Anthropology
Anthropology studies the diversity of human cultures and their distinctive characteristics. It focuses on the processes of encounter and mutual interaction through which ways of thinking, cultural and social practices, and different forms of organization take shape.
Archaeology
PUCP offers you the opportunity to become a researcher, advocate, and steward of this cultural heritage, based on a deep understanding of the pre-Hispanic past and supported by rich and varied hands-on experiences in the field and in the laboratory.
Architecture
If you want to become a professional architect, at PUCP you’ll receive a well-rounded education that integrates experience in architectural design with the study of our physical space, society, and contemporary culture.
Art, Fashion, and Textile Design
The Art, Fashion, and Textile Design Specialization provides a comprehensive perspective on the creation, dissemination, and management of design and fashion, exploring their cultural, strategic, creative, and communicative components through an approach that emphasizes the substantive value of Peru’s heritage of textiles, clothing, and accessories.
Political Science and Government
Political science studies and helps us understand power relations in general and, in particular, the functioning of public institutions and the decision-making process regarding state affairs and public policy, in which various political and social actors are involved.
Information Sciences
The Information Sciences Specialization trains professionals in the strategic use of information for decision-making.
Audiovisual Communication
An audiovisual communicator plans, structures, and produces content from a creative, aesthetic, and technological perspective, and conveys it through images and sound. To this end, they integrate the use of audiovisual languages, aesthetic appreciation, and knowledge of narrative structures.
Communication for Development
The mission of the Communication for Development program is to train professionals capable of designing communication policies, strategies, and projects aimed at promoting development, understood as a process geared toward expanding freedoms and enabling individuals to exercise their rights and capabilities.
Accounting
The business world requires accounting professionals who possess strong skills in organizing, analyzing, and managing financial information—a vital element in business decision-making.
Theatrical Creation and Production
The Specialization in Performing Arts Creation and Production trains creators, producers, and researchers who understand the processes that enable the design, implementation, and sustainability of performing arts projects that connect with audiences and have an impact on society.
Dance
Our students receive a comprehensive professional education that fosters research and creativity through awareness-building and technical training, using dance as a physical tool for individual and social expression and interpretation.
Law
Graduates of the School will have the tools they need to launch their professional careers and perform their duties with integrity and social responsibility, based on ethical values, the development of professional skills, and a comprehensive understanding of law and its relationship to related disciplines.
Graphic Design
The Graphic Design program trains designers to research, plan, and create designs that are both creative and functional, grounded in ethical, humanistic, artistic, and technological principles, and characterized by foresight and innovation.
Industrial Design
As a graduate of this specialization, you will be able to conduct research to solve various problems in the field of mass production across all of its branches.
Economy
As a graduate of the PUCP’s economics program, you’ll enjoy a high level of prestige: you’ll be able to gain admission to graduate programs at renowned universities abroad, hold positions of high responsibility in public and private organizations, and become a professor or researcher at economics schools abroad.
Art Education
Arts Education promotes the analysis of the cultural context reflected in images and audiovisual works, and develops the ability to manage educational projects in various work settings, such as museums, local development projects (NGOs and the public sector), community art projects, and schools.
Early Childhood Education
The Early Childhood Education program is designed for young people who are proactive, responsible, and creative—who enjoy working and playing with young children—and who are also attuned to their needs and capable of creating original learning opportunities that nurture children’s immense potential.
Elementary Education
The School of Education will train you to become a teacher capable of transforming education, with an interdisciplinary and intercultural education, and with an ethical framework inspired by a commitment to humanity and society that will lead to the improvement of the quality of education in the country.
Secondary Education
It trains professionals with skills in the design, implementation, and evaluation of teaching and learning processes, who are capable of creating meaningful educational experiences that respect the rights, characteristics, interests, and needs of the country’s adolescents within a global context.
Sculpture
The Sculpture program aims to train dynamic, sensitive sculptors who are committed to their community and who can make creative contributions through innovative proposals capable of positively transforming the social, cultural, and local environment.
Statistics
Statistics are used to support decision-making within governments, political parties, financial institutions, public opinion research firms, insurance companies, banks, hospitals, social organizations, and industries.
Philosophy
In the Philosophy track, you will develop your own creative reflections on your reality and become a researcher who questions the assumptions underlying our beliefs and actions.
Physics
As you study physics at PUCP, you'll come to understand that it is a constantly evolving science: with every question that is answered, many others arise, presenting new challenges.
Gastronomy
The gastronomy program at PUCP is designed to train professionals committed to a form of gastronomy that prioritizes respect for cultures and the environment, people’s health and well-being, and the development of sustainable value chains and food systems. You will become an innovative professional who will set the standard for the evolution of the gastronomy sector in Peru and around the world, creating experiences, knowledge, and solutions.
Geography and the Environment
As a geographer, thanks to your knowledge of the territory, you will contribute to national, regional, and local development by formulating land-use plans, integrated water resources management plans, disaster risk management plans, and environmental management plans, among other initiatives.
Management
Our graduates are known for their strategic vision, exceptional results-oriented operational skills, a strong commitment to the country, and their entrepreneurial spirit.
Engraving
The art program at PUCP will enable you to master printing and graphic arts techniques (intaglio, lithography, screen printing, woodcut), as well as the most modern processes in digital and electrographic image production, through excellent theoretical and practical study methods applied to artistic and interdisciplinary research projects.
