The Universidad Panamericana (

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: ''Universidad Panamericana''), commonly known as UP, is a private

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founded in

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. It has four campuses: the main

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campus in the Benito Juarez borough of south-western Mexico City, founded in 1968; the

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campus established in 1981; the

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campus established in 1989; and Campus Santa Fe, also in Mexico City, founded in 2011. Currently is ranke
3rd
best university in

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and 2nd best private university.

History

UP was founded in 1967 as a

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. A group of wealthy businessmen and academics gave life to the Panamerican Institute for Executive Business Management (Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas), later they promoted the creation of a university. The Panamerican Institute of Humanities (Instituto Panamericano de Humanidades- IPH), founded in 1968, merged with the IPADE and created the Panamerican University. It was all done under the spiritual direction of

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, a personal prelature of the

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. In 1978, the IPH was given University rank and took the name Universidad Panamericana, even though the IPADE and IPH conceived from their origins the universal and unitarian knowledge. The new university began with only two programs,

Pedagogy Pedagogy (), most commonly understood as the approach to teaching, is the theory and practice of learning, and how this process influences, and is influenced by, the social, political and psychological development of learners. Pedagogy, taken as ...

and

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. During the 1970s new programs were added, including

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and

Philosophy Philosophy (from , ) is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some ...

(1970),

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

and

Business Administration Business administration, also known as business management, is the administration of a commercial enterprise. It includes all aspects of overseeing and supervising the business operations of an organization. From the point of view of management ...

(1977), and

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 ...

(1978). Further new programs were added in the 1980s and 1990s, including Electromechanic Engineering,

Accountancy Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "language ...

(1981),

Informatics Informatics is the study of computational systems, especially those for data storage and retrieval. According to ACM ''Europe and'' ''Informatics Europe'', informatics is synonymous with computer science and computing as a profession, in which ...

Marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

International Business International business refers to the trade of goods, services, technology, capital and/or knowledge across national borders and at a global or transnational scale. It involves cross-border transactions of goods and services between two or more ...

Finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

(1993), and

Medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...

(1996).

Motto and Coat of Arms

''Ubi spiritus, libertas'' (Where the spirit is, there is freedom) is the university's motto, synthesizing the educational philosophy. Love of freedom in a space where the human spirit is cultivated—love of authentic freedom. The University's arms is formed by two elements: The red square and the blue band on the golden left side, which represent the coat of arms used by

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when he landed in the

Americas The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World. Along with th ...

; they symbolize

Pan-Americanism Pan-Americanism is a movement that seeks to create, encourage, and organize relationships, associations and cooperation among the states of the Americas, through diplomatic, political, economic, and social means. History Following the indepen ...

. On the right side, on top of a golden bottom, there's an Oak, symbol of strength. Its roots are the diverse sources of integral development; the four ramifications symbolize the

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Justice Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspective ...

, Fortitude and

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; the leaves and acorns represent the rest of the virtues, which derive of the fundamental four.

Schools and Faculties

Currently, the university has 17 undergraduate academic programs, depending on 5 Schools and 3 Faculties. This includes ''Licenciaturas'' and ''Ingenierías'' (equivalent to BA,

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and

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). *School of Institutions Administration *'
School of Health Sciences
'' *'
School of Economic and Administrative Sciences
'' *School of Communication *'
Faculty of Engineering
'' *Faculty of Law *Faculty of Philosophy *Faculty of Pedagogy *Open University''

The University is also in charge of the Preparatoria Universidad Panamericana (Panamerican University Highschool), a

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with the same educational principles. It has two distinct campuses one for boys and another for girls, called Yaocalli.

Accreditations

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Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology

CENEVAL
(Centro Nacional para la Evaluación de la Educación Superior)
ENARM
(Examen Nacional de Aspirantes a Residencias Médicas)

Reputation

* Ranke
3rd
best university in

* 2nd best private university in

3rd
best private university in Mexico by

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in LatinAmerica. For more information see the IPADE Rankings.

International Programs

For several years, the university has offered several exchange agreements with the following universities (among others): *Fachhochschule

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University of Westminster , mottoeng = The Lord is our Strength , type = Public , established = 1838: Royal Polytechnic Institution 1891: Polytechnic-Regent Street 1970: Polytechnic of Central London 1992: University of Westminster , endowment = £5.1 million ...

