The most famous university in Top 15 Best Universities in Peru that Toplist wants to introduce to you is Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), founded in 1917, is a non-profit private higher-education institution located in Lima's urban setting (population range of over 5,000,000 inhabitants). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), officially recognized by the Ministerio de Educación, Peru (Ministry of Education of Peru), is a large (enrollment range: 15,000-19,999 students) coeducational Peruvian higher education institution formally affiliated with the Christian-Catholic religion.

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) provides courses and programs that lead to officially recognized higher education degrees such as pre-bachelor degrees (certificates, diplomas, associate or foundation), bachelor degrees, master degrees, and doctorate degrees in a variety of fields of study. This 103-year-old Peruvian university has a selective admission policy based on entrance examinations. International students are encouraged to apply for admission. PUCP also offers a library, housing, sports facilities, study abroad and exchange programs, online courses and distance learning opportunities, and administrative services to students.

There are currently 23,000 undergraduate students in 10 schools pursuing 38 different specialties. Its main campus is in Lima's San Miguel district, with the newly built Mac Gregor complex.

Other facilities outside the main campus include the IC (Idiomas Católica), a language-learning center, the Confucius Institute PUCP, and the cultural center (CCPUCP) in the San Isidro district. CENTRUM, a business studies center in the Santiago de Surco district that offers doctoral and MBA programs, is also affiliated with PUCP. There is a Pastoral Counseling Center on the premises (CAPU).

Address: Avenida Universitaria 1801, San Miguel, Lima, Lima, Peru

Tel: +51 (1) 626 2000

Fax: +51 (1) 626 2805

Website: www.pucp.edu.pe

The National University of San Marcos (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, UNMSM) is a public research university in Lima, Peru. It is the first officially established (privilege granted by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor) and the oldest continuously operating university in the Americas. It is also known as the University of Peru and the "Dean University of the Americas." It was known as the "Royal and Pontifical University of the City of the Kings of Lima" until the Viceroyalty period, and it is now known as Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos or La Decana de América.

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos is one of only a few Peruvian universities to have ranked first nationally in several editions of various international university rankings. Lima is home to its main campus, University City. It was chartered on May 12, 1551, by a royal decree signed by Charles I of Spain, making it the Americas' oldest officially established university. San Marcos University has 66 academic-professional schools organized into 20 faculties and six academic areas. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are available from all faculties. Over 30,000 undergraduate and 4,000 graduate students from across the country, as well as some international students, make up the student body. The university's administration oversees a number of public institutions, including the San Marcos Cultural Center and the Lima Museum of Natural History.

Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa and twenty-one Peruvian presidents are among the notable alumni. San Marcos is also known for the high quality of its curricula, a competitive admissions process, and its status as a scientific research center. Several influential Peruvian and Latin American thinkers, researchers, scientists, politicians, and writers have studied there, highlighting San Marcos' leading role as an educational institution in Peruvian and global history.

Address: Avenida Germán Amezaga s/n, Lima, Lima, Peru

Tel: +51 (1) 619 7000

Fax: +51 (1) 619 7000

Website: unmsm.edu.pe

The third famous university in the Top 15 Best Universities in Peru that Toplist wants to introduce to you is Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Founded on January 5, 1994, the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It currently offers 46 career programs organized into 13 schools.

The main campus of the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas is located in Santiago de Surco, Lima, Peru. It is known as el Campus Monterrico, and it is 3 hectares in size. Another campus was built in Lima, Peru, in San Isidro. The "San Isidro campus" is the name given to this campus. The Villa campus (in the Chorrillos district) was purchased in 2013. The San Miguel campus, which is located in Lima, Peru's San Miguel district, was purchased in 2015. There are several sports-related sectors on the Villa campus.

Previously, UPC had its postgraduate school in the Independencia district, but it had to close due to licensing by SUNEDU and an incident in February 2017.

The Peruvian University of Applied Sciences currently has 46 professional careers. These careers are within 13 faculties: Administration in Hospitality and Tourism, Architecture, Contemporary Arts, Health Sciences, Human Sciences, Communications, Law, Design, Economy, Education, Engineering, Business, Psychology.

Address: Prolongación Primavera 2390, Monterrico, Lima, Lima, Peru

Tel: +51 (1) 630 3333

Website: www.upc.edu.pe

The Universidad Tecnológica del Peru (acronym: UTP) is a private university founded on September 8, 1997. It has 5 branches in the city of Lima, located in the districts of Ate, Los Olivos, Lima Centro, 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.

UTP has 63 undergraduate and postgraduate study programs. 52% of its 71,878 students are enrolled in programs in the engineering field, and 29% in Business and Administration programs.

