Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) ( en, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education), also known as Tecnológico de Monterrey or just Tec, is a
secular and
coeducational
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private university
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based in
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 ...
,
Mexico
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, which has grown to include 35
campus
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es throughout the country.
One of only 45 universities in the World to be ranked with 5
QS Stars, it is widely recognized as one of the most prestigious universities in
Latin America
Latin America or
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* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
.
Founded in 1943 by
Eugenio Garza Sada, an
MIT-educated industrialist, the university has always had close links with the Mexican business elite; as of 2019, it is the 15th university in the world with the
highest number of billionaire alumni according to the ''
Times Higher Education
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Ownership
TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
'' and the only university in
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
to appear in the ranking. ITESM is also known as being the first university to be connected to the
Internet
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in
Ibero-America,
[The first connection from Spain was completed in mid-1990 (see ''Sanz'') while the Institute was connected in February 1989 (see ''Islas'').] having the top-ranked
business school
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in business administration or management. A business school may also be referred to as school of management, management school, school of business administration, o ...
in the region according to the
''Economist'', and being one of the leaders in
patent applications among Mexican universities.
The medical school offers the only
MD-PhD program available in Mexico, in partnership with the
Houston Methodist Hospital
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.
History
Early years
The institute was founded on September 6, 1943, by a group of local businessmen led by
Eugenio Garza Sada, a moneyed heir of a
brewing
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conglomerate who was interested in creating an institution that could provide highly skilled personnel — both university graduates and technicians— to the booming Monterrey corporations of the 1940s.
[
] The group was structured into a
non-profit organization
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called ''Enseñanza e Investigación Superior A.C. (EISAC)'' and recruited several academicians led by
León Ávalos y Vez
León Ávalos y Vez (24 January 1906 – 1991) was a Mexican mechanical engineer who served as the founding director-general of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM, 1943–1946) and as director-general of the National School of Electr ...
, an
MIT alumnus and then director-general of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of the
National Polytechnic Institute, who designed its first academic programs and served as its first
director-general
A director general or director-general (plural: ''directors general'', ''directors-general'', ''director generals'' or ''director-generals''
) or general director is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a government ...
.
In its early years the Institute operated at Abasolo 858 Oriente in a large, two-story house located a block and a half away from Zaragoza Square, behind the city's Metropolitan Cathedral.
As these facilities soon proved to be insufficient, it started renting out adjacent buildings and by 1945 it became apparent that a university campus was necessary. For that reason, a master plan was commissioned to
Enrique de la Mora and on February 3, 1947, what would later be known as its
Monterrey Campus was inaugurated by
Mexican President Miguel Alemán Valdés.
Because the operations of the local companies were highly reliant on U.S. markets, investments, and technology; internationalization became one of its earliest priorities. In 1950 it became the first foreign university in history to be accredited by the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
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(SACS),
one of the six regional accreditation agencies recognized by the
United States Department of Education
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. Its foreign accreditation would end up being a decisive influence in its development, as it was forced to submit itself to external evaluation earlier than most Mexican universities (1967)
and unlocked additional sources of revenue, such as tuition funds from foreign students interested in taking summer courses in Mexico for full-academic credit.
Expansion
![Eugenio Garza Sada Memorial](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Eugenio_Garza_Sada_Memorial.jpg)
Its growth outside the city of Monterrey began in the late-1960s, when both its
rector and head of academics lobbied for expansion. A first attempt, funded a few years earlier by several businessmen from
Mexicali,
Baja California
Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ...
, was staffed and organized by the Institute but faced opposition from the Board of Trustees once the federal government refused any additional subsidy
and members of the Board cast doubt on its ability to get funds as an out-of-state university. At the end the project was renamed ''
Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior (CETYS)'' and grew into a fully independent institution.
Aside from the CETYS experiment and the 150 hectares bought in 1951 for the agricultural program's experimental facilities in nearby
Apodaca, Nuevo León
Apodaca () is a city and its surrounding municipality that is part of Monterrey Metropolitan area. It lies in the northeastern part of the Monterrey Metropolitan Area. It is known for becoming recently a heavy industrialized city. As of 2019, the ...
