Michoacan University of Saint Nicholas of Hidalgo (UMSNH) is a
public university
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in
Morelia
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,
Michoacán
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,
Mexico
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, and the oldest institution of higher education in the Americas. The University grants
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,
economics
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computer science
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medicine
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,
architecture
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, and
dentistry
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degrees, plus several other additional
fields of study
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, mainly in Humanities, Science and Arts.
History
The Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH) is the institution of higher education with the longest tradition in the state of
Michoacán
Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Purépecha: ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Michoacán de Ocampo ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo), is one of the 32 states which comprise the Federal Entities of ...
and one of the oldest in the
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. Its historical background dates back to
1540
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Events
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, the year in which
Don Vasco de Quiroga founded the College of San Nicolás Obispo in the city of
Pátzcuaro
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, with the purpose of training priests to help him in the
evangelization
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of the natives of the vast territory under the
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.
During his episcopal administration,
Vasco de Quiroga
Vasco de Quiroga (1470/78 – 14 March 1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán, Mexico, and one of the judges (''oidores'') in the second Real Audiencia of Mexico – the high court that governed New Spain – from January 10, 1531, to April 16, ...
showed special concern for consolidating the incipient educational institution. Thanks to his negotiations, on May 1,
1543,
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issued a royal certificate in which he agreed to assume the patronage of the college, for which, as of that date, it was called the Royal College of San Nicolás Obispo. .
In
1566, by means of a "royal execution" it was arranged that, in the name of the Spanish monarch, the ecclesiastical council exercised the administration of the Quiroguiano campus. Faced with the demands of the post-Tridentine Church, to impart a new orientation to the formation of priests, in
1574
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the chapter decided to transfer academic responsibility to the meritorious
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Change of venue
In
1580
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, due to the change of the episcopal residence from
Pátzcuaro
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to
Valladolid
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, the Royal College of San Nicolás Obispo was also moved, where it merged with the College of San Miguel Guayangareo. The new
cathedral
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headquarters
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represented a great advance for the strengthening of the bishopric of
Michoacán
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. However, the training of priests continued without responding to the demands of the Council of Tridentine, widely reaffirmed during the Third Mexican Provincial Council of
1585.
To solve this deficiency, from 1590, the fourth bishop of
Michoacán
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, Fray Alonso Guerra, insisted on converting the college into a
Tridentine Seminary. Within the ecclesiastical council, this initiative found strong opposition, considering that, if the proposal was accepted, the founding objectives of the campus would be contravened. Upon the death of Bishop Guerra, it fell to his successor, Fray Domingo de Ulloa, to receive – on October 17,
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– from
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a bull in which, taking advantage of the infrastructure of San Nicolás, he ordered the establishment of a Council Seminary.
The council's reaction was immediate: in open contempt, by legal means it undertook an energetic defense that involved the civil and ecclesiastical authorities of
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in a confrontation that would last until the year
1610, when
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he reversed his predecessor's order.
However, during that time the Colegio de San Nicolás regularly maintained its activities, without incorporating transcendental changes in its classrooms, where essentials were taught to attend the
religious
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services of the Spanish and
evangelize
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the
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. Concerned as the
Valladolid
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society was in consolidating itself, it was little interested in its instructional institutions reaching the development of the European ones. The affirmation of the colonial project must have been necessary for the Creoles to feel the need to match their knowledge to that which was in vogue in the Spanish cloisters.
Viceroyalty
Consequently, at the end of the
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, the Colegio de San Nicolás undertook a profound reform of its regulations and constitutions, which served as the basis for modifying the study plan of the beginning of the 18th century, in which, among other disciplines, they included the subjects of
Philosophy
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,
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and
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By royal decree of November 23,
1797
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, San Nicolás was granted the privilege of incorporating the chairs of Civil Law and Canon Law into his teaching.
It can be affirmed that at the beginning of the 19th century the campus was going through the most solid stage of its existence. Everything seemed to indicate that in the
New Spain
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intellectual world he was embarking on an ascending career. However, the consequences of the independence movement, led by a select group of Nicolaita
teacher
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s and
student
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s, including
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
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,
José María Morelos
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, José Sixto Verduzco, José María Izazaga and
Ignacio López Rayón
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, led the government to Viceregal decided to close it.
