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UNDERGRADUATE
PROGRAMS OFFERED IN CUBAN UNIVERSITIES
We offer to the world, the information that with much
affection, and particular hopes has been prepared by the Ministry of Higher
Education, on the university programs offered in Cuban universities. More than 14 000
foreign graduate students from 84 countries endorse our experience.
To the young person, perhaps student of medium or higher education, we want
to show a panel of fascinating alternatives of study and integral formation
that symbolizes so many other dreams of professional accomplishment.
To the parents, whom in the
intimacy of the family will love to support their children in the search of
their personal destiny, we give a material that will help them to exactly play
their formative role in this scope.
To the anonymous person,
familiarized or not with the university world, we offer a transparent
presentation of the profile of programs of a modern university, in exact
coherence with the necessities, eagerness and projects of the societies to which
he/she belongs.
To all of you.
WHY STUDY IN
CUBA?
AND HOW IS
CUBA?
GENERAL
INFORMATION
ACADEMICS
INTRODUCTORY COURSES
REQUESTS
ACCESS
LODGING
AND FEEDING
FINANCIAL
CONDITIONS
WHO CAN HELP
YOU?
CUBAN UNIVERSITIES IN FIGURES
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48 Higher
Education Centers throughout the country.
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22 000
University professors, 20 % of them have the Ph.D. scientific degree.
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635 000
professionals graduated after 1959.
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More than 14 000
foreign graduates from 84 countries.
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More than 125
000 undergraduate students (including all modalities)
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8000 foreign
students in all of the Higher Education System
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More than 300
master programs.
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More than 140
doctorate programs.
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More than 1 000
postgraduate foreign students per academic year.
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35 scientific
journals (published by the centers attached to the Ministry of Higher
Education).
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73 Research
Centers associated to the universities attached to the Ministry of Higher
Education.
Prestige and quality, in the
formation of professionals are the common characteristics that the universities
within the Ministry of Higher Education offer you in the undergraduate programs
offered for foreign students. A vertical and horizontal systemic organizational
conception relates the academic, scientific, labor and university extension
components, in such a way that the knowledge and skills acquired are closely
related with the social practice. You can benefit from the wide labor practices
developed in all the programs in industries, farms, museums, and research
centers, hotels and a width range of institutions related to the industrial
sector and the services.
WHY STUDY IN
CUBA?
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You will receive a professional qualification internationally recognized.
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A strong entailment of the
program with the social practice.
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You will share with a
simple, hospitable and joyful people.
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You will study in a healthy
atmosphere, health is seriously protected by the State.
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You will have the guarantee
of security and citizen quietness.
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You will be in harmony with
a wonderful geography and civilization: beaches, keys, forest, landscapes,
cities, architecture, artistic culture and peculiar idiosyncrasy.
AND HOW IS
CUBA?
Cuba is paradise, as Antonio
Nuñez Jiménez, Cuban geographer and historian states in a wonderful comparison.
He says that “seen from the air, very high, in the kingdom of clouds and blue
sky, Cuba has, as a whole, one fine, enlarged and graceful figure, one peculiar
shape that has been for centuries compared to an alligator, which is the most
common nickname of the country. The green image of the Cuban archipelago from
the cosmic heights has a lot to do with its extraordinary natural conditions,
which makes it a modern version of the mythical earthly paradise”.
Its geographical location
places Cuba just where there is not excessive heat or cold, constantly exposed
to the freshness of the sea and land breezes. These winds that bathe us keep a
particularly clean atmosphere, mainly for those people who come from highly
populated regions of the world, with high levels of urban pollution. The warm
sea tides keep waters renewed, which bring a unique transparence and
cleanliness, ideal for underwater pleasures in an environment of incredible sea
depth beauty.
Cuba
as a nation emerged from a great diversity: its aborigines, the Spanish
colonizers that arrived to its coasts and the black slaves forcedly brought from
the African continent. Later on, the Chinese arrived and also the Haitian, Arabs
and Jews and many others in small communities. All this brought about a
particular racial mixture that has its own culture characterized by its own
cultural characterized by its integrating orientation and its universal
vocation.
