The Universidad Externado de Colombia (Externado University of Colombia) is a private university in Bogotá, Colombia. It has produced graduates including lawyers, academics, judges, financiers, journalists, as well as senior government officials and politicians. The institution grants 4 and 5 year professional degrees, as well as advanced Master and Doctoral degrees. Instruction is primarily in Spanish. Open enrollment University Mission and history of the University University Mission As a higher education institution dedicated to teaching and research in Social Sciences, with a humanistic conception, the Externado de Colombia University promotes and practices absolute respect for life. Its activity is carried out within a pluralist philosophy, open to all currents of thought, oblivious to dogmatism and respectful of all religious creeds and political ideologies. The University promotes tolerance as a formula to achieve peace and progress within heterogeneity, welcomes students from all regions of the country and considers diversity as one of its greatest assets. The Externado de Colombia has confidence and optimism in the viability of Colombia as a nation and works for the reaffirmation of the national identity; supports integration with Latin American countries as a guarantee of a significant presence in the international arena and encourages cooperation with universities around the world to keep in touch with universal culture and up-to-date with the advancement of science. Within the liberal spirit that animates it, the Externado de Colombia University pursues the ideal of freedom as an inalienable right of the human being; has faith in democracy; struggle for the improvement of the Social State of Law, in the search for equality in the social and economic spheres, and respect for Fundamental Rights. Likewise, it has always sought the comprehensive training of its students: it seeks to forge true citizens aware of their commitments to the nation; people of integrity, regardless of character and practitioners of impeccable civic ethics, public and private; supportive, authentic, austere professionals, endowed with criteria, capable of resisting intimidation, confronting corruption and contributing to the rescue of the dignity of the homeland. The galleries Finca La Isabella, current headquarters of the Externado Pasteur terrace Pasteur terrace The galleries History Pasteur terrace Santa Fe Headquarters Past and present On February 15, 1886, the Externado de Colombia was born as a response to absolutism and the suppression of freedom of education imposed by the dictatorship of La Regeneración. The University was founded by the young jurist and educator Nicolás Pinzón Warlosten, who, with the support of a group of illustrious teachers of radical liberalism, established an institution that, since its inception, has allowed the study and free examination of ideas, has welcomed students from all regions of the country, has practiced respect for religious creeds and political ideologies and has promoted tolerance as a formula to achieve peaceful coexistence within heterogeneity. It was called "Externado" because the new institution received the influence of the most modern European educational centers that, at that time, were opposed to the old system of the boarding school, a school of medieval origin, inclined to catechize and inappropriate for the autonomous development of the personality. . Externship implied, then, openness, freedom of study and teaching.

School Director: Hernando Parra Nieto

Population: 13000

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