The Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (in
Spanish: ''Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional'' or simply as ''CINVESTAV-IPN'') is a Mexican non-governmental scientific research institution affiliated with the
National Polytechnic Institute and founded by president
Adolfo López Mateos on 17 April 1961,
initially planned as a postgraduate department of the
National Polytechnic Institute; this was later modified by President
José López Portillo, on 17 September 1982.
The modification by President Portillo stipulates that it is a decentralized organ of public interest, with legal personality and own patrimony. Cinvestav receives an annual subsidy by the Federal Government to fund its operations.
Organization
Campuses
The institute is divided into 10 research centers; 3 of these are in
Mexico City, while the others are dispersed across the country. They are located as follows:
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Mexico City: Zacatenco, Coapa (south) and San Borja
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Guadalajara, Jalisco
Guadalajara ( , ) is a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco. According to the 2020 census, the city has a population of 1,385,629 people, making it the 7th largest city by population in Mexico, while the Guadalaj ...
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Irapuato,
Guanajuato
Guanajuato (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Guanajuato ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Guanajuato), is one of the 32 states that make up the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided into 46 municipalities and its capital city i ...
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Mérida, Yucatán
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Querétaro, Querétaro
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Saltillo,
Coahuila
Coahuila (), formally Coahuila de Zaragoza (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Coahuila de Zaragoza ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Coahuila de Zaragoza), is one of the 32 states of Mexico.
Coahuila borders the Mexican states of N ...
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Monterrey
Monterrey ( , ) is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the third largest city in Mexico behind Guadalajara and Mexico City. Located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the city is anchor ...
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Nuevo León
Nuevo León () is a state in the northeast region of Mexico. The state was named after the New Kingdom of León, an administrative territory from the Viceroyalty of New Spain, itself was named after the historic Spanish Kingdom of León. With a ...
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Ciudad Victoria,
Tamaulipas
Departments
The institute is divided into 33 departments:
World ranking
Cinvestav ranks 4th within research centers in Latin America and holds the position 118 in the world.
References
External links
Official website* http://research.webometrics.info/en/Latin_America/Mexico
Educational institutions established in 1961
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Research institutes in Mexico
Laboratories in Mexico
Postgraduate schools in Mexico
1961 establishments in Mexico
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