Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla

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UPAEP was born in 1973 as a project of Puebla's society. It was first led by a group of young people who decided to make a difference and undertake a new project that could favor freedom and university autonomy. This project has crystallized as an institution committed to the search and dissemination of the truth since it wants to be congruent with Christian humanism. Thus, today, as yesterday, we are committed to educating professionals who could be a factor of change and transformation to achieve the construction of the Common Good.
Our university has understood since its foundation that in order to fulfill its mission, it is indispensable to develop an integrated educational model that is focused on the person, built on academic excellence, and permanently linked to the social issue. Thus, 96% of the enrollment in an undergraduate academic degree takes accredited programs of high quality. An Academic Council that ensures the programs' relevance with the environment's challenges and opportunities checks each program. Currently, all of UPAEP's undergraduate academic programs count on an entrepreneurial line. Our students can start to solidify their entrepreneurial project, either social or particular, to their profession. This project is shaped and strengthened at the university's incubator company called UNINCUBE. Our project's integrity is also enhanced through the multiple sportive and cultural activities as well as through the leadership and service, which are UPAEP's most essential features.
In UPAEP, we consider that the Postgraduate programs and the Research projects are essential to contribute to the Innovation that requires a severe university proposal, which may generate concrete ideas and solutions to promote the societies' integral development. Thus, our university offers a wide range of flexible and interdisciplinary postgraduate courses in all modalities (face-to-face, online, open), which have led UPAEP to occupy a privileged place in the country: today, more than one out of every hundred students, who have studied or are studying postgraduate studies in Mexico, study at UPAEP.
Our world requires university students who may act at a local level with a global perspective. UPAEP has been a pioneer in the internationalization of its university community through an intercultural vision that involves the appreciation of the national culture to share it and enrich it with other cultures. To fulfill this objective, UPAEP offers today several programs that promote student's mobility in different teaching and research programs, as well as in professional internships abroad, in addition to 84 double-degree programs at prestigious universities around the world.
Finally, it is essential to highlight that the humanistic vocation UPAEP is based on seeks the person's reassessment as an individual who assumes his/her extraordinary dignity and exercises it in his/her relationship with his/her neighbor in order to create a community. Thus, he/she could find a sense of life, seeking transcendence. This is why UPAEP calls on everyone who feels challenged by this proposal to adopt what we know in UPAEP as the 'Eagle spirit,' and to make our institutional mission alive: "Create currents of thought and train leaders who transform the society in search of the Truth by integrating the faith, science, and life."

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