Undergraduate programs
undergraduate programs
At UCU we have embarked on a process of curricular change inspired by trends occurring at the world’s most prestigious universities in order to meet the challenges of our times. All our undergraduate programs include a semester abroad option that offers students the opportunity to study at?one of more than 300 partner universities around the world.
All programs of study integrate active teaching methods, and the high percentage of elective courses in each program enables students to personalize their degree with courses that seek to cultivate humanism, creativity, innovation and a critical mindset. Get to know our undergraduate programs.
schools
Business
International Business
+Finance
+Economics
+Human Management and Labor Relations
+Business Management
+Public Accounting
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International Business
The graduate in International Business and Integration is a professional who can join the labor market at a national and international level, and who makes strategic decisions taking into account the dynamic and interdisciplinary global context of international business. The graduates are fluent in languages, manage foreign trade tools and international logistics, and can identify opportunities in foreign markets by interpreting economic, political, financial, cultural and commercial variables to transform them into viable and sustainable businesses.
Finance
The Bachelor of Finance program trains professionals in the areas of investment analysis and management, banking, insurance, auditing, management consulting, financial management and in the world of fintech. It offers, at the same time, a basis for postgraduate studies.
Economics
The general objective of the Bachelor's Degree in Economics is to train professionals to master the basic tools of the economic field of study, in three large central areas: microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics. Their training seeks to develop critical thinking and a continuous learning attitude to contribute to the country’s educational development in the area of the economy and to contribute to the development and improvement of resource management, both in the private and public sectors.
Human Management and Labor Relations
The graduate in Human Management and Labor Relations will be able to add value to organizations from the perspective of strategic management of the business and human talent. They will empower people to build a purposeful, healthy and sustainable work culture in a changing world.
Business Management
The objective of this program is to train competent business management professionals who can become members of multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, with specific training in management, strategic planning, scenario design and future planning, organization, information systems management and all functions related to companies, with ethical sense and social awareness.
Public Accounting
The objective of teaching and practical experience in the Public Accounting program is to train competent professional public accountants who become capable of making, throughout their lives and professions, a positive contribution to the society they work in. The course of study includes various types of activities and learning methodologies that expose students to the diverse array of settings they will later experience in their working lives.
Health Sciences
Educational Psychology
+Psychomotor Function
+Psychology
+Dentistry
+Nutrition
+Speech Therapy
+Nursing
+Medicine
+Physiotherapy
+Therapeutic Assistant
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Educational Psychology
The objective of the program is to provide training in educational psychology at the university level, which includes studies related to the analysis, planning and development of psychological interventions in learning processes, both individually and in groups.
Psychomotor Function
The Psychomotor graduate from the Catholic University of Uruguay is a professional who carries out a practice guided by ethical reflection and context adaptation. They are competent to work in educational, community, and clinical settings, working from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Psychology
The graduate in Psychology is a professional who, knowing the local and regional context, promotes people’s mental health and well-being based on the understanding and explanation of human behavior in its individual, interpersonal and social expression. They have a pluralistic theoretical training, scientific knowledge and a practice guided by anthropological and ethical thought that enable them to evaluate and intervene in various areas of psychology.
Dentistry
Graduates of the UCU dentistry program focus on health promotion and prevention of the most prevalent oral diseases. They make early and accurate diagnosis that considers the multidimensionality of the person, and orient their therapeutic actions effectively, in order to minimize the impact of the disease and promptly rehabilitate the function of the stomatognathic system.
Nutrition
The graduate of the Bachelor of Nutrition program has the knowledge, skills and abilities, ethical principles and attitudes to provide nutritional guidance to promote health and prevent disease, and to treat and rehabilitate individuals, families and communities.
Speech Therapy
The Speech Therapy graduate is prepared to design, coordinate and carry out different studies in all areas of this field. The curriculum provides skills development in evaluation, diagnosis and treatment in the areas of hearing, communication, language, phonostomatology and voice, to meet the needs of individuals, families and community groups, in a responsible and ethical manner.
Nursing
The Bachelor's Degree in Nursing confers knowledge and skills, including a solid scientific and humanistic background, to produce professionals who are competent to act autonomously and across disciplines. They are professionals capable of reacting to changes in the environment, both currently and in the future, in the different settings of their professional practice.
Medicine
The Medicine program seeks to train medical professionals who understand the human being in its biopsychosocial and spiritual dimensions, and can apply, as appropriate, a comprehensive and team approach to health problems.
Physiotherapy
The training of graduates in Physiotherapy aims to produce professionals in whom science and theoretical and practical activities are intertwined with the appreciation of the human being as the central subject of the discipline. It seeks to cultivate clinical reasoning, a proactive attitude and the perspective of continuous improvement.
Therapeutic Assistant
A graduate from this program is a health agent with a care vocation who offers patients daily life interventions. They do personalized work in the intersubjective dimension, always as a member of an interdisciplinary team. They practice in the private or public sphere, at home or institutionally, covering all developmental ages in both the preventive and care phases.
