Universidad Francisco Marroquín

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Universidad Francisco Marroquín ("Francisco Marroquín University") is a private, secular, university in Guatemala City, Guatemala that was founded in 1971. According to the school's website, "[t]he mission of Universidad Francisco Marroquín is to teach and disseminate the ethical, legal and economic principles of a society of free and responsible persons." The website also states that UFM "has the most rigorous entrance requirements in the country."

Started by members of Centro de Estudios Economico-Sociales ("Center for the Study of Socioeconomics") with $40,000 and 125 students, UFM now (as of 2005) boasts almost 1700 undergraduate students, 474 graduate students, 450 medical/dental students, and 130 non-degree-seeking students.[1] The university also offers instruction via the distance learning program, referred to by its acronym: IDEA. In 1998, the distance learning program had more than 10,000 students enrolled. The language of instruction is Spanish, but since many course texts and some lectures are in English, students are expected to be proficient in that tongue as well.

According to Milton Friedman, UFM is "...a first-rate university that is having a significant effect on the climate of opinion in Latin America. I know of hardly any comparable success story..."

Contents 1 Degrees 2 Disciplines 3 Journals 4 Notable Recipients of Honorary Degrees from UFM 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Degrees

UFM offers the following degrees:

• Associate's
• Profesorado (for secondary school teachers)
• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Science
• Licenciatura
• Master of Arts
• Master of Science
• M.D.
• D.D.S.
• Ph.D.

[edit] Disciplines

Areas of instruction include:

• architecture
• business administration
• clinical nutrition
• dentistry
• economics
• education
• international relations
• journalism
• law
• medicine (internal medicine; ophthalmology; pediatrics; radiology)
• nutrition
• political studies
• accounting
• psychology
• social sciences

[edit] Journals

• Apuntes de Economía y Política (Public Choice Newsletter)
• Arquitemas (Journal of the School of Architecture)
• Eleutheria (Philosophy Department)
• Laissez-Faire (Economics Journal)
• Revista de la Facultad de Derecho (Law Review)

[edit] Notable Recipients of Honorary Degrees from UFM

• José María Aznar (former Prime Minister of Spain)
• James M. Buchanan (Nobel Prize in Economics laureate)
• Michael DeBakey (Heart surgeon)
• Michael Deaver (Reagan Advisor)
• Steve Forbes (Publisher)
• Viktor Frankl (Psychologist)
• Milton Friedman (Nobel Prize in Economics laureate)
• Friedrich Hayek (Nobel Prize in Economics laureate)
• Jeane Kirkpatrick (Ambassador)
• Václav Klaus (former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic)
• Mario Vargas Llosa (Novelist)
• William Middendorf, II (Ambassador)
• Robert Sirico (Clergyman, founder of the Acton Institute)
• Vernon Smith (Nobel Prize in Economics laureate)

[edit] See also

• List of universities in Guatemala

[edit] External links

• Universidad Francisco Marroquín - Francisco Marroquin University
• UFM - Biblioteca Ludwig von Mises
• UFM - New Media Department
• ATLAS LIBERTAS - UFM Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
• article about the Francisco Marroquin University in French
• Viennese Party at The Francisco Marroquin University, New Media
• UFM Arboretum
• Libertate Viam Facere. Objectivism and Ayn Rand
• CADEP (Center for the Analysis of Public Choice Decisions)
• Henry Hazlitt Center