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The University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus ( UPRM) or Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez ( RUM) in Spanish (also referred to as Colegio and CAAM in allusion to its former name), is a public land-grant university in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. UPRM is the second-largest university campus of the University of Puerto Rico system.
The University of Puerto Rico ( Spanish: Universidad de Puerto Rico, UPR) is the main public university system in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It is a government-owned corporation with 11 campuses and approximately 44,200 students and approximately 4,450 faculty members. [4] UPR has the largest and most diverse academic offerings in the commonwealth, with 472 academic programs of ...
The University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus ( Spanish: Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras; UPR-RP, or informally La IUPI [7]) is a public land-grant research university [8] in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the largest campus in the University of Puerto Rico system in terms of student population and it was Puerto Rico's first public university campus. [9]
Mayagüez is located near the geographical center of the west coast of Puerto Rico about two to three hours by automobile from San Juan. Its land area is 77.6 square miles (201.06 km 2 ). [13] The city's terrain includes; coast plains, river valleys, marshland, hills and mountains.
The university began as an extension of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico in the early 1960s. In 1982 it was awarded the official title of "Center", and later it became the Mayagüez Campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in 1996. During the 1989–1990 academic year the facilities in the Calle Ramón Emeterio Betances were inaugurated. [1]
The Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico ( Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico) is a private Roman Catholic university with its main campus in Ponce, Puerto Rico. It provides courses leading to Bachelor's, Master's and Doctorate degrees in education, business administration, the sciences, and arts and humanities.
Colegiales are persons affiliated with University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, commonly including alumni, current and former faculty members, students, and others. Here follows a list of notable Colegiales.
The Edificio José de Diego (English: José de Diego Building) in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, also known as the Rectoría, is a historic building on the grounds of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. It was built in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.