Panamerican University
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| Motto | Ubi spiritus, libertas (Latin for: Where the spirit is, there is freedom) |
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| Type | Private, Roman Catholic |
| Established | 1967 |
| Rector | Dr. José Antonio Lozano Díez |
| Students | 16,217 (2010) |
| Undergraduates | 3,124 |
| Postgraduates | 3,917 |
| Location | Mexico City, D.F., Mexico |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www.up.edu.mx |
The Panamerican University (Spanish Universidad Panamericana), commonly known as UP, is a private Catholic university located in Mexico City. It has four main campuses, the main Mixcoac campus in Benito Juarez, southern Mexico City, two located since the summer of 2007 in Guadalajara and in Aguascalientes, and the last in Santa Fe, Mexico City, since 2009.
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 Panamerican University (Universidad Panamericana), even though the IPADE and IPH conceived from their origins the universal and unitarian knowledge.
The new university began with only two 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). Further new programs were added in the 1980s and 1990s, including Electromechanic Engineering, Accountancy (1981), Informatics, Marketing, International Business, Finance (1993), and Medicine (1996).
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