Universidad Panamericana was founded in 1967 as a business school. The original group of scholars and business people who founded the Pan-American Institute of Top Business Management (IPADE) soon began promoting today's Universidad Panamericana. The Pan-American Institute of Humanities (IPH), the precursor to Universidad Panamericana, was founded in 1968. In 1978, I was elevated to the rank of University, and took the name Universidad Panamericana, even though both IPADE and IPH had initially conceived knowledge as being unitary and universal- that is, a university. Universidad Panamericana has four campi which give service to almost 12 thousand students in 33-degree programs. The first campus was inaugurated in Mexico City in 1968, the second in Guadalajara in 1981, and a third in Aguascalientes in 1989. Campus Santa Fe, also located in Mexico City, was inaugurated in 2011. As one University with one spirit, UP works daily on three foundational pillars: teaching, research, and culture transmission. In virtue of an agreement between the Governing Board and the Prelature of Opus Dei, Universidad Panamericana has entrusted to that Prelature the spiritual attention and doctrinal guidance of all its activities. In its few decades of life, the University has come to occupy a place as one of Mexico's top universities.
Educate persons who seek the truth and commit to it, promoting Christian humanism, contributing to building a better world.
As a university, become a global referent through academic quality, ethical formation, and a Christian view of life.
Be a university whose alumni are socially responsible and aspire to professional and personal fulfillment.
Our motto and shield identify the fundamental principles which move us as a University: "Ubi espíritus, Libertas" (Where the spirit is, there is liberty).
The University shield is made up of two key elements: a red square and a blue band that appear in the left lateral represent the coat of arms used by Christopher Columbus during America's discovery. These symbolize Pan-Americanism. On a background of gold, in the right lateral, appears an oak tree, a symbol of strength. Its roots are the different sources of an integral formation: the four ramifications symbolize the four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) the acorns and leaves represent the other virtues, derived from the first four.
The University does not turn its back on any human concern, any problem of society, or any citizen worry. The University should respond to these demands with the resources at hand: the sharing of thought, openness to dialogue, and an unceasing search for the truth. The work of scientific research synthesizes this university vocation.
The contemporary world asks the university institution- with increasing urgency- to offer creative solutions to its many problems. Only through quality applied research will the University be capable of offering these answers.
Universidad Panamericana takes its vocation for research seriously. Our principal work is, and will always be, the development of science and knowledge.
In the Buenos Aires daily Clarín, dated September 1982, Jorge Luis Borges declared: "there is a multitude of evils which overwhelm us: economic ruin, joblessness, hunger, demagogic anarchy, violence, senseless nationalism, and a generalized absence of ethics. The last of these is the worst".
As a privileged space for the sharing of thought, the university must also try to restore the ethical sense, against the inertia of an environment of deep malaise, increasingly technical and decreasingly human.
To this end, we direct our daily efforts at UP. With the individual at the center of the action, our community of students and faculty dedicate their work to this goal. As you browse our web page, you can discover a small sample of our work. Thank you for your visit. Welcome.
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