Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco

Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (Juárez Autonomous University of Tabasco, also known as UJAT) is a public institution of higher learning located in Villahermosa

Villahermosa

Like most of the Tabasco, Villahermosa has a tropical climate. The city specifically features a tropical monsoon climate. Temperatures during spring and summer seasons reach upwards of 40°C , with humidity levels hovering around 30% during the same period...

, Tabasco

Tabasco

Tabasco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Tabasco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 17 municipalities and its capital city is Villahermosa....

, Mexico

Mexico

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. The mission of the university

University

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is "to prepare professionals with broad and deep expertise in their area of study to fill the needs of Tabasco and the country at large." UJAT is the largest and most prominent university in the state

States of Mexico

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of Tabasco

Tabasco

. During the 2007-2008 academic year the University enrolled 35,271 students and had a teaching staff of over 2,000. For the same school year the University offered bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree

A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...

s in 36 disciplines, master's degree

Master's degree

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s in 26 areas, three doctoral degrees, and post-graduate Certificates (Especialidades) in 17 graduate

Postgraduate education

Postgraduate education involves learning and studying for degrees or other qualifications for which a first or Bachelor's degree generally is required, and is normally considered to be part of higher education...

areas of specialization (mostly in the medical field). The University grants law

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

, education

Education

Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

, management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

, engineering

Engineering

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, medicine

Medicine

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, architecture

Architecture

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, nursing

Nursing

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, and dentistry

Dentistry

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degrees, plus some 30 additional degrees in other fields of study.

Juarez Institute

The origin of the University dates back to 1860 when the governor of Tabasco, Víctor Dueñas, asked President Benito Juárez

Benito Juárez

Benito Juárez born Benito Pablo Juárez García, was a Mexican lawyer and politician of Zapotec origin from Oaxaca who served five terms as president of Mexico: 1858–1861 as interim, 1861–1865, 1865–1867, 1867–1871 and 1871–1872...

for funds to establish a secondary, preparatory, and college-level educational institution to serve the community of Tabasco; such funds were granted a year later. However, it was not until January 1, 1879 that new institution opened its doors to the public as the Instituto Juárez (Juárez Institute). This took place with the support of governor Simón Sarlat Nova and the liberal

Liberalism

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politician and writer Manuel Sánchez Mármol

Manuel Sánchez Mármol

Manuel Sánchez Mármol was a Mexican writer, journalist, lawyer, politician, and a member of the Mexican Academy of Language.-Biography:...

, who became the first director of the institution. The first enrollment consisted of less than 100 students in nine academic disciplines: agriculture, veterinary medicine, land surveying, public notary, law, management, education, jurisprudence, and pharmacy. On August 1, 1947, the Institute was admitted into the National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education (ANUIES)

ANUIES

The National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions is a non-governmental organization which includes 152 public and private higher education institutions in Mexico...

in Mexico.

Transformation into a University

The 1950s saw an interest in changing the name of the school to better reflect its focus on higher learning. "In 1958, Lic. Antonio Ocampo Ramírez, Director of the Juárez Institute, put together a bill to transform the Institute into a University. Once approved by the Tabasco State Congress, the protocolary act took place and the creation of the Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco was made official."
Antonio Ocampo Ramírez was the last director of the Institute and the first rector of the new institution." "In 1958, while General Miguel Orrico de los Llanos was the governor of Tabasco, the Juárez Institute became the Juarez University of Tabasco."

Name Change

On November 20, 1958, the Juárez Institute was renamed to Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco by a Tabasco state legislature decree. In February, 1964, Lic. Adolfo López Mateos, President of Mexico, inaugurated the Zona de la Cultura, or Cultural Zone, at the site where the University currently has its main campus on Avenida Universidad. "As a result, a significant number of the degree programs offered at the old Institute's location were moved to their new quarters."

Autonomous University

In December, 1966, while Manuel R. Mora Martínez was the governor of the State, and Dr. Miguel A. Gómez Ventura was the rector of the school, the University became an autonomous entity, "becoming then the Juárez Autonomous University of Tabasco."
"December, 1966, is a memorable date, as it was then that the university was granted its autonomy, becoming from that point forward, the Juárez Autonomous University of Tabasco."

