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Education in Mexico
Education in Mexico
The most important Universities in Mexico are as follows:
UNAM, ranked 73° worldwide, and the best in Latin America, which leads Mexico with 50% of Mexican scientific research, many of Mexico most illustrous people attended UNAM, including:
5 Mexican presidents,
All of the Mexican Nobel Laureates: Alfonso García Robles (Peace), Octavio Paz (Literature), and Mario Molina (Chemistry)
The World Wealthiest Person: Carlos Slim.
It's main campus is a World Heritage site. Murals in the main campus were painted by some of the most recognized artists in Mexican history, such as Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros.
IPN (Instituto Politecnico Nacional), a leading institution on engineering and architecture programs, it's a Polytechnical school and Most Mexico's technological creations can be attributed to IPN Alumni.
ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey), located in Monterrey but with branch campuses in many other Mexican cities, too, it's a Private Research University. It surpassed IPN in some Engineering areas (Most notably Computer Science) some years ago and it's on par with UNAM. It has many exchange programs with universities across the world, and even double degree programs; Some of them include:
Double degree with Carnegie-Mellon University in M.S. in Information Technology.
Partnership with John Hopkins Medicine Program.
Summer Programs at Georgetown University, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Cambridge and Yale.
Double degree with UNC-Chapell Hill in M.B.A.
Exchange programs with over 200 universities abroad around 30 countries.
Anahuac (Universidad Anahuac), a pretigious private institution sponsored by the Legion of Christ, which also belongs to the Anahuac University Network with campuses in Mexico, Chile, Spain, Italy and United Sates, and the Anahuac Educational Consortium, the elite elementary to highschool institutions of the Semper Altius network and Oak Academies. The main Campus of the Anahuac University is located on Huixquilucan, Mexico State. Education is based in high leadership, entrepreneurism and above all, the Human Values. Alumni include some of the highest ranked executives and company presidents of Mexico and Latinamerica, including the Slim family. Ranks as the number one institution in Mexico on the Professional Clasification of International Universities ranking by the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris.
Ibero (Universidad Iberoamericana), is a Mexican private institution of higher education sponsored by the Society of Jesus. Its flagship campus is located in the Santa Fe district of Mexico City but there are others located in Guadalajara, León, Torreón, Puebla and Playas de Tijuana.
among its alumni, is president Vicente Fox, Emilio Azcarraga Jean - President and Owner of Televisa the most important media network in Latin America, Carlos Guzmán Bofill - CEO of Hewlett-Packard México, Daniel Servitje - President and CEO of Bimbo, Guillermo Arriaga - Film screenwriter, Novelist, and Director (Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel), Alejandro González Iñárritu - Filmmaker (Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel).
For graduate degrees and executive preparation:
The IPADE Business school currently ranks as the world's 7th best MBA programs outside the US, and the only one in Latin America, according to Forbes.
The EGADE Master Business School in Monterrey is ranked No.68 of MBA schools worldwide, the first in Latin America
For many years it was considered a school exclusive for Affluent people, it aggressively seeks to open its doors to talented minds of all income levels through an amazingly rich scholarship program, funded by the periodic raffles of multi-million dollar, fully furnished mansions along with luxury cars and a big sum of money.
Other important graduate programs are provided by the ITAM, and the Anahuac University
If one had to Compare them with American Universities:
UNAM would be the "Harvard" of Mexico, devoted to Humanities, Medicine and Law schools, as far as the reach of the institution but not as exclusive.
Anahuac would be like the "Princeton" of Mexico, home to both the wealthy and low profile elites, figuring in international rankings and with a great prestige result of it's alumni, international programs and social awareness.
IBERO would be the "Yale" of Mexico, a private school, with amazing resources constalty ranking amongst the best in latin america, and ranked as one of the best private universities in Mexico.
IPN, a school devoted to engineering and sciences, with many of it's students developing patents, could be considered a school like "MIT", and in fact, they've won many competitions against them.
ITESM is located in a city with many industrial companies, the Alma mater of many entrepeneurs, with decent computer and engineering programs, regarded as an good private university, and with a Business oriented curriculum. This would be considered the Mexican "Standford".
UDLAP The Universidad the las Americas at Puebla, would be the "Cornell-U" of Mexico.
ITAM The Instituto tecnológico Autonomo de Mexico would be the "Columbia" of Mexico
ULSA The Universidad La Salle would be the "Darthmouth College" of Mexico
Most of the the government funded universities on mayor cities (state capital) have short courses on history, gastronomy and cultural subjects, most of them are almost free. Other places are the "Casa de la Cultura", (house of culture) this are historical buildings used for cultural related activities (music concerts, theater, paint and other exhibits, they also have "talleres" (workshops).
Most of them have programs for foreigners. Foreigners can take a course to learn Spanish, or even study a whole career. Also, there are some other courses where you can learn traditional Mexican activities such as handcrafts. The tuition at a public school is rarely over $200USD.
Many excellent private universities exist in the larger cities (Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, etc.) and provide good education.
There are Spanish language schools throughout Mexico. The city with the most schools is Cuernavaca, with more than 50 schools. Oaxaca, San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato also offer a number of schools to choose from. Prices vary; however, most schools are very reasonably priced. Many schools can arrange homestays with local Mexican families.
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