UNIVERSIDAD POLITéCNICA DE URUAPAN

The creation of the Polytechnic Universities in Mexico represents a pioneering education model in the Mexican higher education system. The model of the Polytechnic Universities is made up of: its Academic Model that refers to academic characteristics and organizational design, meanwhile its Competency-Based Educational Model (MEBC) includes the characteristics of curriculum design and the teaching-learning process based on a Competency Based Education (EBC) Polytechnic Higher Education implies a... comprehensive training that prepares committed and critical men and women; It requires successful and flexible curricula and programs that offer relevant content for polytechnic professional life, that contributes to the progress of knowledge and offers options for the progress of Mexico. In order to meet the above challenges, the Federal Government and the State of Michoacán signed the Coordination Agreement for the creation, operation and financial support of the Polytechnic University of Uruapan, on March 12, 2012, which constitutes a response to the educational demand of young people in the Uruapan region, who aspire to a quality university life, which results in the training of competitive professionals with capacity, that in addition to generating alternative social projects, propitiate the adequate incorporation of the country and the state to the sustainable development, in this way on January 10, 2013, it begins operations in facilities of the UPN (National Pedagogical University), later in facilities of CONALEP,Likewise, at Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez Elementary School, finally on January 11, 2016, finally start classes at own facilities.More