Decentralization

In July 1966, the University started the process of decentralization with the separation of its Preparatory School

University-preparatory school

A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education...

, and the construction and inauguration of the College of Veterinary Medicine on the Villahermosa-Teapa Road. Decentralization continued in 1978 with the inauguration of facilities for the College of Law in Colonia Reforma, Villahermosa, and in 1982, with the establishment in Cunduacán of the College of Engineering and Architecture. In 2008, the University consisted of 10 divisions on 7 campuses spread over three municipalities of the State of Tabasco. There are campuses in four colonies in the Municipality of Centro in Villahermosa.

Accelerated Growth

On December 11, 1987, in light of "technological changes," the State of Tabasco passed the Organic Law of the Juarez Autonomous University of Tabasco, intended to establish a modern organizational structure at the University that could serve as the basis for dealing with the "accelerated growth" in student registration and stimulating the University to transform itself into "a center of academic excellence".

As a result, the last 20 years have seen a significant amount of growth at the University. For example, in 1997, the University started the Extension Program at facilities in the town of Tenosique. This Extension Program includes a distance learning program amongst its various other academic offerings. In 2007, the Extension Program became the College of Multidisciplinary Studies at Los Rios.

Location

The University facilities are located in mostly urban areas and follow primarily a decentralized model. The facilities are distributed over nine campuses - six in the capital city of Villahermosa

Villahermosa

and three in the town of Cunduacán

Cunduacán

Cunduacán is a municipality in the central portion of the state of Tabasco, in Mexico. It is located at about 18°4'0"North, 93°10'0"West.It is located in the Grijalva River Region, Chontalpa subregion. Its name originates from the Mayan cum-ua-cán, which means "place of corn and serpents", which is...

. There is also an Extension Program (formally, the Multidisciplinary College of los Ríos) that operates from the town of Tenosique

Tenosique

Tenosique is a town located in Tenosique Municipality in the southeastern corner of the state of Tabasco, in Mexico. Its official name is Tenosique de Pino Suárez. The town had a 2005 census population of 31,392 inhabitants , while the municipality had a population of 55,601...

. The central offices of the University, as well as its main campus, are located on Avenida Universidad, Villahermosa, and it hosts the College of Education and Arts, and the College of Economics and Management. The Colleges of Health Sciences, Life Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, and Agricultural and Fish Sciences are located at various other campuses in the city of Villahermosa. The College of Systems and Informatics, the College of Basic Sciences, and the College of Engineering and Architecture are located in Cunduacán.

In January, 2009, the University began construction of its tenth Academic Division in the town of Comalcalco

Comalcalco

Comalcalco is both a modern-day city located in Comalcalco Municipality about 45 miles northwest of Villahermosa in the Mexican state of Tabasco and a Pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site. The literal English translation of "Comalcalco" is "In the house of the comals"...

. At a starting cost of 38 million Mexican pesos, this new location will be called the Multidisciplinary Division of Comalcalco. The municipality of Comalcalco is located about 45 miles from the city of Villahermosa, and the University expects the new location to benefit some 865 students from the Chontalpa region currently enrolled at the University's other locations. Construction is expected to be completed by mid 2009 and the new facilities will consist mostly of classrooms, laboratories, and a library. Instruction will be primarily in the health sciences.

Accreditation

The University has been accredited at the nation

Nation

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al level

Level

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by the Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior http://www.anuies.mx/ ( ANUIES

ANUIES

The National Association of Universities and Higher Education Institutions is a non-governmental organization which includes 152 public and private higher education institutions in Mexico...

