The Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas (Chiapas University of the Sciences and Arts, UNICACH) is an institution of higher education located in

Tuxtla Gutiérrez Tuxtla Gutiérrez (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Mexican southeastern state of Chiapas. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name, the most developed and populated in the state. A busy government, commercial and servi ...

Chiapas Chiapas (; Tzotzil language, Tzotzil and Tzeltal language, Tzeltal: ''Chyapas'' ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Chiapas), is one of the states that make up the Political divisions of Mexico, ...

Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

. Along with the

Tuxtla Gutierrez Institute of Technology The Tuxtla Gutierrez Institute of Technology (in Spanish, Instituto Tecnológico de Tuxtla Gutiérrez, ITTG) is a public university of technology in the city of Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. It is a public institution of higher education, p ...

, it is considered one of the two most important educational institutions in the state of Chiapas.

History

The earliest antecedent of UNICACH is the Industrial School of Chiapas, created in 1893. It became the State Arts and Crafts Institute in 1897, and in 1900, the school changed its name to the Industrial Military School. In 1944, the Sciences and Arts Institute of Chiapas (ICACH) was created, bringing secondary, preparatory and normal schools under one roof and promptly adding schools of accounting, nursing, social work, law and fine arts. In 1951, ICACH became a founding member of the National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education (ANUIES). In 1981 and 1982, ICACH took on the role of the state's institution of higher education. Promptly, new programs were added in topographical engineering, odontology, psychology, biology and nutrition. In 1989, the school added additional arts programs. On January 31, 1995, with the passing of Decree 139 by the state legislature, ICACH became the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas. That same year, the university created the Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica (CESMECA), and in 1996 new degrees in music and social psychology were added. In 2000, the school became autonomous, adding degrees in foreign commerce and history. In 2008, Roberto Domínguez Castellanos became the school's rector; he was elected in 2012 after the school's organic law was modified to permit the rector's reelection. In January 2013, UNICACH signed on a radio station,

XHUCAH-FM XHUCAH-FM is a Mexican college radio station owned by the Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas in Tuxtla Gutiérrez Tuxtla Gutiérrez (, ) is the capital and the largest city of the Mexican southeastern state of Chiapas. It is the seat ...

102.5 in Tuxtla Gutiérrez.

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