UNAM

Sources

• UNAM academic offer https://oferta.unam.mx/

  The official DGOAE catalogue says UNAM offers 133 licenciatura careers in four knowledge areas and 31 academic sites in Mexico City and other regions of Mexico.

  The catalogue explains that each licenciatura entry includes description, duration, modality, admission requirements, study plan, graduation options and academic site.

  Model elements: the baseline model is organised around specific careers and their study plans, not an open programme.

• UNAM Numeralia 2025-2026 https://estadistica.unam.mx/index.php/numeralia/

  UNAM's official numeralia reports 371,594 students in the 2025-2026 school cycle, including 33,193 Posgrado, 231,327 Licenciatura, 106,432 Bachillerato and 642 Propedéutico de la Facultad de Música.

  The catalog stores Licenciatura as the first university degree level. Bachillerato is excluded because it is pre-university education.

• Licenciatura study plans https://www.dgae.unam.mx/planes/licenciatura.html

  DGAE publishes the list of licenciatura plans by code, career and modality, including Sistema Escolarizado, Sistema Abierto and Sistema a Distancia entries.

  The list includes disciplinary and professional careers across engineering, sciences, health, social sciences and humanities.

  Model elements: this source confirms that programmes are approved careers with plans, and that modality choice is separate from major choice.

• General Enrolment Regulations https://www.abogadogeneral.unam.mx/sites/default/files/archivos/48-ReglamentoGeneralInscripciones_rem38_021220.pdf

  Article 8 assigns admitted applicants to a career and campus within capacity limits.

  Article 18 states that two careers may be studied simultaneously when the requested career or campus has capacity, the student has at least an 8 average in the first career, and the student has completed at least 50% of credits in the first career.

  Article 19 separately allows a second career after the first degree, again subject to capacity and academic requirements or through the selection contest.

  Model elements: Article 18 supports programChoice 4 because UNAM has a formal university rule for simultaneous study of two full careers. It is not programChoice 5 because the student still studies approved careers rather than designing an open degree.

• General Regulations for University Studies https://www.abogadogeneral.unam.mx/sites/default/files/archivos/LegUniv/ReglamentoGeneralEstudiosUniversitarios_210423.pdf

  Article 20 sets licenciatura study plans at 300 to 450 credits.

  Articles 23 and 24 distinguish disciplinary and interdisciplinary licenciaturas. Article 28 says interdisciplinary, shared and combined licenciaturas may involve UNAM entities and, where agreements exist, national or foreign higher education institutions.

  Article 56 allows authorised students to take more required or optional subjects, credits or academic activities than the study plan states.

  Articles 57 to 60 define credit and equivalence handling for studies with other institutions, student mobility between plans, entities and modalities, and mobility agreements where students can take subjects with approval and have equivalences established.

  Strict cross-registration review: this source does not prove ordinary selection of individual external courses that can be credited into the degree record. It remains mobility or transfer context, while courseChoice is set to 2 based on verified structured internal elective blocks inside programmes.

• Philosophy https://oferta.unam.mx/filosofia.html

  The official Filosofía page gives the title Licenciado en Filosofía and lists the duration as 8 semesters in Sistema Escolarizado and, for the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, SUAyED Sistema Abierto.

  It states that students must cover the total credits required by the plan and meet language and social service requirements.

  Model elements: this sets the lower normal licenciatura duration at 4 years.

• Philosophy study plan https://oferta.unam.mx/planestudios/filosofiacu-plan-de-estudios13.pdf

  The Philosophy study plan in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters consists of 48 subjects: 25 compulsory and 23 optional.

  Of 300 credits, 168 correspond to compulsory subjects and 132 to optional subjects. The plan says optional subjects allow students to concentrate on one or several areas according to academic interests.

  Model elements: this is consistent with courseChoice 2 because electives are tied to thematic areas inside the career, while it does not prove a university-wide free elective pool.

