Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo

Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo is a non-profit private university located in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Founded by Dr. Carlos Ortega Maldonado, it was accredited by CONESUP, then the Ecuadorian higher education governing agency. Its campus is located in Samborondón, Greater Guayaquil. One distinctive program of UEES is the College of International Studies, home to the International Careers Program, which offers courses entirely in English, the School of Translation and Interpretation, the School of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, and the Center for International Education.HistoryUEES was founded in 1993, approved by the Ecuadorian Higher Education governing agency and by then Ecuadorian President Sixto Durán-Ballén, and officially inaugurated at an opening ceremony a year later, with Dr. Carlos Ortega Maldonado appointed as the first Chancellor.Initially, UEES offered career programs through its College of Economics and Business Science and the first full-time students registered in 1995, some of them on a merit-based scholarship scheme known as Plan Talento. The College of Law, Policy, and Development was added in 1997, along with the International Degree Program, created for students wishing to study entirely in English while at UEES and to transfer credits and complete their studies at other international or English-speaking universities.As UEES moved into its new campus in 2001, new colleges were formed for Computer Sciences, Telecommunications, and Electronics, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In the next few years there followed Colleges of Communication, Architecture and Design, Tourism and Hotel Management, and International Studies .