Current Division or Classification of Traditional Universities in Chile
These universities can be divided into two groups:
- Properly traditional universities, the eight universities existing in 1981: Universidad de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Universidad Austral de Chile, Universidad Católica del Norte, Universidad de Concepción, Universidad de Magallanes, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (formerly Universidad Técnica del Estado) and Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María.
- Derivative universities: universities formed by separating a faculty or campus from a traditional one or by merging two campusses, one belonging to Universidad de Chile and the other, to Universidad Técnica del Estado. For example, what now is the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación in 1981 was the Education Faculty of the University of Chile; the present-day Universidad de La Frontera in 1981 was the University of Chile, Temuco Campus, and the Technical University of the State, Temuco Campus; and the present Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción in 1991 was the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Talcahuano campus. The Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana (known by its acronym, UTEM) was founded on August 30, 1993.
Currently, there are three types of universities, classified according to characteristics:
- State-owned universities (universidades estatales). These are the Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Santiago de Chile and derivative universities, which in the 1980s were constituted from the regional campuses of the former two.
- Universities of the Catholic Church. Similarly to the regional estatales, most of these were created from the regional campuses of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in the 1970s.
- Three private universities, owned by non-profit foundations. These are the Universidad Austral de Chile, the Universidad de Concepción (founded by the citizens of Concepción), and the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, created by the last will and testament of Federico Santa María Carrera.
Twenty-five traditional universities are today grouped in the Consejo de Rectores (Rectors' Council). Since the 1970s, these universities have managed a common higher education admissions test known as the Prueba de Aptitud Académica ("scholastic-aptitude test") and, since 2003, as the Prueba de Selección Universitaria ("university-selection test").
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