Independent Mexico
Once
Mexican independence
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was achieved, the main concern of the new government focused on national reorganization based on a new project in which, for the first time on this soil, within the priority items, public education was considered. In this way, the actions aimed at the reopening of the campus began during the decade of the
1920s
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. After a long and painful negotiation between the Church and the State, on October 21,
1845
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, the ecclesiastical chapter ceded the patronage of the campus to the
Michoacán
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Subdirectorate Board of Studies.
Provided with this legal basis, on January 17 in
1847
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* January 4 – Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the U.S. government.
* January 13 – The Treaty of Cahuenga ends fighting in the Mexican–American War in California.
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, Governor
Melchor Ocampo
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proceeded to reopen it, under the name of Primitivo y Nacional Colegio de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. This marked the beginning of a new stage in the existence of the institution.
In the second half of the 19th century,
chemistry
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,
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,
cosmography
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mathematics
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and
biology
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burst into Nicolaitan
classroom
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s.
Laboratories
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and
libraries
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were enriched by important acquisitions made by the
Michoacan government in European countries, while their heritage increased through donations conferred by the state executive from secularized assets to
Michoacan temple
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s and
convent
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s. The winds of renewal that spread throughout the state during those years were carriers of solid foundations for the creation of a
university
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in
Michoacán
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.
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This project was consolidated with the triumph of the
Mexican Revolution
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when, a few days after the
Michoacán
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government took office, the engineer
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
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adopted the initiative, and on October 15,
1917
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, he managed to establish, with the characteristic of
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, the Michoacan University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo, made up of the College of San Nicolás de Hidalgo, the schools of Arts and Crafts, Industrial and Commercial for young ladies, Superior of Commerce and Administration, Normal for
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s, Normal for
teacher
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s,
Medicine
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and
Jurisprudence
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, in addition to the
Public Library
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There are ...
, the Michoacan Museum, the Museum of Independence and the State
Meteorological Observatory.
As members of the first
University Council, the directors of each campus were appointed; as rector, the engineer
Agustín Aragón, who a few days later, for not accepting the constitutional protest to which the members of Congress forced him, resigned from his position. Faced with this setback, the nascent institution was adrift, until, in
1918
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, Dr. Alberto Oviedo Mota was appointed as the person in charge of initiating university activities.
The following year, Congress appointed Professor José Jara Peregrina as rector, who also promoted actions aimed at consolidating the university. Of these, the Constitutive Law and the creation of the first budget item stand out, which allowed it to correct the pressing needs. In
1920
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, according to the opinion of Governor Francisco J. Múgica, the university continued "as a group of schools that were independent of each other."
To remedy this abnormality, General Múgica modified the Constitutive Law and appointed new authorities. Ignacio Chávez, a young doctor from
Michoacán
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recently graduated from the National University School of
Medicine
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, occupied the rectory.
During his administration, profound academic and administrative reforms were undertaken, which included modifications to the study plans and programs of all schools.
Medicine
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was the most favored, as the new rector incorporated a host of
Michoacán
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doctors into his teaching staff: his colleagues Salvador González Herrejón, Adolfo Arreguín Vidales and Manuel Martínez Báez, in addition to Ignacio Chávez himself, who promoted a momentous turn to medical teaching in Michoacán.
Annually, the university awards the Father of the Nation Award to the students with the best average.
Shield
The university coat of arms is made up of elements from the coat of arms of the Quiroga family, which Don Vasco bequeathed to the college he founded, which mean: "Given in harmony, under the shadow of religion, fraternally united towards the light of knowledge and teaching, in peace and in victory, under the universality of science and humanities".
In
1917
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, when the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo was founded, the new institution adopted the shield of the College, with which it sealed the official papers until 1919. From then on, the previous inscription was replaced by that of Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. . Morelia. This delay is easy to explain, since from that year the institution begins its academic activities regularly.
When Dr. Ignacio Chávez was rector, in
1921
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, a substantial transformation occurred in the coat of arms, by which the edges of the plaque were perfected, which remained divided into four quarters. In the first, the six dice appear arranged in two suits. In the first pair one and four points can be seen; in the second, two and five; in the third, three and six. In the second quarter is the flowered cross. In the third the five clubs appear, and in the lower left a mount added to a cypress in a straight position, ending in the lower part with a "spear point". Above and in front, the wide-brimmed episcopal hat and the episcopal pretensions embracing the plaque are preserved, which balance the graphic elements. The double circle takes a breath and opens to become a ribbon, supported by two lighted torches bearing the inscription UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLAS DE HIDALGO. Two crossed branches finish off the bottom: one of laurel; the other, olive. It is necessary to consider that they are not clubs if these figures represent a harmonica, and it reads as follows: Dice, harmonica, a tree with a shadow and the cross, now if the symbols coincide, given to harmony under the shadow of the religion. The description of the symbol made by Rodolfo Jiménez Avalos, approximately in
1970
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on a visit to the City of
Quiroga.
