Universidad Tecnológica de México

The Universidad Tecnológica de México (UNITEC) (Technological University of México) is a private university located in Mexico City, with campuses in the states of Guanajuato, Jalisco, México, and Querétaro. It offers high school, bachelor, and postgraduate programs. Ignacio Guerra Pellegaud founded it in 1966 and since 2008 is part of the Laureate International Universities Network. The UNITEC has 10 campuses: Cuitláhuac, Marina and Sur in Mexico City; Atizapán, Ecatepec, Los Reyes, and Toluca in the State of Mexico; Leon in the State of Guanajuato; Guadalajara in the State of Jalisco; and Querétaro in the State of Querétaro. Additionally, it has an Online Campus. UNITEC's total enrollment is higher than 90,000; more than 64,000 students are concentrated in the campuses of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, which makes it the largest private university in this country region.

History

Before Laureate

UNITEC was founded in 1966 by a group of Mexican entrepreneurs committed to the development and progress of the country. Its activities began with the bachelor's degrees of Business Administration and Public Accounting

Marina Campus (Mexico City)

In 1968, the first campus of the university was opened in the building located, up to this day, in Avenida Marina Nacional 162, Col. Anáhuac I Sección, 11320 Ciudad de México, which is now part of the Marina-Cuitláhuac Campus.

In 1975 started teaching the bachelor's degrees of Business administration, Marketing, Finance and Economics, consolidating the Economic-Administrative Sciences area; a year later the Postgraduate Studies Division was created, teaching postgraduate specializations of Marketing, Human resources Administration, Financial Administration and Industrial Operations.

Dentistry Clinic

In 1970 the bachelor's degree in Dental Surgeon was created, a program that gives distinction to the university. This year UNITEC had also de first generation of graduates.

In 2003, the new Dentistry Clinic was inaugurated whose facilities are nowadays a vanguard model in dental technology and education. With this infrastructure and through its service to the community, it offers diagnostic, emergency, and radiology services; as well as surgical, reconstructive, and rehabilitation care; and pediatric care, endodontics and orthodontics.

To perform dental care, an instructor supervises every five students. As part of the preparation of the students, from the first semester students practice with artificial teeth, models and simulators. During the second semester, they make inroads in the Dentistry Clinic, performing cleaning and prophylaxis. In the third semester, they extend the practice in the endodontics and the dental surgery to perform cavities. From the sixth semester, they have access to the comprehensive clinic.

The Faculty of Dentistry was the first private university to obtain certification from the National Council of Dental Education (CONAEDO) by exceeding the necessary academic and clinical standards.

Cuitláhuac Campus (Mexico City)

This campus opened in 1990, in street Norte 67, San Salvador Xochimanca neighborhood. By 1994, its facilities were completed in their entirety with six buildings. With this campus, it establishes for the first time the School of Engineering with the bachelor's degrees of Civil Engineering, Electrical engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemical engineering, as well as Architecture and Graphic design. At the same time, the high school program was reopened. In January and September 1992, it was added the Computer Systems Engineering and the bachelor's degree of Administrative Computing.

Rectors and chief executive officers

Rectors

• Ignacio Guerra Pellegaud (1966–1994)
• Manuel Campuzano Treviño (1994–2002)
• Raúl Méndez Segura (2003–2008)
• Manuel Campuzano Treviño (2008–2017)
• Alejandro Montano Durán (January 2018 – to date)

Chief Executive Officers

• Manuel Campuzano Treviño (2008 – November 2017)
• Milton Da Rocha Camargo (November 2017 – December 2018)
• Gerardo Santiago Cuetos (January 2019 – to date)

Academic programs offer and Delivery models

Nowadays UNITEC offer three academic delivery models: Traditional, Working-adult (executive) and On-line. It includes 60 academic programs in high school, bachelor's degrees, and postgraduate degrees.

High school programs

High school

Administration and Social Sciences Area

• Business Administration
• Communication and Management of Entertainment Enterprises
• Tourism Business Management
• Communication Sciences
• International Business
• Communication and Media
• Public Accounting
• Public Accounting and Finance
• Law
• Economics
• Finance
• Marketing
• Publicity and Digital Marketing
• International Business
• Pedagogy
• Publicity and Media
• International Relations

Architecture and Design Area

• Architecture
• Graphic Design
• Industrial Design
• Design, Animation and Digital Art
• Digital Design and Animation

Engineering Area

• Information Technology Management Engineering
• Environmental and Sustainability Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Business Management Engineering
• Computer Systems Engineering
• Digital Systems and Robotics Engineering
• Software and Networks Engineering
• Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering
• Industrial Engineering and Administration
• Industrial and Systems Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mechatronics Engineering
• Chemical Engineering

Health Sciences Area

• Dentistry
• Nursing
• Physiotherapy
• Nutrition
• Psychology

International in Tourism and Gastronomy Area

International bachelor's degree in Tourism and Meetings

Bachelor's degree Gastronomy

Master Degrees

• Business Administration (MBA)
• Analytics and Business Intelligence
• Law
• Communication Management
• Project Management
• Multimedia Design
• Education
• Hearing Trials
• Migration Systems
• Psychology
• Information Technology Security
• Sustainable Business Development
• Health Organizations Management

Dentistry Postgraduate Specializations

• Endodontics
• Pediatric Dentistry
• Restoration Dentistry
• Orthodontics
• Periodontology

With these academic programs, UNITEC offers:

95 programs by academic model

450 programs-campus

Notable alumni

Eruviel Ávila Villegas - graduated from the bachelor's degree of law. Former Governor of the State of Mexico.

