The Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) is a Catholic university in Santiago, Chile. Its history page dates its foundation to 21 June 1888, when the Archbishop of Santiago published the decree inaugurating it. University figures record 39,745 regular students in 2025.
Agriculture and forestry are taught in the Facultad de Agronomía y Sistemas Naturales, which offers degrees in agronomy, forestry engineering and natural resources engineering and had 1,559 students in 2025. Its departments are Ciencias Animales, Ciencias Vegetales, Economía Agraria, Ecosistemas y Medio Ambiente, and Fruticultura y Enología. The faculty lists four priority research areas: sustainable agricultural and forestry production, management of productive resources, conservation, and the development of ingredients, foods and fermented products. It runs two experimental stations: Pirque, a 330-hectare site 25 km south of Santiago with a dairy, improved pastures and irrigated orchards, and Curacaví, a 20-hectare site 50 km west of the capital. Its current research centres are the Centro de Investigación e Innovación VitiScience, Quinoa Lab and the Centro de Cambio Global UC.