About Us

Feel at home in Chile, at the UAndes School of Business and Economics. Immerse into an environment that you’ll never forget and become part of a community that inspires you to be your best. With our distinct programs and our unique world-class campus at the Andes mountains, you’ll find a chance to grow culturally, academically and personally. Learn Economics, Finance, Marketing, International Business and more, in English or Spanish, from professors who are at the frontiers of knowledge. I invite you to take a closer look at the UANDES SBE, visiting our Instagram accounts @internationalbusinessuandes and @comercialuandes
We can’t wait to join you at building wonderful memories in Chile.

Sincerely,
Álvaro García
Dean

The Uandes SB&E

Elevated Education Experience

Ranked among the top 3 business schools in Chile, the Uandes SBE delivers an unparalleled educational journey. With an esteemed international faculty, cutting-edge technology, and access to premier resources such as our world-class library and Bloomberg Lab, our students are equipped with the tools to excel in their careers or academic pursuits.

Dynamic Curricula

The UANDES SBE offers dynamic curricula with a diverse array of courses available in English and Spanish. Students can pursue majors in Economics, Finance, Marketing, and International Business, acquiring essential knowledge, critical skills, and hands-on experience for today’s dynamic and challenging business landscape.

Our Campus

Modern and vibrant campus 

The unique UANDES campus is located in Santiago, Chile, at the foot of the Andes mountains. Its 128 acres combine green areas and sports fields with remarkable buildings, research labs and a teaching hospital in campus. The infrastructure and layout have been carefully developed to foster a study environment that favors intellectual creativity and growth. 

School Leadership and Staff

Álvaro García-Marín

Dean

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Ana Elisa Pereira

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
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Nicolás Román Purcell

Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs
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María Teresa Correa Ferrer

Associate Dean for Student Affairs
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André Bergoeing Reid

Director of BS in International Business / MBA, Universidad de los Andes
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David Kimber

Director of Graduate Programs / Ph.D. Communication, Universidad de Navarra

Acceso a su perfil de investigación.

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Mario Alejandro Tessada Pérez

Director of Master in Finance / MBA P.U.C.
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Nicolás Riquelme

Director of Master in Economics / Ph.D. Economics, University of Rochester
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Anil Sadarangani

Director of Innovation / Ph.D. Biological Sciences, P.U.C.
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Paulina Mahuzier

Director for Undergraduate Students
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Elisabeth Farrelly

Assistant Director for International Accreditations / MBA, Yale University
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María Constanza Crestuzzo Manuello

Assistant Director for Teaching & Learning
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Daniela Jadue

Assistant Director for Marketing and Communications
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María Teresa Bustamante

Administrative Assistant
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Valentina Caroca

Head of Professional Development
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Cecilia Johnson

Administrative Assistant
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Consuelo Merino

Administrative Assistant
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Paula Videla

Administrative Assistant for Undergraduate Students
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Faculty and Research

Full-time Faculty

Research Faculty

Jorge Alé-Chilet

Ph.D. Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Andrés Barrios-Fernández

Ph.D. Economics, London School of Economics
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Cristián Cuevas

Ph.D. Economics, Georgetown University
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Sebastián Claro

Ph.D. Economics, UCLA
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Leonardo D. Epstein

Ph.D. Statistics, Carnegie Mellon
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Álvaro García-Marín

Dean

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Daniel Habermacher

Ph.D. Economics, University of Warwick 
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Ignacio Inostroza-Quezada

Ph.D. Management, Rutgers University
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Mauricio Larraín E.

