| Interdisciplinary Professional Unit on Engineering and Advanced Technologies | |
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| Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas | |
Entrance to UPIITA |
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| Established | 16 July 1997[1] |
| Type | Public |
| Dean | Gerardo Alejandro Valentino Orozco[2] |
| Director | Arodí Rafael Carvallo Domínguez |
| Location | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Nickname | UPIITA |
| Affiliations | ANFEI[3] |
| Website | www.upiita.ipn.mx |
The Interdisciplinary Professional Unit on Engineering and Advanced Technologies (in Spanish: Unidad Profesional Interdisciplinaria en Ingeniería y Tecnologías Avanzadas or UPIITA) is one of the schools of the National Polytechnic Institute located in Mexico City, Mexico. It offers undergraduate studies in:
UPIITA is currently the most demanded engineering school in Mexico, thousands of students try to apply (through a test) for this school, but only a few hundreds (around 300) are accepted, the quality of the education is quite high, most teachers work in scientific research and there's a large number of foreign teachers from all around the world , originally, UPIITA was meant to hold a larger number of students, but since 75% of students quit before the 3rd semester, (because of the high level knowledge needed) most classrooms were turned to technology labs.
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