one of the oldest faculties and has been present throughout the history of Ecuador. Their teachers were graduates and final character in many of the events that have changed the course of the country, are just some of them. It has graduated presidents, judges, prosecutors, senior government officials, writers, academics, prominent lawyers and humanists. The Faculty of Law offers undergraduate, Diploma in Counseling and Family Therapy and in a few months a Masters in Commercial Law. Careers Law Social Work Counseling and Family Therapy Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Communication Sciences Careers Toddler Education Clinical Psychology Psychology Social Communication School of Economics The Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil was founded on May 17, 1962. He began his first term with the Faculties of Law, Philosophy and Physical Sciences and Mathematics. It was in 1963 when the classes are taught at the college April 20, establishing the School of Economics as an academic unit attached to the Faculty of Law, during the Dean of the Dr. Hector Romero Menendez, who appoints a commission composed Econ. Hector Falconi Camba (+), Econ. Nicolas Escandon (+) and Econ. Jose Icaza Coronel, for the commission to design the curriculum of the new career. Econ was charged. Icaza selection of the first professors, including Dr. Miguel Babra Lyon, Econ. Carlos Cortez Castro, Dr. Alfredo Baquerizo Lince, Pedro Aguayo Cubillo. Subsequently, the then governing body of the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil, at its meeting March 18, 1965, approved the establishment of the Faculty of Economics, the first Dean was Dr. Theodore Arízaga Vega. The new race would last six years. On 12 January 1966 establishing the specialization of Directors. Expertise that could be taken from the fourth year, being common the first three years and the last three specialization. In late 1977, when Mr. Luis Fernando Hidalgo Proaño, was president of the Student Association at the Faculty of Econ. Jose Icaza Coronel, student initiated the proposal for the creation of an Institute of Economic Research. Then the Rector is responsible, Dr. Galo García Feraud, approves the proposal, and the January 16, 1978, the University Council approved the creation of the Center for Economic Research, to function as a center attached to the Faculty of Economics, Administration and Audit. In 1980 he managed the construction of the building now for the Dean, Faculty of Econ. Jorge Paez Egüez (+) and achieved a contribution of US$1,000,000