[2] The experimental University reform was undertaken by PUCV during the 1967–1969 period and had as effect suppression of the old teaching faculties, and for this reason, the Social Sciences and History School became an autonomous academic unit.

[3] Likewise, the Institute also offers a Ph.D. in History under the inspiration of training "professionals capable of building new historiographical knowledge and who possess theoretical and methodological guidelines in the discipline and in the interdisciplinary field".

Seeking to reinforce the university's pedagogy and humanities studies, in 1952, Rector Jorge González Förster SJ, created the School of History and Geography as part of the mentioned pedagogical faculty.

Under Raúl Montes SJ, direction, and with a reduced teaching body made up of Professors Rafael Gandolfo (SS.CC), Guillermo Mönckeberg (SDB), Juan Montedónico, and Aída Chaparro Galdames, an initial enrolment of 30 students had to be accommodated, without having an adequate library for academic requirements.

[4] The real institutional and academic organization of the School occurred in 1955 when Professor Héctor Herrera Cajas, from Universidad de Chile,[5] assumed position as director.