Editing Santiago (section)

==Education==
The city is home to numerous universities, colleges, research institutions, and libraries.

The largest university and one of the oldest in the [[Americas]] is [[Universidad de Chile]]. The roots of the university date back to the year 1622, as on 19 August the first university in Chile under the name of Santo Tomás de Aquino was founded. On 28 July 1738, it was named the Real Universidad de [[Philip the Apostle|San Felipe]] in honor of King [[Philip V of Spain]]. In the vernacular, it is also known as Casa de Bello (Spanish: House of Bello – after their first Rector, [[Andrés Bello]]). On 17 April 1839, after Chile's independence from the [[Kingdom of Spain]], it was renamed the Universidad de Chile, and reopened on 17 September 1843.<ref>[http://www.historia.uchile.cl/CDA/fh_article/0,1389,SCID%253D11760%2526ISID%253D489%2526PRT%253D11759%2526JNID%253D12,00.html Fuentes documentales y bibliográficas para el estudio de la historia de Chile. Capítulo III: "La Universidad de Chile 1842 – 1879." 1. La ley orgánica de 1842] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924030337/http://www.historia.uchile.cl/CDA/fh_article/0,1389,SCID%253D11760%2526ISID%253D489%2526PRT%253D11759%2526JNID%253D12,00.html |date=24 September 2015 }} www.uchile.cl</ref>

The [[Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile]] (PUC) was founded in June 1888 and was ranked as the best school in Latin America in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Top 10 Universities in Latin America |url=http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/latin-american-university-rankings/top-10-universities-latin-america-2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208025303/http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings-articles/latin-american-university-rankings/top-10-universities-latin-america-2014 |archive-date=8 February 2015 |access-date=8 February 2015 |publisher=Top Universities}}</ref> On 11 February 1930 it was declared a university by a decree of Pope [[Pius XI]]. It received recognition by the Chilean government as an appointed Pontifical University in 1931. [[Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas]] (1822–1897), [[Archbishop of Anazarba]], was the founder and first rector of the PUC. The PUC is a modern university; the campus of San Joaquin has a number of contemporary buildings and offers many parks and sports facilities. Several courses are conducted in English. Ex-president, [[Sebastián Piñera]], minister [[Ricardo Raineri]], and minister [[Hernán de Solminihac]] all attended PUC as students and worked in PUC as professors. In the 2010 admission process, approximately 48% of the students who achieved the best score in the [[Prueba de Selección Universitaria]] matriculated in the UC.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Los Mejores Puntajes Prefieren la UC – DSRD – PUC |url=http://dsrd.uc.cl/los-mejores-puntajes-prefieren-la-uc |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305144905/http://dsrd.uc.cl/los-mejores-puntajes-prefieren-la-uc |archive-date=5 March 2010 |access-date=13 March 2011 |publisher=DSRD}}</ref>

===Higher education===

====Traditional====
[[File:Casa Central de la Universidad de Chile.jpg|thumb|[[Universidad de Chile]]]]
[[File:Casa Central Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.JPG|thumb|[[Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile]]]]
* [[Universidad de Chile (university)|Universidad de Chile]] (U or UCH)
* [[Pontifical Catholic University of Chile|Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile]] (PUC)
* [[Universidad de Santiago de Chile]] (USACH)
* [[Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación]] (UMCE)
* [[Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana]] (UTEM)
* [[Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María]] (UTFSM)

====Non-traditional====
* [[Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez]] (UAI)
* [[Universidad del Desarrollo]] (UDD)
* [[Universidad Diego Portales]] (UDP)
* [[Universidad Alberto Hurtado]] (UAH)
* [[Universidad Central de Chile]] (Ucen)
* [[Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello]] (Unab)
* [[Academy of Christian Humanism University|Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano]] (UAHC)
* [[Universidad Mayor]] (UM)
* [[Universidad Finis Terrae]]
* [[University of the Andes, Chile|Universidad de Los Andes]]
* [[Universidad Gabriela Mistral]] (UGM)
* [[University of the Pacific (Chile)|Universidad del Pacífico]]
* [[Universidad de las Américas (Chile)|Universidad de las Américas]]
* [[Universidad de Artes, Ciencias y Comunicación]] (UNIACC)
* [[Universidad San Sebastián]] (USS)
* [[Universidad Bolivariana]]

====Other====
* [[Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg]]'s ''Postgraduierten- und Weiterbildungszentrum der Universität Heidelberg'' in [http://www.heidelberg-center.uni-hd.de/ Santiago] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220117041739/http://www.heidelberg-center.uni-hd.de/ |date=17 January 2022 }}
* [[David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies]] (DRCLAS) Regional Office in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100628065109/http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/santiago Santiago ]
* [[Stanford]] Faculty in [http://bosp.stanford.edu/santiago/ Santiago] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715123147/http://bosp.stanford.edu/santiago/ |date=15 July 2011 }}
* [[Diplomatic Academy of Chile]]