The CES medical school, with the former director of Icetex Mauricio Acevedo as rector, surpassed the National and only the Javeriana and the Andes were above
On May 11, 2022, international business professional Mauricio Acevedo Jaramillo, who was the director of the Colombian Institute of Educational Credit and Technical Studies Abroad (Icetex) throughout the Government of Iván Duque, was elected as the rector of the CES private university for the period 2022-2026. A position he reached supported not only by his experience in the public sector, but also by the three years he spent as dean of the EAFIT School of Administration and the other four he spent as director of its headquarters. university in Bogotá.
The CES or Corporation for Health Studies, as its acronym says, is a higher education institution that, although it offers a wide range of programs, focuses especially on the area of health and has medicine as its main argument for show up before the country. It is a private entity founded in 1977 that only in 2007 began to be considered by the Ministry of Education as a university and in which becoming a doctor costs more than $20 million per semester.
Quickly, this institution has become one of the best in the country to study medicine and it is something that its own students have been responsible for endorsing with the Saber Pro Tests that they have to take to graduate and that serve to compare the educational quality of different institutions. programs in the country, this taking into account that, in addition to the typical general tests in which areas such as science, critical reading or English are evaluated, specific ones must also be presented for each career.
Dinero Magazine was in charge of dividing and classifying each program according to a weighted score between general and specific tests, resulting in CES medical students being the third with the best performances with an average of 186.6, being only behind institutions such as the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and the Universidad de los Andes and narrowly surpassing the Universidad Nacional.
Likewise, its Nutrition students were the sixth best in the country, a career in which the University of Antioquia led.
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