Metropolitan University of Education Sciences

The Metropolitan University of Education Sciences (UMCE) is an institution of public, state and autonomous higher education, whose field of attention is teaching, research and the extension of disciplines related to education and culture.

Its mission is to train, in a preferential way, educators for all levels and areas of the educational system, in their initial and continuous professionalization, incorporating new interdisciplinary knowledge that contributes both to an inclusive training, and to the national culture in a reciprocal relationship and permanent with its surroundings. In this line, it directs its work towards consolidation as a significant reference for excellence in teacher training and the formulation of public policies in Education.

This University offers all the specialties of undergraduate teacher training, destined to serve the needs of the national education system, also including the health area.

Its postgraduate and continuing education programs are designed to strengthen, refine, and update the teaching profession within a framework of ongoing commitment to the quality of educational services. The Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences (UMCE) is the historical heir to the more than 125-year tradition of teacher training established by the Pedagogical Institute of Chile (1889), which over the years became the Faculty of Education of the University of Chile, and which in 1981 gave rise to the Higher Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Santiago, a cycle that culminated on September 4, 1985, with the creation of UMCE, "The Pedagogical University of Chile.".