About Us
UNAM is the institution with more educative options in Mexico as well as the one receiving more students. It evaluates its study programs systematically in order to adjust to the necessities of the working dynamics, hence providing its graduates high competence levels.
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) has played a major role in the history and formation of our country. This public, autonomous and lay institution’s fundamental tasks are teaching, research and culture dissemination. It is acknowledged within the academic world as an excellence university. UNAM is a space of various freedoms where, respect, tolerance and dialogue are practiced on a daily basis. Ideas and thought plurality is appreciated as a sign of its richness and never as a weakness factor.
Numerous generations have been forged as professionals and have obtained with this condition a better life quality standard. Our graduates are leaders within the enterprise, industry, services and academic worlds. Doubtlessly, the best indicator of the good work at UNAM. The most relevant artists, humanists and scientists in the country have gone to the university classrooms. UNAM is a robust and mature institution, rigorous and pertinent in an academic manner, but, as every university, it is constantly under improvements and modernization. This is why it aspires to have the best students, academics, researchers and facilities in order to face the future of Mexico.
This is the way the National Autonomous University of Mexico confronts the present.
… And it is committed to the future!
Our Strengths
It is acknowledged within the academic world as an excellence university.
UNAM responds to the present and faces the future as the most important cultural project in Mexico.
High School
Education: Our passport
to the future.
Outstanding Academic Programs
In a wide array of disciplines.
Postgraduate, masters and PhD programs
To continue training experts.
Cutting-edge research
Focused on excellence.
A global University
International at all levels.
Open and Distance Education
Breaking borders around the world.
In the heart of Mexico
And beyond student’s life.
Our Nobel Prizes and "Príncipe de Asturias"
Alfonso García Robles
Octavio Paz
Mario Molina
Príncipe de Asturias
The Coordination of Culture Dissemination focuses its actions towards the diffusion and creation of cultural and artistic expressions in all genres, as well as scientific, technological and humanistic knowledge developed in the University.
Every high school, undergraduate and higher education campus includes sports facilities such as track and fields, gymnastics, courts, and six swimming pools, one in University City and the rest in the National Preparatory School. The University City campus is located around the Olympic University Stadium, and it has 68 training areas.