, no other expansion outside Monterrey was attempted until 1967, when a school of maritime studies was built in the port of
Guaymas,
Sonora
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. Shortly thereafter, premises were built in
Obregón and courses began to be offered in
Mexico City
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. Those premises and the ones that followed, then called external units, were fully dependent on the Monterrey Campus until 1984, when they were restructured as semi-independent campuses and reorganized in regional rectorates (''see
Organization
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The word is derived from ...
'').
In 1987, when the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools demanded faculty members with master's degrees to lecture 100% of its undergraduate courses,
the Institute invested considerably in both
distance learning and
computer network
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technologies and training, effectively becoming, on February 1, 1989, the first university ever connected to the
Internet
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in both
Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
and the
Spanish-speaking world.
Such efforts contributed to the creation of its former ''Virtual University'' a few years later and allowed it to become the first
country-code top level domain registry in Mexico; first by itself from 1989 to 1995, and then as a major shareholder of ''NIC Mexico'', the current national registry.
Campuses
![Map ITESM campuses by city](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Map_ITESM_campuses_by_city.svg)
There are thirty-one campuses of the Institute distributed in twenty-five Mexican cities. Each campus is relatively independent but shares a national academic curriculum (''see
Academics''). The flagship campus is located in
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 ...
, where the national, system-wide
rectorate is located. Most of them deliver both high school and undergraduate education, some offer postgraduate programs and only eight (Cumbres, Eugenio Garza Sada, Eugenio Garza Lagüera, Santa Catarina, Metepec, Santa Anita, Esmeralda and Valle Alto) deliver high school courses exclusively. Nevertheless, curricular and extension courses and seminars are usually available at most facilities.
Campuses by region
![CEDETEC en la noche](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/CEDETEC_en_la_noche.jpg)
Former campuses include Celaya (Prepa Tec, closed in 2020), Veracruz (closed in 2021), Guaymas (transferred to
TecMilenio University
The Universidad Tecmilenio (UTM) (Tecmilenio University) is a private institution of higher education. The institution is part of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Tecmilenio University ITESM system comprises 40 locations and ...
in the early 2000s) and Mazatlán (transferred to TecMilenio University in 2009).
*North: Monterrey, PrepaTec Cumbres, PrepaTec Eugenio Garza Lagüera, PrepaTec Eugenio Garza Sada, Prepa Tec Santa Catarina, PrepaTec Valle Alto, Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Laguna, Saltillo, Tampico and Zacatecas.
*Mexico City:''
Mexico City Santa Fe, State of Mexico, PrepaTec Esmeralda,
*South: Chiapas, Cuernavaca, Hidalgo, PrepaTec Metepec, Puebla and Toluca
*West: Colima, Guadalajara, Irapuato, León, Morelia, PrepaTec Navojoa, Northern Sonora, Obregón, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, PrepaTec Santa Anita and Sinaloa.
![PIT3-ITESM-Chihuahua](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/PIT3-ITESM-Chihuahua.jpg)
As of June 2019, campuses were divided into the following Mexican regions:
Other infrastructure
In addition to the campuses, the Institute manages:
*The
Ignacio A. Santos Medical School, the ''Hospital San José'' and the Zambrano-Hellion Medical Center.
*Eight international sites in
Argentina
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(
Buenos Aires
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),
Colombia
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(
Bogotá
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,
Medellín
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),
Ecuador
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Guayaquil
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and
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),
Panama
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(
Panama City
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),
Peru
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(
Lima
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) and the
United States
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(
Miami
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) offering extension courses, research and international consulting.
*Fifteen liaison offices in charge of forging international partnerships and negotiating professional internships and academic exchanges with local universities, companies and civil institutions. Current liaison offices are located in
Belgium
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(
Brussels
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),
Canada
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Montreal
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and
Vancouver
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),
China
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(
Beijing
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,
Guangzhou
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and
Shanghai
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),
France
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(
Nice
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and
Paris
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),
Italy
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(
Florence
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,
Macerata
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History
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and
Verona
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),
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
(
Fribourg),
Spain
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, national_anthem = (English: "Royal March")
, i ...