History
You will be a thoughtful historian, rigorous in your research, and possessing strong analytical and synthesis skills—qualities that will enable you to pursue careers in various fields of culture, education, and social development.
Hospitality Industry
By studying Hospitality Sciences and Arts: Hotel Management at PUCP, you will develop your creativity and critical thinking skills to become a service-oriented professional capable of identifying, designing, and managing viable and sustainable solutions for the hotel industry.
Humanities
As a student in this program, the interdisciplinary education will enable you to critically examine the processes and problems of our reality by drawing on the analytical perspectives provided by various disciplines.
Environmental and Sustainable Engineering
Biomedical Engineering, PUCP
Apply knowledge of basic sciences and engineering principles to solve medical problems, develop innovative solutions, and create products designed to improve people’s quality of life, thereby transforming healthcare in Peru.
Civil Engineering
By studying civil engineering at PUCP, you will become a professional capable of taking on management-level positions and being responsible for the planning, design, and construction of all the infrastructure projects the country needs in a consistent and sustainable manner.
Telecommunications Engineering
As a telecommunications engineer, you will be responsible for planning, designing, and maintaining this infrastructure. You will also build and configure the applications that enable its operation, and determine the costs and operating times required for an effective, secure, and efficient service.
Mining Engineering
Since Peru is a country rich in mineral resources, its mining industry plays a vital role in the national economy. At PUCP, you will gain a solid foundation of technical and scientific knowledge, as well as an ethical and social education committed to the environment, ecology, and society. You will learn the science and art of extracting metallic and nonmetallic resources from the Earth’s crust.
Electronic Engineering
An electrical engineer from PUCP is capable of developing technological solutions and products aimed at modernizing production processes and improving people's quality of life.
Geological Engineering
The PUCP views it as both an opportunity and a great responsibility to provide the Peruvian professional market with graduates who have received a solid university education grounded in ethical principles and who are also better prepared to engage with the mining industry. This is the goal behind the creation of a new degree program, characterized by high academic quality and built primarily on the strength of the PUCP’s Mining Engineering program.
Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineers are responsible for the design, implementation, management, optimization, and oversight of production systems for goods and services. To this end, they manage various resources—such as people, materials, equipment, energy, technology, and information—and always work with the goal of providing society with a better quality of life.
Computer Engineering
As a computer engineer, you will develop various solutions necessary for information automation, drawing on a solid scientific and technological foundation that is internationally recognized. In addition, you will engage in high-level abstract tasks, such as analysis and design, as well as high-responsibility activities, such as project and technology management.
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineers are responsible for the conception, design, manufacture, maintenance, control, and management of machinery, equipment, and industrial facilities in general. Their work involves both developing and applying competitive and appropriate technologies for the industry.
Mechatronics Engineering
In a globalized world, scientific and technological knowledge transcends all borders. To remain competitive, our country must invest in the creation, management, development, and dissemination of this knowledge.
Linguistics and Literature
Linguistics and Literature share a common object of study: the manifestations of language as a means of representation and a system of expression. Building on this common foundation, Linguistics focuses on analyzing the structure of language, studying its historical evolution, and examining the relationships between language and society. Literature, for its part, focuses on the creative mechanisms that enable the use of language for aesthetic purposes, the formation of discursive traditions, and the social role of literary works.
Mathematics
As a graduate of this specialization, you will be able to work as a mathematician, teacher, or researcher, applying your knowledge in the industry. Potential employers for mathematicians include universities, research institutes, and companies in fields as diverse as engineering, business administration, computer science, banking, and insurance.
Music
At the School of Performing Arts, we foster your creative freedom and respect cultural diversity, which will allow you to freely choose the musical styles and forms you wish to pursue professionally.
Journalism
The Journalism program aims to train professionals who can perform competently across various media formats (print and digital media, radio, and television) and who have mastered the writing and storytelling techniques specific to each journalistic genre and subgenre.
Painting
Based on these principles, painters who have graduated from the PUCP School of Art present a vision of the world and its sociocultural context through a personal artistic language that has been developed through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary educational program within the School.
Psychology
You will be able to effectively assess human behavior and carry out individual or social interventions aimed at improving human relationships and the holistic development of individuals.
Advertisement
As an advertising professional from PUCP, you will be able to create and execute promotional and advertising campaigns, as well as research and observe trends and processes that drive innovation and new resources in the fields of planning, management, and media technologies.
Chemistry
Chemistry studies matter and its properties, the interactions between chemical substances, and the laws that govern the processes occurring around us related to life, the environment, and industry.
Sociology
In a country marked by deep ethnic and social divides, sociology takes on special significance. This discipline studies the relationships between individuals and social groups, as well as the dynamics and structure of societies and the processes of change in everyday life, culture, and institutions. In this regard, gaining a deeper understanding of the national reality, existing tensions and conflicts, and the challenges of globalization are topics of interest to sociologists.
Theater
The Theater program aims to train young people who are interested in their social reality and who, by understanding the aesthetics of contemporary theater, will be equipped to explore and create new forms of dramatic expression.
Tourism
By studying Hospitality Sciences and Arts: Tourism at PUCP, you will become a professional with a strong sense of ethics who is capable of interacting effectively with your surroundings. In this way, your interaction with your surroundings will take the form of managing projects and tourist destinations, as well as creating innovative experiences for every type of tourist.