Two decades have passed by since we initiated the challenging task of contributing to the development of the country by educating well-rounded and entrepreneurial professionals. After twenty years, we witness a history of sustained growth, innovation and leadership in Higher Education.  The first indication of this spirit is evidenced in our foundation in 1988, when in place of creating an academic offer involving low investment degree programs – also called “chalk and black-board” programs – we decided to bet on a scientific-technological educational offer.  Civil Engineering and Architecture became our first two degree programs, constituting an unprecedented event within the setting of the rising private Chilean Higher Educational system. The years ahead witnessed an accelerated growth.

In 1989 we were the first private university to offer Agriculture and Forest Engineering; in 1991, the first to offer Veterinary Medicine and six years later, we ratified our leadership by creating the School of Dentistry.  In 1998, after opening the degree program of Medicine we became the pioneer private university in scientific-technological education. We ended the 20th century making a development decision we are proud of:  the creation of the Temuco Campus; decision which made us the first private autonomous university to found a regional campus.  The new millennium introduced us to a country of accelerated cultural and social changes. Science and technology became a central part in the development of the country and our path in university education was empowered by the creation of new degree programs in the health area and the implementation of their respective laboratories and clinics.  By 2004 we were provided with a dentistry, kinaesthetic, speech and language pathological and psychological clinic.