(
Barcelona
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and
Madrid
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) and the
United States
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Boston
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,
Dallas
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Washington, D.C.
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Organization
![ITESM Monterrey Rectoria](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/ITESM_Monterrey_Rectoria.jpg)
All campuses are sponsored by
non-profit organization
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s composed primarily of local businesspeople. The Monterrey Campus is sponsored by ''Enseñanza e Investigación Superior, A.C. (EISAC)'', which co-sponsored the system as a whole until a newly built organization, ''Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, A.C. (ITESM AC)'' overtook those responsibilities.
Such organizations (effectively serving as
boards of trustees) are responsible for electing the rectors or directors of a particular campus. Since February 2012, the president of ITESMAC is
José Antonio Fernández, a class of 1976 alumnus and current chairman and CEO of
FEMSA
Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V., doing business as FEMSA, is a Mexican multinational beverage and retail company headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico. It operates the largest independent Coca-Cola bottling group in the world and the la ...
. Former presidents include the founder,
Eugenio Garza Sada (1943–73) and his son,
Eugenio Garza Lagüera
Eugenio Garza Lagüera (18 December 1923 – 24 May 2008) was a Mexican businessman and philanthropist who served as chairman of the board of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM) and Femsa, Latin America's largest beverage corporation. In ...
(1973–97), and
Lorenzo Zambrano (1997–2012), a class of 1966 alumnus and until his passing.
Former heads of the Institute include:
*
León Ávalos y Vez
León Ávalos y Vez (24 January 1906 – 1991) was a Mexican mechanical engineer who served as the founding director-general of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM, 1943–1946) and as director-general of the National School of Electr ...
(1943–1947) first
director-general
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) or general director is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a government ...
.
*
Roberto Guajardo Suárez
Roberto Guajardo Suárez (16 October 1918 – c. October 2008) was a Mexican lawyer who served as the second director-general of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM, 1947–1951), as a founding president of ''Sociedad Artística Tecnológ ...
(1947–1951) second director-general.
*
Víctor Bravo Ahuja
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(1951–1958) third director-general, and from April 11, 1955, first rector.
*
Fernando García Roel
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García Roel was born in Monterre ...
(1959–1984) second rector.
*
Rafael Rangel Sostmann
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(1985–2011) third rector.
*Salvador Alva (2011–2019) fourth rector and Executive President.
Since 2020, The Tecnológico de Monterrey Rector and Executive President is David Garza Salazar.
High schools
Following the historical trend of Mexico's largest universities,
the Institute sponsors several
high school
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s that share one or more national curricula: bicultural, multicultural and/or
International Baccalaureate
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, which is administered from
Geneva
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,
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
.
The bicultural focuses on better understanding of the English language, the multicultural program requires studying a third language and to have an exchange program abroad. Finally, the IB is an academically challenging program where students can obtain the
IB Diploma when they graduate. Additionally, students can receive college credits both at the TEC and universities abroad. Multicultural students are able to take IB courses if they wish with the focus on obtaining IB Subject Certificates. , over 26,000 students in several campuses were registered as high school students within the system.
Academics
![ITESM Campus Monterrey Aulas I](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/ITESM_Campus_Monterrey_Aulas_I.jpg)
Academically, the university is organized into several departments and divisions —as opposed to the traditional
faculty school scheme used by most Mexican public universities— and it was the first Mexican university in history to divide the academic year in
semesters. Current academic calendar for both high school and undergraduate students is composed of two semesters running from August to December and from January to May (each lasting 16 weeks) and an optional summer session from June to July, where at most two courses can be taken in an intensive basis.
