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Best Universities for Programs in Guatemala 2025

Number of institutions: 16
    • Guatemala City, Guatemala

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    Structuralia is a specialized engineering, infrastructure, energy, building, and new technology graduate education school with the strong conviction that continuous quality training is vital for the professional development of engineers and architects.

    • Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

    In order to create a university in Quetzaltenango whose objective was to educate its students with a philosophy based on freedom, aimed at building a free, peaceful society with a high academic level and which would also be inclined to offer careers that prepare its students. students to face the challenges of the future, the extension of the Francisco Marroquín University in the city of El Alto was founded in 1994. The University of the West would be the continuation of the doctrinal orientation of the extension of the Francisco Marroquín University when it withdrew from Quetzaltenango. It was founded by a group of Quetzaltecan businessmen and professionals, who formed the board of trustees for its creation and initiated the corresponding procedures for its authorization. Some were former students and professors of the UFM and members of the Superior Council that said the university had been appointed to direct and administer with economic independence. The purchase of land for the establishment of the Central Headquarters of the Universidad de Occidente begins and parallel to this, the work and coordination that entails the opening of two extensions in Guatemala City and in the departments of Escuintla, Suchitepéquez, Retalhuleu, Huehuetenango and San Pedro department of San Marcos. It began its operations as such in the city of Quetzaltenango in 2010 when the Council for Higher Private Education authorized its operation and it was published in the Official Gazette on March 3, 2010. The mission of the university is the teaching and dissemination of the Philosophy of Liberty with personal responsibility in all fields of human life to contribute to the material and spiritual progress of humanity.

    • Guatemala City, Guatemala

    The Universidad San Pablo de Guatemala is based on the practical realization of studies in the life of the student. University careers are totally innovative, applicative, and will encourage students to be creative and entrepreneurial. The educational philosophy of the University is focused on innovation, towards what should be, on invention and new, original, and unlimited ideas. The curricula of the courses, the teaching-learning process, and the educational philosophy, in general, are based on the following: Technological Skills, advanced standards of the use of information and communication technologies as an integral part of the learning, customs, and life of teachers and students. Spirit of service to the community and development of progressive values. Humanistic application of technology to contribute to the development of Guatemala. Worldview, based on the Calvinist Protestant philosophy, which manifests the equality of people and a Reformed theology, progressive, ethical, and practical values ​​that give rise to development. The main objective of the general curriculum of the different careers and of all courses is to educate students in the following values, characteristics, and abilities: Leadership Research Entrepreneurship These values ​​are transversal and have a significant influence on the teaching-learning systems and on the curriculum of all courses, seminars, laboratories, and workshops. The Universidad San Pablo de Guatemala is based on an educational system from which innovative models are designed through which pedagogical action makes a commitment to others; to become assumed as the means of personal and social transformation. The educational system is founded on the truth and proceeds from the ethical conviction of those who practice it in the orientation towards the achievement of progress and the well-being of the community. Therefore, it is an institution committed to society, in the generation and transmission of knowledge, educating in excellence, to contribute to the construction of a daily life, which is based on Christianity having a high social impact based on ethics. , Judeo-Christian, moral standards, and values ​​that recognize others.

    • Guatemala City, Guatemala

    The Don Bosco Salesian Association signed an Academic Cooperation Agreement with the Francisco Marroquín University in 1971. Starting in 1972, the Don Bosco Salesians developed humanistic programs supported by the Francisco Marroquín University. Careers, departments, and faculties were created. Notable among these programs are: Teachers in Education and Education Sciences, Teachers in Theology, Teachers in English, and Teachers in History. The Faculty of Communication Sciences had great development and the specialties of Technician and Bachelor of Science in Social Communication, Bachelor of Advertising and Bachelor of Radio and Television Production were established. There the Mesoamerican University had its beginnings. Taking advantage of the university experience and development that had been achieved, the procedures for founding a new university began in 1996. The 1st. In October 1999, the Mesoamerican University was approved by the Council of Higher Private Education of Guatemala. In 2000, the new university began to function with the Faculties of Human and Social Sciences and Social Communication Sciences. One year later, in a strategic alliance with the Guatemalan Association of Managers, ESAG, Escuela Superior de Alta Gerencia, was created to teach Master's Degrees. In 2002, 15 careers from the city of Quetzaltenango were merged as part of the Mesoamerican University. In 2003, the Faculty of Medicine was authorized at said headquarters.

    • Guatemala City, Guatemala

    The Universidad del Valle de Guatemala is one of the most prestigious universities in Central America. We are at the forefront of technology and in promoting high-level research and teaching. We are not a private university. 1 in Central America and Panama, according to the QS ranking and the only university with the institutional accreditation of Heroes in Guatemala. For more than 50 years, we have been looking for and welcoming talented people who want to be agents of change. We offer a distinctive model with a broad liberal arts focus, unified with specialized training in science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurship, and education. Both our portfolio of programs and our research and outreach agenda respond to the needs of our environment, the new generations of students, and promote the search for solutions to the challenges of our society. In our three campuses, the UVG has been characterized as an institution that seeks academic excellence with values ​​and criteria to help all students, through financial aid and scholarships for talented young people with limited resources.