Ph.D. Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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Francisco Morales

Ph.D. Business Administration, University of Colorado Boulder, USA.
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Ana Elisa Pereira

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
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Christian Pescher

Ph.D. Marketing and Innovation, Universität Passau
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Javier Pinto-Garay

Ph.D. Philosophy, Universidad de Navarra
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Nicolás Riquelme

Director of Master in Economics / Ph.D. Economics, University of Rochester
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Jorge Rodríguez

Ph.D. Economics, The University of Chicago
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Juan Pedro Ronconi

Ph.D. Economics, Brown University
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Juan Sotes-Paladino

Ph.D. Finance, University of Southern California
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Ángel Soto

Ph.D. History, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Juan Pablo Xandri

Ph.D. Economics, MIT
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Wei Xiong

Ph.D. in Economics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
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Vincent Van Kervel

Ph.D. in finance, Tilburg University, Netherlands.
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Marcela Mello

Ph.D. in Economics, Brown University, USA.
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Isabela Munevar Escalante

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André Stenzel

Ph.D. in Economics, University of Mannheim, Germany.
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Felipe Guzmán

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Teaching Faculty

André Bergoeing Reid

Director of BS in International Business / MBA, Universidad de los Andes
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Carlos Budnevich Le-Fort

Ph.D. Economics, University of Pennsylvania
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Elisabeth Farrelly

Assistant Director for International Accreditations / MBA, Yale University
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David Kimber

Director of Graduate Programs / Ph.D. Communication, Universidad de Navarra

Acceso a su perfil de investigación.

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Juan Nagel

MA Economics, University of Michigan
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Anil Sadarangani

Director of Innovation / Ph.D. Biological Sciences, P.U.C.
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Verónica Talac Ramírez

BS Management, P.U.C.
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Mario Alejandro Tessada Pérez

Director of Master in Finance / MBA P.U.C.
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Francisco Ulloa Picasso

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Matías Acevedo Ferrer

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Research Assistants

Sofía Flechtner Salas

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Jorge Jara Espinoza

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Hugo Salgado

Grado académico mayor: Master of Economics, Universidad de Chile
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Cecilia Correa

Master of Economic Analysis, Universidad de Chile
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Francisco Rosende Jürgensen

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Josefina Vilaplana

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Recent Publications

De Boeck, Giverny; Guzman, Felipe A.; Hamstra, Melvyn R.W.; Mehmood, Qaiser

Job Autonomy as a Double-Edged Sword: Good for Work Performance, but Bad for Psychological Detachment

Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology/2026

Machado, C.; Pereira, Ana Elisa

Guarantees, Risk Shifting, and Credit Crunches

Journal of Banking and Finance/2026

Gargano, A.; Sotes-Paladino, Juan; Verwijmeren, P.

Queuing and Inventories in Limit Order Markets

Journal of Financial Markets/2025

Gargano, A.; Sotes-Paladino, Juan; Verwijmeren, P.

Short of capital: Stock Market Implications of Short Sellers’ Losses

Management Science/2025

Awad, Emiel; Judd, Gleason; Riquelme, Nicolas

Learning by Lobbying

American Journal of Political Science/2025

Pescher, Christian; Tellis, Gerard J.

The Role of Artificial Inteligence in the Ideation Process

Journal of Product Innovation Management/2025

Füller, Johann; Pescher, Christian; Tellis, Gerard J.

Ideators’ Success in Innovation Tournaments: Participation, Productivity, or Pressure?

International Journal of Research in Marketing/2025

Foerster, Manuel; Habermacher, Daniel

Policy-advising Competition and Endogenous Lobbies

Journal of Public Economics/2025

Habermacher, Daniel

Authority and Specializacion under Informational Interdependence

RAND Journal of Economics/2025

Eslava, Marcela; Garcia-Marin, Alvaro; Messina, Julián

Inequality and Market Power in Latin America and the Caribbean

Oxford Open Economics/2025

Epstein, Leonardo D.; Tornero, Bernardita; Vicuña, Maria Ignacia

How likely are doctoral students to recommend their programs? The effects of satisfaction with six academic aspects of their doctorates

Journal of Further and Higher Education/2025

Barrios-Fernandez, Andres; Garcia-Hombrados, Jorge

Recidivism and Neighborhood Institutions: Evidence from the Rise of the Pentecostal Church in Chile

