National Autonomous University of Mexico

The National Autonomous University of Mexico

Undergraduate studies

UNAM is organized into faculties, (Spanish: facultades). Each faculty offers several bachelor degrees, as well as courses for graduate studies. Each faculty is further divided into departments, each of which group together professors from a single knowledge area. Departments are internal to each faculty. This results in having multiple different departments in the same subject but in different faculties.

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Several faculties are physically located at the main campus, University City (Spanish: Ciudad Universitaria, CU) in Coyoacán, while others are scattered around other parts of Mexico City. Some of UNAM's research institutes outside Mexico City (like the Center for Genomic Sciences, in Cuernavaca) also offer undergraduate courses.

Related Topics:
Ciudad Universitaria - Coyoacán - Cuernavaca

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List of Faculties

• Architecture
• Science
• Social and Political Sciences
• Accounting and Management
• Law
• Economics
• Philosophy and Literature
• Engineering
• Medicine
• Veterinary and Zootechnics
• Dentistry
• Psychology
• Chemistry
• Plastic Arts
• Nursing
• Music
• Social Work

There are also five campuses (Aragón, Acatlán, Cuautitlán, Iztacala, Zaragoza) which call themselves Facultades (Faculties) and which offer several degrees in different areas.

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Currently a total of 23 bachelor degrees are offered at UNAM. Many of these are not offered elsewhere in Mexico, thus attracting a number of students from outside Mexico City, for whom no accommodation is provided by UNAM.

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Foreign students are able to enroll in any bachelor program, provided that they pass a Spanish-language proficiency test. A special school, called the Center of Teaching for Foreigners (CEPE), is available, where foreign students are taught Spanish and introduced to the Mexican academic system.

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