The University of Chile is an institution of higher education of national and public character, which assumes commitment and dedication to excellence training people and contribution to the spiritual and material development of the nation, building leadership in the innovative development of science and technology, humanities and arts, through its teaching, creation and extension, with special emphasis on research and graduate. In the exercise of these functions it promotes the exercise of a prepared citizenship, critical, social awareness and ethical responsibility, according to the values ​​of tolerance, pluralism and equality, intellectual independence and freedom of thought, as well as the respect, promotion and preservation of diversity in all of its endeavors.

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