National Major San Marcos University: Statistics

Quick Review

Acceptance rate

10%

Enrollment

32,399

Type

Non-profit

Funding

Public-private
partnership

Highest Degree

Doctorate

Website

unmsm.edu.pe

Languages

Spanish

Acceptance rate & Admissions

We've calculated the 10% acceptance rate for National Major San Marcos University based on the ratio of admissions to applications and other circumstantial enrollment data. Treat this information as a rough guide and not as a definitive measure of your chances of admission. Different programs may have significantly varying admissions rates.

Research profile

National Major San Marcos University is a world-class research university with 27,698 scientific papers published and 137,413 citations received. The research profile covers a range of fields, including Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Biology, Environmental Science, Medicine, Political Science, Geography and Cartography, Chemistry, Genetics, and Ecology.

Publications

27,698

Citations

137,413

National Major San Marcos University majors

by publication & citation count

Annual publication & citation counts

Programs and Degrees

The table below displays academic fields with programs and courses that lead to Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctorate degrees offered by National Major San Marcos University.

Note that the table provides a general overview and might not cover all the specific majors available at the university. Always visit the university's website for the most up-to-date information on the programs offered.

National Major San Marcos University alumni

1. Mario Vargas Llosa

   

   Born in

   Peru

   Years

   1936-2025 (aged 89)

   Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University

   1953-1958 studied literary studies and law

   Occupations

   opinion journalistliterary criticessayistprose writerphilosopher

   Biography

   Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".

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2. Túpac Amaru II

   

   Born in

   Peru

   Years

   1738-1781 (aged 43)

   Occupations

   rebelindigenous leader of the Americasrevolutionarypolitician

   Biography

   Túpac Amaru II, c. 1742 – May 18, 1781) was an Indigenous cacique who led a large Andean rebellion against the Spanish in Peru as self-proclaimed Sapa Inca of the new Inca Empire. He was later elevated to a mythical status in the Peruvian struggle for independence and indigenous rights movement, as well as an inspiration to myriad causes in Spanish America and beyond.

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3. César Vallejo

   

   Born in

   Peru

   Years

   1892-1938 (aged 46)

   Occupations

   playwrightjournalistwritertranslatorpoet

   Biography

   César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.

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4. José María Arguedas

   

   Born in

   Peru

   Years

   1911-1969 (aged 58)

   Occupations

   university teacherfilm directorjournalistindigenisttranslator

   Biography

   José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language. That fluency was gained by Arguedas’s living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11. First, he lived in the Indigenous servant quarters of his stepmother's home, then, escaping her "perverse and cruel" son, with an Indigenous family approved by his father. Arguedas wrote novels, short stories, and poems in both Spanish and Quechua.

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