The Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (in es, Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, UAT) is a Mexican
public university based in
Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas
Ciudad Victoria () is the seat of the Municipality of Victoria, and the capital of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. It is located in the northeast of Mexico at the foot of the Sierra Madre Oriental. It borders the municipality of Güémez to ...
. Throughout the larger cities of
Reynosa,
Matamoros,
Nuevo Laredo, and
Tampico and smaller cities of
Ciudad Mante and
Valle Hermoso are UAT campuses that offer undergraduate studies.
Each of the various university faculties offer graduate studies leading to the Master's or Doctorate Degree. The Faculty of Medicine of Tampico offers the professional degree of Physician & Surgeon (Medico-Cirujano) as well as post-graduate specialty certificates in: pediatrics, internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics & gynecology, family practice, and intensive care medicine. The university's "Center of Excellence" (Centro de Excelencia) sponsors specialized professional certificates and studies for the state of Tamaulipas.
History
It was founded on 30 October 1950 at the port of
Tampico as ''Educación Profesional de Tampico, A.C.'' (Tampico's Professional Education),
a civil organization that sponsored a Faculty of Law and a Faculty of Medicine that were later incorporated into a public school under the auspices of the
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The National Autonomous University of Mexico ( es, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It is consistently ranked as one of the best universities in Latin America, where it's also the bigges ...
.
On 5 November 1972, it was recognized as an
autonomous university.
Since
Ciudad Victoria is the
Tamaulipas capital city, the rectory building and the main administrative offices are headquartered in there. The main faculties of business, law, natural sciences, education and agriculture are based there as well.
Ciudad Victoria is also the home of the university's football soccer team, the
Correcaminos UAT.
The principal site of medicine, dentistry, nursing, law and engineering are in
Tampico. The northern
Tamaulipas cities of
Matamoros and
Nuevo Laredo each have smaller university campuses.
Campuses
References
Autonomous University of Tamaulipas
Ciudad Victoria
Educational institutions established in 1950
1950 establishments in Mexico
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