, the institute offers 57 undergraduate degrees, of which 37 are taught in English and are generally awarded after nine semesters of study (except for
Medicine
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and
Architecture
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);
33
master's degrees, generally lasting three to five semesters (and can also be structured in three-months terms),
and 11
doctorate degree
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s varying in length according to their academic field.
Admissions
Since 1969 the Institute requires every college applicant to achieve a minimum pass mark at an academic aptitude test which is 900 out of 1600. (''
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, PAA'') delivered by
The College Board
The College Board is an American nonprofit organization that was formed in December 1899 as the College Entrance Examination Board (CEEB) to expand access to higher education. While the College Board is not an association of colleges, it runs a ...
, a
not-for-profit
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examination board in the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
.
However, each campus is free to request additional requirements; such as a grade average of 80 or 90 in high school (on a 100-point scale) for those willing to transfer or apply to the Monterrey Campus.
As for the graduate schools, the requirements may vary according to the discipline, such as a grade average of 80/100 and 550-points in both the
GMAT and the
TOEFL for some programs at its Graduate Business School (EGADE).
Accreditations
![CIAP Building ITESM](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d5/CIAP_Building_ITESM.jpg)
Studies at the Tech are officially accredited by the
Secretariat of Public Education of Mexico (''Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP'') and by the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) is an educational accreditor recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. This agency accredits over 13,000 public and priv ...
(SACS)
of the United States. In November 2008, its graduate business school (
EGADE
The — generally translated as Graduate School of Management and Business Administration, but officially branded as EGADE Business School since 2010 — is the graduate business school of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM): one of Lat ...
) became one of the 34
business school
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in business administration or management. A business school may also be referred to as school of management, management school, school of business administration, o ...
s in the world to hold simultaneous accreditation of its programs by the
AACSB of the United States, the
Association of MBAs
The Association of MBAs (AMBA) is a global organisation founded in 1967 which focuses primarily on international business school accreditation and membership.
Roles
Based in London, AMBA is one of the three main global accreditation bodies in ...
of the
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...
and the
European Quality Improvement System
The EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) is an international school accreditation system. It specializes in higher education institutions of management and business administration, run by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD ...
(EQUIS) while the Institute became the first
Latin America
Latin America or
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n university in history to receive full-accreditation on some of its engineering programs by
ABET (as opposed to the traditional ''substantially-equivalent'' designation given to most schools outside the United States).
The quality of its programs is also audited by the
Institute of Food Technologists, the
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) is an American organization whose focus is improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education. APPAM founded the ''Journal of Policy A ...
and by the national accrediting councils of Mexico, such as the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (''Consejo para la Acreditación de la Educación Superior, COPAES'') and the Inter-Institutional Committees for Higher Education Evaluation (''Comités Interinstitucionales de Evaluación de la Educación Superior, CIEES'').
, 169 undergraduate degrees were accredited by national accrediting councils and 36 were accredited by international accrediting agencies.
As for graduate degrees, 11 were accredited by international accrediting agencies and 58 were listed in the National Census of High-Quality Postgraduate Studies (''Padrón Nacional de Posgrados de Calidad, PNPC'') by the
National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT).
Academic memberships
The institute is the only Latin American institution at the
European Consortium of Innovative Universities
In 1997, eleven European universities came together to establish the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU). The consortium is a group of universities dedicated to the development of an innovative culture in their institutions, and ...
(ECIU) —an organization committed to innovations in both teaching and learning
— and at
Universitas 21; an international network of research-intensive universities established as an "international reference point and resource for strategic thinking on issues of global significance."
It is also the only Mexican university, along the National Autonomous University of Mexico, to be enrolled at the
Association of Pacific Rim Universities, an international consortium of leading research universities including
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
,
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
and
Caltech
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.
The institute was also the first
private university
Private universities and private colleges are institutions of higher education, not operated, owned, or institutionally funded by governments. They may (and often do) receive from governments tax breaks, public student loans, and grant (money ...
to become a member of the
National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education of Mexico (ANUIES) back when it was composed entirely by
public universities (1958)
and is a full member of the Mexican Federation of Private Institutions of Higher Education (''Federación de Instituciones Mexicanas Particulares de Educación Superior, FIMPES''). The university recently became a partner of
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...
through the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.
