Campus
Students, teachers, employees, alumni, and the general public find abundant greenery on EAFIT’s main campus, where technology coexists alongside tropical flora and fauna.
EAFIT is a place to study and learn but also to investigate, innovate, create, explore, experience culture, and feel a sense of wellbeing. A place to stay...
Located on the south side of Medellín, in the El Poblado sector, the main campus covers nearly 128,000 square meters (31 acres) and features blocks of classrooms, offices, laboratories, athletic facilities, auditoriums, small squares, gardens, and other spaces conducive to research, academic, sporting, cultural, and leisure activities.
The Engineering Building is a major architectural highlight on campus and one of the country’s green buildings due to its natural façade insulation, rainwater harvesting and reuse system, low-wattage lighting, and air flow control system for air conditioning optimization.
The seventh and eighth floors of that same building have been set aside as a space for senior administrators of the university’s Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Science in Applied Finance (MAF) programs.
Other emblematic constructions on campus include the Luis Echavarría Villegas Cultural Center and Library; and Blocks 26, 27, and 38, where the schools of Management, Economics and Finance, Law, Humanities, and Sciences are located. In addition, the Argos Center for Innovation is currently being built on the west side of campus.
The university has expanded in recent years, acquiring several residences in the La Aguacatala neighborhood that currently house the Asia Pacific Studies Center and the southern branch of the Confucius Institute of Medellín, the Artistic Development Department, the Business English Program, the Institutional Marketing Department, the Urban and Environmental Studies Center (Urbam), the EAFIT University Press, the Cultural Promotion Area, the Creative Communication Area, the Alumni Center, and other divisions.
Further growth will also be possible because of the university’s acquisition of Los Guayabos, a park located opposite the main campus where many of the projects contemplated in the institution’s Master Plan are to be situated.
Architect Juan Fernando Forero, who was commissioned by the EAFIT president’s office to change the campus layout, found the university was oriented toward the Medellín River and decided to move it more toward its physical center, where the Student Plaza is presently located.
Each of these architectural spaces is in harmony with nature, enabling different species of flora and fauna to blend in with and compliment the built infrastructure and make the campus a University-Park.
Also contributing to this symbiotic relationship between nature and architecture are sculptures such as Hugo Zapata’s El Ágora and Rony Vayda’s Los Propileos.
This University-Park, designed by town planners Carlos Uribe and Jorge Mesa, earned the institution the 2008 Lapiz de Acero Award in the Public Spaces category.
Campus 360°
The university maintains a campus in the Colombian capital where it offers graduate-level, continuing education, and language programs. Through the efforts of the Center for Innovation, Consulting, and Entrepreneurship (CICE), EAFIT Bogotá also helps numerous companies innovate and strengthen their operations. EAFIT Bogotá currently offers MBA and MAF programs (through an agreement with Universidad de San Buenaventura), graduate certificate programs in Marketing and Finance in addition to the Knowledge for Life (continuing education), Business English, and Spanish for Foreigners programs.
The address of the EAFIT Bogotá campus is Carrera 16 No. 93-46.
Universidad EAFIT also has a campus in another key region, the Eje Cafetero (Coffee Growing Axis) offering graduate-level programs, language, and continuing education courses. It also provides consulting services there to the public and private sectors, as well as the local community.
After having a presence for several years in Pereira, capital of the Risaralda Department, the institution opened its own campus there in 1995 and currently offers MBA and MAF programs in partnership with Universidad Católica de Pereira, as well as a master’s program in Applied Economics and seven graduate certificate programs. Similarly, EAFIT partners in Quindío Department with the Corporación Universitaria Empresarial Alexander Von Humboldt in the city of Armenia to offer graduate certificate programs in Finance and Business Administration. The university also has established a partnership with Universidad Autónoma de Manizales in Caldas Department (the third department of the Eje Cafetero) offering graduate certificate programs in Industrial Maintenance, Project Management, and Risk Management and Insurance.
EAFIT Pereira is located at Carrera 19 #12-70 in the MegaCentro Pinares building.
Residents of Eastern Antioquia also have convenient access to EAFIT’s academic programs at a rural campus located at kilometer 3.5 of the Don Diego-Rionegro highway. EAFIT Llanogrande’s range of services includes language and continuing education courses and graduate-level programs. The campus also hosts initiatives of EAFIT Social. Since 1996, it has provided a learning space distinguished by graduate programs in development and social responsibility. These include the master’s degree program in Management of Social Enterprises for Social Innovation and Local Development, which offers dual degrees with University of Verona (Italy) and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
