The Universidad del Cauca was created in Popayán as a University of the Third District by decree of April 24, 1827. On April 5, 2013, the Ministry of National Education granted the High Quality Institutional Accreditation for a period of 6 yearsalready Through Resolution 6218 of June 13, 2019, it renewed said Institutional Accreditation for a period of eight years.

The University has its roots in the Major Seminary of Popayán founded between 1609 and 1617, an educational establishment of the first order in colonial times that functioned in the Cloister of San José where the most innovative ideas of the philosophical, political and scientific thought of the Enlightenment, in the 18th century, the Age of Enlightenment.

There, precisely, the generation that would later be the protagonist of the struggles for the independence of the Spanish empire was formed with characters such as Francisco José de Caldas, Camilo Torres, Francisco Antonio Zea, José María Cabal, Joaquín de Caycedo y Cuero and Francisco Antonio Ulloa men of politics, study and state.

The thought in the republican and independent life of Colombia was generated in good proportion in the University of Cauca, in such a way that the history of the independence of Colombia and its beginnings as an independent republic converges with the history of the university.

Similar to those times, the University of Cauca continues to be an institution of knowledge, progress and a forum for free analysis of the circumstances and alternatives of social life, defender of the democratic course of Colombia, at the same time that it has incessantly energized the freedom of expression and citizen participation. In the last decade it has distinguished itself by the dynamism of its investigative structure. It is highlighted that seventeen graduates of the University of Cauca have occupied the head of the Colombian State.

The Universidad del Cauca was created in Popayán as a University of the Third District by decree of April 24, 1827. On April 5, 2013, the Ministry of National Education granted the High-Quality Institutional Accreditation for a period of 6 years already Through Resolution 6218 of June 13, 2019, it renewed said Institutional Accreditation for a period of eight years.

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Popayán, Colombia

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Universidad Del Cauca

The Master in Engineering of Land Roads is a deepening of the specific knowledge inroads of the Civil or Transportation Engineer, from the point of view of planning, design, construction, and maintenance, applying new procedures and technologies to provide road safety to the user, achieve a longer useful life of the roads and lower investment and operating costs. The program is offered in two modalities: The professionalizing master's degree and the investigative master's degree, which are differentiated by the scope and individual dedication to the research project.

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Master in Land Roads Engineering

Colombia has entered a phase that tries to overcome the disasters of a conflict of more than 50 years. The academy has a preponderant role in the action of pointing out the routes and itineraries, to find the appropriate scenarios where a new country is managed, which partly mitigates the great social, academic, and economic imbalances and inequities. The Master in Human Sciences focuses on the facts that language, politics, and culture have changed mentalities and perceptions; as well as in the role of art and the different representations of the universe. It is a Master's degree that proposes to make contributions to society as a whole and in particular seeking that the academic community better understand the role of the human sciences in the processes faced by the contemporary subject; It is, therefore, necessary to address phenomena such as Virtuality, identity, diversity, sustainability, languages ​​, and discourses.

Master of Human Sciences

The Master of Music at the University of Cauca is committed to the training of professionals with flexible criteria and critical thinking, with specific skills of understanding and technical and interpretive thinking of historical music and the national context, capable of integrating the different knowledge in the interpretive execution of the sound phenomenon in a holistic way, in order to generate a cultural contribution of a high level of development for the country and the region.

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