UAM Azcapotzalco 4.79

UAM Azcapotzalco is one of the five campuses of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana system, one of the top three Mexican public universities. This campus is in the northern area of Mexico City, in the borough of Azcapotzalco. It is one of the three campuses built short after Mexican President Luis Echeverría decreed the foundation of UAM in 1974.HistoryThe creation of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana was a response to the increasing demand for public higher education in the metropolitan area of Mexico City, which by those years was undergoing severe demographic changes due to a process of conurbation that started in the early 1940s. The main idea was to attend the demand of this service throughout the outskirts of the metropolitan area, locating the university's campuses in the outlying boroughs. Following this principle, UAM Azcapotzalco was one of the first three campuses built between 1974 and 1975, with UAM Xochimilco and UAM Iztapalapa.Undergraduate studiesUAM Azcapotzalco hosts 17 majors, lasting between 12 and 15 quarter-terms or four and five years respectively. These programs are organized in three academic divisions as follows:Basic Sciences and Engineering Division (Spanish: División de Ciencias Básicas e Ingeniería)Environmental EngineeringCivil EngineeringComputer EngineeringElectrical EngineeringElectronics EngineeringEngineering PhysicsIndustrial EngineeringMechanical EngineeringMetallurgic EngineeringChemical Engineering