{"id":181,"date":"2018-08-10T07:09:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T07:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2023-06-03T21:17:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T01:17:55","slug":"uprrp-campus-and-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/uprrp-campus-and-surroundings\/","title":{"rendered":"UPRRP Campus and Surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uprrp.edu\/\"> <b>University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras Campus<\/b><\/a>, or informally <b>La IUPI<\/b> is a public land-grant research university in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the largest campus in the University of Puerto Rico system in terms of student population and it was Puerto Rico&#8217;s first public university campus.<sup id=\"cite_ref-9\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The university serves more than 18,000 students, 20% of whom are graduate students, and grants an average of over 3,000 degrees a year. Its academic offerings range from the bachelor to the doctoral level with 70 undergraduate programs and 19 graduate degrees including 71 specializations in the basic disciplines and professional fields.<sup id=\"cite_ref-10\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup> UPR\u2010RP has consistently granted the largest number of doctorate degrees to Hispanic students under the United States&#8217; jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p>The R\u00edo Piedras Campus is located in the northern end of the downtown area of R\u00edo Piedras, a former town but now a district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The campus is easily accessible via public transportation by means of the Tren Urbano metro system with a station (Universidad) located on campus, and the public bus system of San Juan (AMA). The campus is home to a rich diversity in architecture and urban planning with old and modern buildings that showcase the architectural development of the past 120 years in Puerto Rican architecture.<sup id=\"cite_ref-14\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/casco_urbano_RP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-186\" src=\"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/casco_urbano_RP-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/casco_urbano_RP-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/casco_urbano_RP-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/casco_urbano_RP-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/casco_urbano_RP.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_CN_map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-185\" src=\"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_CN_map-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_CN_map-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_CN_map-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_CN_map-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_CN_map.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_campus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-183 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_campus-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_campus-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_campus-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_campus-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2018\/08\/UPRRP_campus.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Puerto Rico, R\u00edo Piedras Campus, or informally La IUPI is a public land-grant research university in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is the largest campus in the University of Puerto Rico system in terms of student population and it was Puerto Rico&#8217;s first public university campus. The university serves more than 18,000<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/uprrp-campus-and-surroundings\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-blocks.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-181","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/181\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}