The University of Costa Rica is a public university in the Republic of Costa Rica, in Central America. Its main campus, Ciudad Universitaria Rodrigo Facio, is located in San Pedro Montes de Oca, in the province of San José. It is the oldest and largest institution of higher learning in Costa Rica, originally established as the Universidad de Santo Tomás in 1843. It is also the most important research university in the country and Central America, plus, considered as one of the most prestigious and recognized in Latin America. Approximately 45,000 students attend UCR throughout the year. More information...
In June 2020 the website ucr.ac.cr was on the 6,255th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 5,164th place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "ucr.ac.cr" is the 7,043rd most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before metronews.ca and after derstandard.de in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
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