Cubans are, in short
synthesis, people with nice character, lovers, poets, dreamers, talkative,
polite, with splendid and gentile smiles, gallant and make the worries of others
their own. You could find many other attributions but you can be sure of one
thing: the treasure of Cuba is its people, as many persons, from other
countries, who know us, always state.
GENERAL INFORMATION
ACADEMICS
Registration for diurnal
regular programs and distance education courses is convened.
The following modalities of
study can be carried out: complete programs, partial studies, (of semesters,
years or groups of subjects), distance education (open university), staying for
labor practices, diploma papers and courses of leveling or of languages
The academic year, organized
by trimesters or semesters, begins the first Monday of September and concludes
in the second week of July.
Foreign students who
register in Cuban universities must govern themselves according to educational
and disciplinary regulations in force in the Cuban Higher Education.
High school graduation
diploma properly legalized settles down as entrance requirement. A certificate
of marks, certificate of health, birth certification, 6 photos type 1x1 and
certificate of dominion of Spanish language (if he/she is not a Spanish speaking
person) are also required.
INTRODUCTORY COURSES
The universities offer
preparatory programs of leveling and of languages for students who have obtained
the baccalaureate in their country and are interested in improving their
preparation in mathematics, Spanish, and other subjects. These courses also
result in a propitious frame to know the Cuban university world. These courses
are offered in different periods of the year, including the months of July and
August.
To learn Spanish in the
heart of the Caribbean where this language is spoken, using daily conversation
with professors and companions is without doubts the most effective way. Our
Centers offer intensive Spanish courses, oriented by academic advisers who guide
the students to choose the appropriate program.
REQUESTS
Individual registration requests can be made through the Cuban Embassies
and consulates in the different countries, the International Relations
Division of the Ministry of Higher Education and its representations abroad,
directly at any of the universities or through Mercadu S.A Travel Agency.
Requests from institutions
of educative credit or others of similar nature, any interested association of
governmental or non-governmental type from different countries, will be made
through the International Relations Division of the Ministry of Higher
Education.
Acceptance of the
registration will be sent 10 days after having received corresponding
documents.
ACCESS
For access to university
programs in Cuba, you will have to put yourself in contact with the universities
of you interest, the representations of the Ministry of Higher Education abroad.
LODGING AND FEEDING
Lodging in students
residences and university hotel facilities are offered, on the basis of mutual
agreement between the interested students and the Center. For students
residences, where the Cuban students and government agreements scholarship
holders live, a tariff of $ 30.00 USD a month is settled down; it includes in
addition, a service of breakfast, lunch and supper in students dining halls.
University hotel facilities supply a package with annual tariff up to $2400.00
USD, that includes feeding with a directed menu of the national kitchen that
includes breakfast, lunch and supper.
Occasional meals service can
be carried out in dining halls of the students residences, in hotel facilities
or in other facilities arranged by the universities and the prices vary
according to the type of installations and the menu offered. In students dining
halls the service of breakfast, lunch and dinner is offered at very economic
prices.
One week lodging for
relatives of the students in a 3 stars hotel costs $237.00 USD per person, and
includes CP feeding (breakfast), lodging in double rooms and transfer
In/Out.
FINANCIAL CONDITIONS FOR YOUNG FOREIGNERS WHO
STUDY UNIVERSITY PROGRAMS IN CUBA
The payment of the
registration fees allows the access with professional aims to all the university
facilities, the delivery of a textbooks module by semester, practices in
institutions and companies related to the areas of his/her knowledge. Also the
possibilities of joining research groups, classes of physical preparation or
sports, artistic education, the expedition of crediting titles and the health
primary attention within the university, among other services. For each academic
year, current costs are listed below:
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ACADEMIC
YEAR |
REGISTRATION FEE
(in USD)
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OBSERVATIONS
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1st and
2nd academic year (each)
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4000
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Adjustments based on
the amount of requests
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3rd
academic year
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4500
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4th
academic year
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5000
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5th
academic year
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6000
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Registration fees in
universities of Havana City will be 20% increased respect the above mentioned.