Faculty
![Sustentabilidad](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Sustentabilidad.jpg)
The institute has over 10,000 professors at high school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels: 2,207 tenured and 7,900 associated professors, and all of them have the appropriate academic credentials to lecture at their corresponding academic level according to the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) is an educational accreditor recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. This agency accredits over 13,000 public and priv ...
.
some 470 professors taught courses, worked in international projects or attended seminars or congresses at foreign universities while some 590 foreign professors taught courses at the Tech.
As for their academic development, its faculty training program was bestowed with the 2004 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education by the
Institute of International Education.
Libraries
The institute has at least thirty-three libraries in twenty-five Mexican cities holding over 2.4 million
book
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s, publications, and 46 types of
electronic database
A bibliographic database is a database of bibliographic records, an organized digital collection of references to published literature, including journal and newspaper articles, conference proceedings, reports, government and legal publications, p ...
s with at least 51,000 specialized magazines and
academic journal
An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...
s and over 9000
e-book
An ebook (short for electronic book), also known as an e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. Alt ...
s.
Its
Cervantean Library, named after
Miguel de Cervantes and located in the current rectorate, holds one of the largest collections of ''
Don Quixote''
incunabula
In the history of printing, an incunable or incunabulum (plural incunables or incunabula, respectively), is a book, pamphlet, or broadside that was printed in the earliest stages of printing in Europe, up to the year 1500. Incunabula were pro ...
, an original edition of ''L'
Encyclopédie'', and the
Mario Pani
Mario Pani Darqui (March 29, 1911 – February 23, 1993) was a famous Mexican architect and urbanist. He was one of the most active urbanists under the Mexican Miracle, and gave form to a good part of the urban appearance of Mexico City, with ...
Archives, and other bibliographical treasures while the main library of the Monterrey Campus holds the personal collections of
archaeologist
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
Ignacio Bernal.
Rankings
![EGADE Business School at Monterrey from Rufino Tamayo Park](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/EGADE_Business_School_at_Monterrey_from_Rufino_Tamayo_Park.JPG)
Overall, the institute is the only Mexican university besides 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 ...
to be ranked at the 2010
QS World University Rankings
''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the ...
, in which it was classified #65 worldwide at its Employer's Review, #269 in Engineering and Information Technology, #232 in Social Sciences and #387 at its overall ranking. In the 2010
International Professional Ranking of World Universities, developed by the ''
École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris'', it ranked 224 out of 390 worldwide.
Among its graduate schools,
EGADE
The — generally translated as Graduate School of Management and Business Administration, but officially branded as EGADE Business School since 2010 — is the graduate business school of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM): one of Lat ...
has been ranked 7th among the best
business school
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s outside the
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
according to the
Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...
(2006),
4th in the world in business ethics and social-responsibility programs according to
BusinessWeek magazine (2005), among the 100 best graduate business schools in the world by the
Economist Intelligence Unit
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) is the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, providing forecasting and advisory services through research and analysis, such as monthly country reports, five-year country economic forecasts, ...
(2009)
and its OneMBA program, delivered in partnership with four different institutions (see
Joint programs and international partnerships below) was ranked 27 worldwide by the
Financial Times
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in its 2009 Executive Master in Business Administration rankings.
Joint programs and international partnerships
Some of its academic programs are offered as joint degrees or in partnership with foreign universities:
*Its Master of Science in Information Technology is offered as a joint degree with
Carnegie-Mellon University, which is ranked 4th for graduate studies in computer science in 2008 according to ''
U.S. News & World Report'' and 7th in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences among
Shanghai Jiao Tong University's world's top 100 universities.
![ITESM EGAP Monterrey](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/ITESM_EGAP_Monterrey.jpg)
*The OneMBA degree is offered through a partnership with the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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, the
Rotterdam School of Management of the
Netherlands
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, the
Chinese University of Hong Kong and the
Getulio Vargas Foundation of
Brazil
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and is ranked 27 worldwide among executive MBAs by the
Financial Times
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.
