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University · Bogotá, Colombia

National University of Colombia

Colombian public university

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About

instance of
inception
  • 22 September 1867
motto text
  • Inter Aulas Academiæ Quære Verum (la)
  • Search the truth in the rooms of the academy

Location and contact

country
located in the administrative territorial entity
headquarters location
  • Bogotá · country: Colombia · postal code: 500001 · street address: Carrera 45 (es)
coordinate location
  • 4.6356, -74.0828
official website

People and numbers

count of students
  • 54,284 · 2014
member count
  • 2,863 · academic staff · 2014
rector

Rankings and recognition

ranking
  • 259 · QS World University Rankings · 2026
Earlier figures (13)
  • 219 · QS World University Rankings · 2025
  • 226 · QS World University Rankings · 2024
  • 243 · QS World University Rankings · 2023
  • 258 · QS World University Rankings · 2022
  • 259 · QS World University Rankings · 2021
  • 253 · QS World University Rankings · 2020
  • 275 · QS World University Rankings · 2019
  • 254 · QS World University Rankings · 2018
  • 269 · QS World University Rankings · 2017
  • 290 · QS World University Rankings · 2016
  • 316 · QS World University Rankings · 2015
  • 325 · QS World University Rankings · 2014
  • 381 · QS World University Rankings · 2012

Finances

funder
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $189,500 · award rationale: to support the Think Tank on Medicines, Information and Power's work on access to medicines · 2021
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $140,000 · award rationale: to support policy advocacy on access to medicines and innovation in Colombia · 2019
  • Open Society Foundations · prize money: $150,875 · award rationale: to spark public debate and bring together researchers, civil society and both health and innovation policymakers to begin to advocate for national innovation policy that acknowledges public health priorities in Colombia · 2017

Structure and memberships

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  • Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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  • 4esuHZ · subject named as: 哥伦比亚国立大学 · last update: 20 January 2022
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  • kn20030417014 · subject named as: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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