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{{Short description|Private university in Monterrey, Mexico}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox university
 | name                   = Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education
 | native_name            = Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
 | image                  = Logo Tecnologico de Monterrey.svg
 | image_upright          = 0.7
 | established            = {{start date and age|1943|09|06|br=y}}<ref name="50aniv"/>
 | type                   = [[Nonprofit organization|Non-profit Private 
Organization]]
 [[Research university|Research University]]
 | motto         = Espíritu emprendedor con sentido humano.
 | founder                = [[Eugenio Garza Sada]]
 | academic_affiliations  = [[Southern Association of Colleges and Schools|SACS]], [[Association of Pacific Rim Universities|APRU]], [[Universitas 21]], [[European Consortium of Innovative Universities|ECIU]], [[ANUIES]], [[CUDI]], FIMPES, [[Compostela Group of Universities|CGU]], [[Worldwide Universities Network|WUN]], [[Washington University in St. Louis]] McDonnell International Scholars Academy<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mcdonnell.wustl.edu/|title=Home|website=McDonnell International Scholars Academy}}</ref>
 | rector                 = David Garza Salazar
 | chairman               = Ricardo Saldívar Escajadillo
 | faculty                = 9,916 (2019)<ref name="cifras">{{cite web|url=http://tec.mx/en/tecs-difference/numbers/data-and-figures | date= 2017 | title = Data and Figures | publisher = ITESM | language = en | access-date = January 4, 2018}}</ref>
 | students               = 91,200 (2019)<ref name="cifras"/>
 | undergrad              = 57,066 (2019)<ref name="cifras"/>
 | postgrad               = 6,984 (2019)<ref name="cifras"/>
 | other                  = 27,150 (2019)<ref name="cifras"/>
 | city                   = [[Monterrey]]
 | state                  = [[Nuevo León]]
 | country                = [[Mexico]]
 | campus                 = 26 across [[Mexico]]<ref name="campus"/>
 | colors                 = Blue {{color box|#0039AC}}
 | sports_nickname        = [[Borregos Salvajes]]
 | mascot                 = Teus<ref name="teus">{{cite web|url=https://tec.mx/es/noticias/nacional/institucion/conoce-teus-la-nueva-mascota-borrego-del-tec-de-monterrey |date= 2019 | title = Conoce a Teus, la nueva mascota Borrego del Tec de Monterrey | publisher = ITESM |language = es | access-date=June 19, 2020}}</ref>
 | website                = {{URL|https://tec.mx}}
 | logo                   = [[File:ITESM wordmark, 2014.png|center|175px|ITESM logo]]
 | logo_size              = 281px
 | logo_upright           = 1
}}

'''Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education''' ('''ITESM'''; {{langx|es|Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey}}), also known as the '''Technological Institute of Monterrey''' (''{{langx|es|Tecnológico de Monterrey}}'') or simply '''Tec''', is a [[Private university|private]] [[research university]] based in [[Monterrey]], Mexico. It has expanded to include 35 [[Campus|campuses]] across 25 cities in the country and 22 liaison offices in 15 other countries.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ITESM - Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education {{!}} INOMICS |url=https://inomics.com/institution/itesm-monterrey-institute-of-technology-and-higher-education-1131802 |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=inomics.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name="campus">{{cite web|title=Educación|url=https://tec.mx/es/educacion|access-date=February 17, 2022|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey|language=es}}</ref>

The university was founded in 1943 by [[Eugenio Garza Sada]], who was educated at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] in the United States. Eugenio Garza Sada was an industrialist and [[Philanthropy|philanthropist]] from Monterrey.