In this regard, Chávez informs that he chose that shield for the nascent university based on the quartered family crest of its illustrious founder: Don Vasco de Quiroga. He only added the border that crowns it, where the name of the university is read, supported by two lit torches, related to
science
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and
humanistic culture. It is necessary to point out that, although Dr. Chávez makes this brief description of the shield, he says nothing about the colors, which, as has been mentioned, were red, green, white and gold.
This shield was preserved for a long time. In the sixties the third barracks was deformed: the five clubs were transformed into as many figures that resemble bowling pins.
Schools and colleges
Nicolaita Baccalaureate
The Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo has seven preparatory schools or high schools:
Primitive and National College of San Nicolás de Hidalgo, High school
Ing. Pascual Ortiz Rubio, High School
Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon, High School
Isaac Arriaga, High School
Melchor Ocampo
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, High School
Eduardo Ruiz, High School (
Uruapan
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)
General Lázaro Cárdenas, High School (
Uruapan
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These schools provide the education needed to begin study for a bachelor's degree. On June 21, 1990, the University Council approved a reform to the baccalaureate that is taught at this university. From that date it is studied in three years, divided into two phases: a) common core, lasting two years, and b) propaedeutic course, so that the student chooses one of the following areas:
Engineering and architecture
Chemical-Biological Sciences
Economic-Administrative Sciences
Historical-Social Sciences
In addition, two of 20 optional subjects are chosen, according to the area and semester studied.
Bachelor's degrees
Engineering Division:
Faculty of
Chemical Engineering
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Faculty of
Electrical Engineering
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Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering
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Faculty of
Civil Engineering
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Faculty of
Wood Technology Engineering
architecture facuilty
Division of Sciences and Humanities:
Faculty of
Physical-Mathematical Sciences "Mat. Luis Manuel Rivera Gutiérrez"
Faculty of
Biology
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Faculty of
History
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UMSNH "Uandascuaro"
Faculty of
Philosophy
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Dr. Samuel Ramos M.
Letters faculty
Arts Division:
Popular Faculty of
Fine Arts
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Division of Administrative and Social Sciences:
Faculty of
Accounting and Administrative Sciences
Faculty of Law and Social Sciences
Faculty of
Economics
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"Vasco de Quiroga"
Health Sciences Division:
Faculty of Medical and Biological Sciences "Dr. Ignacio Chávez"
Faculty of
Dentistry
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College
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of
Nursing
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Faculty of
Public Health and Nursing
Faculty of
Chemical Pharmacobiology
Faculty of
Psychology
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Agricultural Sciences Division:
Faculty of
Agricultural Business Administration (
Apatzingán
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Faculty of
Agrobiology (
Uruapan
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Faculty of
veterinary medicine and zootechnics
Faculty of
Biotechnology
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Professional Units:
Hidalgo City Professional Unit
Lázaro Cárdenas Professional Unit
Professional Unit of Balsas Huetamo de Núñez
Postgraduate
Institutes:
Chemical-Biological Research
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Institute
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Metallurgy and Materials Research
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Institute
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Historical
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Research
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Institute
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Institute
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of
Physics and Mathematics
Agricultural and Forestry Research
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Institute
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Natural Resources
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Research
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Institute
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Institute
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of
Economic and Business Research
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Institute
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of
Philosophical
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Research
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"Luis Villoro"
Earth Sciences
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Research
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Institute
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Currently, one of the main strengths is the
Postgraduate
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Nicolaita, which offers more than forty master's and doctoral programs, taught in faculties and institutes, most of them recognized in the National Postgraduate Program (PNP), of the
National Council of Science and Technology
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(
Conacyt). The last postgraduate course approved by the H. University Council is the
Doctorate
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in
Philosophy
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, offered by the Samuel Ramos
Faculty of Philosophy
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and by the recently created "Luis Villoro" Philosophical Research Institute. In addition, the postgraduate course at the Universidad Michoacana is a melting pot for scientific research. As of 2014, it had 400 researchers belonging to the
National System of Researchers
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Science and technology
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), of
Conacyt.
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