Universidad Austral de Chile was founded in 1954 in the city of Valdivia. The engineering faculty operates in Campus Miraflores located along Valdivia River south of Valdivias Plaza de Armas. A third campus exists in Puerto Montt where
business administration, speech and language
pathology and
aquaculture are studied. UACh has apart from the campuses several properties spread through Los Ríos and Los Lagos Region such as Parque Arboretum in northern Isla Teja, the Calfuco field station in the coast near Niebla and the forests of San Pablo de Tregua in the Andean foothills.The first degree programmes to be taught at the university were fine arts, agronomy, forestry engineering and veterinary medicine, each of which had also its own faculty. On June 3 of 1968 UACh was granted autonomy from the University of Chile as
law 16.848 was enacted. The autonomy did that UACh became allowed to decide its own plans and study programs and put the university out of the tutelage of the University of Chile. The university held the Valdivia International Film Festival in 1993 at cinema Cine Club, Chile.
Last Updated on: Nov 25, 2024