Adolfo Ibáñez University
university in Santiago, Chile
The Adolfo Ibáñez University (Spanish: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez) (UAI) is a private research university in Santiago, Chile, associated with the Adolfo Ibáñez Foundation. In 1988, in accordance with new educational legislation, a new university was founded based on the Valparaiso Business School (Escuela de Negocios de Valparaiso), an older institution for professional teaching in business administration founded in 1953 by Adolfo Ibáñez Boggiano. The newer university would take its name some decades later.
In the Chilean higher educational scheme, UAI is a private university accredited in the country by the Comisión Nacional de Acreditación (CNA) and internationally by the Triple Accreditation.
The Adolfo Ibañez University is ranked the 1st Private University in Chile by América Economía and the CSIC (Spanish institution for University research).
History
The Valparaiso Business School (Escuela de Negocios de Valparaíso), was established in 1953 under the protection of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso. It is noted for being the first educational institution in Chile to offer the business administration career, as well as one of pioneers in Latin America.
In 1995, the humanistic subjects were introduced into the career to make a little change in the students of a career like Business administration.
In the early 1970s, the alliance between the business school and the university was broken, and after a few years of autonomy, a new alliance was signed with the Federico Santa María Technical University, a new association that would remain until the late 1980s.
In 1979, it became the first business school to introduce an MBA program in Chile.
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