Organization:National Autonomous University of Nicaragua
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua | |
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| Motto | A la libertad por la universidad |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1812 |
| Rector | Octavio Guevara |
Administrative staff | 709 |
| Students | 24,629 |
| Postgraduates | 1,283 |
| Location | , Nicaragua |
| Website | www.unan.edu.ni/ |
The National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (Spanish: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua, UNAN) is a public university in Nicaragua. Its main campus is located in Managua. The original campus, UNAN-Leon, is located in León and is now mainly used for medicine majors.
2018–2020 Nicaraguan protests
UNAN was the site of violent clashes during the 2018–2020 Nicaraguan protests.[1] Protesters fortified the UNAN campus, but were forced to retreat when the university was attacked by paramilitaries aligned with the government.[1]
Organization
The university is divided into five faculties:
- School of Medical Science
- Faculty of Education and Humanities
- Faculty of Economic Science
- POLISAL (Health Polytechnic)
- Faculty of science and engineering
See also
- Education in Nicaragua
- List of universities in Nicaragua
- List of colonial universities in Latin America
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Partlow, Joshua (14 July 2018). "'They are shooting at a church': Inside the 15-hour siege by Nicaraguan paramilitaries on university students". The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/students-in-nicaragua-trapped-in-church-amid-gunfire-by-pro-government-militias/2018/07/14/c7f04512-86e3-11e8-9e06-4db52ac42e05_story.html.
External links
- UNAN Website (in Spanish)
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