The Monseñor Oscar Romero University is an innovative adult education institution located in the rural province of Chalatenango in El Salvador.  This ecumenical university is conceived along the model of the North American community college, modified to the Latin American context.  It offers full degree programs as well as two-year degrees and pre-academic programs for mature adult learners.

Named for Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated in 1980, the university's mission is to provide study opportunities for students from conflicted areas and for populations traditionally excluded from higher education programs.  The university appeals to the participation of a broad spectrum of students through non-formal educational methodologies and liberal admittance criteria.

Among the University's primary objectives is to encourage graduates to remain in their communities where they, along with faculty, will contribute to local socio-economic development by opening new sources of income and employment.

The University was established in 1994, just two years after the signing of El Salvador's historic peace accords.  Chalatenango Province, where Romero University is located, was among the hardest hit of the nation's formerly conflictive zones.  Thousands of Chalatecos lost their lives in the war or were forced to migrate to the cities or to the North to find safe haven and employment.

Programs of Study  

· Agronomy

· Law

· Agricultural Engineering

· Business Administration

· Forestry

· Public Accounting

· Education

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IN THE NEWS

In English

Members of U.S. Congress urge President Saca to support future of Romero University, Dec. 2006

CEHD Alumna Helps To Establish Salvadoran Univeristy, CEHD Magazine, Fall 2005, p. 4.

A Labor of Love Mason Spirit, November 2005.

Salvadoran University Struggles Against the Odds, Academe, vol. 88 no. 3, May-June 2002, p. 25.
 

A New Kind of University Grows in the Salvadoran Countryside, The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 7, 1999, p. A53. (Reprinted in Global Studies: Latin America, 10th Edition.)
 

Romero U. Opens College Doors for Rural Poor, National Catholic Reporter, December 19, 1997, p. 13.

In Spanish

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Romero University website, umoar.edu.sv

Una universidad en el campo, El Diario de Hoy, San Salvador, 24 de marzo, 2000, p. 71

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