Mission and objectives

According to its Organic Law, the University “...seeks to provide advanced training for professionals, researchers, university professors and experts for the benefit of society; plan and conduct research mainly on conditions and issues of national importance; and disseminate the benefits of culture as widely as possible.”

Through the documents that define the University in detail, set out its operations and regulate its academic life, several points deserve to be highlighted.

The university is autonomous, public, secular and open to any person without restriction of creed, race, gender, nationality, political affiliation, sexual orientation or economic status. Everyone has the same rights and obligations.

UNAM’s autonomous and public nature refers to its self–determination, without interference from the Mexican State, and that is its source of livelihood. In other words, “the people support it and directly benefit from it.”.

Teaching is governed by the principle of academic freedom, which is understood as the freedom to teach and evaluate according to the teacher&rsquos discretion while adhering to mandated programs and institutionally set timelines.

Those of us who participate in teaching and research activities – teachers, researchers and students – or in administration have the duty to serve the interests of the University, as mentioned above.

At UNAM–Canada, we hope that everyone will carry out their work with the clear intention of promoting our University and Mexican culture. Our motivation in teaching languages – Mexican Spanish, English and French – is to promote UNAM’s values and our national culture. Culture is universal, and it cannot, nor should not, be neglected, but we place primary emphasis on Mexican culture and focus to a lesser extent on Latin American and Western cultures as well as those aspects which contribute to preserving the humanity of every person and every group.