Payment will be carried out at the moment of registering in each University,
annually or by semesters. Payment can also be made through the Travel
agency.
WHO CAN
HELP YOU?
CUBA
Oficina
Corrdinadora de Servicios Académicos (OCSA)
Ministerio
de Educación Superior
Calle
23 No. 565 esq F, Vedado
Ciudad
de la Habana, Cuba
Phone:
(53 – 7) 55 –2352, 55-3180
FAX:(53 – 7) 33-3091
E-MAIL:dpi@reduniv.edu.cu
This is the office that
serves as connection between the students interested in following higher studies
in Cuba and the different Cuban universities. We are here to keep you informed
on this important product of the Cuban Higher Education and we are very pleased
to do so.
DIRECTORY OF
UNIVERSITIES
You can directly contact any university in order to
request the information that allows you to make a decision concerning your
studies or those of your relatives and friends.
UPR
University of Pinar del Río
“Hermanos Saiz”
Calle Martí No. 270 esq. A
27 de Noviembre
Pinar del Río
Phone: (53-7) (82) 5479
FAX: (53-7) (82) 5813
E-MAIL:
unipr@reduniv.edu.cu
mfdez@eco.upr.edu.cu
UH
University of Havana
Calle L y
Ave. San Lázaro, Vedado CP-10400
Habana 4, Ciudad de La
Habana
Phones: (53-7) 322350 &
322757, FAX: (53-7) 33-5774
E-MAIL:
rector@reduniv.edu.cu
ISPJAE
Higher Polytechnical
Institute "José Antonio Echeverría"
Calle 127 s/n CUJAE,
Marianao 15
CP-13390, Ciudad de La
Habana
Phones: (53-7) 20-2980&
20-8071,FAX: (53-7) 27-24-29
E-MAIL:
josefina@tesla.ispjae.edu.cu
UNAH
Agricultural University of
Havana “Fructuoso Rodríguez”
Autopista Nacional y
Carretera de Tapaste. Apdo. 1819
San José de Las Lajas, La
Habana
Phones: (53-64) 6-3728
& 6-3013, FAX: (53-64) 33-0942
E-MAIL:
febles@main.isch.edu.cu
UMCC
University of Matanzas
“Camilo Cienfuegos”
Carrretera de Via
Blanca.Varadero Km. 3 ½ Matanzas
Phones: (53-52) 26-2222
& 26-1950, FAX: (53-52)5-3101
E-MAIL:
teodoro@cdict.umtz.edu.cu
UCF
University of
Cienfuegos
Carretera de Rodas Km. 4,
Cuatro Caminos,
Cienfuegos, Provincia de
Cienfuegos
Phones: (53-432) 2-1521/
2-3345, FAX: (53-432) 2-2762
E-MAIL:
jcquinte@ucf.info.ucf.edu.cu
UCLV
Central University of
Las Villas "Marta Abreu"
Carretera de
Camajuaní Km. 5.5.
Santa Clara, Villa
Clara
Phones: (53-422)
81410/81618, FAX: (53-422) 8-1608
E-MAIL:
luishs@dri.uclv.edu.cu
UNICA
University of Ciego
de Avila
Carretera de Morón
Km. 9 ½ ,
Ciego de Avila
Phones: (53-33)
266211/ 2-4544, FAX: (53-33) 301365
E-MAIL:
relint@rect.unica.edu.cu
UC
University of Camagüey
Carretera de la
Circunvalación Norte Km. 5,
Camagüey
Phone: (53-322) 6-1334/ 6-1776, FAX: (53-322)
6-1126
E-MAIL:
dri@reduc.cmw.edu.cu
UHo
University of Holguín
Ave. XX Aniversario
s/n, Gaveta postal No. 52,
Holguín 80100
Phones: (53-24) 48-1851/
48-1690, FAX: (53-24) 48-1662
E-MAIL:
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