National Autonomous University of Mexico

UNAM is the institution with more educative options in Mexico as well as the one receiving more students. It evaluates its study programs systematically in order to adjust to the necessities of the working dynamics, hence providing its graduates high competence levels.

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has played a major role in the history and formation of our country. This public, autonomous and lay institution’s fundamental tasks are teaching, research and culture dissemination. It is acknowledged within the academic world as an excellence university. UNAM is a space of various freedoms where, respect, tolerance and dialogue are practiced on a daily basis. Ideas and thought plurality is appreciated as a sign of its richness and never as a weakness factor.

Numerous generations have been forged as professionals and have obtained with this condition a better life quality standard. Our graduates are leaders within the enterprise, industry, services and academic worlds. Doubtlessly, the best indicator of the good work at UNAM. The most relevant artists, humanists and scientists in the country have gone to the university classrooms. UNAM is a robust and mature institution, rigorous and pertinent in an academic manner, but, as every university, it is constantly under improvements and modernization. This is why it aspires to have the best students, academics, researchers and facilities in order to face the future of Mexico.

This is the way the National Autonomous University of Mexico confronts the present.
… And it is committed to the future!

The National Autonomous University of Mexico takes as a mission to teach higher education courses to educate professionals, researchers, university professors, and technicians who will provide a useful service to society; to organize and to carry out research, primarily on the national conditions and problems, and to extend with generosity the benefits of culture to all sectors of the population.

Its substantive functions are teaching, research, and dissemination of culture. Its organizational structure is divided into three sub-systems to achieve its task. These are: on the one hand, education, which includes undergraduate, master and doctoral programs; research, which is done in its schools, and in its institutes and centers of natural and exact sciences, and on the other hand, humanities and social sciences as well as cultural dissemination.

The National Autonomous University of Mexico has two high schools: The National Preparatory School with nine facilities, and the Sciences and Humanities School with five facilities. High school in Mexico corresponds to prep school, and it is studied in three years after middle school and before the undergraduate degree.

Undergraduate programs are taught in 22 schools and national schools located in Mexico City and its Metropolitan Area, and in some institutes, centers and units located in different states of Mexico. This infrastructure enables UNAM to offer 117 programs in all disciplines of human knowledge.

UNAM has five Higher Education Schools, four in the State of Mexico and one in Mexico City, which were established in the seventies within the framework of an education decentralization project in order to benefit a larger number of students, introduce educational innovations, to impel inter-discipline and multi-discipline, to link research and teaching, to integrate theory and practice and to relate to its environment.

Through the Open University and the Distance Education System, UNAM offers twenty-two undergraduate programs, one technical program, one distance high school, four doctoral and fourteen master programs, in twelve schools, two national schools, and one extension center in the University itself, as well as in the states of: Chiapas, Mexico, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Tlaxcala.

UNAM offers 41 postgraduate programs with 83 curricula for master and doctoral programs, with the advantage that these are jointly taught by diverse academic entities of the National University schools, institutes, and centers offering the students a major variety of expert tutors in different branches of the discipline of their choice. It also offers 30 programs in 167 specializations.

The Coordination of Humanities encourages the development of humanistic disciplines and of social sciences disseminating the knowledge generated by the researchers of ten institutes. seven centers. three programs, and an academic unit outside Mexico City which constitute UNAM Subsystem of Humanities.

Research in scientific areas is done in nineteen institutes; ten centers, and five programs gathered in the Coordination of the Scientific Research.

The Coordination of Culture Dissemination is the area of UNAM in charge of fostering and disseminating culture and of managing the university extension activities. To achieve this, UNAM counts with the Cultural University Center, in University City, the Tlatelolco Cultural University Center, Radio UNAM, as well as with thirteen museums inside and outside of University City.