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Faculty

Carlos Abascal Carlos María Abascal Carranza (June 14, 1949 – December 2, 2008) was a Mexican lawyer and the Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of Vicente Fox. He is the son of the writer Salvador Abascal, famous for his synarchist ideas. Biograp ...

Miguel Alessio Robles Miguel Alessio Robles is a lawyer, notary public, public official, and professor in law in Mexico. He received his law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho and has been a registered notary public in Mexico City since 1988. Specializing in comme ...

* Sergio Salvador Aguirre Anguiano

Notable alumni

;Politicians *

Enrique Peña Nieto Enrique Peña Nieto (; born 20 July 1966), commonly referred to by his initials EPN, is a Mexican politician who served as the 64th president of Mexico from 1 December 2012 to 30 November 2018. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party ...

(L.L.B.), 57th

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(2012-2018) *

Miguel Alonso Reyes Miguel Alejandro Alonso Reyes (born September 20, 1971) is a Mexican politician member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and former governor of Zacatecas. Early career Miguel Alonso Reyes coursed his basic education in the city of ...

(L.L.B.),

Governor of Zacatecas The governor of Zacatecas (Spanish: Gobernador Constitucional del Estado de Zacatecas) wields executive power in the State of Zacatecas. The governor is directly elected by the citizens, using secret ballot, to a six-year term with no possibilit ...

(2010-) * César Nava Vázquez (L.L.B.), President of the National Action Party (2009-2010);

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for Mexico City (2009-2012); Personal Secretary to the President (2006-2008) ;Academic *

Hector Zagal Héctor Jesús Zagal Arreguín is a Mexican philosopher, essayist, novelist, and associate member of Opus Dei. As a scholar he specializes in Aristotle. Academic career Zagal has written books on ecology, ethics, Aristotle,Honoris Causa An honorary degree is an academic degree for which a university (or other degree-awarding institution) has waived all of the usual requirements. It is also known by the Latin phrases ''honoris causa'' ("for the sake of the honour") or ''ad hono ...

'' degrees awarded by the UP include: *

Kim B. Clark Kim Bryce Clark (born March 20, 1949) is an American scholar, educator, and religious leader who has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since April 2015, and was the church's seventeenth Com ...

, American economist

Affiliated schools

Universidad Panamericana Preparatoria Universidad Panamericana Preparatoria (Preparatoria UP or prepaUP) is a private senior high school in Mexico City, affiliated with Universidad Panamericana. It has separate campuses for girls and boys. The Campus Yaocalli (Centro Escolar Yaocalli) ...

(senior high school)

Controversy

Mexican journalist

Carmen Aristegui María del Carmen Aristegui Flores (; born January 18, 1964) is a Mexican journalist and anchorwoman. She is widely regarded as one of Mexico's leading journalists and opinion leaders, and is best known for her critical investigations of the Mex ...

published a series of reports on alleged plagiarism found in the thesis entitled "The Mexican presidentialism and Alvaro Obregon" from the current President of Mexico

, to obtain a degree in law at Panamerican University. The university informed their community that a group of "distinguished members" would make an analysis of this thesis and issued an institutional statement dated August 28 informing that the graduating procedure of

complied with the requirements back in the year 1991 and the thesis of his own presents both original ideas and ideas from other authors treated in five different ways: * Textual fragment reproduction of previously published works according to academic standards * Textual fragment reproduction without quotes or footer section of the literature * Support Reproductions in which there is no quoted footnote reference but in the reference section * Textual reproduction in which credit is given to the author of ambiguous or imprecise manner * Cases in which credit is given to the original author, but not the source from which the quotation was taken In the same statement the Law Faculty reports that proceeded to search rules that allow a proper response to a discovery of this nature and concluded that: # This was an unprecedented case in which there are no provisions in the applicable regulatory bodies titration procedure, a technical consultation to the National Autonomous University of Mexico was asked to confirm in writing this criterion # The General Regulations from that institution does not apply to former students # It is a consummated act on which it is impossible to proceed in any way

References

External links

Official website in Spanish
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