*The B.A. Finance and Accounting is offered as a joint degree with the
University of Texas at Austin
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, Master in Professional Accounting, ranked #1 Graduate Accounting School in the U.S. by ''U.S. News & World Report'' since 2007.
*The Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering is offered in partnership with the
Université de Technologie de Troyes in
France
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and with the
Université Laval in
Quebec
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,
Canada
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.
*The Global MBA for Latin American Managers is offered in partnership with the
Thunderbird School of Global Management, which has been ranked consistently by ''
U.S. News & World Report'' as the #1 school in International Management since 1995.
*The
medical degree is offered as a dual Ph.D. program with the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences of the
Texas A&M Health Science Center.
*An International MBA program is offered as a joint degree with the
University of San Diego
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.
*The institute has a strategic partnership with
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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through
Johns Hopkins Medicine International
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.
*The Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Global Business and Strategy (MBA-GBS) is a double degree MBA program jointly offered by the Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership (EGADE) at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, and the Belk College of Business (Belk College) at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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.
*The bachelor's degrees in Chemical Engineering are offered as joint degrees with the
Reutlingen University of
Germany
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.
*Several ITESM high schools offer the
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
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, which is administered by the
Geneva
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-based
International Baccalaureate
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.
*The school partners with New York City-based
Trilogy Education Services
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to host a tech training program on ITESM's Mexico campus.
Medical school
![Medical and Health School (Escuela de Medicina y Salud)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Medical_and_Health_School_%28Escuela_de_Medicina_y_Salud%29.jpg)
The
Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine
The Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine (Escuela de Medicina Ignacio A. Santos, aka: EMIS) is the medical school division of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM). Established in 1978 in Monterrey, Mexico.
The Schoo ...
(Escuela de Medicina Ignacio A. Santos, aka: EMIS) is the medical school division of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM). Established in 1978 in Monterrey, Mexico.
The School of Medicine was founded to satisfy the country's need for high quality medical training and innovation in biomedical research. Currently, there are approximately 500 students enrolled in the M.D. program and about 105 postgraduate students. Aside from the medical doctor program, the School of Medicine also offers a joint M.D.-Ph.D. program with Houston Methodist Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas A&M Health Science Center, and other Bachelors in Biosciences, Nutrition Sciences and Biomedical Engineering. The graduate medical education department offers several medical residency and fellowship programs.
The general director of the TecSalud organization is Guillermo Torre M.D. PhD, a cardiologist who trained under
Michael E. DeBakey
Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was a Lebanese-American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College ...
MD at
Baylor College of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is a medical school and research center in Houston, Texas, within the Texas Medical Center, the world's largest medical center. BCM is composed of four academic components: the School of Medicine, the Graduate Sc ...
.
Research
![ITESM Femsa Biotechnology Center Aulas I](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/ITESM_Femsa_Biotechnology_Center_Aulas_I.jpg)
Although some of the founding members of its faculty were prominent researchers (first rector
León Ávalos y Vez
León Ávalos y Vez (24 January 1906 – 1991) was a Mexican mechanical engineer who served as the founding director-general of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM, 1943–1946) and as director-general of the National School of Electr ...
had formed a National Commission on Science and served as director-general of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of the
National Polytechnic Institute) formal research activities at the Tech did not start until 1951, when its Institute of Industrial Research was founded in close collaboration with the
Southwest Research Institute
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is an independent and nonprofit applied research and development (R&D) organization. Founded in 1947 by oil businessman Tom Slick, it provides contract research and develop ...
of
San Antonio
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—one of the oldest and largest independent, nonprofit, applied research and development organizations in the
United States
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.
Notwithstanding some reputable achievements, throughout most of the 20th century its research activities —normally financed independently or under private sponsorship— were rather scarce in comparison to public universities such as 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 ...
or the
National Polytechnic Institute, whose budgets make up to 30% of the federal spending in higher education and, as such, are heavily financed by the government through the federal budget.
