XIX SIGEF Congress

The Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) is the third largest university in Mexico and the most important public institution of higher education with the largest number of academic programs in the northeast of the country

Currently, the UANL has more than 206,000 students and around 7,000 teachers. It has a presence throughout the State; Its headquarters include six university campuses: University City, Health Sciences, Mederos, Agricultural Sciences, Sabinas Hidalgo and Linares; In addition, the Cadereyta campus is being built in the eastern part of the State.

The UANL has 43 research centers, where hundreds of researchers work (951 recognized in the National System of Researchers).

The Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) was officially founded in 1933, although its origins are more remote, since as of this year there were already its Jurisprudence, Medicine and Pharmacy schools, the Escuela Normal and Colegio Civil. It would be the representatives of these institutions who would submit to the Honorable Congress of the state of Nuevo León the foundation of a shaped university, an event that would finally occur on September 25th, 1933, the date on which it began its activities with an enrollment of 1,864 students and 218 teachers.

Mission and Vision
To train competent, competitive, innovative, and socially responsible high school graduates, technicians and professionals, with full awareness of the regional, national and world environment, with principles and values, committed to sustainable, scientific, technological and cultural development. Generate timely, relevant, and significant contributions to the advancement of science, technology, innovation, humanities, and to the improvement of the level of human development in Nuevo León´s society as well as the country.

Vision 2030
The Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL) is in 2030 an international benchmark for its educational quality, inclusion, equity, generation and innovative application of knowledge with a broad sense of social responsibility that contributes and transcends the transformation and well-being of society.

 

The UANL´s School of Business

The UANL´s School of Business was founded on October 13, 1952, by a group of prominent professionals in Public Accounting. Its First Director was P.A. Ramón Cárdenas Coronado. The opening ceremony was held in the Aula Magna of the UANL: The President of the Republic was C. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Governor of the State Dr. Ignacio Morones Prieto, and Rector of the University Lic. Raúl Rangel Frias.

Our school offers four bachelor's degrees: Public Accountant, bachelor’s in business management, Bachelor’s in information technologies and Bachelor in International Business..

At the postgraduate level, he has two doctorates: in Accounting and in Philosophy with a specialty in Administration; and eleven master's degrees, which are: the Master of International Administration (in agreement with City University of Seattle); the Master in Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Master in International Business Management and Management, among others.

It currently has more than 19 thousand students, who are supported by 500 teachers, and has a physical presence with four units in the state such as: Ciudad Universitaria, Sabinas, Linares and Cadereyta.

Mission
Train professionals in the field of business, who contribute to the socio-economic development of the region and the country through quality educational programs that provide the students with the critical skills to function in global settings, as well as strengthening research aimed at generating knowledge in our disciplines, and cultivating in the community the innovative, ethical and socially responsible spirit.

Vision
To be in 2020 the business school with the greatest influence in the region due to the quality of its educational programs, with national and international recognition and accreditation, through research and innovation in the areas of knowledge that ensure that our graduates are promoters of the development of the environment in which they work.