Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

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