INACAP

INACAP approaches design education from the workshop outward: its founding principle is aprender haciendo, learning by doing, and it organises how programmes are built, taught and assessed. The institution belongs to Chile’s Subsistema Técnico Profesional and places the student at the centre of a training experience shaped by practice and employability.

Its footprint is national and unusually wide. INACAP teaches in 30 sedes distributed across all 16 regions of Chile, a network that includes a Sede Central in Santiago and a Campus Digital for online study. Programmes run in daytime and evening shifts and in classroom or online formats.

Design sits in the Área Diseño e Industria Digital, which coordinates careers such as Diseño Digital y Web, Diseño Digital Profesional, Diseño de Moda Profesional and 3D animation, and trains its own staff in the transition towards digital design as software and industry practice change.

Accreditation runs for seven years in institutional management and undergraduate teaching, the institution is attached to Chile’s free tuition scheme, and its quality system is certified under ISO 9001:2015. Industry links run through the Vinculación con el Sector Productivo programme and the Crea INACAP enterprise network. In January 2026 the Centro de Formación Técnica merged into the Instituto Profesional INACAP.