ITESM was the first university outside the U.S. to establish an internet connection in the [[Western Hemisphere]], linking the [[University of Texas at San Antonio]] directly.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Violante |first=March |date=May 18, 2021 |title=This is how Mexico connected to the internet |url=https://www.nhregister.com/business/article/This-is-how-Mexico-connected-to-the-internet-16182788.php |access-date=August 31, 2025 |website=www.nhregister.com}}</ref>

==History==
{{main|History of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education}}

===Early years===
The institute was founded on September 6, 1943, by a group of local businessmen led by [[Eugenio Garza Sada]], a moneyed heir of a [[brewing]] conglomerate who was interested in creating an institution that could provide highly skilled personnel — both university graduates and technicians— to the booming Monterrey corporations of the 1940s.<ref name="70veces-1">{{cite book |last=Elizondo Elizondo |first=Ricardo |title=Setenta veces siete |publisher=Ediciones Castillo |location=Monterrey, Mexico |year=2000 |isbn= 978-970-20-0098-3 |oclc=46366375 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b6a2AAAACAAJ |access-date=July 4, 2008 |language=es|quote=Circula la versión – errónea, pero compartida por muchos – de que surgió como escuela técnica y evolucionó hasta convertirse en universidad. También es falsa la suposición de que se desarrolló siguiendo el modelo del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts, alma mater de don Eugenio Garza Sada, el promotor de la idea y uno de sus fundadores. En realidad, el proyecto nació de la visión de un grupo de empresarios consciente de la necesidad de preparar dentro del país a los profesionistas que se requerían para la construcción del México moderno…El país contaba entonces con capital y también con mano de obra, pero no con personal que estuviera calificado para encargarse de la supervisión y la administración de la planta industrial: en una palabra, faltaban los mandos intermedios, mismos que, a su vez, deberían conocer las características de la cultura mexicana. Era indispensable que los profesionistas que requerían las empresas de casa se educaran en casa; eso sí, a condición de que tanto la educación como los graduados fueran de calidad equiparable a lo que se ofrecía fuera de México.|pages = 25–26}}
</ref> The group was structured into a [[non-profit organization]] called ''Enseñanza e Investigación Superior A.C. (EISAC)'' and recruited several academicians led by [[León Ávalos y Vez]], an [[MIT]] alumnus and then director-general of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of the [[National Polytechnic Institute]], who designed its first academic programs and served as its first [[director-general]].<ref name="mendirichaga">{{cite book|last=Mendirichaga|first=Rodrigo|title=El Tecnológico de Monterrey: Sucesos, anécdotas, personajes|publisher=Ediciones Castillo|location=Monterrey, Mexico|year=1982|oclc=17117284|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NaFPAAAAMAAJ|access-date=July 4, 2008|language=es}}</ref>{{page needed|date=September 2020}}

In its early years the Institute operated at Abasolo 858 Oriente in a large, two-story house located a block and a half away from Zaragoza Square, behind the city's Metropolitan Cathedral.<ref name="mendirichaga"/>{{page needed|date=September 2020}} As these facilities soon proved to be insufficient, it started renting out adjacent buildings and by 1945 it became apparent that a university campus was necessary. For that reason, a master plan was commissioned to [[Enrique de la Mora]] and on February 3, 1947, what would later be known as its [[Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey|Monterrey Campus]] was inaugurated by [[President of Mexico|Mexican President]] [[Miguel Alemán Valdés]].<ref name="50aniv">{{cite book|last=Elizondo Elizondo|first=Ricardo |title=El Tecnológico de Monterrey: Relación de 50 años |publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey|year=1993|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=onGUGAAACAAJ| oclc = 30485259 | access-date=July 4, 2008 |language=es}}</ref>{{page needed|date=September 2020}}

