Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción

The Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción is an autonomous Catholic university founded on July 10, 1991, based in Concepción, serving the Biobío and Ñuble regions.

It has eight faculties —Theology, Law, Science, Education, Medicine, Engineering, Economics and Administrative Sciences, and Communication, History and Social Sciences— plus a Technological Institute. It offers 53 professional and technical undergraduate degrees and 34 postgraduate programs, including doctorates, and is in its sixth accreditation process.