[Universidad Bolivariana]]
* [[Universidad Pedro de Valdivia]]
* [[Universidad La República]]
* [[Universidad de Aconcagua]]
* [[:es:Inacap|Universidad Tecnológica de Chile INACAP]]

===Professional institutes===
* [[Instituto Profesional DuocUC]], of the [[Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile]]
* [[Instituto Profesional Virginio Gómez]], of the [[Universidad de Concepción]]
* [[Instituto Tecnológico de la Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción|Instituto Tecnológico]], of the [[Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción]]
* [[Instituto Profesional Santo Tomás]], of the [[Universidad Santo Tomás (Chile)|Universidad Santo Tomás]]
* [[Instituto Profesional AIEP]], of the [[Universidad Andrés Bello]]
* [[Instituto Profesional La Araucana]]
* [[Instituto Profesional Providencia]]
* [[Instituto de Estudios Bancarios Guillermo Subercaseaux]]
* [[Instituto Profesional Diego Portales]]
* [[Instituto Profesional Crecic]]
* [[Instituto Profesional Placex]]
* [[:es:Inacap|Instituto Profesional INACAP]]

===Primary and secondary schools===
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The city has a French international school, the ''[[Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle (Chile)|Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle]]'' and a German school, the Colegio Alemán de Concepción, and two British schools, the Saint John's School and the Wessex School. The French school is located in the city downtown, the Wessex in Concepcion (nearer to Penco) and the German school and the Saint John's both in the San Pedro de la Paz area.<ref>{{Cite web |title=DSC Colegio Alemán de Concepción - DSC |url=https://www.dsc.cl/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805104650/http://www.dsc.cl/ |archive-date=August 5, 2018 |access-date=June 28, 2018}}</ref>

The defunct [[Concepción College (Concepción, Chile)|Concepción College]] was a parochial girls' day school and boarding school, established in 1878 by the [[Methodist Episcopal Church]].<ref name="Anuario-1893">{{cite book |title=Anuario de la prensa chilena 1892 |date=1893 |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional |location=Santiago de Chile |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6xAAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA41 |access-date=27 July 2022 |language=es}}</ref><ref name="Annual-1908">{{cite book |author1=Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society |title=Annual Report of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church |date=1908 |publisher=The Society |page=461 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6VUxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA461 |access-date=27 July 2022 |language=en}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref>

*[[Liceo Comercial Femenino Concepción]]