About ICEI

The Communication and Image Institute is one of the fourth centers with rank of Faculty under the University of Chile´s umbrella, the most important tertiary institution of the country, founded in 1842.

The ICEI was created on june 17th 2003 as a high level academic unit in order to develop the research, teaching and extension areas connected to problems and matters related to communications in a contemporaneous society.

The Communication and Image Institute emerge as the university answer to assume the strategic importance of the communication in the area of knowledge formed by the interaction between different disciplines of social studies, arts and humanities.

The ICEI is also the inheritor of the consolidated work achieved for more than half of century by the Journalism School (founded in 1953) of the University of Chile, the oldest of the country and one of the first tertiary institution in Latin America in the education of university journalists and graduated social communication professionals.

The most important professionals of the Chilean media have been in its classrooms. At the present time the ICEI depends of the Undergraduate Programs Office.

On the other hand, the Graduate Programs Office is responsible of the Master in Political Communication and the Documentary Cinema Specialization Program which together with other courses and diplomas are focused in presenting the audiovisual media not only as a multiplication and spreading messengers technology, but also as a memory builder and a social intervention tool.

The ICEI structure is completed by the Communication Studies Center and the Freedom of Expression Interdisciplinary Program destined units to open a path towards an innovative development in the research from where the state university appears responsible of the community demands in front of the media communication industry.

The Institute facilities are located in the Juan Gómez Millas Campus, Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile, in a very modern construction of more than 4 thousand square meters distributed in a four story building. As part of this interesting infrastructure are the teaching areas, the multimedia facilities, a practical library with more than 9,000 books, 11,000 magazines, thesis, documents, video tapes, and a complete file with media articles.

In addition the ICEI offers a comfortable auditorium for more than 400 people, special studios and classrooms for digital edition of radio programs provided with Internet, cinema, and TV as soon as computing and photograph labs all of them with last generation equipments.