Because the operations of the local companies were highly reliant on U.S. markets, investments, and technology; internationalization became one of its earliest priorities. In 1950 it became the first foreign university in history to be accredited by the [[Southern Association of Colleges and Schools]] (SACS),<ref name="70veces"/>{{page needed|date=September 2020}} one of the six regional accreditation agencies recognized by the [[United States Department of Education]]. Its foreign accreditation would end up being a decisive influence in its development, as it was forced to submit itself to external evaluation earlier than most Mexican universities (1967)<ref name="70veces">{{cite book |last=Elizondo Elizondo |first=Ricardo |title=Setenta veces siete |publisher=Ediciones Castillo |location=Monterrey, Mexico |year=2000 |isbn= 978-970-20-0098-3 |oclc=46366375 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b6a2AAAACAAJ |access-date=July 4, 2008 |language=es}}</ref>{{page needed|date=September 2020}}  and unlocked additional sources of revenue, such as tuition funds from foreign students interested in taking summer courses in Mexico for full-academic credit.<ref name="70veces"/>{{page needed|date=September 2020}}

===Expansion===

[[File:Eugenio Garza Sada Memorial.jpg|right|thumb|The [[Eugenio Garza Sada]] [[Memorial]] honors the institute's chief founder and promoter at the [[Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey|Monterrey Campus]]]]

Its growth outside the city of Monterrey began in the late-1960s, when both its [[Rector (academia)|rector]] and head of academics lobbied for expansion. A first attempt, funded a few years earlier by several businessmen from [[Mexicali]], Baja California, was staffed and organized by the Institute but faced opposition from the Board of Trustees once the federal government refused any additional subsidy<ref name="gomezjunco2">{{cite book|last=Gómez Junco|first=Horacio|title=Desde adentro|publisher=Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León|location=Monterrey, Mexico|year=1997|isbn= 978-970-18-0056-0|oclc=44019433|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KBPAAAAMAAJ|access-date=July 4, 2008|language=es|quote=[E]l exrector del Tec, Víctor Bravo Ahuja, entonces subsecretario de Educación Pública, prometió un subsidio para la naciente escuela, siempre y cuando no llevara el nombre del Tecnológico de Monterrey. No era conveniente, decía, pues eran los tiempos en que el gobierno federal todavía mostraba franca animadversión en contra del Grupo Monterrey|page=178}}</ref> and members of the Board cast doubt on its ability to get funds as an out-of-state university. At the end the project was renamed ''[[Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior]] (CETYS)'' and grew into a fully independent institution.<ref name="mendirichaga"/>{{page needed|date=September 2020}}<ref name="gomezjunco">{{cite book|last=Gómez Junco|first=Horacio|title=Desde adentro|publisher=Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León|location=Monterrey, Mexico|year=1997|isbn= 978-970-18-0056-0|oclc=44019433|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KBPAAAAMAAJ|access-date=July 4, 2008|language=es}}</ref>{{page needed|date=September 2020}}

Aside from the CETYS experiment and the 150 hectares bought in 1951 for the agricultural program's experimental facilities in nearby [[Apodaca, Nuevo León]], no other expansion outside Monterrey was attempted until 1967, when a school of maritime studies was built in the port of [[Guaymas]], Sonora. Shortly thereafter, premises were built in [[Ciudad Obregón, Sonora|Obregón]] and courses began to be offered in [[Mexico City]]. Those premises and the ones that followed, then called external units, were fully dependent on the Monterrey Campus until 1984, when they were restructured as semi-independent campuses and reorganized in regional rectorates (''see [[#Organization|Organization]]'').{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