Despite its inherent difficulties to secure research funds in a
developing country
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where private sponsorship barely accounts for 1.1% of the national spending on science,
a new institutional mission in 2005 made social and scientific research in Mexico's strategic areas one of its top priorities for the next decade. As a result, new corporate endowments and funds were committed, new research programs were created (including the first research program financed by
Google
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in
Latin America
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)
and important labs and infrastructure have been built, such as the Femsa Biotechnology Center,
the Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean (financed by the
Inter-American Development Bank
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and the Femsa Foundation),
the
Motorola
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Research and Development Center on Home & Networks Mobility,
its Center for Advanced Design at the
Guadalajara Campus and, in association with the
Mainz Institute of Microtechnology of
Germany
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(IMM), the first center of chemical
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in
Latin America
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.
Additionally, the Institute developed a researcher-friendly
patent
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scheme that aims to attract talented researchers and reduce the national
brain drain. The scheme, in which the researcher may receive up to 30% of the patent licensing income,
works in combination with its internal Rómulo Garza Prize and its national Luis Elizondo Prize and has allowed it to become the leading
patent
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applicant among Mexican universities since 2006.
Student life
![Borregos Salvajes ITESM CEM](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Borregos_Salvajes_ITESM_CEM.jpg)
Student life, traditions and activities vary among campuses. Generally speaking, student involvement is encouraged by the local campus through an office of student affairs and the Department of Leadership and Student Formation (LiFE), which supervises most of the student groups, sports teams, regional associations and its student federation (FETEC).
The Institute goes great lengths to provide scholarships to those in need, awarding partial financial assistance to 49% of its student population.
However, with tuition fees exceeding per academic year
(among the highest in
Latin America
Latin America or
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according to
Forbes magazine)
most of its student community comes from upper and upper-middle class and the overall atmosphere is arguably politically and socially conservative. For example, opposite-sex visits are forbidden in dormitories unless it is in common areas and some
high school
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staff in the Mexico City Campus has publicly admonished students for questioning conservative politicians during school visits (although no disciplinary action was ever taken).
The number of international students vary notably among campuses. , 4,714 foreign students were studying in one of its campuses while 10,618 Tech students were taking courses in a foreign university.
Athletics
Aerial shot of the stadium of the Monterrey Rayados soccer team.
Tec has a good record in college athletics, picking up over 18% of the medals at the 2007 national collegiate competition (''Universiada'') and one of its campuses won every American Football Collegiate Championship in Mexico (
ONEFA) from 1998 to 2008.
Such accomplishments were possible through the institute's investments in sports facilities and personnel and a well-funded and comprehensive athletic scholarships program, which attracted a significant number of promising athletes but prompted allegations of talent drain by some of its rivals.
Before the 2009 season the Institute decided to part ways with the organization and create a new league;
however, the league didn't materialize after other breakaway universities decided to remain in the ONEFA.
The Institute asked to return to the organization, but the ONEFA Board decided that the request should be formally presented in its next ordinary meeting, after the 2009 season,
which its four teams ended up playing between themselves in a Tech-only championship.
For the 2010 season, the Institute decided not to participate in the ONEFA championship and, instead, asked the CONADEIP, a national athletic association of private educational institutions, to create an American football championship.
Although there are local adaptations, since 1945 the system-wide sports mascot is the ram (''
borrego salvaje''), traditionally embodied in a male
bighorn sheep
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. A somewhat popular
urban legend
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states that the mascot was chosen by the American football team on its way to a match, after spotting a male sheep on the road. According to the official sources, however, the mascot was chosen during an official contest held by students in the mid-1940s.
Notable people
From December 2006 to January 2009 both the
U.S. Secretary of Commerce
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and the
Mexican Secretary of Economy (former
Kelloggs
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' CEO
Carlos Gutiérrez and
Gerardo Ruiz Mateos
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In Mexico, the Secretariat of Economy ( Spanish: ''Secretaría de Economía''; abbreviated "SE") is the government department i ...
