Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH)

Av. Honorio Delgado 430, Lima

  • #1001-1200 QS Global World Ranking
  • PrivateStatus
  • Very HighResearch Output
  • 11,150Total Students
  • 1,140Faculty
  • 110Int'l Students

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A GRADUATE SCHOOL WITH HIGH-LEVEL SPECIALIZATION 

“Víctor Alzamora Castro” Graduate School of the Peruvian Cayetano Heredia University is the place where university teachers come to meet top-level academic and scientific research. The Graduate School offers academic and professional training in Master’s and PhD programs in various fields of education and the health, life and environmental sciences. There, teaching knowledge is imparted in interdisciplinary advanced specialization studies, as well as scientific research. The purpose of this training is to provide graduates with the skills required to excel in the performance of their work. 

Postgraduate Studies at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia is the meeting place of the university teaching with academic and scientific research at the highest level. The Graduate School offers an academic and professional training in Master's and Doctoral programs of the different faculties that develop, jointly, the teaching of advanced studies, generally of an interdisciplinary nature, and scientific research. This training aims to provide the graduate a high performance capability in the exercise professional specialized in the research and teaching.

Our institution, recognized for excellence in academic research and innovation, with international accreditation to the academic quality and with state-of-the-art facilities for research in the different institutes, clinics, centers and departments, where a community of teachers and researchers of recognized academic, scientific research and clinics in active collaboration with researchers from prestigious foreign institutions. Our University contributes through the postgraduate research in human development, social, economic and technological development of our country. We invite you to be part of our University Community Herediana where you will find opportunities for personal and professional development in a vibrant atmosphere of creation humanistic, intellectual and scientific.


CAMPUS 

Our facilities accommodate more than 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students. They include our administration and IT offices, institutes, units and the physical premises of various projects. Furthermore, this is where our research centers and our Cultural and Scientific Center are located. 

"SAN MARTÍN DE PORRES" MAIN CAMPUS

Our Central Campus congregates seven of our faculties and the "Víctor Alzamora Castro" Graduate School Likewise, there are the research and Development Laboratories - LID of the Science an Philosophy School, place reconnized national and internationally to be the only one in its style in the country. We also have our Heredian Library, the most important and complete of Peru, regarding health and life sciences matters.


MIRAFLORES CAMPUS "HONORIO DELGADO HOUSE"

The main feature of our Miraflores campus is that it is a space characterized by its traditional style, wich holds high sentimental value for Heredians, given that it carries the name "Honorio Delgado", in honor of our first Chancellor. At present, it is considered the seedbed of our future students because this is where the Pre-University Training center (Pre-Cayatano) is located. Furthermore, this is where some graduate programs take palce and some research centers and the Scientific and Cultural Center are to be found.

CAMPUS LA MOLINA "ESTE"

The Molina Campus is the newest and the most modern building of our institution. The Psychology Faculty is located in this campus and it lodges the first two years od studies. Also, some postgraduate specializations are laught in here.

CAMPUS "SANTA MARÍA"

"Center for Scientific, Ecological and Academy Innovation"

Premise of the "Center for Scientific, Ecological and Academy Innovation (CICEA)", which proposes an innovational ecosystem and business venture for the scentific and technological production of the university and the technologic transfer to the productive sector. This campus will provide the opportunity to join the scientific and technologic innovations with those ones of business venture , generating a space where it is possibe to breath Science and Technology reachable to the society, considering the basis of our strengths in research, our index-linked scientific publications, the investment in research and the solid cooperating sources network.


WE ARE HEREDIANS FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEART, BY TRADITION AND THROUGH ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE 

Thanks to our commitment to education and to over 53 years’ experience in academic training, we feel proud that our students are part of a great family, concerned not only for their professional education but only for developing their scientific, artistic and cultural spirit.

The commitment towards all Heredians is to guarantee a comfortable and pleasant environment. For this reason, we offer various types of artistic and sports activities that contribute to their integral education, allowing their participating as part of the artistic ensembles, teams and academic groups representing the university.

Cultural and scientific center

Our institution is committed to the promotion of activities that complement our students’ university education. For this reason, our Cultural and Scientific Center offers the public various events, as well as scientific, cultural and academic workshops that promote the interest for science, art and academic debate.

First-rate university well-being

Our institution has a University Office for University Well-Being (DUBU, by its Spanish initials) that carries out activities aimed at promoting our students’ well being and accompanies them in the process of taking on responsibilities. The main function of this space is to guide our students regarding the use of all the resources and benefits our institution grants them from the moment they enter Cayetano. 


The Cayetano currently offers 19 careers that have an impact on the academic rigor, in the access to the intensive practice, in the development of research as a complement to the practice, and in contact with the reality of the sector at the local and global level.

