Graduates of the International Relations program at Universidad de Las Américas are competent and enterprising professionals with a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and critical understanding of the theoretical and practical dimensions of international relations and political science. With a strong understanding of both national and international realities, graduates help develop public solutions to the challenges faced by Ecuadorian society. Graduates enhance the country’s strategic role within the Latin American region and the global arena, while also supporting the strengthening of democratic institutions.
Furthermore, graduates construct their own perspectives on international and political phenomena through a critical engagement with diverse theoretical approaches. Graduates design and conduct basic and applied research projects on national and international issues of academic and social relevance. Moreover, graduates propose solutions to public and private sector challenges at both the national and international levels.
Graduates are equipped to analyze the importance of democratic values, pluralism, institutional frameworks, and human rights in society. Likewise, graduates apply negotiation tools and strategies associated with foreign policy decision-making and assess major international cooperation and integration processes, including the economic, political, and social factors that shape them.
Finally, graduates are expected to act responsibly as both professionals and citizens, exhibiting ethical behavior and a commitment to public service. Graduates show innovation in addressing public issues and base their professional practice on a democratic culture. In a pluralistic and tolerant environment, graduates respect diverse perspectives and abilities, gender differences, intercultural understanding, environmental sustainability, freedom, and justice, promoting the common good and international cooperation both within Ecuadorian society and among nations.
Demographic Data - provides information about student enrollment disaggregated by gender and ethnicity, offering insight into the demographic diversity within the program.
Student Completion - provides information about retention and graduation rates calculated through the 2021–2022 academic year, based on cohorts of new, first-time students entering the program in the fall semester, regardless of enrollment in the daytime or evening instructional delivery (if applicable). These calculations exclude incoming transfer students. Specifically, retention rates are reported at one-year and two-year intervals.
In addition, graduation rates are calculated according to each program’s duration length (100%) and within 150% of the normal time for a bachelor’s degree. Gender-based graduation data reflects only the distribution of actual graduates within each cohort and does not consider the original gender composition of the entering group.
Scholarship Information - provides information about student financial support, with data disaggregated by the type of scholarship awarded.
Geographic Data - provides information about the geographic composition of students enrolled in the program, based on place of origin.
Additional Demographic Data - provides information about students’ marital status, disability status, and first-generation college attendance.
All programs utilize the Brightspace platform to collect and assess student work and to compile data and evidence of student achievement. The resulting outcomes and their analysis, which focus on identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent assessment period for each Program Learning Outcome (PLO) is indicated, along with the percentage representing the level of achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, based on the rubric used to evaluate student work.
Note: Multiple descriptions per PLO code reflect updates over time. All versions are shown to support historical and comparative analysis.