Academic Programs

Accounting

Accounting

The business world demands professionals in accounting who possess solid competences related to the organization, analysis and management of financial information, which is crucial to make entrepreneurial decisions. At PUCP, based on a humanistic, ethical and multidisciplinary perspective, we have taken the challenge to train accountants who can perform competitively in top level companies, both national and international, or to work  leading their own companies.

En Facultad de Ciencias Contables
Advertising

Advertising

As a publicist from PUCP, you will be able to create and execute marketing and advertising campaigns, as well as to research and observe trends and processes originating innovation and new resources in the areas of planning, management and broadcast technology.

En Facultad de Ciencias y Artes de la Comunicación
Anthropology

Anthropology

Anthropology studies the diversity of human cultures and their particularities. It focuses on the processes of mutual interaction and gathering in which ways of thinking, cultural and social practices, as well as different ways of organization are shaped.

En Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Archeology

Archeology

Peru guards in its territory multiple vestiges of one of the six civilizations which originated the current development of humankind. This heritage, together with several breathtaking landscapes and an amazing diversity of ecosystems, constitutes an important advantage over other countries in the continent.

En Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas
Architecture

Architecture

If you want to become a professional architect, at PUCP you will get a thorough academic training based on humanistic and scientific education, integrated with the experience of the architectural project, the study of our physical space, the society and the contemporary culture.

En Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo
Art Education

Art Education

Art Education promotes the analysis of cultural context reflected in audiovisual products and images, it develops skills to manage educational projects for different work spaces, such as museums, local development projects (NGO and public sector), schools and community art projects.

En Facultad de Arte y Diseño
Art, Fashion and Textile Design

Art, Fashion and Textile Design

The academic program of Art, Fashion and Textile design develops a holistic vision about the creation, dissemination and management of design and fashion, exploring its cultural, strategic, creative and communicative components based on a significant proposal to appreciate the Peruvian Heritage of textiles, clothing and accessories.

En Facultad de Arte y Diseño
Audiovisual Communication

Audiovisual Communication

An audiovisual communicator plans, structures and develops products having a creative, aesthetic and technological perspective, expressing them through images and sounds. To this end, the communicator integrates the usage of audiovisual languages, aesthetic appreciation and knowledge of narrative structures.

En Facultad de Ciencias y Artes de la Comunicación
Biomedical Engineering PUCP UPCH

Biomedical Engineering PUCP UPCH

It uses the knowledge of basic sciences and engineering principles to solve medical problems, create innovative solutions and products oriented towards improving Peruvian people’s health and quality of life.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Chemistry

Chemistry

Chemistry studies the matter and its properties, the interactions among chemical substances and the laws that rule processes that take place around us, regarding life, the environment and the industry.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Ciencias y Artes de la Hospitalidad: Hotelería

Ciencias y Artes de la Hospitalidad: Hotelería

Al estudiar Ciencias y Artes de la Hospitalidad: Hotelería en la PUCP, desarrollarás tu creatividad y pensamiento crítico para formarte como un profesional que está orientado al servicio, y que es capaz de identificar, diseñar y gestionar soluciones viables y sostenibles para la industria hotelera.

En Facultad de Estudios Interdisciplinarios
Ciencias y Artes de la Hospitalidad: Turismo

Ciencias y Artes de la Hospitalidad: Turismo

Al estudiar Ciencias y Artes de la Hospitalidad: Turismo en la PUCP, serás un profesional con un alto sentido ético que es capaz de relacionarse óptimamente con el entorno. De esta forma, tu relación con el mismo se dará mediante la gestión de proyectos y de destinos turísticos, así como de experiencias innovadoras para cada tipo de turista.

En Facultad de Estudios Interdisciplinarios
Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering

Upon completion of the program, you will be a professional capable of holding management positions and being responsible for planning, designing and building infrastructure work the country needs in a sustainable and sustained manner.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Communication for Development

Communication for Development

The academic program of Communication for Development aims to train professionals capable of designing communication projects, policies and strategies intended to promote  development, conceived as a process to expand freedom and exercise people’s rights and capacities.

En Facultad de Ciencias y Artes de la Comunicación
Dance

Dance

Our students get a comprehensive academic training which promotes research and creation through the sensitization and technical training in which the dance is used as a physical tool of social and individual expression and interpretation.