The UTP has a university campus in downtown Lima and four offices in the districts of Los Olivos, San Juan de Lurigancho, Villa El Salvador and Ate. In the provinces, it has a presence in the cities of Arequipa (2 branches), Chiclayo and Trujillo, and has four new branches under construction in the cities of Huancayo, Nuevo Chimbote, Piura and Ica.

Address: Esquina Avenida 28 de Julio con Avenida Petit Thouars, Lima, Lima, Peru

Tel: +51 (1) 315 9610

Website: www.utp.edu.pe

The fifth famous university in the Top 15 Best Universities in Peru that Toplist wants to introduce to you is Universidad César Vallejo. The César Vallejo University (UCV) is a private Peruvian university located in the Victor Larco district of Trujillo, on the coast of the La Libertad Region.

César Vallejo, a Peruvian poet, inspired the university's name. César Acuña Peralta founded it on November 12, 1991. Its headquarters are in Trujillo's Victor Larco district, and it has subsidiaries in Chiclayo, Piura, Chimbote, Tarapoto, and Lima.

Faculties:

Faculty of Engineering

• Industrial Engineering
• Agro Industrial Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Systems Engineering

Faculty of Human Medicine

• Human Medicine
• Psychology

Faculty of Communication Studies

• Communication Studies

Faculty of Health Science

• Obstetrics

Faculty of Education and Humanities

• Early childhood education
• Primary education
• Translation and interpreting

Faculty of Economic Sciences

• Administration
• Accountancy

Faculty of Law and Politic Sciences

• Law

Faculty of Architecture

• Architecture

Address: Avenida Larco Cdr. 17, Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru

Tel: +51 (44) 281 803

Fax: +51 (44) 286 978

Website: www.ucv.edu.pe

Cayetano Heredia University (Spanish: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, UPCH; or simply Cayetano Heredia) is a private, non-profit university in Lima, Peru. It was named after Cayetano Heredia, a prominent Peruvian physician of the nineteenth century. The university is managed by a board of trustees (patronato) and is not owned by any private or public entity. It is regarded as one of Peru's top medical schools, alongside the Faculty of Medicine "San Fernando" of the National University of San Marcos, and is currently one of the country's major producers and publishers of scientific research.

Cayetano Heredia University became a significant center of higher learning and scientific research in Peru soon after its founding and over the next forty years. In Peru, UPCH is credited with world-class research in the field of health sciences.

It is a small (under 2,000 student) school that focuses on medicine, dentistry, natural sciences, public health, veterinary medicine, nursing, psychology, biotechnology, and education. It offers baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral degrees in biochemistry, biotechnology, medicine, and biology, as well as a Master of Health Administration.

Due to the National Superintendence of Higher University Education (SUNEDU) new university licensing process, the UPCH was licensed in 2016, after complying with the basic conditions of educational quality, becoming the fifth private university to do so and the second university to be licensed for a period of ten years (something that only some universities such as the Catholic, San Agustin, Engineering and San Marcos achieved).

Address: San Martín de Porres 31, Lima, Lima, Peru

Tel: +51 (1) 319 0000

Fax: +51 (1) 482 3435

Website: www.upch.edu.pe

The seventh famous university in Top 15 Best Universities in Peru that Toplist wants to introduce to you is Universidad ESAN. ESAN University or Universidad ESAN in Spanish (acronym: ESAN) is a non-profit private university in Lima, Peru. ESAN University is the world's leading academic institution in business education, having been founded in 1963 as ESAN - Escuela de Administración de Negocios para Graduados, the first graduate business school in the Spanish-speaking world and in Peru. Throughout the years, ESAN has played an important role in Peru and Latin America due to the high quality of its MBA program, specialized master's programs, advanced management programs, and executive education programs, among others.

ESAN was renamed ESAN University in 2003, and it offers its first university courses in business, economics, and engineering in 2007. Currently, in addition to master's and executive education programs, it offers a Doctoral Program in Management through its graduate school, ESAN Graduate School of Business, as well as nine undergraduate programs and two adult professionalization programs.

Address: Alonso de Molina 1652, Monterrico, Surco, Lima, Lima, Peru

Tel: +51 (1) 317 7200

Fax: +51 (1) 345 1328

Website: www.esan.edu.pe

Universidad del Pacifico (UP) is a private university in Lima, Peru's Jesús María District. It was founded in 1962 by a group of Peruvian entrepreneurs with the support of the Society of Jesus. It is ranked as the most prestigious higher education institution in Peru in its fields of specialization (particularly economics), as well as one of the leading institutions of its kind in Latin America, and it is the first Peruvian university to be AACSB accredited in both undergraduate and graduate degree programs. It is also AMBA certified.

