Technological University of Peru

Technological University of Peru

Universidad Tecnológica del Perú
Motto	En la UTP todo es posible
Motto in English	At the UTP all is possible
Established	September 8, 1997 (1997-09-08)
Founder	Roger Amuruz
Parent institution	Intercorp
Rector	Jonathan Golergant Niego
Students	156,000+ (2022)
Address	Av. Petit Thouars 116 , Lima , Peru
Colours	Maroon   White   Black (Sports)
Website	www.utp.edu.pe

The Technological University of Peru (Spanish: Universidad Tecnológica del Perú) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It has five offices in the city of Lima, located in the districts of Ate, Los Olivos, Lima, San Juan de Lurigancho and Villa El Salvador. At the national level, it has subsidiaries in Nuevo Chimbote, Arequipa, Chiclayo, Huancayo, Ica, Piura and Trujillo.^[1]

History

The UTP was founded on September 8, 1997, by Roger Amuruz Gallegos and began its operation in November of the same year when the National Council for Authorization and Operation of Universities (CONAFU) provisionally authorized its operation.

In July 2012, the university was acquired by the Intercorp group, which entered into a purchase and sale contract with the IDAT Group of the shares of the UTP and the Private University of Chiclayo (UPCH), which made it the majority shareholder of both study centers. The business group acquired 72,874,213 shares of the existing 145,748,424 shares.^[2]

On June 13, 2019, after 1 year of evaluations, the National Superintendency of Higher University Education (SUNEDU) granted institutional licensing to the university after verifying that it complied with the Basic Quality Conditions established in the University Law. The license is valid for six years. According to Sunedu, UTP chose to abandon five undergraduate programs and four postgraduate programs (three master's degrees and one doctorate). Additionally, it increased the percentage of full-time teachers from 4% to 26.6%. They indicated that they also increased their research budget to S/. 5.7 million in 2019.^[3]

See also

• Intercorp

References

1. "Sunedu otrorga el licenciamiento número 74 a la UTP". Sunedu. 2019-06-13.
2. "Interbank compra dos universidades". Perú 21. 2012-08-01.
3. "Sunedu otorgó licencia institucional a la UTP tras desistir de 9 programas de estudio". Publimetro Perú. 2019-06-13. Archived from the original on 2019-09-02.