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History. The first institution dedicated to higher education in Costa Rica was the University of Saint Thomas (Universidad de Santo Tomás), which was established in 1843.. That institution maintained close ties with the Roman Catholic Church and was closed in 1888 by the progressive and anti-clerical government of President Bernardo Soto Alfaro as part of a campaign to modernize public educa
History. The National University of Costa Rica was created in 1973 in the province of Heredia. Uladislao Gámez Solano, The Minister of Public Education under the government of José Figueres Ferrer, approved the creation of the university on 15 February 1973, through law #5182. Benjamín Núñez Vargas (a Roman Catholic priest, academic and ...
Distance State University (UNED) is focused on distance learning. Its main offices are in Sabanilla district, Montes de Oca canton, and it has many local branch campuses for classes and exams. National Technical University (UTN) in Alajuela. National University of Costa Rica (UNA) is located in Heredia and has a strong department of life ...
www .upeace .org. View of Costa Rica Campus. The University for Peace ( UPEACE) is an international university and intergovernmental organization established as a treaty organisation by the United Nations General Assembly in 1980. [1] The university offers postgraduate, doctoral, and executive [2] programmes related to the study of peace and ...
The Costa Rica Reader: History, Culture, Politics Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2004. Putnam, Lara. The company they kept: migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 (Univ of North Carolina Press, 2002). Sandoval, Carlos.
Coffee production played a key role in Costa Rica's history and in 2006, was the third cash crop export. As a small country, Costa Rica now provides under 1% of the world's coffee production. In 2015, the value of coffee exports was US$305.9 million, a small part of the total agricultural exports of US$2.7 billion.
Universidad Cristiana del Sur. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Universidad Empresarial de Costa Rica. Universidad Hispanoamerica. Universidad Nacional, School for International Relations. Universidad San Juan de la Cruz. University for Peace. Categories: Universities and colleges in Costa Rica.
EARTH University (Universidad EARTH, Escuela de Agricultura de la Región Tropical Húmeda) is a private, non-profit university that offers one program of study: an undergraduate licenciatura degree in agricultural sciences. The university invests in students – predominantly from Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa – working to become ...