Universidad San Francisco de Quito - Informations

Informations

• Four hundred students participate in the mandatory community service program every semester.
• The university offers approximately 1,500 different courses every semester.
• It receives no funding from the Ecuadorian government.
• The university has a dental and medical clinic that serves the local community.
• Its library features on-line services.
• It has collaborative agreements with over one hundred universities in the United States and around the world.
• The university has a satellite campus on the Galápagos Islands (GAIAS) where it offers full degrees, as well as specialized programs focused on biology and environmental studies.
• It manages, in conjunction with the American Boston University, located in Boston, Massachusetts, the Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS) in the Amazon Basin. The TBS holds record numbers for biodiversity; it is the most diverse place for amphibians in the planet, with 121 species. In the February 1999 issue of National Geographic, journalist Virginia Morell called the TBS "the most remarkable place" after visiting several sites around the world in order to write a series of articles on biodiversity.