En Facultad de Artes Escénicas
Early Childhood Education

Early Childhood Education

The Academic Program of Early Childhood Education has been designed for young students who show initiative, responsibility, creativity and enjoy playing and working with little kids; likewise, they need to be aware of their needs and capable of creating original learning opportunities to develop children’s enormous potential.

En Facultad de Educación
Economics

Economics

Upon completion of this program, as a graduate you will have gained prestige: you will be admitted in graduate programs at prestigious universities abroad, hold senior positions in public and private organizations, be a professor or researcher at Economics Schools abroad.

En Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Electronic Engineering

Electronic Engineering

An electronic engineer from PUCP is capable of developing technological products and services in order to modernize the productive processes as well as to improve the quality of life of people.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Engraving

Engraving

The artistic academic training at PUCP will allow you to master the printmaking and graphic editing systems (intaglio, lithography, serigraphy, xylography), as well as the most modern processes of digital edition and electrographic imaging thanks to excellent theoretical and practical study methods in artistic and interdisciplinary research projects

En Facultad de Arte y Diseño
Finanzas

Finanzas

En Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Geography and the Environment

Geography and the Environment

As a geographer, thanks to your knowledge of the territory, you will contribute to the national, regional and local development based on the development of land management plans, integrated plans of water resources management, disaster risk management plans and environmental management plans, among other actions.

En Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas
Geological Engineering

Geological Engineering

PUCP considers as an opportunity and assumes as a great responsibility to provide the Peruvian professional market with graduates who have received a solid university academic training based on ethical principles, allowing a greater approach to the mining industry. This is the goal of this new academic program, which is characterized by high academic standards based on the solid support provided by the Mining Engineering Program.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Graphic Design

Graphic Design

The Academic Program of Graphic Design trains designers who conduct research, plan and develop a creative and functional design based on ethical, humanistic, artistic and technological foundations, having an innovative and visionary competence.

En Facultad de Arte y Diseño
History

History

You will be a reflexive historian, rigorous in your research, with great analytical and synthesis skills, these abilities will enable you to perform activities in different areas of culture, education and social development.

En Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas
Humanities

Humanities

As a student of this program, the interdisciplinary training will allow you to address critically processes and problems of our reality based on analysis perspectives provided by different disciplines.

En Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas
Industrial Design

Industrial Design

Upon completion of this program, you will be able to conduct research to solve different problems in all types of mass production.

En Facultad de Arte y Diseño
Industrial Engineering

Industrial Engineering

The industrial engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, management, optimization and direction of goods and service production systems. To that end, the industrial engineer administers different resources such as people, materials, equipment, energy, technology and information, with the aim of providing a better quality of life to the society.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Informatics Engineering

Informatics Engineering

As an informatics engineer you will develop different solutions needed to automate information based on solid scientific and technological foundations, internationally recognized. Moreover, you will carry out activities of high level abstraction such as analysis and design, as well as great responsibility tasks such as management of projects and technologies.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Information Science

Information Science

The academic program of Information Science trains professionals capable of managing information strategically in order to make decisions. Upon completion of the program, you will develop your skills to manage and design information services, as well as to use  technology as an essential tool.

En Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas
Journalism

Journalism

The academic program of Journalism is aimed at training professionals who perform successfully in different formats (digital and print media, radio and television) and who manage writing and narrative techniques of each journalism genre and subgenre.

En Facultad de Ciencias y Artes de la Comunicación
Law

Law

Our graduates will be provided with every tool needed to start a professional career and work with social responsibility and integrity based on ethical values, development of professional skills and comprehensive knowledge of Law and its relation with other related disciplines.

En Facultad de Derecho
Linguistics and Literature

Linguistics and Literature

Linguistics and literature share as the subject matter the manifestations of the language as a representation and expression system. Based on this, linguistics is involved in analyzing the language structure, studying its historical evolution and observing the relations between language and society. Literature is involved in the creative mechanisms that allow the usage of the language having an aesthetic goal, the formation of discursive traditions and the social place of the literary work.

En Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas
Management

Management

Our graduates are recognized due to their strategic vision, the management of exceptional operational skills aimed at the achievement of results, a strong commitment to the country and their entrepreneurial attitude.