Business Management and Economics are two of the University's specializations. Universidad del Pacifico began by offering bachelor's degrees in Economics, Business Administration, and Accounting at the undergraduate level. It was the first university in Peru to offer a management Engineering degree in 2008. Law was added to its degree programs the following year. In 2011, two new departments, International Business and Marketing, were established. It offers a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Finance, and a Master of Economics at the graduate level. The University and its Postgraduate School received AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate School of Business) accreditation in August 2011. Pacfico Business School is the new name for the graduate school.

Approximately 5000 students attend UP. The undergraduate academic year is divided into two semesters, from late March to July and mid-August to mid-December, with a three to four week break in between. The academic year at the graduate level is divided into three terms: January–April, May–August, and September–December. UP collaborates with other organizations to offer service-learning courses.

Address: Avenida Salaverry 2020 Jesús María, Lima, Lima, Peru

Tel: +51 (1) 219 0100

Website: www.up.edu.pe

The University of Lima (Spanish: Universidad de Lima) is a private, non-profit university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1962 and is regarded as one of Peru's most prestigious and well-known universities. The decision to establish the University of Lima was made in the early 1960s by a group of university professors, along with representatives from commerce and industry, who formed the Civil Association PRODIES (Promotion of Industrial Development through Higher Education). They finally got it started after two years of hard work. It officially began operations on April 25, 1962. In the beginning, there were only 120 students on a small campus in the Jesús María District. Due to the university's rapid growth, a campus in the Monterrico area of Surco was established to meet the university's space requirements.

The University of Lima now has over 20,000 students, 13 majors, a postgraduate school, a general studies program, and a scientific research institute, as well as many services for students, faculty, and the community at large.

Address: Avenida Javier Prado Este s/n, Lima, Lima, Peru

Tel: +51 (1) 437 6767

Fax: +51 (1) 437 8066

Website: www.ulima.edu.pe

The University of San Martín de Porres (USMP) is a private, non-profit institution in Lima, Peru. The Dominican Order of the Catholic Church founded the university in 1962, and it is now one of the top five institutions in the country.

Its headquarters are on the Santa Anita campus, which also houses the faculties of administrative sciences and human resources, accounting, economic and financial sciences, and dentistry. The faculty of human medicine, the faculty of engineering and architecture, and the faculty of law are all located in the La Molina district. Surquillo is home to the faculty of communication sciences, tourism, and psychology.

The obstetrics and nursing school is in the Jesus Maria district, and the university-owned dental clinic is in the San Luis district. In Lima, the USMP operates four language centers in the districts of Jesus Maria, Santa Anita, San Isidro, and Pueblo Libre. It also has an art institute and a government institute in the Miraflores district.

Address: Avenida las Calandrias s/n, Lima, Lima, Peru

Tel: +51 (1) 478 1001

Website: www.usmp.edu.pe

St. Ignatius of Loyola University (Spanish: Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola) (USIL) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It is part of a group of educational institutions founded in 1995 by former Peruvian Vice President Raúl Diez Canseco, which also includes an institute and two schools. It has an Undergraduate Program with 8 schools and 33 careers, as well as a Graduate Program. USIL places a strong emphasis on entrepreneurship and hospitality management, which is consistent with the school's mission statement of "shaping competent entrepreneurial professionals who are socially responsible and capable of performing successfully, both domestically and internationally."

There are two campuses in total. The first campus is named after Fernando Belaúnde Terry, Peruvian President from 1963 to 1968 and again from 1980 to 1985. It is the university's original campus, with a classroom capacity of approximately 4000 students. Its facilities, in addition to classrooms, include the following:

• Deans' and other administrative offices
• Laboratories
• Library
• Reading and research centres
• TV and radio studios
• Cafeteria
• Don Ignacio Restaurant (run by students from the Culinary Arts major)

The second campus is named after Peruvian navy hero Miguel Grau Seminario from the Pacific War. It comprises eight floors of classrooms, as well as the Graduate Programme, Junior Achievement Peru offices, and other administrative offices, a cafeteria, student centers, and the university's book store. It is now being expanded to include at least two more buildings to suit the recent rise in student enrollment.

Address: Avenida La Fontana 550, La Molina, Lima, Peru

Tel: +51 (1) 317 1000

Website: usil.edu.pe

The University of Piura (Spanish: Universidad de Piura; "UDEP") is a Peruvian private university. It has two campuses, the main one in Piura and a newer one in Lima's Miraflores District. During a meeting with professors from the University of Navarra in Spain in 1964, Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei, decided to establish a new university. St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer founded it, and it was officially recognized as a university in 1969.

