Chilean Traditional Universities
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In Chile, the term Universidades Tradicionales (Traditional Universities) is used to denote the group of universities founded before the 1980s.
These universities received state financial support (in many ways) and collectively are recognised as the public system of higher education in Chile.
Despite the categorisation of being "public", most of these universities do not belong to the state. Currently, there are three types of universities, according their properties:
- Estatales, which belong to the Chilean State. These are the Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (formerly Universidad Técnica del Estado, technically focused university) and regional universities, which in the 1970s were constituted from the regional campuses of the former two.
- Universities of the Catholic Church. Similarly to the regional estatales, most of these were created from the regional campuses of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in the 1970s.
- Two private universities, which belong to non-profit foundations. These universities are the Universidad de Concepción founded by the citizens of Concepción and the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, created as testamentary will of Federico Santa María Carrera.
Today, there are twenty-five traditional universities that are grouped in the Consejo de Rectores (Rector's Council).
Since the 1970s, these universities have managed a common higher education admissions test known as the Prueba de Selección Universitaria (University Selection Test).