Law and Liberal Arts
Social Work
+Sociology
+Educational Recreation
+Early Education
+Communication
+Political Science
+Visual Arts
+Performing Arts
+Notary
+Law
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Social Work
A graduate in Social Work is a professional with the ability to work flexibly and creatively in the field of social policies in a setting with multiple actors. They are capable of identifying and interpreting social processes, of designing and promoting projects and of articulating actions that can improve the living conditions of those whose rights are being violated, and those especially disadvantaged. They work in a context of multiple inequalities and promote human rights and respect for individuals’ dignity.
Sociology
The general objective of the Bachelor's Degree in Sociology is to train professionals to master the basic tools of sociology in three large central areas: research methods, statistical analysis and programming tools, and social theory.
Educational Recreation
The graduates of this program are qualified to plan, execute and evaluate recreational activities and programs. They are skilled at developing recreational, sports, expressive and outdoor programs, among others, with an emphasis on the human development of the community.
Early Education
The Bachelor's Degree in EARLY Education aims to equip professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform effectively in the field of Early Education. This includes mastering the science of boys’ and girls’ development, as well as the seven ways in which children learn in order to design and implement learning experiences that promote their integral development.
Communication
The graduate in Communication from the Catholic University of Uruguay can reflectively apply knowledge, in a professional arena, about languages, processes and practices of communication. They can also develop and evaluate communication projects and products creatively and critically, with a proactive and collaborative attitude and with social responsibility.
Political Science
The Degree in Political Science seeks to train professionals committed to the responsible and ethical transformation of social and political reality. Their training enables them to generate systematic and scientific knowledge, and provide essential information for decision-making in different fields of action.
Visual Arts
The Visual Arts graduate is capable of applying their artistic training to creative proposals, both in the field of visual arts and in the creative industries, design, and cultural management, among others. They graduate with the necessary skills to perform professionally in the application of technical-artistic languages, as well as in project design, management and communication in these areas.
Performing Arts
The Bachelor of Performing Arts program aims to contribute to the training of university professionals who are capable of applying expressive and artistic techniques, as well as management and production tools, from conceptual frameworks and rigorous methodologies that support their individual work or teamwork. At the same time, it seeks to develop a critical sense and social responsibility applicable in various cultural environments and in various productions.
Notary
The general objective of the Notary course of study is to train notaries who can begin their professional practice successfully. The graduate will be a professional with an international perspective, capable of understanding the needs of their clients and advising them to protect their interests, acting with loyalty and responsibility as a notary public.
Law
The general objective of the career in Law is to instruct lawyers who can begin their professional practice successfully. The graduate will be a professional with an international perspective, able to litigate and advise their clients to protect their interests, and able to meet the main challenges that the current practice of the profession demands.
Engineering and Technology
Industrial Engineering
+Computer Engineering
+Electrical Engineer
+Food Engineering
+Agronomy
+Software Developer
+Environmental Engineering
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Industrial Engineering
Graduates from Industrial Engineering have a solid technical, scientific and management training, which allows them to contribute to the development of the industrial sector. They manage to conceive, design, implement and operate solutions to various problems in the field of industrial engineering in a rigorous, creative way and with an innovative profile.
Computer Engineering
The objective of this career is to train professionals with a solid background in computing in general, and in information technology, software engineering and computing in particular, that let them support business operations through the selection, creation, integration, evaluation and administration of computer systems.
Electrical Engineer
The Electrical Engineer is a professional capable of taking part in the entire engineering cycle associated with an electrical or electronic system. They have the necessary foundations to conceive, design, install and operate electronic systems in production processes, taking into account the economic, social and ethical aspects related to them. They will be able to join companies or organizations, both public and private, national, regional or international, in technical and management areas.
Food Engineering
The UCU Food Engineering graduate is prepared to design, produce and direct food processes but also, due to their versatility, they can develop, optimize and manage industries that include chemical or biological processes, with an efficient and sustainable vision. Likewise, they can design and implement safety systems for food conservation and transformation.
Agronomy
The objective of the program is to provide engineering professionals with a solid agronomic background that allows them to analyze, understand and develop integrated production systems with scientific support, integrate technology and data science, understand the challenges of the agricultural business and ensure environmental care to contribute to the development of the country.
Software Developer
Graduates from the Software Developer program of study are technical-level professionals in the area of information technology who will posess the skills to build computer applications from given specifications, using a wide range of techniques, programming languages and software development tools, and also to carry out unit tests of the software they build.
Environmental Engineering
The general objective of the Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Engineering is to train professionals in the different scientific, technical, social, economic and legal aspects of environmental problems. In addition, it seeks to impart knowledge and basic skills that allow access to positions in the field of management and comprehensive protection of the environment.
campus
Campus Punta del Este
Business and Economy
+Psychology
+International Business
+Economics
+Public Accounting
+Business Management
+Human Management and Labor Relations
+Software Developer
+Communication and Marketing
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Business and Economy
The Business and Economics graduate will be a well-rounded professional, oriented towards the development of local and global businesses linked to the context of international markets.