All our careers prepares students to respond to a global environment. Our approach to integration of knowledge allows students to be enriched by sharing knowledge and seek solutions with other disciplines and perspectives. This is a successful model, with many benefits for the professional development of our students.

To achieve our goals, our postulants are carefully selected. We seek, not only young people eager to learn, but with the skills and attitudes necessary to transcend. The teachers of the Cayetano we put our knowledge and experience to train our students in a highly competitive environment and demanding.

Be part of Cayetano allows them to access virtual elective courses at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, or to supplement their training by performing a virtual upgrade diploma during his career. All of this, thanks to the more than 200 international agreements it has signed with the best universities and institutes, provides them with an international perspective that will help them to broaden their vision.

And those who want to develop additional skills and knowledge that will complement your training, can access a postgraduate diploma in only one semester. Some careers, such as Chemistry, Nutrition, Biology, Pharmacy, Biochemistry and Public Health and Administration, also offer the option of graduating in two races, consecutively, studying between one and two additional years.

The Cayetano account with research laboratories of last generation, located on their campus of La Molina, Miraflores, San Martin de Porres, San Isidro and, in the future, Santa Maria. In addition, it has four clinics: Medical, Dental, Veterinary and undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as centers for medical services, and the virtual library of health and life sciences of South America.

The Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia is recognized by the national and international scientific community for its important work of research over the years. Graduating from Cayetano is synonymous with quality, professional ethics and solidarity. If you want to distinguish yourself with this stamp and start your story in Cayetano, Welcome to a world of unimaginable possibilities.


Modalities of Admission

Pre-university Studies Center of

Excellence Factor

General Review of Admission

Pre Nursing

Admission extraordinary

Human Talent

National Scholarships,

Internal and External



Innovative professional careers related to the health and life sciences and to education, which promote multidisciplinarity and teamwork. 

Undergraduate Careers

Faculty of Science and Philosophy


Faculty of Medicine

 

School of Medical Technology


The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry

 

Faculty of Education


School of Public Health and Administration

 

Faculty of Dentistry

 

Faculty of Nursing

 

Faculty of Psychology

About

A GRADUATE SCHOOL WITH HIGH-LEVEL SPECIALIZATION 

“Víctor Alzamora Castro” Graduate School of the Peruvian Cayetano Heredia University is the place where university teachers come to meet top-level academic and scientific research. The Graduate School offers academic and professional training in Master’s and PhD programs in various fields of education and the health, life and environmental sciences. There, teaching knowledge is imparted in interdisciplinary advanced specialization studies, as well as scientific research. The purpose of this training is to provide graduates with the skills required to excel in the performance of their work. 

Postgraduate Studies at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia is the meeting place of the university teaching with academic and scientific research at the highest level. The Graduate School offers an academic and professional training in Master's and Doctoral programs of the different faculties that develop, jointly, the teaching of advanced studies, generally of an interdisciplinary nature, and scientific research. This training aims to provide the graduate a high performance capability in the exercise professional specialized in the research and teaching.

Our institution, recognized for excellence in academic research and innovation, with international accreditation to the academic quality and with state-of-the-art facilities for research in the different institutes, clinics, centers and departments, where a community of teachers and researchers of recognized academic, scientific research and clinics in active collaboration with researchers from prestigious foreign institutions. Our University contributes through the postgraduate research in human development, social, economic and technological development of our country. We invite you to be part of our University Community Herediana where you will find opportunities for personal and professional development in a vibrant atmosphere of creation humanistic, intellectual and scientific.


CAMPUS 

Our facilities accommodate more than 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students. They include our administration and IT offices, institutes, units and the physical premises of various projects. Furthermore, this is where our research centers and our Cultural and Scientific Center are located. 

"SAN MARTÍN DE PORRES" MAIN CAMPUS

Our Central Campus congregates seven of our faculties and the "Víctor Alzamora Castro" Graduate School Likewise, there are the research and Development Laboratories - LID of the Science an Philosophy School, place reconnized national and internationally to be the only one in its style in the country. We also have our Heredian Library, the most important and complete of Peru, regarding health and life sciences matters.


MIRAFLORES CAMPUS "HONORIO DELGADO HOUSE"

The main feature of our Miraflores campus is that it is a space characterized by its traditional style, wich holds high sentimental value for Heredians, given that it carries the name "Honorio Delgado", in honor of our first Chancellor. At present, it is considered the seedbed of our future students because this is where the Pre-University Training center (Pre-Cayatano) is located. Furthermore, this is where some graduate programs take palce and some research centers and the Scientific and Cultural Center are to be found.

CAMPUS LA MOLINA "ESTE"

The Molina Campus is the newest and the most modern building of our institution. The Psychology Faculty is located in this campus and it lodges the first two years od studies. Also, some postgraduate specializations are laught in here.

