Academic Offer

Academic Offer

Campus Selection

USM has five campuses in Chile. The main campus “Casa Central” is located in Valparaíso. There are two campuses in Santiago (San Joaquín and Vitacura) and technical branches in Viña del Mar and Concepción. You can opt for classes in up to 2 campuses as long as they are in the same region. For example: you can take courses in San Joaquín and Vitacura, or Valparaíso and Viña del Mar.

If you come under a bilateral exchange agreement, make sure to confirm with your home country exchange coordinator which is the available campus for you.

If you still haven’t decided which campus to attend, explore the options in Campuses and USM life – Los Campus y la vida USM.

 

 

SCT credits and academic workload

Starting in 2019, our university implemented the Transferable Credit System (SCT) to determine the academic workload of its courses. Currently according to our conversion, 1 SCT is equivalent to 1 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System). The pedagogical hour is 35 minutes. 1 SCT credit corresponds to 27 chronological hours of semester work. An exchange student is allowed to enroll in a maximum of 30 SCT credits per semester and a minimum of 15 SCT credits, except when participating in research internships or thesis work

Subject search engine

To find out which are the academic programs taught by the university, a search system has been set up especially for international students. International students can take subjects from all academic departments, always with the approval of the corresponding departments.