The Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities (Spanish: Consejo de Rectores de las Universidades Chilenas) (Cruch) or simply the Council of Rectors is an organization and legal entity that reunites the rectors of thirty Chileanuniversities, both public and private with the goal of coordinating the academic efforts in the country and bettering the quality of university education.[2]
The council was created by law in 1954[1] and given legal personhood in 1964.[3]. The members of this organization are the rectors of public and private universities founded before 1981 or derived from those founded before then, and those created by law.
Only universities belonging to Cruch have the right to direct financial support from the state,[4] and the amount of the Solidarity Fund of University Credit (Spanish: Fondo Solidario de Crédito Universitario) assigned by institution since 1994, which replaced the Fiscal University Credit.[5]
The universities grouped under the Council of Rectors are commonly called "traditional universities" (Spanish: universidades tradicionales).[6]
It was given legal personhood in February 4, 1964 by law number 15561,[3] in which it was also given the function of giving proposals for initiatives and solutions destined to coordinate, in general, the activities of the universities and to better the performance and quality of university education.
Until 1975, the president and legal representative of the Council was the rector of the University of Chile. With the law decree 1287, the president and legal representative of the Council became the current minister of education.[8]
Through decrees in 1984 and 1986,[9][7] seventeen more higher education institutiones joined the Council of Rectors.
In 2018, the promulgation of law number 21091 eliminated the veto of private universities founded after 1981, with new requisites for their joining of the Council established in the law.[10] With these new requirements, the rectors of the Diego Portales University and Alberto Hurtado University were accepted as members of the Council, being the first private universities founded after 1981 to do so.
In 2019, the rector of the University of the Andes, Chile was accepted as a member of the Council, being the latest rector to join it.[11]
↑Ministry of Finance (4 February 1994). "Ley 19287" (in Spanish). Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
↑Bernasconi, Andrés; Rojas, Fernando (August 2003). Informe sobre la educación superior en Chile: 1980-2003 (Report) (in Spanish). UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. p.31. IES/2003/ED/PI/55. Retrieved 10 December 2025.
↑"Rectores y Rectoras del CRUCH". Consejo de Rectoras y Rectores de las Universidades Chilenas (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 December 2025.
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