Metropolitan Autonomous University
| Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana | |
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| Motto | IN CALLI IXCAHUICOPA Esp:Casa abierta al tiempo (En:House open to time) |
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| Type | Public university system |
| Established | 1974 |
| Rector | Salvador Vega y León |
| Location | Mexico City and Greater Mexico City, D.F. and Mexico State, Mexico |
| Affiliations | ANUIES CONAHEC |
| Mascot | Black panther |
| Website | http://www.uam.mx |
The Metropolitan Autonomous University (Spanish: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana) also known as UAM, is a Mexican public university, founded in 1974, with the support of then-President Luis Echeverria Alvarez. The institution aims to be closely linked to the social and human environment, conserving at the forefront, with constant reinvention of research and higher education.
As an autonomous university is a public agency of the State (Article 3 of the Organic Law of the UAM), based on the principles of academic freedom and research, and inspired by all the currents of thought.
The institution is one of the top greater academic universities in Mexico. In 2015, the third best university in public office and fourth including private; is the second in Mexico in having a larger number of research professors with doctoral full-time, according to the (Estudio Comparativo de Universidades Mexicanas); having the second largest number of built in National and Research System (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores) the second in having researchers at Level 3 of the same researchers. One of the leading universities in Mexico to submit the highest number of research. And the second institution to have publications in refereed journals, such as the Institute for Scientific Information, Latindex and journals included in the Index of Mexican Journals of Scientific and Technological Research of the National Council of Science and Technology (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología) and the second to have magazines within the Conacyt, it is also among the top four with the largest number of patents granted in Mexico.
It has five academic units located in Mexico City and Greater Mexico City: Azcapotzalco, in north, Iztapalapa, in east, Cuajimalpa, in west, Xochimilco, in south, and Lerma in State of Mexico.
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