On this day, we got to visit\u00a0Yachay Tech University, located in the Urcuqui-Imbabura Province, which is around a 250 mile trip from Quito, Ecuador. \u00a0The university is also located in a city by the same name. Yachey is a word in the \u00a0Ecuadorian Kiwchua\u00a0Indigenous Language, which means knowledge or learning. Therefore, the area where the university is located is known as the, “Yachay, the City of Knowledge”.<\/p>\n
This is a state supported university that started operating\u00a0for the first time in 2014. \u00a0It\u00a0has very competitive admission policies and in my opinion, it is destined to become the Stanford University of Ecuador. The university’s mission\u00a0is to become a major research university in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields in\u00a0Ecuador and also to collaborate with other research public\/private \u00a0universities both in Ecuador and around the world. \u00a0The university’s\u00a0webpage is located here: http:\/\/yachaytech.edu.ec<\/a>\u00a0. According to the presentation that we attended, the university has admitted students from all of the 24 provinces, which make up the Republic of Ecuador.\u00a0The presentor\u00a0also mentioned that because admitted students come from all of the provinces of Ecuador, the university also provides student housing, which is against the tradition of other state supported Ecuadorian universities.<\/p>\n The university\u00a0also has a Facebook page located here:\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/yachaytech<\/a>\u00a0. Here is a post that I have embedded directly from the university’s\u00a0Facebook\u00a0page to this website. It shows\u00a0the pictures, names and positions of the main administrators of the university. In my opinion, this is an impressive list of world-class leaders:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n