Psychology
The graduate in Psychology is a professional who, knowing the local and regional context, promotes people’s mental health and well-being based on the understanding and explanation of human behavior in its individual, interpersonal and social expression. They have a pluralistic theoretical training, scientific knowledge and a practice guided by anthropological and ethical thought that enable them to evaluate and intervene in various areas of psychology.
International Business
The graduate in International Business and Integration is a professional who can join the labor market at a national and international level, and who makes strategic decisions taking into account the dynamic and interdisciplinary global context of international business. The graduates are fluent in languages, manage foreign trade tools and international logistics, and can identify opportunities in foreign markets by interpreting economic, political, financial, cultural and commercial variables to transform them into viable and sustainable businesses.
Economics
The general objective of the Bachelor's Degree in Economics is to train professionals to master the basic tools of the economic field of study, in three large central areas: microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics. Their training seeks to develop critical thinking and a continuous learning attitude to contribute to the country’s educational development in the area of the economy and to contribute to the development and improvement of resource management, both in the private and public sectors.
Public Accounting
The objective of teaching and practical experience in the Public Accounting program is to train competent professional public accountants who become capable of making, throughout their lives and professions, a positive contribution to the society they work in. The course of study includes various types of activities and learning methodologies that expose students to the diverse array of settings they will later experience in their working lives.
Business Management
The objective of this program is to train competent business management professionals who can become members of multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, with specific training in management, strategic planning, scenario design and future planning, organization, information systems management and all functions related to companies, with ethical sense and social awareness.
Human Management and Labor Relations
The graduate in Human Management and Labor Relations will be able to add value to organizations from the perspective of strategic management of the business and human talent. They will empower people to build a purposeful, healthy and sustainable work culture in a changing world.
Software Developer
Graduates from the Software Developer program of study are technical-level professionals in the area of information technology who will posess the skills to build computer applications from given specifications, using a wide range of techniques, programming languages and software development tools, and also to carry out unit tests of the software they build.
Communication and Marketing
The graduate in Communication and Marketing from the Catholic University of Uruguay is a professional who works in organizations or independently. They design, develop, manage and evaluate communication and marketing strategies that respond to business objectives. In this way, they support marketing processes in product design, brand development, and distribution and communication in a creative, thoughtful, critical way and with social commitment.
Campus Salto
Educational Psychology
+Psychology
+International Business
+Economics
+Public Accounting
+Data and Business
+Business Management
+Therapeutic Assistant
+Human Management and Labor Relations
+Software Developer
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Educational Psychology
The objective of the program is to provide training in educational psychology at the university level, which includes studies related to the analysis, planning and development of psychological interventions in learning processes, both individually and in groups.
Psychology
The graduate in Psychology is a professional who, knowing the local and regional context, promotes people’s mental health and well-being based on the understanding and explanation of human behavior in its individual, interpersonal and social expression. They have a pluralistic theoretical training, scientific knowledge and a practice guided by anthropological and ethical thought that enable them to evaluate and intervene in various areas of psychology.
International Business
The graduate in International Business and Integration is a professional who can join the labor market at a national and international level, and who makes strategic decisions taking into account the dynamic and interdisciplinary global context of international business. The graduates are fluent in languages, manage foreign trade tools and international logistics, and can identify opportunities in foreign markets by interpreting economic, political, financial, cultural and commercial variables to transform them into viable and sustainable businesses.
Economics
The general objective of the Bachelor's Degree in Economics is to train professionals to master the basic tools of the economic field of study, in three large central areas: microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics. Their training seeks to develop critical thinking and a continuous learning attitude to contribute to the country’s educational development in the area of the economy and to contribute to the development and improvement of resource management, both in the private and public sectors.
Public Accounting
The objective of teaching and practical experience in the Public Accounting program is to train competent professional public accountants who become capable of making, throughout their lives and professions, a positive contribution to the society they work in. The course of study includes various types of activities and learning methodologies that expose students to the diverse array of settings they will later experience in their working lives.
Data and Business
The Bachelor's Degree in Data and Business trains professionals to merge business and management knowledge for data processing, analysis and interpretation. The graduate will have a solid background in the technological skills demanded by the industry and will be able to apply them in different types of national and international businesses.
Business Management
The objective of this program is to train competent business management professionals who can become members of multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, with specific training in management, strategic planning, scenario design and future planning, organization, information systems management and all functions related to companies, with ethical sense and social awareness.
Therapeutic Assistant
A graduate from this program is a health agent with a care vocation who offers patients daily life interventions. They do personalized work in the intersubjective dimension, always as a member of an interdisciplinary team. They practice in the private or public sphere, at home or institutionally, covering all developmental ages in both the preventive and care phases.
Human Management and Labor Relations
The graduate in Human Management and Labor Relations will be able to add value to organizations from the perspective of strategic management of the business and human talent. They will empower people to build a purposeful, healthy and sustainable work culture in a changing world.
Software Developer
Graduates from the Software Developer program of study are technical-level professionals in the area of information technology who will posess the skills to build computer applications from given specifications, using a wide range of techniques, programming languages and software development tools, and also to carry out unit tests of the software they build.