, National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Learning)] since August 1, 1947. The nursing

Nursing

, psychology

Psychology

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

, economics

Economics

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, management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

, public accounting, and labor relations

Labor relations

Industrial relations is a multidisciplinary field that studies the employment relationship. Industrial relations is increasingly being called employment relations because of the importance of non-industrial employment relationships. Many outsiders also equate industrial relations to labour relations...

programs are accredited at the national level by the Consejo para la Acreditación de la Educación Superior (COPAES). The program on dental surgery

Dental surgery

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is accredited nationally by the Comité de Acreditación del Consejo Nacional de Educación Odontológica (CONAEDO). The medical surgeon

Medicine

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program is accredited at the national level by the Consejo Mexicano para la Acreditación de la Educación Médica (COMAEM). The biology

Biology

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and ecology

Ecology

Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...

programs are accredited by the Comité para la Acreditacion de la Licenciatura en Biologia (CACEB).

September 11, 2008, saw the accreditation of two more academic programs in the College of Agricultural and Fish Sciences: agronomy

Agronomy

Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants for food, fuel, feed, fiber, and reclamation. Agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. Agronomy is the application of a combination of sciences like biology,...

and food engineering

Food engineering

Food engineering is a multidisciplinary field of applied physical sciences which combines science, microbiology, and engineering education for food and related industries. Food engineering includes, but is not limited to, the application of agricultural engineering, mechanical engineering and...

. These two programs received nation-wide accreditation by the Comité Mexicano de Acreditacion de la Educacion Agronomica (COMEAA). The Communications program was accredited on September 30, 2008, by the Consejo para la Acreditación de la Comunicación (CONAC). The Education

Education

program was accredited on December 11, 2009, by the Comité para la Evaluación de Programas de Pedagogía y Educación A.C. (CEPPE). The program on Architecture

Architecture

is also accredited, according to a November 3, 2009, report in the school's Juchiman periodical.

While the University as a whole is accredited by ANUIES, program-specific accreditation, when available, is sought by its Colleges. An example is the College of Basic Sciences which is currently (2008) seeking accreditation for each one of its program offerings.
The University has also created an internal commission for the self-evaluation of its post graduate programs. On January 22, 2008, the Rectory pledged to obtain accreditation for each and all of the remaining academic offerings at the university.

Institutional quality

On August 28, 2007, the University was recognized as one of the 13 best in Mexico by the Mexican Secretary of Public Education (SEP).
Just a year earlier, during the 2006-2007 academic year, the University had been recognized as one of the 16 best by the same entity. In an ATEI Informa newsbrief dated October 12, 2006, the Asociación de Televisión Educativa Iberoamericana (Association of Ibero-American Educational Television) reported that "UJAT was among the 16 best universities in the country when it received an acknowledgement to that effect granted by the Secretary for Public Education." This recognition was made "for offering 22 educational programs to 79 percent of its student body that ranked at Level 1 of the Comités Interinstitucionales para la Evaluación de la Educación Superior (CIEES), plus two other granted by national-level accrediting entities."

The 2007 recognition, like the one on the previous year, was made to recognize the University's launching of a study on strategic planning which led the Institution to achieve the standards required of an institution of higher learning increasingly competitive at nation

Nation

al and international

International

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levels.

As of October 12, 2006, the following nine parameters were considered in bestowing the Academic Institutional Quality honor unto the University :

All of its thirty-three (33) bachelor's degrees have been evaluated by the Comités Interinstitucionales para la Evaluación de la Educación Superior (CIEES).
Twenty-two (22) of its academic programs ranked at the CIEES Level I; two other programs are accredited by the Consejo para la Acreditación de la Educación Superior (COPAES).
Seventy-nine (79) percent of its students are enrolled in one of its 24 bachelor's programs recognized for their academic quality.
Forty-eight (48) of its faculty is part of the National Researchers Association and 144 more are part of the State of Tabasco Researchers Association.
Fifty-five (55) of its students are enrolled in the Movilidad Estudiantil student exchange program.
Nine-four (94) students are engaged in national research internship programs with other Mexican educational institutions, making UJAT the second largest participant in such Programa del Verano Científico.
Sixty (60) percent of its full-time faculty has a graduate degree in their discipline: 346 have the Master's degree while 103 have a Doctoral degree.
The University runs 327 research projects—128 of them externally financed and 199 running on institutionally-based financing.
The school's student services and the library system are certified by the ISO 9001:2000 norm standard.