Piura Piura Campus is home to UDEP's main campus, which spans 130 hectares. More over half of the area is desert reclaimed. It is densely forested with mesquite trees, and it is home to squirrels, deer, foxes, peacocks, lizards, and many birds. The Piura Campus began construction in the late 1960s, with much of its infrastructure funded by international aid from the governments of Italy, Spain, Germany, and Canada. [Citation required]

Lima UDEP has two campuses in the city of Lima. The undergraduate students are located in the heart of Lima's Miraflores District, a lovely district on the Pacific coast. The graduate campus for Business Management is located in Lima's Surco area. Its MBA program is regarded as one of the best in Peru.

Address: Avenida Ramón Mugica 131, Urbanización San Eduardo, Piura, Piura, Peru

Tel: +51 (73) 284 500

Fax: +51 (73) 284 510

Other locations: Lima

Website: udep.edu.pe/international

The National University of Saint Augustine, also known as the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa (U.N.S.A.), is a public university. The National University of Saint Augustine has consistently been ranked as one of Peru's top public schools, and it is one of Latin America's oldest public universities, having been in operation since November 11, 1828.

The Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa (National University of San Agustín de Arequipa) is a non-profit public higher-education institution located in Arequipa's urban setting (population range of 1,000,000-5,000,000 inhabitants). The Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa (UNSA), which is officially recognized by the Ministerio de Educación, Peru (Peruvian Ministry of Education), is a large (enrollment range: 30,000-34,999 students) coeducational Peruvian higher education institution.

This 191-year-old Peruvian university has a selective admission policy based on entrance examinations. This Peruvian higher education organization is highly selective, with an admission rate ranging from 0 to 10%. International applicants are welcome to apply for admission. UNSA also provides students with academic and non-academic facilities and services such as a library, sports facilities, financial aid and/or scholarships, study abroad and exchange programs, and administrative services. The university has three campuses, 17 colleges, and 45 professional schools in the humanities, natural sciences, biological sciences, social sciences, and engineering.

Address: Santa Catalina 117, Arequipa, Arequipa, Peru

Tel: +51 (54) 237 808

Website: www.unsa.edu.pe

The National University of Saint Anthony the Abad in Cuzco (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco) (UNSAAC), also known as Saint Anthony University of Cusco or University of Cusco, is a public university in Cusco, Peru. It is one of the country's oldest. Its foundation was first proposed on March 1, 1692, with Pope Innocent XII's encouragement and support. On June 1, 1692, King Charles II signed the document in which Pope Innocent XII sponsored the establishment of the university in Madrid, Spain, becoming Cusco's principal and oldest university. The university was granted the authority to award bachelor's, licentiate's, master's, and doctorate degrees.

This 328-year-old Peruvian university has a selective admission policy based on entrance examinations. UNSAAC also provides students with academic and non-academic facilities and services such as a library, sports facilities, study abroad and exchange programs, and administrative services.

Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco is consistently ranked among the top ten universities in the United States. It now has 24 faculty members, 37 professorial chairs, and 29 academic departments.

Address: Avenida de la Cultura Nº 733, Cusco, 51084 Cusco, Peru

Tel: +51 (84) 238 173

Fax: +51 (84) 232 255

Website: www.unsaac.edu.pe

The National University of Trujillo, also known as Universidad Nacional de Trujillo (UNT) is a major public university in Trujillo, Peru, which serves as the capital of the department of La Libertad. Simón Bolívar and José Faustino Sánchez Carrión met in Huamachuco and signed the founding decree on May 10, 1824, before Peru gained independence from Spain. The National University of Trujillo was Peru's first republican university.

The National University of Trujillo (UNT) is a Peruvian university located in Trujillo, La Libertad Region in northern Peru. It was founded during the Republican era by General Simón Bolívar, who issued a decree establishing the university from his headquarters in Huamachuco on May 10, 1824, with Don José Faustino Sánchez Carrión as secretary. Don Carlos Pedemonte y Talavera was the first director, and his term began on October 22, 1831. The Government appointed St. Thomas and St. Rose of Lima as supreme patron of the University on November 23, 1831. The first college environments were located within the school founded by bishops of El Salvador. Dogmatic and Moral Theology, Canons and Laws, Anatomy and Medicine, Philosophy and Mathematics were the first classes. UNT's first academic degrees were Bachelor, Master, and Doctor of Laws and Sacred Canons. Beginning in 1861, it adopted the College system. Its students included the universal poet César Vallejo in 1916, the first political philosopher Antenor Orrego in 1928, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Eduardo González Viaña, Carlos Hugo Garrido Chalén, among others.

UNT is one of the largest universities in the country, with approximately 16,000 students spread across 13 academic faculties. Dr. Carlos Vásquez Boyer is the current rector. The UNT is regarded as one of Peru's top universities.

Address: Avenida Juan Pablo II s/n Ciudad Universitaria, Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru

Tel: +51 (44) 205 448

Fax: +51 (44) 256 629

Website: www.unitru.edu.pe