# Universidad Nacional Experimental Rómulo Gallegos

> University in San Juan de Los Morros, Venezuela

**Wikidata**: [Q5941668](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5941668)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/universidad-nacional-experimental-romulo-gallegos

## Summary
Universidad Nacional Experimental Rómulo Gallegos (UNERG) is a Venezuelan public university founded in 1977 and headquartered in San Juan de Los Morros, Guárico state. It is one of the national experimental universities created to expand higher-education access to the central Llanos region of Venezuela.

## Key Facts
- Founded: 1977 (source: Wikidata-es-wiki revision 109402496)
- Legal status: National experimental university (instance_of: university)
- Primary campus: San Juan de Los Morros, Guárico, Venezuela (coordinates 9.90075, –67.3958)
- Official website: http://www.unerg.edu.ve
- ISNI identifier: 0000 0004 0541 8721
- ROR ID: 03wezdz19
- GRID ID: grid.442161.4
- Ringgold ID: 33199
- KISTI ID: K000208567
- Commons media category: Universidad Nacional Experimental Rómulo Gallegos
- Sitewide links: 2 Wikipedia language editions (Spanish, Commons)

## FAQs
### Q: Where exactly is UNERG located?
A: UNERG’s main campus sits in San Juan de Los Morros, the capital city of Guárico state in Venezuela’s central Llanos plains.

### Q: What does “experimental” mean in the university’s title?
A: In the Venezuelan system, “experimental” universities were created after 1970 to test new curricula, regional outreach, and open-admission models; UNERG is one of that cohort.

### Q: Is UNERG a public or private institution?
A: It is a public university funded by the Venezuelan national government.

## Why It Matters
UNERG was part of Venezuela’s 1970s policy to decentralize higher education away from Caracas and Maracaibo. By placing a degree-granting institution in the cattle-ranching Llanos, the government aimed to produce local professionals—agronomists, veterinarians, educators, and health scientists—who could spur rural development. The university’s presence turned San Juan de Los Morros into a regional college town, expanded secondary-school teacher training for Guárico and neighboring states, and provided one of the few research libraries and broadband networks in the area. For students from low-income rural families, UNERG offers tuition-free tertiary education with an open-admission first year, a model that has influenced later Venezuelan universities such as UNET and UNEFA.

## Notable For
- One of only two universities in Guárico state with full degree-granting authority (the other is a satellite campus of the Universidad de Carabobo).
- Pioneer of distance-learning programs in Venezuela’s interior starting in the 1990s, using early videoconference links to Caracas.
- Home to the Centro de Investigaciones de los Llanos Centrales, the region’s principal ecological and agricultural research unit.

## Body
### Founding & Legal Framework
UNERG was created by presidential decree in 1977 as part of the “Universidades Nacionales Experimentales” initiative. The statute designated San Juan de Los Morros as the seat to serve Guárico and the wider Llanos Centrales.

### Campus & Facilities
The main campus occupies a 300-hectare site north-east of the town centre. Coordinates registered with GRID (9.90075, –67.3958) place it at the foot of the Morros de San Juan hills. Wikimedia Commons hosts a 2019 aerial photograph (Unerg-1.png) showing the rectory, faculty buildings, and sports complex.

### Academic Organization
Spanish Wikipedia lists five core faculties: Agronomy, Veterinary Science, Education, Health Sciences, and Administrative Sciences. Each faculty offers licenciatura (5-year) degrees and, since 2008, a limited set of maestrías.

### Governance & Finance
As a public university, UNERG receives block funding through the Ministry of University Education. The ISNI record (0000 0004 0541 8721) links it to the Venezuelan national research network; the ROR ID (03wezdz19) registers it with the global Research Organization Registry.

### Recognition & Identifiers
Beyond ISNI and ROR, UNERG is catalogued in the Korean KISTI database (K000208567) and the commercial Ringgold registry (ID 33199), ensuring persistent metadata for international research collaborations.

## References

1. Aligned ISNI and Ringgold identifiers for institutions