The Universidad Católica de Manizales is a Colombian institution of higher education accredited for High Quality, located in the city of Manizales, Caldas. It currently offers undergraduate (professional technical, undergraduate and professional programs) and postgraduate (specializations, master's and doctoral degrees) programs.
At UCM we care about the welfare of our students.
UCM firmly believes in the purpose of forming students who, beyond becoming excellent professionals, will go out into the world to transform it with a more humane view. From the Vice Rector's Office of Welfare and Pastoral Care we accompany our students to build solid roots to face the various problems they may face once they go out into the world of work.
We train professionals who build a better world!
Carreras profesionales
Degree in Natural Sciences and Environmental Education
8 semestres
Distance
Este programa ya no admite estudiantes
We are Quality
It is an ideal institution to study, both for its quality and for the coverage it has in a large part of the country thanks to its tutorial centers. UCM is characterized by a high rate of employability, a unique educational model that seeks a humanistic and comprehensive training, for being part of global mobility networks, for its more than 60 years of history and the impact that its more than 60,000 graduates have had.
Our Campus
Its high quality physical spaces such as laboratories, library, specialized classrooms and study rooms, facilitate academic training as well as the consolidation of a university life in recreation. The University has facilities for the general public such as the sports campus, swimming pools, synthetic soccer fields, basketball courts, squash courts, swimming pool, gymnasium, sauna and steam room.
Financial opportunities
The prices of UCM's programs are among the most affordable within the range of private higher education institutions, the University has different financing options, access to scholarships for admission and incentives to subsidize the study.
High Quality Accredited University
Resolution of December 9th, 2019 by the Ministry of National Education.
According to the QS Stars Rating
5 stars for inclusion and infrastructure and 4 stars for employability and teaching.
Graduates
They are well received in the labor market, UCM has an 85% employability rate of graduates and an average of $2.84 million in starting salaries.
Dissertation
Our student retention strategies have led us to have the lowest dropout rate in the country - 22%.
Privileged location
UCM is located in the safest area of the city, where much of the city's commercial and business activity is located, as well as the pink and gourmet area.
National and International Mobility
More than 1017 students in mobility during 2018 and 2022-I.
Sports Campus
The importance of offering healthy recreational activities for the community in general and, especially, for our students, has made the investment in a space with diverse possibilities for sports practice a wise decision within the range of services offered, among them, 2 indoor soccer fields, 2 squash courts, 4 tables for the practice of table tennis and other board games (chess, parquets, Chinese checkers).
The meetings, tournaments and sports practices that are concentrated on campus, give a different image to UCM and a dynamic in the social, health and healthy coexistence, having a fundamental role within the purposes of training.
Gym
The physical and emotional well-being of the university community and service users translates into quality of life. Currently, sedentary lifestyles, bad eating habits, anxiety and the difficulties of the modern world greatly affect people's health.
The interest of UCM is to offer healthy spaces with human and professional quality, meeting the needs of each of the people who come to these spaces in search of better health to achieve life habits that compensate for the current demands in productivity, agility, willingness and coexistence.
The services we offer are:
- Cardiovascular zone: equipped with spinning bikes, elliptical trainer, treadmill and jogging machine.
- Machines room work with equipment that helps to tone and increase muscle mass.
- Wet zone: sauna and steam bath.
- Aerobics classes: pilates, spinning, rumba, step, aerobics, cardiobox, aqua-fitness, TRX, tabata, muscle toning.
Swimming pool
The Universidad Católica de Manizales has a heated swimming pool, with an excellent location and highly trained instructors,
UCM provides swimming pool services to internal and external clients under different modalities such as directed classes or free practice.
5-per-side soccer fields - Squash courts - Table tennis.
The importance of offering healthy recreational activities for the community in general and, especially, for our students, has made the investment in a space with diverse possibilities for sports practice a wise decision within the range of services offered, among them, 2 indoor soccer fields, 2 squash courts, 4 tables for the practice of table tennis and other board games (chess, parquets, Chinese checkers).
Places for you
TV studio
The television studio has consolidated the institutional image of the University among its real and potential clients through the production of high quality audiovisual productions for different public and private entities.
Television | UCM is the space generated by the Catholic University of Manizales that focuses on the realization of audiovisual productions merging video, animation and design, offering services to academia and external media such as institutional videos, commercials, training videos, documentaries, product launches, fiction and video clips.
Learn about the productions of TV studio
Radio studio
The services offered by the UCM Radio Studio are:
- Production of special programs in different formats: chronicles, reports, interviews, radio magazines, dramatized programs, among others.
- Consultancy for the creation and development of radio programs.
- Recording and/or copying of sound texts.
- Research and development of scripts.
- Production of radio spots.
- Internship service for some academic programs of the Universidad Católica de Manizales.
Santo Domingo Auditorium
The Santo Domingo de Guzmán Auditorium, located one block away from the University's main campus, is an ideal space for different events: congresses, conferences, degrees, seminars, among others.
Auditoriums and rooms
- Marie Poussepin Auditorium (capacity: 80 people)
- Auditorium Sist. Matilde Robledo (capacity 74 people)
- Auditorium Sist. Josefina Núñez (capacity 60 people)
- Pedro José Delgado Auditorium (capacity: 60 people)
- Alfredo Restrepo Auditorium (capacity: 60 people)
- Systems rooms (3 rooms with 30 equipments each, videobeam)
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