As of August 1, 1947, the University library consisted of 249,100 volumes. Today the University library system serves all campuses out of nine library locations as follows:

The Lic. Manuel Barlett Bautista Library, located on University Avenue, Villahermosa, is the largest facility of the University's library system. It is also known as the Central Library.
The Ing. Cesar O. Palacio Tapia Library, also known as the Library of the Chontalpa, servers the Colleges of Basic Sciences, Information Sciences and Systems, and Engineering and Architecture, all located in Cunduacan, Tabasco. It is the second largest library in the UJAT library system.
The M.V.Z. Faustino Torres Castro Library is located in Villahermosa at the College of Fish and Agricultural Sciences. It is also known as the DACA Library from that College's acronym in Spanish.
The Lic. Jose Ma. Gurria Urgell Library is located in Villahermosa at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, and its book and magazine collection reflects that College's interests. It is also called the Library of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities.
The Health Sciences Library is located at the Health Sciences campus in Colonia Tamulte, Villahermosa, and serves the needs of that academic community.
The Jose Marti Library. Established in 1944, it is the oldest library in the UJAT Library system.
The Lic. Belisario Colorado Jr. Library, is the library of the College of Education and Arts. It is located within the facilities of that College at Zona de la Cultura, University City, University Avenue, Villahermosa.
The Dr. Juan Jose Beauregard Cruz Library is the library of the College of Life Sciences.
The Los Rios Library, located at the College of Los Rios in Tenosique, Tabasco.

Academics

The University is divided into nine separate academic divisions, roughly equivalent to the college or school subdivisions of other major universities and which denotes the granting of a certain level of autonomy to the internal affairs of the academic subdivision in question. Students choose entry into one of these nine academic divisions, though degrees are granted and titled by the University. Prospective students must possess a high school diploma, preferably from a college preparatory high school, and pass a university entrance exam to be admitted into the academic division of their choice. Moving from one academic division to another within the University is generally not possible without significant loss of earned academic credits. The University integrates intramural sports, physico-culture, fitness, band, and ballet teams amongst its extracurricular offerings.

The University has collective agreements with various other institutions and organizations.
One such agreement is with the Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

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"intended to create an environment conductive to the broadening and strengthening of its programs". The College of Basic Sciences has collective agreements with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Colegio de Bachilleres de Tabasco (CBT), Dirección General de Educación Tecnológica e Industrial (DGETI), Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo (IMP), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

The Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México is a public university in the State of Mexico, Mexico. It is the largest university institution in the state with over 84,500 students, with its central campus located in the state capital of Toluca...

(UAEM), Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE), Secretaría de Salud del Edo. de Tabasco, and Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX).
The College of Life Sciences has a collective agreement with Oregon State University

Oregon State University

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in Corvallis, Oregon, USA, for the evaluation, provisioning, and breeding of telapia fish.

Summary of Degrees Offered by Each College

College	Bachelor's	Masters	Doctorate	Specialist
Life Sciences	3	2	1	0
Education and Arts	4	4	0	0
Engineering and Architecture	5	1	0	1
Health Sciences	5	5	0	15
Social Sciences and Humanities	3	6	1	0
Informatics and Systems	4	2	0	0
Economics and Administration	4	3	1	1
Basic Sciences	4	1	0	0
Agricultural and Fish Sciences	4	2	0	0
T O T A L S	36	26	3	17

Licenciaturas

The University grants the degree of Licenciatura in the following 36 areas:

College of Life Sciences

• Biology

Biology

(Accredited)
• Ecology

Ecology

(Accredited)
• Environmental Engineering

Environmental engineering

Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment , to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation and for other organisms, and to remediate polluted sites...

(Accredited)

College of Education and Arts

• Education

Education

(Accredited)
• Communication

Communication

Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...

s (Accredited)
• Languages
• Cultural Studies

Cultural studies

Cultural studies is an academic field grounded in critical theory and literary criticism. It generally concerns the political nature of contemporary culture, as well as its historical foundations, conflicts, and defining traits. It is, to this extent, largely distinguished from cultural...

