Company Profile
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
Company Overview
The University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus is the oldest and largest higher learning institution in the Caribbean. Founded in 1903, the Río Piedras Campus stands out for its academic excellence, its diverse academic offerings, and its vibrant cultural and sports activity.
Our campus is the leading higher education research center in Puerto Rico. It houses sophisticated laboratories equipped with exclusive resources, important research centers, and a library system that includes over 30 libraries, most of them specialized. The Río Piedras Campus is the first institution on the island to be certified by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as a Doctoral Research-Intensive University.
The Río Piedras Campus offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, as well as professional certificates in fields such as Architecture, Business Administration, Communication, Education, General Studies, Humanities, Information Sciences and Technology, Law, Natural Sciences, and Planning. Committed to high standards of ethics and integrity, the university community reflects diversity, both in the student population and faculty, as evidenced by our efforts to attract foreign students to our academic programs as either international or exchange students.
Our institution is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and by the Puerto Rico Council on Higher Education. Over 50 of our programs are accredited by professional agencies and organizations that monitor the best educational practices.
Company History
The University of Puerto Rico Río Piedras Campus is the oldest and largest higher learning institution in the Caribbean. Founded in 1903, the Río Piedras Campus stands out for its academic excellence, its diverse academic offerings, and its vibrant cultural and sports activity.
Benefits
The Department of Computer Science at UPR-RP is conveniently located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, five minutes from the airport. It has an ABET acreddited Computer Science program and an NCAE-C designated program.
Active research faculty dedication time is six credits (2 courses) and six credits for research. Faculty with grants may increase their research dedication time. At the Computer Science department, recruits are granted nine credits of research dedication time in their first year of the tenure track to establish their research program.
For more information about our departamental activities, please visit our website: https://ccom.uprrp.edu and our social networks: https://linktr.ee/ccom.uprrp