Universidad Panamericana Sede México

Infobox_University
name = Universidad Panamericana
motto = "Ubi spiritus, libertas"
(Latin for: Where the spirit is, there is freedom)
established = 1967
type = Private, Roman Catholic
president = Jose Manuel Núñez Pliego
endowment =
undergrad = 3,124
postgrad = 3,917
faculty =
city = Mexico City
state = D.F.
country = Mexico
campus = Urban
website = [http://www.up.mx/ up.mx]

The Universidad Panamericana (commonly known as UP, English: Panamerican University) is a private Catholic university, located in Mexico. The university's Law School is ranked as one of the nation's best.Fact|date=December 2007 The IPADE, the UP's business school, is ranked as one of the best in the worldFact|date=December 2007, having more than 15,000 Mexican and international CEOs as graduates. It is one of the three main campuses, the other two located in Guadalajara and in Aguascalientes since summer 2007.

History

UP was founded in 1967 as a business school. A group of wealthy businessmen and academics gave life to the Panamerican Institute for High Business Direction (Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas), later they promoted the creation of a university. The Panamerican Institute of Humanities (Instituto Panamericano de Humanidades- IPH), founded in 1968, merged with the IPADE and created the Panamerican University. It was all done under the spiritual direction of Opus Dei, a personal prelature of the Catholic Church.

In 1978, the IPH was given University rank and took the name Universidad Panamericana, even though the IPADE and IPH conceived from their origins the universal and unitarian knowledge.

It began with 2 programs: Pedagogy and Administration. During the 1970s new programs were added including Law and Philosophy (1970), Economics and Business Administration (1977), and Industrial Engineering (1978). New programs were added in the 80’s and 90’s including:Electromechanic Engineering, Accountancy (1981), Informatics, Marketing, International Business, Finance (1993) and Medicine (1996).

Motto and Coat of Arms

"Ubi spiritus, libertas" (Where the spirit is, there is freedom) is the university's motto, it synthesizes the educative philosophy. Love to freedom in a space where the human spirit is cultivated: therefore, love to authentic freedom.

The University's arms is formed by two elements: The red square and the blue band in the golden left side, which represent the coat of arms used by Christopher Columbus when he discovered the Americas, they simbolize Panamericanism.

In the right side, on top of a golden bottom, there's an Oak, symbol of strength. Its roots are the diverse sources of integral development; the four ramifications symbolize the Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance; the leaves and acorns represent the rest of the virtues, which derive of the fundamental four.

chools and Faculties

Currently, the university has 17 undergradutate academic programs, depending on 5 Schools and 3 Faculties. This includes Licenciaturas and Ingenierías (equivalent to BA, BSc and LLB).
*School of Institutions Administration
*School of Health Sciences
*School of Economic and Business Sciences
*School of Communication
*School of Engineering
*Faculty of Law
*Faculty of Philosophy
*Faculty of Pedagogy

The University is also in charge of the Preparatoria Universidad Panamericana (Panamerican University Preparatory), a high school with the same educational principles.

International Programs

For several years, the university has offered several exchange agreements with the following universities (among others):

*Fachhochschule Schmalkalden
*University of Navarra
*University of Westminster
*University of Exeter
*Université de Montréal
*Bond University

Faculty

:"See
*Carlos Abascal
*Leonardo Polo
*Sergio Salvador Aguirre Anguiano

Notable Alumni

:"See Politicians
*Enrique Peña Nieto, current Governor of the State of Mexico.
*César Nava Vázquez, Private Secretary of current president Felipe Calderón.

"Honoris Causa" degrees

Some of the "Honoris Causa" degrees awarded by the UP include:Alfredo Puente (Football player)
*Kim B. Clark, American economist.

External links

* [http://www.up.mx/ Official website in Spanish]