Mexico City College was founded in 1940, as an English-speaking

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. In 1946, the college became a four-year

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degree-awarding institution, changing its name to University of the Americas in 1963. In 1968, the college became ''Universidad de las Americas'', as it began the transition into a Spanish-speaking institution, culminating in its move to

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, in 1971. Because of internal problems, the campus split in 1985 into two separate institutions: *UDLA – Universidad de las Américas, A.C., in Mexico City, Mexico. *UDLAP –

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, in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.

Alumni

References

*Richard Wilkie,
Dangerous Journeys: Mexico City College Students and the Mexican Landscape, 1954-1962
" in Bloom (2006),
Adventures into Mexico: American Tourism beyond the Border
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