Diego Portales University

Founded in 1982, Diego Portales University is one of the first private institutions in Chile. It is amongst the country’s top universities in law, architecture, education, psychology and journalism.

DPU has connections with prestigious institutions such as Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Columbia University, Leiden University, University of Sao Paolo and others.

As a capital city, Santiago has an array of cultural activities to offer including the International Theatre Festival Santiago a Mil, the jazz festivals Lollapalooza and the Maquinaria festival, as well as regular events at cultural centres, theatres, cinemas, concert halls and opera and ballet theatre halls. If you’re in the main campus of Diego Portales, you will be based in immediate vicinity to the national library as well as most museums, including the National History Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Pre-Columbian Art, the Colonial Museum and the Museum of Santiago.