Universidad San Francisco de Quito
PRE-3: Institutional Boundary
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Maria Jose
Ayala Innovation and Sustainability Officer Innovation and Sustainability Office |
Institution type:
Institutional control:
A brief description of the institution’s main campus and other aspects of the institutional boundary used to complete this report:
Universidad San Francisco de Quito is a small, private liberal arts university in the capital city of Ecuador. The University was established in 1988 by Santiago Gangotena, Carlos Montúfar and a group of intellectuals and business people. It now has close to 9000 students. The main campus is located in Cumbayá, a small campus designed just for languages is located in Riobamba and another small campus located in Guayaquil. The University also has research scientific stations. Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS) located in the Amazon, the Galápagos Institute for the Arts and Sciences (GAIAS) in San Cristóbal, Galápagos and Paluguillo Paramo Station located in Papallacta; and several other research stations or operations function through Ecuador.
Which of the following features are present on campus and which are included within the institutional boundary?:
| Present? | Included? | |
| Agricultural school | Yes | Yes |
| Medical school | Yes | No |
| Other professional school with labs or clinics (e.g. dental, nursing, pharmacy, public health, veterinary) | Yes | Yes |
| Museum | Yes | No |
| Satellite campus | Yes | Yes |
| Farm larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres | No | No |
| Agricultural experiment station larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres | No | No |
| Hospital | No | No |
The rationale for excluding any features that are present from the institutional boundary:
The Medical School is mostly functioning within the boundaries of the Hospital de los Valles which is not fully owned by the University, having a lot of external practices over which USFQ has little to no control.
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