   thumb|the open city of ritoque, teaching and research ground of the pucv architecture school.  thumb|casa central, the primary building of pucv in downtown valparaÃ­so the pontificial catholic university of valparaÃ­so () (pucv), is a university of approximately 13,000 students located in valparaÃ­so, chile. it may also be called simply the universidad catÃ³lica de valparaÃ­so (ucv). pucv attracts students from different areas of chile as well as hundreds of exchange students from europe and north america. the university has a central campus in downtown valparaiso, only a few blocks away from the chilean congress, the brand-new metro, and the pacific ocean. one of the drawbacks of being an urban university is the difficulty of growing at the original site of its foundationâseveral pucv buildings are on the historic palm-tree-lined avenida brasil, but most of its colleges are dispersed in throughout valparaÃ­so, viÃ±a del mar, quilpuÃ© and quillota. ==profile== the ucv offers undergraduate degrees in more than 50 subjects, including architecture, design, horticulture, industrial engineering,business, law and spanish. the school of architecture, also called "the valparaÃ­so school" in architectural circles, constructed an experimental city called the open city, a few kilometers north of valparaÃ­so, where the professors teach and live in the houses that they and the students design and build. pucv architects have a reputation for being highly creative, having studied at a school that mixes the architectural design and building processes with poetry and physical activities. similarly, in the quillota campus the program in horticulture is offered within an experimental station. this campus is visited by more than 1,500 people each year, and
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