Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador (PUCE) is a private Catholic university situated in Quito, Ecuador. It was set up in the year 1946 and now occupies the 70th spot in the QS LatAm University Rankings 2020. The university, apart from its primary campus in Quito, has several campuses in Ambato, Ibarra, Santa Domingo de los Colorados, Esmeraldas and Manabi. The university campuses hosts close to 21,000 students with 1,613-strong professional academic faculty. The university vaunts of highly regarded schools/departments/faculties, namely, School of communications, linguistics and literature, Faculty of management, accounting, administration, Faculty of humanities, faculty of philosophy, theology, faculty of natural sciences, faculty of education sciences, college of engineering, school of law, school of medicine, school of nursing, school of social work, school of economics amongst others. Its rich repository of specialised Master’s programs include the disciplines of business administration, bioethics, law with a mention of Public Management, innovation in education, marketing, international business, pedagogy of english as a foreign language, clinical psychology with a mention in psychopathy and psychoanalysis or counselling and systemic family therapy or human behavior and organisational development and information technology. The university also has research collaborative partnership with the University of Ohio.