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After viewing the various threads on DR universities, I decided to research some info. I was shocked to learn that there are ABOUT 20 universities [I think] in the DR. Considering that the DR is a relatively young country with the oldest education institution in the New World, I wonder if the country can survive the next 100 years in this new world without Better Higher Education Institutions.

I am wondering what does the current government plan to do in order to solve our problems, especially in the universities?

It's quite ironic how I use to laugh and make fun of other countries for there poor educational system and easy/false matriculate but yet my country is in the same category.

Something which I could not find was if the DR has a NCAA type of government office to regulate Collegian Athletic Leagues? Do they have any leagues?
I remember reading a post by a DR1 member about his experiences in the 1970s coaching a Soccer team in DR for I think PUCMM.

Are these the only Universities that exist in DR? In your opinion which are the best and which are the worst? I know what some of the responses will be, but new insight would be great.

Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra [PUCMM] - http://www.pucmm.edu.do/
Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo [INTEC] - http://www.intec.edu.do/
Acción Pro Educación y Cultura, Inc. [APEC] - http://www.apec.edu.do/ / http://www.unapec.edu.do/
Universidad Iberoamericana [UNIBE] - http://www.unibe.edu.do/
Universidad del Instituto Cultural Domínico-Americano [UNICDA] - http://www.icda.edu.do/
Autonomous University of Santo Domingo [UASD] - http://www.uasd.edu.do/
Central University of the East [UCE] - http://www.uce.edu.do/
National University of Pedro Henriquez Urena [UNPHU] - http://www.unphu.edu.do
Universidad Tecnologica de Santiago [UTESA] - http://www.utesa.edu/webutesa/home.htm
Universidad Eugenio Maria de Hostos [UNIREMHOS] - http://www.uniremhos.edu.do/
Universidad Católica Santo Domingo [UCSD] - http://www.ucsd.edu.do
Universidad Dominicana O&M [UDOM] - http://www.udoym.edu.do/
Universidad Tecnológica del Cibao [UTECI] - http://www.uteci.edu.do/
Universidad del Caribe [UDC] - http://www.universidaddelcaribe.edu.do/
Universidad de la Tercera Edad [UTE] - http://www.ute.edu.do/
Universidad Nordestana [UNNE] - http://www.unne.edu/
Universidad Adventista Dominicana [UNDA] - http://www.unad.edu.do/
Universidad Abierta Para Adultos [UAPA] - http://www.uniabierta.edu.do/

Universidad Federico Henriquez y Carvajal [UFHEC] - not sure if still exists
Universidad Experimental Felix Adam [UNEFA] - not sure if operates

Good Day

Under the direction of the previous goverment, the Secretaria de Educacion released a report on the current state of the Dominican education system. It acknowledges the importance of university level institutions, especially in this day and age, but I think their primary concerns are at the primary and secondary levels: deterring drop-outs, improving the quality of education and the environment at liceos, and providing students with the resources they need to access institutions of higher learning. As of several months ago, the report was available of the Secretaria's website. It may still be there.

I am most familiar with PUCMM and UTESA. Yes, PUCMM has a library filled with the books (that you're not allowed to leave with) professors require on their syllabi. Most people in my family are PUCMM alumni. My cousin, however, will soon enter college and has decided that he will study at UTESA. According to him, the curriculum is similar, UTESA and PUCMM are of equal standing, but he prefers UTESA because he doesn't want to deal with the PUCMM classroom environment and the tuition costs.

I do not know enough about the LAW school/MED school curricula at PUCMM to comment on why American universities would consider Dominican universities a joke. I do however know that Dominicans don't understand why American students have to complete four years of undergrad work before proceeding to Law School or Medical school. American students don't understand why the classroom environment at PUCMM, in SOME cases, is so much like high school in the States, or why you can't check a book out of the library.