The Anáhuac Cancún University belongs to the
Anahuac University Network
The Anahuac University Network is a private universities system grouped and administered by the religious congregation of the Legion of Christ. The network is composed of several universities, some with different names and educational approaches. ...
, affiliated with the Anahuac University Network (RUA), the international education system of the
Legion of Christ, in 18 countries and serving over 100,000 students from kindergarten to graduate school.
The university's program is coordinated with those of European universities. It has foreign students, both under curricula or by an abroad program
Name
"Anáhuac" means “near the water”. The name passed on to the whole network because of the location of the first university in the network, the '"Anáhuac México Norte University" located in the area of Lomas Anáhuac in Interlomas in
Mexico City
Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...
. Symbolically, the name refers to "the lake region that gave central place at the Aztec capital: Tenochtitlán, Central America's most populous and largest cultural development, where the Mexico City now stands and in it, the university".
Motto
“Vince In Bono Malum”, or "Defeat Evil with Good".
Athletics
The school has an
American football
American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
team, the
Leones Anáhuac Cancún, which has competed in
ONEFA since 2007. They have won two conference titles in 2009 and 2019.
References
External links
University websiteUniversity official page on FacebookUniversity official page on Twitter
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Private universities and colleges in Mexico
Universities and colleges in Quintana Roo
Regnum Christi
Legion of Christ
Anahuac universities
Universidad
Educational institutions established in 2000
2000 establishments in Mexico