Journal of Labor Economics/2025

Ale-Chilet, Jorge; Cuicui Chen, Jing Li; Reynaert, Mathias

Colluding Against Environmental Regulation

Review of Economic Studies/2025

Academic Seminars 2025

DateField/TitleSpeaker
March 7, 2025Innovation / From semantics to success: Refining the role of distinctiveness in crowdsourced search landscapes with the help of AI?Johann Fueller / University of Innsbruck
March 14, 2025Labor, public finance, economic history / Do relief programs compensate affected populations? Evidence from the great depression and the new dealAriadna Jou / FEN UChile
March 19, 2025Organizational Behavior / The end is never easy: Four studies about the complex world of managerial termination decision-makingLyonel Laulié / FEN UChile
March 21, 2025Micro Theory, Political Economy / From prejudice to racial profiling and back: A naive intuitive statistician’s curseManuel Foerster / Bielefeld University
March 28, 2025Macro / Beyond costs: The dominant role of strategic complementarities in pricingMarco Rojas / Banco Central de Chile
April 1, 2025Strategy, Management, IO / Value for Money and SelectionAndré Stenzel / Bank of Canada
April 4, 2025Education / Navigating Multiple Frictions: Experimental EvidenceMauricio Romero / ITAM
April 11, 2025Innovation / Group formation: Contribute much with effort and nothing with wordsEvangelia Chalioti / Yale University
April 16, 2025Marketing / What Makes People Cool?Todd Pezzuti / UAI
April 24, 2025Metrics, applied micro, crime / Potato Potahto in the FAO-GAEZ Productivity MeasurementVitor Possebom / EESP-FGV
April 30, 2025Marketing / The Effect of Pregnancy and Childbirth on Consumer BehaviorVerónica Díaz / UAI
May 9, 2025Industrial organization, health / Do physicians respond to financial incentives?Ignacio Covarrubias / PUC
May 16, 2025Labor / Sorting frictions and inequalityRodrigo Balmaceda / UC
May 23, 2025Accounting / Information processing and managerial reportingElizabeth Gutierrez / UChile – FEN
May 30, 2025Finance / Climate risks and asset pricesJesse Davis / UNC
June 6, 2025Marketing / Consumer decision-making under uncertaintySeung Chan Choi / Rutgers
June 13, 2025Public Economics / Tax evasion and enforcementCailin Slattery / Berkeley
June 20, 2025IO / Competition and market powerYing Fan / Michigan
June 27, 2025Strategy / Strategic decision-making with AIFelipe Csaszar / UMich Ross
July 4, 2025Macroeconomics / Monetary policy and inflation dynamicsCarlos Rondón / Banco Central de Chile
July 11, 2025IO, Quant Marketing / Vertical Integration Between Hospitals and InsurersCarlos Noton / PUC
July 18, 2025Applied Theory / Mechanism design and dynamic gamesHeng Liu / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
July 25, 2025International Trade / Trade and developmentPamela Medina / U. of Toronto
August 1, 2025Operations Management / Operations and innovationMarcelo Olivares / Universidad de Chile
August 8, 2025Growth, Pol Econ, Development / Development and political economyGiorgio Chiovelli / U. de Montevideo
August 15, 2025IO / Market design and competitionRob Clark / Queen’s
August 22, 2025Marketing / Consumer behaviorGerard J. Tellis / USC
August 29, 2025Labor, Education / Education and labor marketsBarbara Biasi / Yale
September 5, 2025Applied Theory (Pol Econ) / Political economyKeith Schnakenberg / Wash U St. Louis
September 12, 2025IO / Industrial organizationMo Xiao / Arizona
September 19, 2025Marketing / Marketing and analyticsElizabeth Gutierrez / U. de Chile – FEN
September 26, 2025Labor and Public Economics / Labor and public policyJan Stuhler / U. Carlos III
October 3, 2025Corporate Finance, Information Econ / Information and financeJesse Davis / UNC
October 10, 2025Public, IO / Public economics and IOCailin Slattery / Berkeley
October 17, 2025Labor, Education / Labor and educationBarbara Biasi / Yale
October 24, 2025Marketing / Marketing strategyGerard J. Tellis / USC
October 31, 2025IO / Industrial organizationRob Clark / Queen’s
November 7, 2025Marketing / Marketing and consumer behaviorSeung Chan Choi / Rutgers
November 14, 2025Accounting / Accounting and disclosureElizabeth Gutierrez / U. de Chile – FEN
November 21, 2025Public Economics / Policy evaluationJan Stuhler / U. Carlos III
November 28, 2025Corporate Finance / Corporate financeJesse Davis / UNC
December 5, 2025Development, Behavior Econ / Paternalistic DiscriminationNina Buchmann / Yale/Princeton postdoc, upcoming Berkeley
December 15, 2025Operations Management / Supply Chain coordination through Bayesian Persuasion: The r… AI experts on information acquisition and inventory decisionsMauricio Sauma / U Finis Terrae
December 16, 2025Marketing / Towards a Validated Scale for Measuring Social Media Privacy ConcernsCristian Buzeta / UChile FEN

