Universidad Nacional Pedro Henriquez Ureña (UNPHU)

UNPHU is the first private Nonprofit University in the city of Santo Domingo, founded on 1966.
The founders were and still are acknowledged representatives of important entrepreneurial organizations in the country, who created the Dominican university foundation “Fundación Universitaria Dominicana".

Our campus of more than 250,000 square meters is the most privileged in the city. We have other facilities in the city of La Vega, an Experimental Agricultural Farm with 7,536,000 square meters.
The Department of Higher Education, Science and Technology, the government organ ruling the higher education in Dominican Republic, duly accredit UNPHU as well as all of its schools. We have the acknowledgment of different institutions at national and international level allowing our graduates abroad to take grade exams in their countries of origin and be able to practice their careers obtained in our University.    

Seven faculties compose UNPHU: Health Sciences; Agriculture Sciences and Natural Resources; Education and Humanities: Legal and Political Sciences; Economics and Social; Architecture and Arts; Science and technology.
UNPHU has been acknowledged through its existence for the important contributions to the national development through scientific investigation, in special Agronomy, Medicine and Engineering.