The Sonora Institute of Technology (in es, Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, ITSON) is a Mexican

public university A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national universit ...

based in

Ciudad Obregón Ciudad Obregón is a city in southern Sonora. It is the state's second largest city after Hermosillo and serves as the municipal seat of Cajeme, as of 2020, the city has a population of 436,484. Ciudad Obregón is south of the state's norther ...

Sonora Sonora (), officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Sonora ( en, Free and Sovereign State of Sonora), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the Administrative divisions of Mexico, Federal Entities of Mexico. The state is d ...

, with satellite campuses in Guaymas, Empalme and

Navojoa Navojoa is the fifth-largest city in the northern Mexican state of Sonora and is situated in the southern part of the state. The city is the administrative seat of Navojoa Municipality, located in the Mayo River Valley. History The city name de ...

. Founded in 1955 as a preparatory school called Justo Sierra Institute (''Instituto Justo Sierra''), it was initially sponsored by

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until 1956, when it renamed as Northwestern Institute of Technology (''Instituto Tecnológico del Noroeste''). In 1962, Governor

Luis Encinas Johnson Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish language, Spanish form of the originally Germanic language, Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese language, Portuguese and ...

approved a state law that restructured the institution and gave it its current name.

History

The institution was the result of the efforts of the community of Cajeme, led by the president of the local chapter of

, Moisés Vásquez Gudiño. After several restructurations, it became a public university in 1964 when it began to offer a bachelor's degree in

Industrial Engineering Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex process (engineering), processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, kno ...

. By 1976 the program in Business Administration was added and it stopped offering secondary-level education. In 1979 under the administration of Dr. Óscar Russo Vogel, the institution started expansion programs that continued in the 1980s to serve a growing-demand. The main campus (located in

) consisted of only five buildings and the

campus served its students in a leased building. In 1981 the campus added its administration building to its infrastructure. In 1982 main campus added classrooms and the Náinari campus added the unit for Veterinary and

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studies. The Guaymas campus was added in 1984 and the Navojoa campus was moved into its own building.

Campuses

* Central and Náinari, in Obregón. * Central and South, in

. * Guaymas * Empalme

Academics

The Institute offers the following programs: * An Associate's degree in Childhood Development. * Licentiate degrees in Administration, Tourism Management, Education, Physical Education Sciences, Accounting, Physical Culture and Sports Management, Graphic Design, Economics and Finances, Arts Management and Development, Psychology and Business Information Systems. *

Bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

s in Food Technology, Software Engineering, Biotechnology Engineering, Bio-systems Engineering, Civil Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Veterinary Medicine and Zootechnics. * Master's degrees in Administration, Information Technologies Management, Engineering, Agribusiness Administration, Natural Resources, Organizational Development and Management, Economics and Finances, Education, Logistics and Quality Systems, Business Incubation and Acceleration, Construction Administration, Production Systems, Electrical Technology Administration, Hydraulics Resources Administration, International Business Intelligence and Psychology. *

Doctorate degree A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

s in Biotechnology and Strategic Planning. In total, 12 out of 28 acreditable academic programs (taken by 58.91% of its student population) were certified as of good quality by the Mexican Undersecretariat of Higher Education (''Subsecretaría de Educación Superior'') by September 2007. In addition, from October 2006 to September 2007 the Institute invested (around ) in research.

References

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