) were Tech alumni. Other businesspeople include
Cemex' CEO
Lorenzo Zambrano,
FEMSA
Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V., doing business as FEMSA, is a Mexican multinational beverage and retail company headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico. It operates the largest independent Coca-Cola bottling group in the world and the la ...
's CEO
José Antonio Fernández,
Grupo Salinas' CEO
Ricardo Salinas Pliego Max Appedole
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film producer, activist and Casa Cuervo's CEO Juan Beckman.
In science and technology,
Alexander Balankin
Alexander Balankin (born March 3, 1958) is a Mexican scientist of Russian origin (:ru:Баланкин, Александр Сергеевич, Баланкин, Александр Сергеевич) whose work in the field of fractal mechanics an ...
, former lecturer at the
Mexico City Campus,
has received the 2005
UNESCO Science Prize for his works on Fractal Mechanics;
Ernesto Enkerlin
Ernesto Christian Enkerlin Hoeflich (born 14 December 1958 in Monterrey) is the Director of Conservation and Sustainability at Parque Fundidora. A prominent Mexican conservationist, environmentalist and researcher, he specializes in parrots' ec ...
received UNESCO's 2005
Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation
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for his involvement in sustainability
and two alumni have been members of the
United States President
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's Information Technology Advisory Committee:
Pedro Celis (Distinguished Engineer at
Microsoft
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) and
Héctor García Molina
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, former Director of
Stanford University
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's Computer Science Department, 1999
ACM
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Aviation
* AGM-129 ACM, 1990–2012 USAF cruise missile
* Air chief marshal
* Air combat manoeuvring or dogfighting
* Air cycle machine
* Arica Airport (Colombia) (IATA: ACM), in Arica, Amazonas, Colombia
Computing
* ...
SIGMOD Innovations Award
[
] and highest
h-index
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in
Computer Science
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.
At least two late presidential candidates and democracy activists,
Luis Donaldo Colosio and
Manuel Clouthier, were former graduates. Over a dozen Mexican governors and cabinet members have attended classes at the Tech, including former Secretary of Commerce and
North American Free Trade Agreement
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(NAFTA) negotiator
Herminio Blanco
Herminio Alonso Blanco Mendoza (born July 25, 1950 in Chihuahua) is a Mexican economist.''Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano'', Ed. Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico, 1992.
Herminio Blanco has 27 years of experience in internat ...
. In cultural affairs,
Gabriel Zaid
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Early life
He was born in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, on January 24, 1934, son of Palestinian immigrants, is a Mexican thinker (poet, essayist, economist, businessman, engineer, a ...
has distinguished himself as one of the leading Mexican intellectuals of the 20th century and in sports
Fernando Platas
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and
Víctor Estrada
Victor Manuel Estrada Garibay (born October 28, 1971 in Matamoros, Tamaulipas) is a Mexican taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney where he received a bronze medal in the 80 ...
have both won
Olympics
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medals, while former coach of
Mexico's national football team,
Miguel Mejía Barón
Miguel Mejía Barón (born 17 April 1944) is a Mexican former professional footballer and manager.
He currently works at UNAM as club president
Career
Mejía played for UNAM Pumas and would later manage the club.
He coached Mexico at the 1994 ...
, is in charge of the Football Department at
Puebla
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.
As for staff and faculty, at least two rectors or directors of different universities have been lecturers or members of the staff at the Tech.
Luis Ernesto Derbez
Luis Ernesto Derbez Bautista (born April 1, 1947 in Mexico City) is a Mexican politician and Rector (academia), rector of the Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP). He served as Mexico's Secretariat of Economy (Mexico), Secretary of Econ ...
, a former Foreign Minister, is currently the Rector of the
University of the Americas, Puebla. Enrique Cabrero Mendoza is the current head of
The National Council for Science and Technology and a former rector of
CIDE. In addition, the Ex-Rector
Rafael Rangel Sostmann
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is member of the External Advisory Council of the
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.
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