Academic Seminars 2024

DateField/TitleSpeaker
March 13, 2024Theory, IO, Org Econ / Artificial Intelligence in the Knowledge EconomyEnrique Ide / IESE
March 22, 2024IO, Innovation, Theory / Health Insurance Markets with Endogenous RisksAlvaro Parra / UBC Sauder
April 5, 2024Labor, Health, Org Econ, and Pol Econ / Returns to Fields of Study and the Gender Earnings GapPablo Muñoz / FEN
April 12, 2024Macroeconomics / Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy in Disaggregated EconomiesErnesto Pastén / Banco Central de Chile
April 19, 2024International and monetary macro / Regressive Trend Inflation ShocksAlejandro Vicondoa / PUC
April 26, 2024Development / Ex ante risk and schooling investment in the presence of dynamic complementaryAndrew Foster / Brown University
May 3, 2024Labor / Directed Technical Change: Evidence from U.S. Rural ElectrificationJeanne Lafortune / PUC
May 17, 2024Organizational Economics / TBCJordi Blanes-i-Vidal / LSE
May 24, 2024Strategy / Artificial Intelligence and Strategic Decision-Making: Evidence from Entrepreneurs and InvestorsFelipe Csaszar / UMich Ross
May 31, 2024Jorge Vasquez / Smith College
June 7, 2024Behavioral & Development Economics / Integrating Immigrants as a Tool for Broad DevelopmentJulia Seither / U. del Rosario
June 14, 2024Mechanism Design, Auctions, Dynamic Games / A collusion-proof efficient dynamic mechanismHeng Liu / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
June 28, 2024IO, Education / Physicians’ Occupational Licensing and the quantity-quality tradeoffTomás Larrocau / ASU
July 12, 2024IO, Quant Marketing / Vertical Integration Between Hospitals and InsurersCarlos Noton / PUC
August 2, 2024MacroeconomicsCarlos Rondón / Banco Central de Chile
August 9, 2024International Trade, Industrial Organization, and Development EconomicsPamela Medina / U. of Toronto
August 23, 2024IOYing Fan / Michigan
August 30, 2024Operations Management, InnovationMarcelo Olivares / Universidad de Chile
September 6, 2024Growth, Pol Econ, DevelopmentGiorgio Chiovelli / U. de Montevideo
September 13, 2024Applied Theory (Pol Econ) / TBCKeith Schnakenberg / Wash U St. Louis
September 27, 2024IORob Clark / Queen’s
October 4, 2024MarketingSeung Chan Choi / Rutgers
October 11, 2024IOMo Xiao / Arizona
October 18, 2024AccountingElizabeth Gutierrez / U. de Chile – FEN
October 25, 2024MarketingGerard J. Tellis / USC
November 5, 2024Labor and Public EconomicsJan Stuhler / U. Carlos III
November 15, 2024Corporate Finance, Information EconJesse Davis / UNC
November 22, 2024Public, IOCailin Slattery / Berkeley
November 28, 2024Labor, EducationBarbara Biasi / Yale

