Metropolitan University of Education Sciences

The Metropolitan University of Education Sciences (UMCE) is an institution of public, state and autonomous higher education, whose field of attention is teaching, research and the extension of disciplines related to education and culture.

Its mission is to train, in a preferential way, educators for all levels and areas of the educational system, in their initial and continuous professionalization, incorporating new interdisciplinary knowledge that contributes both to an inclusive training, and to the national culture in a reciprocal relationship and permanent with its surroundings. In this line, it directs its work towards consolidation as a significant reference for excellence in teacher training and the formulation of public policies in Education.

This University offers all the specialties of undergraduate teacher training, destined to serve the needs of the national education system, also including the health area.

Sus programas de postgrado y de educación continua están orientados a fortalecer, perfeccionar y actualizar la profesión docente en un marco de compromiso permanente con la calidad del servicio educativo. La Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación es la heredera histórica de los más de 125 años de tradición en la formación de profesores del Instituto Pedagógico de Chile (1889), el que con los años fuera convertido en Facultad de Educación de la Universidad de Chile, y que en 1981 diera vida a la Academia Superior de Ciencias Pedagógicas de Santiago, ciclo que finalizó el 4 de septiembre de 1985 con la creación de la UMCE, “La Universidad Pedagógica de Chile.".