UNAM tuition increases with budget ups and downs

Over the past 22 years, enrollment has been to National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) grew by 52.3% in a period of budget ups and downs.

According to information from this university, the largest increase occurred in bachelor’s degree programs Open system of university and distance education (SUAyED), where enrollment has almost multiplied by eight. Meanwhile, in the graduate course, enrollment increased by 88.5%.

The company was founded on September 22, 1910 UNAM Today it has 373,340 students, in the 2022-2023 school year, of which 32,550 are graduate students; 233,260 for undergraduate studies; 106,863 in matriculation and 667 in technical and preparatory studies Faculty of Music.

In the 1999-2000 school year, the school population was 255,226 students.

This year, the budget is 52,728 million pesos, of which 61.5% goes to teaching; 26.4% for research, 7.5% for university extension and 4.6% for institutional management.

Between 2001 and 2016, the growth rate of the total budget of UNAM was 70.3%, while the enrollment growth rate was 41.3%.

Along those lines, and despite 90% of the university’s spending component being federal grants, there was a 4.7% decline in the university’s budget in real terms from 2016 to 2023, even as the enrollment growth rate increased by 7.8 percent.

The new rector, Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas, has highlighted in recent weeks the fact that important sources of funding have been canceled, such as trusts like the one managed by Conacyt and other types of agreements that have been made with the federal government.

From 2016 to 2023, the federal subsidy decreased by 3.8 percent. During this period, the growth rate of own income decreased by 28 percent.

He said that Federal spending on science and technology has been reduced Since 2016, it has been influencing the development of research projects and postgraduate scholarships.

UNAM has a teaching staff consisting of 42,190 academics, of which 12,525 are full-time, it also offers 42 postgraduate programs with 95 master’s and doctoral study plans; 42 specialization programs with 268 specializations; 133 bachelor’s degrees with 241 educational options; 42 career or technical field trips and three high school study plans.

This university consists of 16 faculties, five multidisciplinary units and nine national colleges; nine campuses National Preparatory School; five campuses College of Natural Sciences and Humanitiesas well as 35 institutes, 14 centers and 13 university programs.

Currently, 95% of HQ courses are accredited or in the process of being accredited, and 86% of postgraduate courses are in National Postgraduate Quality System.

In the 2021-2022 cycle, it registered 30,735 high school graduates and 34,221 bachelor’s degrees; 30,830 holders of bachelor’s degrees (in 2022), 82.5% through options other than traditional diploma or dissertation and professional examinations, and registered 9,183 specialists, masters and doctoral graduates (in 2022).

diego.badillo@eleconomista.mx

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