Academic Seminars 2023

Date Field/Title Speaker
March 3, 2023 The Dollar and Corporate Borrowing Costs Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr / Federal Reserve Board
March 8, 2023 Interactions Among Multivariate Oscillating Time Series in Neural Circuits Rob Kass / Carnegie Mellon University
March 10, 2023 Rational Exuberance and Bubbles Awaya, Yu / University of Rochester
March 24, 2023 College and gender wage gaps Juan Jose Matta / Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
March 31, 2023 Cognitive Ability, Education, and Fertility Risk Agustín Díaz / Banco Central, Chile
April 14, 2023 The Social Geography of Misconduct Santiago Truffa / ESE Business School, Universidad de los Andes, Chile
April 21, 2023 Monitoring, Organizational Culture, and the Efficiency of Public Procurement Pablo Celhay / Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
April 28, 2023 From Deforestation to Reforestation: The Role of General Deterrence in Changing Farmer’s Behavior Ricardo Dahis / PUC – Rio
May 5, 2023 College access when preparedness matters: New evidence from large advantages in college admissions Michela Tincani / University College London
May 12, 2023 The Rise of a Nudge: Field Experiment and Machine Learning on Minimum and Full Credit Card Payments Daniel Schwarz / Universidad de Chile, Centro de Economía Aplicada
May 19, 2023 German Long-Term Health Insurance: Theory Meets Evidence Juan Pablo Atal / University of Pennsylvania
May 23, 2023 Reducing Leverage While Increasing Delinquency Risk Mauricio Larraín / Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
May 26, 2023 Returns to Human Capital Investment Beyond College Sebastian Gallegos / Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
June 2, 2023 The Effect of Immigration Policy on Founding Location Choice: Evidence from Canada’s Start-up Visa Program Britta Glennon / The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania
June 9, 2023 Procuring Drugs while Regulating the Private Market Carla Guadalupi / Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
June 16, 2023 Crime-differential responses to an environmental shock: Evidence from blackouts Patricio Dominguez / Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
June 23, 2023   Andrés Musalem / Universidad de Chile, Centro de Economía Aplicada
June 30, 2023   José-Alberto Guerra / Universidad de los Andes – Colombia
August 4, 2023 Applied Economic Theory / Political Science Keith Schnakenberg / Washington University in Saint Louis
August 11, 2023 Macroeconomics Mariana García-Schmidt / Central Bank of Chile
August 18, 2023   Workshop on Economics of Education
August 25, 2023 Environmental / Industrial Organization Marcelo Sant´Anna / FGV EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance
August 29, 2023 Corporate Finance Felipe Cabezón / Virginia Tech
September 8, 2023 Development Economics Nicolás de Roux / Universidad de los Andes – Colombia
September 29, 2023 Industrial Organization Alexander MacKay / Harvard University
October 6, 2023 Macro Labor Tomás Guanziroli / PUC Rio
October 13, 2023 Marketing Davide Proserpio / University of Southern California
October 20, 2023 Finance Dong Lou / London School of Economics
November 3, 2023 Applied Economics Barbara Biasi / Yale School of Management
November 10, 2023 Industrial Organization Felix Montag / Dartmouth College
November 17, 2023 Finance Chong Huang / University of California, Irvine
November 24, 2023 Applied Economic Theory Inés Moreno de Barreda / University of Oxford
December 5, 2023 Urban Milena Almagro / The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Academics

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

  • Major in Economics
  • Major in Finance
  • Major in Marketing & Data Analytics

  • Major in International Business
  • Major in Economics
  • Major in Finance
  • Major in Marketing & Data Analytics

Majors

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Address the challenges faced by companies competing in global markets, as they navigate a world in which competitive advantages are greatly influenced by the cultural, economic, technological, legal and political business environments.

