Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal

Key Highlights

• Public university in Lima with a current SUNEDU institutional license as of 12 August 2026
• Established as an autonomous university on 30 October 1963 under Law No. 14692
• Official institutional history reports 18 faculties and 60 programs of study
• Active 2026 admissions are documented at undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels

Student Life & Environment

Student support at UNFV is coordinated in part by the Oficina Central de Bienestar Universitario. Its official remit covers physical and psychological health promotion, nutrition, recreation, social support, and socioeconomic assistance. The office also administers or coordinates university dining and cafeteria programs, counseling, health and dental services, educational scholarships, economic support, and university health-insurance initiatives. These descriptions establish the scope of the office, but they do not confirm that every service is continuously available at every teaching site. The university's organizational directory also identifies a Federico Villarreal cultural-management center, an institute for recreation, physical education and sport, a language center, a central library, international-relations services, and a university ombuds office. These units offer potential routes into cultural, athletic, language, mobility, and student-rights activities. Students should contact the relevant office for current participation rules and schedules. UNFV should not be approached as a conventional residential campus. Faculties and services operate at separate properties across Lima, so student communities and facilities are likely to be centered on the relevant faculty site. No current official source reviewed for this profile established university-operated student residences or a guaranteed housing program. Applicants relocating to Lima should therefore investigate accommodation independently and confirm travel time to their actual faculty, not simply to the university's general administrative address.

Location & Surroundings

UNFV is based in metropolitan Lima, but its activities are distributed among multiple properties rather than concentrated on one campus. The university's main web pages give an institutional contact address on Jr. Carlos Gonzáles in the Maranga area of San Miguel. Other official pages place faculties and services elsewhere: several humanities and business units use addresses around Avenida Nicolás de Piérola in central Lima, the postgraduate school is on Prolongación Camaná, the graduate-management office is in Pueblo Libre, and the Natural Sciences and Mathematics faculty identifies a site in El Agustino. This distributed layout places students within Peru's largest urban and institutional center, with access to the professional, governmental, cultural, and commercial environment of the capital. Its practical consequence is that there is no single commute that represents the UNFV experience. Applicants should identify the faculty building where their program is actually taught before choosing housing or estimating transport costs. They should also check whether laboratories, clinical activities, administration, and general services are located at a different site. The official directory and relevant faculty page are more useful for planning than the university's general address alone.

Costs & Career Outcomes

As a public university, UNFV does not support a simple assumption that every student or program has the same cost. The university publishes administrative payment schedules, while admission and program charges vary by level and route. No current, comprehensive 2026 undergraduate tuition-and-living-cost schedule was verified for this profile, so applicants should use the official undergraduate tarifario for the next open cycle and obtain a program-specific estimate from the responsible faculty. Housing, transport, meals, books, professional equipment, and clinical or laboratory needs should be budgeted separately. The distributed teaching sites may make commuting costs especially relevant. For the active 2026 postgraduate admission cycle, UNFV lists an ordinary application fee of S/500 for both master's and doctoral candidates. The same page lists different charges for transfer routes. These are application charges, not total program tuition, and should not be interpreted as the full cost of a degree. Applicants should confirm tuition, enrollment charges, payment frequency, and refund rules before committing. Career support is coordinated through the Oficina Central de Gestión del Egresado. Its stated functions include tracking graduate employment, maintaining graduate records, publishing job opportunities, developing links with public- and private-sector employers, and gathering feedback from graduates and employers. This is useful institutional infrastructure, but the reviewed source supplies no placement rate, salary figure, or guaranteed employment outcome. Career prospects will depend on the particular profession, licensing requirements, experience, and conditions in the Peruvian labor market.