College of Engineering and Architecture

• Civil Engineering

Civil engineering

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...

• Electrical and Electronics Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering

Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...

• Chemical Engineering

Chemical engineering

Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...

• Architecture

Architecture

(Accredited)

College of Health Sciences

• Medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

(Accredited)
• Dental Surgery

Dental surgery

Dental surgery is any of a number of medical procedures that involve artificially modifying dentition, in other words surgery of the teeth and jaw bones.-Types:Some of the more common are:...

(Accredited)
• Psychology

Psychology

(Accredited)
• Nutrition

Nutrition

Nutrition is the provision, to cells and organisms, of the materials necessary to support life. Many common health problems can be prevented or alleviated with a healthy diet....

• Nursing

Nursing

(Accredited)

College of Informatics and Systems

• Management Information Systems (Accredited)
• Computer Systems (Accredited)
• Telematics

Telematics

Telematics typically is any integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, also known as ICT...

• Information Technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

College of Economics and Administration

• Management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

(Accredited)
• Public Accounting (Accredited)
• Economics

Economics

(Accredited)
• Labor Relations

Labor relations

(Accredited)

College of Basic Sciences

• Computer Science

Computer science

Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

• Mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...

• Physics

Physics

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• Chemistry

Chemistry

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College of Agricultural and Fish Sciences

• Agronomy

Agronomy

(Accredited)
• Aquaculture Engineering

Aquaculture engineering

Aquaculture engineering is the branch of agricultural engineering that studies cultured aquatic species and the production systems used in their culture. Study, research and development in this area ranges from low intensity man-made pond systems to highly intensive recirculation systems involving...

• Food Engineering

Food engineering

(Accredited)
• Veterinary Medicine

Veterinary medicine

Veterinary Medicine is the branch of science that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, disorder and injury in non-human animals...

and Zoology

Zoology

Zoology |zoölogy]]), is the branch of biology that relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...

College of Multidisciplinary Studies

• Aquaculture Engineering

Aquaculture engineering

• Management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

• Food Engineering

Food engineering

(Accredited)
• Management Information Systems
• Law

Law

College of Life Sciences

• Environmental Sciences
• Engineering

Engineering

and Environmental Protection

Environmental protection

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College of Education and Arts

• Teaching
• Education

Education

• Communication

Communication

s
• Educational Sexology

Sexology

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College of Health Sciences

• Medical Sciences
• Social Gerontology

Gerontology

Gerontology is the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging...

• Primary Health Care

Primary health care

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• Basic Biomedical Sciences
• Public Health Sciences

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

• Judiciary Management
• Social Sciences

Social sciences

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• Civil Law

Civil law (area)

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• Criminal Law

Criminal law

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• Constitutional Human Rights Law
• Law

Law

College of Informatics and Systems

• Computer Systems
• Information Technology Management

Information technology management

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College of Economics and Administration

• Management

Management

Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...

• Public Management

Public management

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• Public Accounting

College of Health Sciences

• Anesthesiology
• General Surgery

General surgery

General surgery, despite its name, is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal organs, e.g., intestines including esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland . They also deal with diseases involving the skin, breast, soft...

• Pediatric nursing
• Surgical Nursing

Surgical nursing

Surgical patients are nursed on different wards to medical patients in the UK and Australia. Nursing practice on surgical wards differs from that of medical wards....

• Critical care nursing

Critical care nursing

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• Obstetrics and gynaecology

Obstetrics and gynaecology

Obstetrics and gynaecology are the two surgical–medical specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs in their pregnant and non-pregnant state, respectively, and as such are often combined to form a single medical specialty and postgraduate training programme...

• Public Health

Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals" . It is concerned with threats to health based on population health...

• Internal Medicine

Internal medicine

Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who have undifferentiated or multi-system disease processes...

• Pediatric Odontology
• Pediatrics

Pediatrics

Pediatrics or paediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician or paediatrician...

• Psychiatry

Psychiatry

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities...

