Playa Ancha University is a public corporation, independent, secular, legal personality and its own assets, located in the city of Valparaiso, developing activities in this city and San Felipe. Make your own mission in the areas of competence under its Institutional Strategic Development Plan in postgraduate education, professional and technical college level, research and relationship with the environment, committed to social, economic and cultural development Valparaiso region and country. In over sixty years of existence, from its founding as Pedagogical Institute of Valparaiso in 1948, the University has experienced different periods, several of which have been marked by events that affected its institutional operations, so had to reconcile its tradition with the surrounding reality and demands that the transfer and development of knowledge have raised. Playa Ancha University has a strong corporate identity; It is a public university, plural, with proven dedication to public service, with high sense of social responsibility and clear assessment of its human capital and intellectual production and intangible assets, as evidenced by the recognition of the quality of their training processes involved with the development of the country and mainly in the Region of Valparaiso, both by its graduates as employers.