• Computer Engineering study plan https://oferta.unam.mx/planestudios/ingcomputacionplanestudiosfacing13.pdf

  The Faculty of Engineering plan includes 50 subjects: 42 compulsory and 8 optional. It explicitly classifies the curriculum into five knowledge areas and requires at least 48 optional credits.

  Choice is not an unrestricted university-wide elective pool. It is organized through a terminal module, a social sciences and humanities elective, a professional competencies elective, and courses from the selected module.

  Model elements: this directly supports courseChoice 2 because students satisfy predefined choice categories rather than selecting any course from the full catalogue.

• Computer Engineering study plan, FES Aragón https://oferta.unam.mx/planestudios/ingcomputacionplanestudiosaragon19.pdf

  The FES Aragón plan includes 47 subjects: 41 compulsory and 6 optional, for a total of 396 credits, 48 of them optional.

  The document describes five exit modules and a Variable or all modules option. Students may choose one module or combine subjects from different modules according to professional and personal expectations.

  It also describes mobility mechanisms in related plans within UNAM and other higher education institutions when agreements exist. This is mobility context, not proof of unrestricted external cross-registration.

• Biology study plan https://oferta.unam.mx/planestudios/bilogia_plandeestudios_FC21.pdf

  The Biology study plan in the Faculty of Sciences contains 390 credits distributed among compulsory subjects, optional subjects, and workshops.

  The plan divides training into informative, formative, and optional parts. The optional part covers different areas of biology, while workshops start specialization in the student's area of interest.

  Model boundary: this shows internal area choice and specialization, but not an unrestricted pool of any courses from across the university.

• Médico Cirujano https://oferta.unam.mx/medico-cirujano.html

  The official Médico Cirujano page lists the Faculty of Medicine route as 5 and a half years plus 1 year of Servicio Social, and the FES Zaragoza route as 5 and a half years plus 1 year of Servicio Social.

  The FES Iztacala route is listed as 10 semesters plus 1 year of Servicio Social.

  Model elements: this sets the upper normal first-professional duration at 6.5 years. The PECEM combined medicine and doctorate route was not used as the bachelor or specialist duration.

• Law https://oferta.unam.mx/derecho.html

  The Derecho page gives the Licenciado en Derecho duration as 10 semesters across the school and SUAyED modalities listed.

  It says this licenciatura is open to student mobility under previously established agreements with foreign higher education institutions.

  For the Faculty of Law, it states that UNAM and the Faculty have national and international agreements with other universities to promote student mobility for taking subjects during one or two semesters at another higher education institution.

  Strict cross-registration review: this source does not prove ordinary selection of individual external courses that can be credited into the degree record. It remains mobility or transfer context, while courseChoice is set to 2 based on verified structured internal elective blocks inside programmes.

• Law study plan https://oferta.unam.mx/planestudios/Derecho_plandeestudios-FDerecho19.pdf

  The 2019 Law study plan contains 450 credits: 366 from compulsory subjects and 84 from pre-specialization optional subjects.

  The plan says students take 63 subjects: 51 compulsory and 12 optional from a common offer of 62 subjects.

  Model elements: this additionally supports structured internal choice because the choice is meaningful in volume but limited to a pre-specialization block inside the career.

• General Regulations for Incorporation and Revalidation of Studies https://www.abogadogeneral.unam.mx/sites/default/files/archivos/51-ReglamentoGeneralIncorporacionRevalidacionEstudios_rem38_021220.pdf

  Article 24 says certificates from national or foreign educational institutions submitted for equivalence or revalidation are reviewed by DGIRE to determine whether the studies are comparable to UNAM study plans.

  Articles 25 and 26 define partial equivalence and partial revalidation by full school cycle or by subject, with remaining subjects to be completed when only partial recognition is granted.

  Strict cross-registration review: this source does not prove ordinary selection of individual external courses that can be credited into the degree record. It remains mobility or transfer context, while courseChoice is set to 2 based on verified structured internal elective blocks inside programmes.