COURSES

  • Global Business Environments
  • Latin American Politics
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Principles of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Marketing I
  • People Development
  • Comparative International Law
  • International Trade
  • International Finance

FINANCE

Master the language of business and solve complex financial problems and real-world challenges faced by investors, financial institutions and corporations. Learn how to determine a company’s financial position, evaluate business opportunities and mitigate risks. Develop expertise in corporate finance, investments strategies and make the most of the opportunities offered by financial markets.

COURSES

  • Accounting I
  • Accounting II
  • Financial Analysis
  • Corporate Finance
  • Bloomberg I
  • Bloomberg II
  • Investment Theory
  • International Finance
  • Applied Portfolio Management
  • Empirical Methods
  • Advanced Corporate Finance
  • Business Ethics
  • Asset Pricing

ECONOMICS

Develop economic thinking to understand and predict the behavior of groups of individuals, companies and governments. Use math and statistical tools to develop models that explain human behavior and countrywide events. Learn how to conduct research and design public policies that help solve resource allocation problems in education, health and poverty. 

COURSES

  • Principles of Economics
  • Introduction to Microeconomics
  • Microeconomics
  • Macroeconomics I
  • Macroeconomics II
  • Industrial Organization
  • Competitive Strategy
  • Corporate Organization
  • Microeconomics Theory

MARKETING & DATA ANALYTICS

Develop an understanding of customer behavior through data analysis. Build behavior-prediction models, design and implement successful marketing strategies, and leverage on digital tools to position companies as industry leaders in the minds of consumers.

COURSES

  • Principles of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
  • Marketing I
  • Marketing II
  • Data Analytics
  • Digital Marketing
  • Empirical Methods
  • New Product Development
  • Business Ethics
  • Integrated Marketing Communications
  • Decision Models in Marketing
  • Applied Marketing Project

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

Master in Finance

Program Director: Mario Tessada

Make sound investment and financing decisions based on financial and economic theory, and solid ethical principles. Understand the relation between fundamentals and the value of companies. Design long-term investment strategies, build investment portfolios based on risk profiles and manage them applying modern theory and computational tools. Value alternative assets and make the best use of global financial markets to solve complex corporate problems.

Master in Economics

Program Director: Nicolás Riquelme

As an economic analyst in the business world, the consulting industry, a central bank or government, you will be able to promote adequate public, fiscal or monetary policies. Learn consumer theory, econometric methods, and theory of the firm, to address problems related to companies and markets.

Master in Marketing & Data Analytics

Program Director: David Kimber

Utilize scientific knowledge and tools to conduct deep data analysis within and outside organizations. Understand consumer behavior, develop new products, and design communication strategies on the back of well structured processes and solid ethical principles.

Admissions

International Students

Why UANDES in Santiago, Chile?

Young and lively university, among the top 3 in Chile

Beautiful campus: 128 acres of modern infrastructure and green areas at the foot of the Andes mountains

Launch your career: 95% of graduates employed within two years  (source: www.mifuturo.cl)
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Learn or improve your Spanish in courses offered especially for international students

Climb the mountains at the school’s backyard or ride amazing waves in the Pacific Ocean, just a few hours away. Explore the wonders of Patagonia, travel through the Atacama desert or visit the magical Easter Island.

Play soccer or paddle on the campus’ courts, be part of a musical, or hang out with friends. Whatever your style, live the Latin American culture and enrich your academic experience at UANDES with personal development that will last a lifetime.

International Partnerships

Our students will have the exciting opportunity to select from a wide spectrum of universities for their exchange semester abroad. Below, you’ll find a list of our partner institutions for our two undergraduate programs:

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