    • Guatemala City, Guatemala

    The Da Vinci University of Guatemala is an institution of higher education, whose educational proposal is based on the principles of truth, integrality, the search for excellence, social responsibility, and the relevance of knowledge. The Da Vinci University of Guatemala understands that the truth is a fundamental value, and therefore its search, its practice, and its defense are immersed in its actions, particularly through academic and institutional research, which also contributes to the development of science and social development. Another fundamental principle is that of integrality. The Da Vinci University of Guatemala understands that knowledge is broad and diverse and that its educational programs need to provide, as far as possible, integrative knowledge of various areas, so that graduated professionals have comprehensive training. Excellence as a principle of action is a priority value for the Da Vinci University of Guatemala. It is understood that the search for excellence has no end and that therefore the actions of its members, as well as those of its programs, must be carried out with quality according to norms and standards that ensure their achievement. Another fundamental principle is that of relevance, which is understood as the link and coherence between its educational proposals and the demands of society and the productive sector. The Da Vinci University of Guatemala aims to educate professionals who have the ability to make critical judgments and have high flexibility and adaptability when exercising their profession. This is possible if the knowledge made available to them is relevant to reality and constant scientific, technological, and social evolution.

    • Guatemala City, Guatemala

    The University has been conceived to be a link, a bridge, an "isthmus" that brings together scientific research and professional practice; permanent values ​​and a creative and innovative spirit; the social problems of the country and international events; the university and the company; humanistic training and modern technology. To support our quality in academic training, UNIS has undergone a process of continuous accreditations, which guarantee the standards of our educational programs, the profile of our professors, tools in the exercise of the career, such as specialty programs. For this process, the Universidad del Istmo trusts ANECA to start its International Academic Quality Certification process as of 2014. ANECA is a state foundation that aims to provide external quality assurance to the university system and contribute to its constant improvement, likewise, it develops different programs to carry out its activity (evaluation, certification, and accreditation), in order to integrate our system into the European Higher Education Area.

    • Guatemala City, Guatemala

    As the only state university, it is exclusively responsible for directing, organizing, and developing state higher education and state education, as well as the dissemination of culture in all its manifestations. It will promote by all means within its reach research in all spheres of human knowledge and will cooperate in the study and solution of national problems. Its fundamental purpose is to raise the spiritual level of the inhabitants of the Republic, preserving, promoting, and disseminating culture and scientific knowledge. It will contribute to the realization of the union of Central America and for this purpose, it will seek the exchange of academics, students, and everything that tends to the spiritual bonding of the peoples of the isthmus. The University of San Carlos de Guatemala is the state higher education institution, autonomous, with a democratic culture, with a multi and intercultural approach, linked and committed to scientific, social, humanistic and environmental development with an updated, dynamic, effective management and with resources optimally used to achieve its aims and objectives, educator of professionals with ethical principles and academic excellence.

    • Guatemala City, Guatemala

    The Mariano Gálvez University is a private, independent, non-profit higher education institution that operates in accordance with the laws of its institutional nature, which was approved on January 29, 1966, by the Supreme University Council of the University of San Carlos de Guatemala. Its name honors the distinguished statesman, hero, and illustrious jurisconsult Doctor José Mariano Gálvez (Head of the State of Guatemala 1831-1838), founder of the Academy of Studies and reformer of Guatemalan education, who promoted important innovations in all orders of the life of the state. The improvement of public instruction is attributed to him. He fought for the teaching to be secular, he was the founder of the National Library and Museum, he respected individual laws and guarantees, freedom of the press, and emission of thought. In accordance with its Institutional principles, the Mariano Gálvez University serves, essentially, the ethical, scientific, professional and technical training of students, through the integrated exercise of teaching, research and service to the community and normative, academic independence, administrative, disciplinary and economic; to the conservation and development of science and culture as a universal heritage; to the promotion of research as a source of knowledge and progress and to the study of national problems in order to contribute to their solution. The ideals that inspired its founders remain valid, as it is the concern of the University in its teaching, the comprehensive training of its students in an environment of freedom, mutual respect, and a spirit of coexistence.

    • Guatemala City, Guatemala

    This program is only available as a second part of the Dual Degree Program after students. is only available via our highly accredited University...

    • Guatemala City, Guatemala

    This program is only available as a second part of the Dual Degree Program after students. is only available via our highly accredited University...

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    • Boca Raton, USA
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    Watson Institute is a place where next-generation entrepreneurial leaders can find their community, discover their calling, and accelerate their careers. We provide the tools, network, mindset, and courage for the next generation to solve the toughest challenges facing the world, launch successful careers, and lead impactful lives.

    • Guatemala City, Guatemala
    • Cahabon, Guatemala
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    This program is only available as a second part of the Dual Degree Program after students. is only available via our highly accredited University...

    • Guatemala City, Guatemala

    This program is only available as a second part of the Dual Degree Program after students. is only available via our highly accredited University...