Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG) is one of Central America's leading universities. Its Faculty of Social Sciences has offered the Maestría en Desarrollo (Master's in Development) since 1996, preparing policy professionals to design and evaluate social programs in Guatemala and across the region.
In collaboration with ADEPT and J-PAL Latin America and the Caribbean (J-PAL LAC), UVG is bringing courses from the MITx MicroMasters in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) to learners at three stages of their careers:
- Guatemalan civil servants can join Red Promueve, an ADEPT Professional Diploma that builds a network of public servants committed to generating and using evidence. Launching in late 2026, it begins with a training that pairs the DEDP course The Challenges of Global Poverty with a program incubator.
- Professionals in UVG's Maestría en Desarrollo will be able to take the DEDP course Designing and Running Randomized Evaluations through the Posgrado en Monitoreo y Evaluación de Proyectos Sociales (Postgraduate Program in Monitoring and Evaluation of Social Projects), with support from UVG instructors, starting in 2027.
- Undergraduates in UVG's new Licenciatura en Economía Analítica (Bachelor's in Analytical Economics), will be able to earn the full DEDP MicroMasters credential through a specialization in impact evaluation taught in a flipped classroom by UVG faculty. Courses will be offered in the last two years of the five-year program launching in 2027.
As with all DEDP MicroMasters learners, participants who complete the online coursework and pass a final proctored exam receive a course certificate from MITx. Learners who complete five courses (three core and two electives) earn the DEDP MicroMasters credential.
Together, these opportunities aim to strengthen the capacity of Guatemalan civil servants, policy professionals, and future researchers to produce and use rigorous evidence in their work and institutions.