,
Aulas I, and the towers of the Center of Advanced Production Technology (CETEC), which house several research centers Academically, the university is organized into several departments and divisions —as opposed to the traditional
faculty school scheme used by most Mexican public universities— and it was the first Mexican university in history to divide the academic year in
semesters. Current academic calendar for both high school and undergraduate students is composed of two semesters running from August to December and from January to May (each lasting 16 weeks) and an optional summer session from June to July, where at most two courses can be taken in an intensive basis. , the institute offers 57 undergraduate degrees, of which 37 are taught in English and are generally awarded after nine semesters of study (except for
Medicine and
Architecture); However, each campus is free to request additional requirements; such as a grade average of 80 or 90 in high school (on a 100-point scale) for those willing to transfer or apply to the Monterrey Campus. As for the graduate schools, the requirements may vary according to the discipline, such as a grade average of 80/100 and 550-points in both the
GMAT and the
TOEFL for some programs at its Graduate Business School (EGADE).
Accreditations Studies at the institute are officially accredited by the
Secretariat of Public Education of Mexico (
Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP) and by the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) of the United States. In November 2008, its graduate business school (
EGADE) became one of the 34
business schools in the world to hold simultaneous accreditation of its programs by the
AACSB of the United States, the
Association of MBAs of the
United Kingdom and the
European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) while the Institute became the first
Latin American university in history to receive full-accreditation on some of its engineering programs by
ABET (as opposed to the traditional
substantially-equivalent designation given to most schools outside the United States). The quality of its programs is also audited by the
Institute of Food Technologists, the
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and by the national accrediting councils of Mexico, such as the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (
Consejo para la Acreditación de la Educación Superior, COPAES) and the Inter-Institutional Committees for Higher Education Evaluation (
Comités Interinstitucionales de Evaluación de la Educación Superior, CIEES). , 169 undergraduate degrees were accredited by national accrediting councils and 36 were accredited by international accrediting agencies.— and at
Universitas 21; an international network of research-intensive universities established as an "international reference point and resource for strategic thinking on issues of global significance." It is also the only Mexican university, along the National Autonomous University of Mexico, to be enrolled at the
Association of Pacific Rim Universities, an international consortium of leading research universities including
Stanford University,
University of California, Berkeley and
Caltech. The institute was also the first
private university to become a member of the
National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education of Mexico (ANUIES) back when it was composed entirely by
public universities (1958)
Faculty The institute has over 10,000 professors at high school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels: 2,207 tenured and 7,900 associated professors, and all of them have the appropriate academic credentials to lecture at their corresponding academic level according to the
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Libraries The institute has at least thirty-three libraries in twenty-five Mexican cities holding over 2.4 million
books, publications, and 46 types of
electronic databases with at least 51,000 specialized magazines and
academic journals and over 9000
e-books. Its
Cervantean Library, named after
Miguel de Cervantes and located in the current rectorate, holds one of the largest collections of
Don Quixote incunabula, an original edition of ''L'
Encyclopédie'', and the
Mario Pani Archives, and other bibliographical treasures while the main library of the Monterrey Campus holds the personal collections of
archaeologist Ignacio Bernal.
Rankings , in Monterrey, Mexico. Overall, the institute is the only Mexican university besides the
National Autonomous University of Mexico to be ranked at the 2010
QS World University Rankings, in which it was classified #65 worldwide at its Employer's Review, #269 in Engineering and Information Technology, #232 in Social Sciences and #387 at its overall ranking. In the 2010
International Professional Ranking of World Universities, developed by the
École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, it ranked 224 out of 390 worldwide. Among its graduate schools,
EGADE has been ranked 7th among the best
business schools outside the
United States according to the
Wall Street Journal (2006), which is ranked 4th for graduate studies in computer science in 2008 according to
U.S. News & World Report and 7th in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences among
Shanghai Jiao Tong University's world's top 100 universities. designed the EGAP CEMEX building, which houses the Graduate School of Public Administration and Public Policy, at
San Pedro Garza García, a suburb of
Monterrey • The OneMBA degree is offered through a partnership with the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the
Rotterdam School of Management of the
Netherlands, the
Chinese University of Hong Kong and the
Getulio Vargas Foundation of
Brazil and is ranked 27 worldwide among executive MBAs by the
Financial Times. • The Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering is offered in partnership with the
Université de Technologie de Troyes in
France and with the in
Quebec, Canada. • The Global MBA for Latin American Managers is offered in partnership with the
Thunderbird School of Global Management, which has been ranked consistently by
U.S. News & World Report as the #1 school in International Management since 1995. • The
medical degree is offered as a dual Ph.D. program with the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences of the
Texas A&M Health Science Center. • An International MBA program is offered as a joint degree with the
University of San Diego. • The institute has a strategic partnership with
Johns Hopkins Hospital through
Johns Hopkins Medicine International. • The Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Global Business and Strategy (MBA-GBS) is a double degree MBA program jointly offered by the Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership (EGADE) at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, and the Belk College of Business (Belk College) at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte. • The bachelor's degrees in Chemical Engineering are offered as joint degrees with the
Reutlingen University of
Germany. • Several ITESM high schools offer the
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which is administered by the
Geneva-based
International Baccalaureate. ==Medical school==