CAMPUS "SANTA MARÍA"

"Center for Scientific, Ecological and Academy Innovation"

Premise of the "Center for Scientific, Ecological and Academy Innovation (CICEA)", which proposes an innovational ecosystem and business venture for the scentific and technological production of the university and the technologic transfer to the productive sector. This campus will provide the opportunity to join the scientific and technologic innovations with those ones of business venture , generating a space where it is possibe to breath Science and Technology reachable to the society, considering the basis of our strengths in research, our index-linked scientific publications, the investment in research and the solid cooperating sources network.


WE ARE HEREDIANS FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR HEART, BY TRADITION AND THROUGH ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE 

Thanks to our commitment to education and to over 53 years’ experience in academic training, we feel proud that our students are part of a great family, concerned not only for their professional education but only for developing their scientific, artistic and cultural spirit.

The commitment towards all Heredians is to guarantee a comfortable and pleasant environment. For this reason, we offer various types of artistic and sports activities that contribute to their integral education, allowing their participating as part of the artistic ensembles, teams and academic groups representing the university.

Cultural and scientific center

Our institution is committed to the promotion of activities that complement our students’ university education. For this reason, our Cultural and Scientific Center offers the public various events, as well as scientific, cultural and academic workshops that promote the interest for science, art and academic debate.

First-rate university well-being

Our institution has a University Office for University Well-Being (DUBU, by its Spanish initials) that carries out activities aimed at promoting our students’ well being and accompanies them in the process of taking on responsibilities. The main function of this space is to guide our students regarding the use of all the resources and benefits our institution grants them from the moment they enter Cayetano. 


The Cayetano currently offers 19 careers that have an impact on the academic rigor, in the access to the intensive practice, in the development of research as a complement to the practice, and in contact with the reality of the sector at the local and global level.

All our careers prepares students to respond to a global environment. Our approach to integration of knowledge allows students to be enriched by sharing knowledge and seek solutions with other disciplines and perspectives. This is a successful model, with many benefits for the professional development of our students.

To achieve our goals, our postulants are carefully selected. We seek, not only young people eager to learn, but with the skills and attitudes necessary to transcend. The teachers of the Cayetano we put our knowledge and experience to train our students in a highly competitive environment and demanding.

Be part of Cayetano allows them to access virtual elective courses at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain, or to supplement their training by performing a virtual upgrade diploma during his career. All of this, thanks to the more than 200 international agreements it has signed with the best universities and institutes, provides them with an international perspective that will help them to broaden their vision.

And those who want to develop additional skills and knowledge that will complement your training, can access a postgraduate diploma in only one semester. Some careers, such as Chemistry, Nutrition, Biology, Pharmacy, Biochemistry and Public Health and Administration, also offer the option of graduating in two races, consecutively, studying between one and two additional years.

The Cayetano account with research laboratories of last generation, located on their campus of La Molina, Miraflores, San Martin de Porres, San Isidro and, in the future, Santa Maria. In addition, it has four clinics: Medical, Dental, Veterinary and undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as centers for medical services, and the virtual library of health and life sciences of South America.

The Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia is recognized by the national and international scientific community for its important work of research over the years. Graduating from Cayetano is synonymous with quality, professional ethics and solidarity. If you want to distinguish yourself with this stamp and start your story in Cayetano, Welcome to a world of unimaginable possibilities.


Modalities of Admission

Pre-university Studies Center of

Excellence Factor

General Review of Admission

Pre Nursing

Admission extraordinary

Human Talent

National Scholarships,

Internal and External



Innovative professional careers related to the health and life sciences and to education, which promote multidisciplinarity and teamwork. 

Undergraduate Careers

Faculty of Science and Philosophy


Faculty of Medicine

 

School of Medical Technology


The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry

 

Faculty of Education


School of Public Health and Administration

 

Faculty of Dentistry

 

Faculty of Nursing

 

Faculty of Psychology

Available programs

University highlights

QS World University Ranking

  • 2014
    #651-700
  • 2015
    #601-650
  • 2016
    #701+
  • 2017
    #701+
  • 2018
    #801-1000
  • 2019
    #801-1000
  • 2020
    #801-1000
  • 2021
    #701-750
  • 2022
    #651-700
  • 2023
    #651-700
  • 2024
    #951-1000
  • 2025
    #1001-1200

Student & Staff

Total students
11,150

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International students
110

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Total faculty staff
1,140

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1127

Total students
11,150

International students
110

Total faculty staff
1,140

1127
13
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Campus locations

Campus San Martin,

Av. Honorio Delgado 430 , Lima , Peru , Lima 31

Campus La Molina,

Calle Jose Antonio Encinas N°310 Urb El Parque de Monterrico , Lima , Peru , Lima 12

Campus Miraflores,

Av. Armendariz 445 , Lima , Peru , Lima 18

Campus Santa María,

Km 52 Panamericana Sur , Lima , Peru , Lima 37

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English language requirements

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