En Facultad de Gestión y Alta Dirección
Mathematics

Mathematics

Upon completion of the program, you will be able to perform as a mathematician, professor or researcher applying your knowledge in the industry. Other possible organizations which employ mathematicians are universities, research institutes, industries and companies from different fields such as engineering, administration, information technology, banking and insurance.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

The mechanical engineer is in charge of the conception, design, manufacture, maintenance, control and management of machinery, equipment and industrial facilities in general. The engineer’s role is to develop and apply adequate and competitive technologies in the industry.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Mechatronics Engineering

Mechatronics Engineering

En un mundo globalizado, el conocimiento científico y tecnológico traspasa todas las fronteras. Para ser competitivo, nuestro país debe invertir en la creación, manejo, desarrollo y difusión de este conocimiento.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Mining Engineering

Mining Engineering

Since Peru is a privileged country in mineral resources, its mining industry has great importance thanks to its contribution to the national economy. At PUCP, you will be provided with a solid foundation of technical and scientific knowledge, as well as a social and ethical education committed to the environment, ecology and society. You will also learn the art and science of extraction processes of metallic and nonmetallic resources from the earth’s crust.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Music

Music

In the School of Performing Arts, we promote and respect creative freedom and cultural diversity, which will let you choose freely the music forms and styles you want to develop professionally.

En Facultad de Artes Escénicas
Painting

Painting

Based on these principles, painters graduated from the School of Fine Arts of PUCP represent a vision of the world and its sociocultural context supported on an individual language which has had a comprehensive and interdisciplinary academic training acquired in the School.

En Facultad de Arte y Diseño
Performance Creation and Production

Performance Creation and Production

The Program of Performance Creation and Production trains makers, producers and researchers who know the processes leading to the design, performance and sustainability of performing art projects which engage the public and have an impact on society.

En Facultad de Artes Escénicas
Philosophy

Philosophy

In the academic program of Philosophy you will be able to develop your own and creative reflection regarding your reality and become a researcher who questions the presumptions on which our beliefs and actions are based.

En Facultad de Letras y Ciencias Humanas
Physics

Physics

When studying the major of Physics at PUCP, you will understand that this is a science in constant evolution: with every question answered, many others will raise posing new challenges.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Political Science and Government

Political Science and Government

Political Science studies and enables the understanding of power relationships, and in particular the functioning of public institutions and decision making process of the Government and public policy, in which different political and social actors are involved.

En Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Primary Education

Primary Education

The School of Education will train you as a teacher capable of improving teaching methods based on an intercultural and interdisciplinary academic training, as well as ethical principles inspired on the human and social commitment which leads to a better quality of education in the country.

En Facultad de Educación
Psychology

Psychology

You will be able to perform efficiently in the assessment of human behavior and in individual or social intervention in order to improve human relations and comprehensive development of people.

En School of Psychology
Relaciones Internacionales

Relaciones Internacionales

En Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Sculpture

Sculpture

The Sculpture program is aimed at training dynamic and sensitive sculptors committed to the community, who can contribute creatively with innovative proposals capable of transforming positively the territorial, cultural and social context.

En Facultad de Arte y Diseño
Secondary Education

Secondary Education

This program trains competent professionals in the design, execution and evaluation of the learning process, able to create meaningful educational experiences, being respectful of the Peruvian adolescents rights, characteristics, interests and needs in the global context.

En Facultad de Educación
Sociology

Sociology

In a country with deep ethnic and social gaps, Sociology gains special importance. This is a discipline that studies relationships between people and social groups, as well as dynamics and structure of societies and changing processes in everyday life, in the culture and in the institutions. For that reason, deep knowledge of the national reality, existing tensions and conflicts, as well as globalization challenges are the main subjects of interest for sociologists.

En Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
Statistics

Statistics

It is the science and art of interpreting data with the aim of providing theory and methods to extract its information and solve real world problems. Statistics is used to support the decisions made in governments, political parties, financial companies, public opinion companies, insurance companies, banks, hospitals, social organizations and industries.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Telecommunications Engineering

Telecommunications Engineering

As a telecommunications engineer you will be in charge of planning, designing and maintaining this infrastructure operating. In addition, you will build and configure software, determining operating times and costs to ensure an efficient, secure and effective service.

En Facultad de Ciencias e Ingeniería
Theater

Theater

The academic program of Theater is aimed at training young students interested in their social reality and aware of the current aesthetic of the theater, to do research and create new forms of dramatic expression.

En Facultad de Artes Escénicas