Higher Education in Mexico

Mexico’s higher education system is growing to meet the needs of its people, and Mexico’s college-aged population has grown dramatically, with attendees more than doubled from 1.9 million in 2000 to approximately 4 million today. With 120 million inhabitants, Mexico operates over 231,000 schools that serve 21 million students in basic education. Its system of higher education institutions is spread out over 32 states to serve a population that speaks more than 60 languages. In a recent piece for Forbes.com, entitled “Mexico’s Growing Higher Education System,” I describe how Mexico is working to meet the needs of its people for education at all levels, including government initiatives that have created new universities, online programs like MexicoX, and multilingual education programs to meet the needs of students in states like Oaxaca and Chiapas. You can read more about this piece and the contributions that Mexico’s leading universities, such as UNAM and Monterrey Tec, are making to innovate and provide higher education for Mexico and the larger Latin American region.

Photo of the Monterrey Tec ITESM Campus Monterrey – RectoríaEl triunfo de la cultura (Jorge González Camarena), from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ITESMMonterreyRectoria03.JPG