C U L T U R A L - A C T I V I T Y
UNIVERSITIES OF TUCUMAN
The National University of Tucuman (UNT)
In 1875 the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences which would be the basis of a University, was created in Tucuman.
Presently, the UNT is structured on the basis of eleven Faculties: Agronomy and Zootechny; Architecture and Urbanism; Biochemistry, Chemistry and Pharmacy; Exact Scienceas and Technology; Natural Sciences; Law and Social Sciences; Philosophy and Arts; Medicine; Odontology; and Literature. It also has Physical Education and Nursing University Schools, and six secondary and special schools: Agriculture and Saccharotechny; Technical Institute; Sarmiento School and Vocation Secondary School; the Music School; The School of Fine Arts and Decorative and Industrial Arts, and the Gymnasium.
Saint Thomas Aquinas University (UNSTA)
The Saint Thomas Aquinas University was officially recognized as such and granted juridical personality by national decree in 1965. Its antecedents went back to 1949, when the friars of the prestigious Saint Dominic Convent started gathering a group of intellectuals and artists of the enviroment, whose worries would soon from classes, seminars, articles and lectures of an ever growing notorious repercussion. Such was the beginning of the Courses of Thomistic Philosophy, which continued up to 1956, establishing the Saint Thomas Aquinas University. Interchange and contributions to the enviroment, in Tucuman as well as in the country and abroad, have a magnitude that makes it impossible to sinthetize them in a brief account. UNSTA is animated by a spirit of true Universitas Magistrorum et Scholarium, that is deep understanding of the classes of its community.
