The creation of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana was a response to the increasing demand for public higher education in the
metropolitan area of Mexico City, which by those years was undergoing severe demographic changes due to a process of
conurbation that started in the early 1940s. The main idea was to cope with the demand for this service throughout the outskirts of the metropolitan area, locating the university's campus in the outlying boroughs. Following this principle, UAM Azcapotzalco was one of the first three campus built between 1974 and 1975, along with UAM Xochimilco and UAM Iztapalapa.
Undergraduate studies
UAM Azcapotzalco hosts 17 majors, lasting between 12 and 15 quarter-terms or four and five years respectively. These programs are organized in three academic divisions as follows:
Specialization in Mexican Literature of the 20th century
Specialization in Higher Education Sociology
MA in Law
MSc in Economics
MA in Contemporary Mexican Literature
MSc in Metropolitan Planning and Policies
Graduate Studies in Historiography: Specialization, MA and PhD
MSc/PhD in Economic Sciences
MA/PhD in Sociology
Graduate Studies in Historiography
Graduate Studies in Managerial Sciences
Design Sciences and Arts Division
Graduate Studies in Ecological Design
Graduate Studies in Urbanism
Graduate Studies in Product Design and Development
Graduate Studies in Information Design and Visualization
Graduate Studies in Landscape Design, Planning and Conservation
Graduate Studies in Rehabilitation, Restoration and Conservation of Tangible Heritage
Notable people
Faculty
Celso Garrido Noguera, founding member of CLACSO's (Latin American Council of Social Sciences) "Entrepreneurs and State in Latin America" project and
CEPAL collaborator[3]