• Family Medicine

Family medicine

Family medicine is a medical specialty devoted to comprehensive health care for people of all ages. It is a division of primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, sexes, diseases, and parts of the body...

• Neonatology

Neonatology

Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn infant. It is a hospital-based specialty, and is usually practiced in neonatal intensive care units...

• Radiology

Radiology

Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualized within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies to diagnose or treat diseases...

and Imaging

Medical imaging

Medical imaging is the technique and process used to create images of the human body for clinical purposes or medical science...

• Orthopedics

Orthopedics

Orthopedics is the study of the musculoskeletal system. The Greek word 'ortho' means straight or correct and 'pedics' comes from the Greek 'pais' meaning children. For many centuries, orthopedists have been involved in the treatment of crippled children...

and Intensive Care

Research

As of October, 2006, the University operated under the following four research parameters :

Forty-eight (48) of its faculty were part of the Mexico's National Researchers Association.

One hundred forty-four (144) faculty members were part of the State of Tabasco Researchers Association.

Nine-four (94) students were engaged in national research internship programs with other Mexican educational institutions. This made UJAT the second largest participant in the Programa del Verano Científico (Summer Science Program).

The University ran 327 research projects—128 of them externally financed and 199 operating on institutionally-based financing.

The University houses an Institute of Aquaculture, and basic research is performed at this facility. Research scientists from other academic institutions worldwide have participated in research endeavors here.

The University also houses, via the College of Life Sciences, the Centro de Transferencia Tecnológica Para La Acuacultura
(CETRA). "The Center includes a consortium of Mexican universities and public/private foundations that have an associated interest in aquaculture. Its goal is to support and guide aquaculture commercial enterprise development in an environmentally sustainable fashion. CETRA has established the initial network of academic and economic resources in Mexico and the United States that provide extension services for meeting Mexico’s sustainable aquaculture development goals." The Center's website is at CETRA.

As of February 2009, the University had approved the opening of a Centro de Investigaciones sobre Energia, Agua, y Cambio Climatico, or Research Center for Energy, Water, and Climatic Change. This is a partnership between the UNAM

Unam

UNAM or UNaM may refer to:* National University of Misiones, a National University in Posadas, Argentina*National Autonomous University of Mexico , the large public autonomous university based in Mexico City...

, the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and the University.

In April 2009, the University opened the Centro de Integración Ovina del Sureste (CIOS), or The Southeastern Center for Ovine Integration, in the College of Fish and Agricultural Sciences.

Since 1986, the University has moved along in a meaningful manner towards consolidating its areas of research, not only by diversifying its centers, projects, and research programs based on their respective fields of study, but also by striking collective agreements and inter-institutional relations with both academic and non-academic institutions with the purpose of increasing participation and financing.
Other centers of investigation at the University include:

The Center for Research on the Olmeca and Maya Cultures
Center for Study and Research of the Fine Arts
General Bureau for Fish Life
Bureau for Development
Bureau for Higher Education and Scientific Investigation
Regional Museum of Anthropology

Prominent Alumni

José Narciso Rovirosa, prominent biologist who categorized over a thousand species of flora in southern Mexico.
Eduardo Alday Hernández, prominent lawyer and president of the Supreme Court of the state of Tabasco.
Manuel Andrade Díaz
Manuel Andrade Díaz
Manuel Andrade Díaz is a Mexican politician affiliated to the Institutional Revolutionary Party and former Governor of Tabasco...

, governor of Tabasco.
Francisco J. Santamaría
Francisco J. Santamaría
Francisco Javier Santamaría was an influential Mexican writer and politician who is best remembered for his contributions to the study of Mexican literature and lexicography; he variously worked or published as a bibliographer, essayist, geographer, journalist, judge, lawyer, lexicographer,...

, famed lexicographer of Spanish as spoken in Latin America and Mexico. His two great works are the Diccionario general de americanismos (1942) and the Diccionario de mejicanismos (1959), both of which remain in print as fundamental reference works in their fields. He was also governor of Tabasco.

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