Business Incubator

The program promotes the creation and development of value-added companies for the university community and the public through specialized advisory services, training, mentoring and networking. It mainly serves intermediate and traditional technology projects. It also has the certification of the Ministry of Economy and the National Institute of the Entrepreneur (INADEM) as a Basic Incubators Network. It consists of five incubators located in the Atizapán, Ecatepec, Toluca, Sur and Cuitláhuac campuses. With the support of this network, 80% of the businesses created remain with commercial activities after the first two years of operation, creating sources of employment and offering effective solutions to different problems in the country.

James McGuire International contest

Since 2012, the business incubator has supported innovative projects whose participants have won the James McGuire Entrepreneurship Contest, which is an international-level competition open to all institutions of the Laureate University Network, and it is intended to support students to realize their business projects. Some of the projects that have won this contest are shown in the following illustration.

Labor Liaison Center

The Labor Liaison Center of UNITEC offers a set of services to promote the insertion of students and graduates in the labor environment:

Students are offered:

• Access to part-time vacancies in the mornings or in the afternoons (for students in terms 1–4)
• Access to vacancies where they can start their professional experience (for students in terms 5 to 9)
• Access to the online work exchange (for advanced students and new graduates)
• Work orientation workshops
• Access to face-to-face job fairs
• Access to virtual job fairs
• Interview simulations
• Review of curriculum vitae

In each campus, there is a Labor Liaison Center where the students receive support:

• From a specialized advisor
• To develop an effective strategy in the job search
• To establish a direct link with the world of work

Additionally, from the campus, the student or graduate can visit the in-plants of talent management companies, such as Adecco, Manpower, Superchamba, OCC, ANIQ, and Compañia de Talento y Probecarios.

Social Mobility and Employability

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, carried out a study on the employability and social mobility of graduates for UNITEC in 2014 and 2015. The results show the following:

• The employment rate for UNITEC students is 92%, being 5.7 points higher than other private universities
• UNITEC students are hired in their first job in less time once graduated: 4.2 vs. 8.1 months of other private universities
• The labor benefits of UNITEC students are better than other public and private universities
• 27% of UNITEC students have been promoted to managerial positions vs. 18% of the other universities

38% of UNITEC students have recently been promoted in their jobs vs. 21% from other private universities.

The percentage of UNITEC graduates who have experienced positive changes in their socioeconomic level is 30 points higher than that of other private universities (41% vs. 11%).

72% of the graduates of UNITEC express positive changes in the prestige offered by their profession with respect to their parents' occupation. 62% from other private universities.

The IPSOS market research company carried out a Study of Graduates in 2015, which yielded the following results:

• 9 out of 10 worked on what they studied
• 95% have professional work
• Earn 29% more than the national average

Accreditations

Institutional Accreditation (FIMPES)

The Mexican Federation of Private Institutions for Higher Education (Federación Mexicana de Instituciones Particulares de Educación Superior, FIMPES), is a group of particular Mexican institutions that has the purpose of improving communications and collaboration between them. It currently affiliates 109 universities across the country. FIMPES provide accreditations to educational institutions that meet quality standards that guarantee the education of professionals who graduate from them.

The accreditation is related to the improvement of the educational quality in Mexico and with the guarantee that the accredited institutions meet the established standards. This means that the institution has a relevant mission to the context of higher education, and that it has enough resources, programs and services to comply with it.

UNITEC has obtained the highest level of institutional accreditation by FIMPES in 2000, repeated the same accreditation level in 2006 and in 2015. This last accreditation ends in 2022.

Accreditation Council for Higher Education (COPAES)

The Accreditation Council for Higher Education (COPAES) is a non-profit civil association that acts as the only instance authorized by the Federal Government through the Ministry of Public Education (Secretaria de Educación Pública, SEP), to confer formal recognition and supervise organizations whose purpose is to accredit undergraduate academic programs that are taught in Mexico, in any of its modalities (traditional, on-line and blended).

At present, UNITEC has 49 programs-campus accredited with seven institutions recognized by COPAES, as is shown in the following table.

UNITEC ranked 14 th nationally among 408 public and private institutions with the highest number of programs-campus accredited by COPAES, and 5 th place in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.

Reported results by National Center of Higher Education Evaluation (CENEVAL)

UNITEC presents superior results to the national average in the levels of satisfactory and outstanding performance of the General Exit Exam (EGEL) of CENEVAL, since 2007.

UNITEC is the 4th university in Mexico with the greatest number of registered programs in EGEL (General Exit Exam) High Performance bachelor's degrees Registry of CENEVAL, with 42 programs-campus from July 2016 – to June 2017.

In the period January–June 2018, UNITEC was ranked 1st in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area and in 3rd position among the first 25 public and private universities nationwide with the largest number of students who received the CENEVAL Award to EGEL Excellence Performance.

Recognition of the Ministry of Public Education (Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP)

In September 2002, the UNITEC undergraduate programs received the certificate of enrollment in the Administrative Simplification Program and the Academic Excellence Plans and Programs Registry by the Ministry of Public Education.

QS Stars Rating

The QS Stars ranking is a methodology of Quacquarelli Symond (leading provider of information and solutions for higher education at the global academic of quality assessment) that classifies 2 thousand higher education institutions in 50 countries.

UNITEC has five stars in the following categories:

• Employability
• Teaching
• Online education
• Social responsibility

UNITEC is the first university in Mexico with five QS stars in the online education category.

Quality certification ISO 9001:2015

UNITEC obtained certification in ISO 9001:2015 for the period 2019–2022 in the process of recruitment, selection, and contracting faculty, granted by the Mexican Institute of Standardization and Certification (Instituto Mexicano de Normalización y Certificación A.C., IMNC).

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