CUBAN HIGHER EDUCATION
67 Higher Education Institutions
More than 200 000 students (13 087 foreign students from 152 countries)
CUBAN HIGHER EDUCATION
Number of Cuban
Higher Education
Institutions
Undergraduate
enrollment
Postgraduate enrollment
2012
67
2013-2014
207237
2013-2014
2011
28
1976-1977
3
1958-1959
541310.00
83957
1976-1977
2010
1958-1959
468153.00
526445.00
2063
2009
630420.00
PREMISES
•Flexible university
•Academic college
•Productive college
•value-added research
MISSIONS
To train Informatics Science
professionals, highly committed to the
development of the country.
To produce software and informatics
services following a study-work based
educational model and support
Cuban software industry.
GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION
GENERAL FACTS
• Created in 2002
• Course: Informatics Sciences
Engineering
• Training model based on
software development
competences
• unique educational concept
•
industry within the
university
• 7 graduations, more than
11000 engineers
• Very young faculty body
TRAINING
• Undergraduate
• 6 faculties
• More than 4000 undergraduate
students
• All Cuban provinces represented
• Postgraduate Education
• Five Master’s Degree programs
• Institution authorized for PhD
programs in Informatics
• International Postgraduate
Education Center
FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS
F5
F3
F1
F2
F4
F6
FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS
F5
CISED: Center
for
identification
and information
F3
security (CMMI Nivel II)
CESOL: Free Software Center
CIDI: Center for internet research and development
F1
F2
F4
F6
FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS
F5
F3
F1
F2
F4
TLM: Telematics Center
CIGED: Center for ICT F6
in Document Management
FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS
CEIGE: Business Informatics Center
F5Nivel II)
(CMMI
CEGEL: E-government Center
F3
F1
F2
F4
F6
FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS
F5
F3
F1
F2
F4
F7 Center
FORTES: ICT in Education
F6
FACULTAD - CENTROS DE DESARROLLO
CEDIN: Industrial Informatics Center (CMMI Nivel
II)
F5
F3
CEDAE: Business Architecture Consulting and
F1 Center
Development
VERTEX: Tridimensional Interactive Virtual Environment
Center
F2
F4
F6
FACULTY – SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTERS
F1
F3
F4
DATEC: Data-base Technologies Management
F2
Center
GEYSED: Geo-informatics and Digital Signals
Center
F5
F6
FACULTY – DEVELOPMENT CENTERS
F3
F1
F5
CESIM: ICT in Health Care Center
F2
F4
F6
FACULTY – DEVELOPMENT CENTERS
CESOL
CISED
CEDIN
CEIGE
F3
F1
F5
CEGEL
DATEC
CIDI
F4
F2
VERTEX
CESIM
F6
FORTES
TLM
CEDAE
CIGED
GEYSED
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCH CENTERS
Educational Science Innovation and Quality
Center (CICE)
Computational Mathematics Research Center
(CEMC)
GENERAL SERVICES CENTERS
Technical Support and Maintenance Center
Audiovisual Production Center
Graphic Design Center
RESEARCH LINES
• Bioinformatics
• Image and signal processing and Geoinformatics
• Educational Science and ICT in education
• Computer graphics and Virtual reality
• Telecommunication networks and Software security
• Social impact of ICT
• Free software and open source systems
• Business intelligence and architectures
• Database technologies
• Scientific computing
• Artificial Intelligence
• Software project management, quality and
engineering
RESEARCH-DEVELOPMENT
• About 200 software and associated
services development projects
• 3 development centers certified CMMI
Level II
• Relations with academic and business
institutions from, among others:
Venezuela, Mexico, Dominican Republic,
Ecuador, Argentina, Panama, Uruguay,
Nicaragua, Jamaica, Trinidad and
Tobago, Bahamas, Canada,
Spain, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Germany,
Russia, Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe,
Namibia, Equatorial Guinea
REGIONAL LEADING ROLE IN ACMICPC PROGRAMMING CONTESTS
• Regional venue for ACM –ICPC
competitions in the Caribbean region
since 2009 (more than 50 universities
from 8 countries)
• Participation in two World Finals
• World sub-champion of the ICPC
Challenge Tournament in the World Finals
in 2011, USA
• Developer of the Caribbean On-line
Judge (http://coj.uci.cu), with more than
700 universities and 150 countries
represented
RESIDENTIAL AREA
Almost 1000 apartments with
basic living and working
conditions
Basic services:
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Cafeterias
Post Office
Bank
Currency exchange office
Beauty parlor and barbershop
Swimming pool
Bakery
Others
EXTENSION
EXTENSION
• Wide involvement in
social programs
• Active sports and
cultural life
• About 250 works of
art in campus