Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral
University, Graduate school in Guayaquil, Ecuador
The Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) is a public polytechnic university in Guayaquil, Ecuador, created by executive decree on 29 October 1958 to provide scientific and technical higher education. Its main campus, Gustavo Galindo Velasco, is at Km 30.5 of the Vía Perimetral; it also has the Las Peñas campus in Guayaquil, an office in Quito and ESPOL Galápagos. In the 2025 academic year 9,811 students were enrolled, and the university has 984 professors, 274 of them with a PhD.
The academic offer is organised in eight faculties and the ESPAE business school:
- Art, Design and Audiovisual Communication
- Natural Sciences and Mathematics; Social Sciences and Humanities
- Life Sciences; Earth Sciences
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Maritime Engineering and Marine Sciences
- Mechanical Engineering and Production Sciences
ESPOL also offers master's programmes, continuing education and doctorates in Applied Computational Sciences and Applied Biosciences. Several engineering degrees, starting with Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science in 2014, are accredited by ABET, and ESPAE holds AACSB accreditation. ESPOL has partner institutions worldwide, 37 of them in Spain, for research cooperation, academic mobility and scholarships. Applicants to undergraduate degrees in Ecuador must first complete the Registro Único with the Ministry of Education (MINEDEC).
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Subjects taught
- Arts, Design and Crafts
- Web Design
- Graphic Design
- Business
- Auditors
- Marketing
- Transportation and Logistics Management
- International Business Management
- Communications
- Social Communication
- Computing
- Networking Engineering
- Economics
- Economics
- Engineering
- Ocean Engineering
- Information Systems Engineering
- Commercial Engineering
- Environmental Engineering
- Industrial Technical Engineering in Mechanics
- Biological Engineering
- Geological Engineering
- Electronic Systems Engineering in Communications
- Food Science Engineering
- Telematics Engineering
- Electronic Engineering
- Petroleum Engineering
- Mining Engineering
- Agricultural Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Engineering in Automatics and Industrial Electronics
- Chemical Engineering
- Naval Engineering
- Hospitality, Leisure, Tourism and Travel
- Tourism
- Public Administration and Services
- Public Accountant
- Sciences
- Aquaculture
- Marine Biology
- Statistics
- Technology
- Mechatronics
- Telecommunications Technology
- Plastics Technology
- Electrical Technology
- Electronic Technology