In 1987, when the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools demanded faculty members with master's degrees to lecture 100% of its undergraduate courses,<ref name="goodman">{{cite book|last=Cruz Limón|first=Carlos|editor=Paul S. Goodman|editor-link=Paul S. Goodman|title=Technology enhanced learning: opportunities for change|publisher=Lawrence Erlbaum Associates|location=Mahwah, N.J., U.S.A.|year=2002|page=186|chapter=The Virtual University:Customized Education in a Nutshell|isbn=0-8058-3666-7|oclc=248568356|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VQHo0tRgDAgC&q=ITESM&pg=PA186|access-date=September 10, 2009|quote=The SACS required that all professors have at least a master's degree, which at the time was not the case at ITESM on a systemwide basis. Due to the multicampus structure of ITESM, not every campus had the academic programs necessary for their professors to earn a master's degree on-site. Therefore, ITESM opted to use satellite technology to give all undergraduate professors the opportunity to pursue a graduate degree and thereby satisfy the requirements set forth by the SACS.}}</ref> the Institute invested considerably in both [[distance learning]] and [[computer network]] technologies and training, effectively becoming, on February 1, 1989, the first university ever connected to the [[Internet]] in both [[Latin America]]<ref name="nic-mx-history">{{cite web|url=http://www.cem.itesm.mx/dacs/publicaciones/logos/espejo/2001/diciembre.html|title=El porvenir de NIC México |last=Islas | first = Octavio | author2=Gutiérrez, Fernando |date=December 2001|publisher=Razón y Palabra|language=es|access-date=July 5, 2008}}</ref> and the [[Spanish (language)|Spanish]]-speaking world.<ref name="rediris">{{cite web|url=http://www.rediris.es/rediris/boletin/45/enfoque2.html|title=Fundamentos históricos de la Internet en Europa y en España|last=Sanz|first=Miguel A.|date=November 22, 2007|publisher=[[RedIRIS]]|language=es|access-date=July 4, 2008|quote=Así, fruto de esta decisión, la primera conexión plena desde España a la Internet tuvo lugar a mediados del año 1990 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080528061427/http://www.rediris.es/rediris/boletin/45/enfoque2.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = May 28, 2008}}</ref> Such efforts contributed to the creation of its former ''Virtual University'' a few years later and allowed it to become the first [[.mx|country-code top level domain]] registry in Mexico; first by itself from 1989 to 1995, and then as a major shareholder of ''NIC Mexico'', the current national registry.<ref name="iana">{{cite web|url=https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/mx.html|title=Delegation Record for .MX|publisher=[[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]]|access-date=July 6, 2008}}</ref>

==Campuses==
[[File:Map ITESM campuses by city.svg|right|thumb|The institute has campuses in twenty-five Mexican cities (see: ''[[#Campuses by region|Campuses by region]]'')]]

There are thirty-one campuses of the Institute distributed in twenty-five Mexican cities. Each campus is relatively independent but shares a national academic curriculum (''see [[#Academics|Academics]]''). The flagship campus is located in [[Monterrey]], where the national, system-wide [[Rector (academia)|rectorate]] is located. Most of them deliver both high school and undergraduate education, some offer postgraduate programs and only eight (Cumbres, Eugenio Garza Sada, Eugenio Garza Lagüera, Santa Catarina, Metepec, Santa Anita, Esmeralda and Valle Alto) deliver high school courses exclusively. Nevertheless, curricular and extension courses and seminars are usually available at most facilities.{{Citation needed|date=September 2020}}

===Campuses by region===
[[File:CEDETEC en la noche.jpg|thumb|ITESM Mexico City Campus - CEDETEC building]]
Former campuses include Celaya (Prepa Tec, closed in 2020), Veracruz (closed in 2021), Guaymas (transferred to [[TecMilenio University]] in the early 2000s) and Mazatlán (transferred to TecMilenio University in 2009).<ref name="Sol de Mazatlan, 2009">{{cite news|title=Desaparece el Tec de Monterrey en Mazatlán|trans-title=Monterrey Tech at Mazatlan cease operations|url=http://www.oem.com.mx/esto/notas/n1034711.htm|access-date=August 9, 2014|publisher=El Sol de Mazatlán|date=February 5, 2009|language=es}}</ref>

*'''North:''' Monterrey, PrepaTec Cumbres, PrepaTec Eugenio Garza Lagüera, PrepaTec Eugenio Garza Sada, Prepa Tec Santa Catarina, PrepaTec Valle Alto, Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Laguna, Saltillo, Tampico and Zacatecas.
*'''Centro:''' [https://tec.mx/en/ciudad-de-mexico-campus Mexico City], Santa Fe, State of Mexico, PrepaTec Esmeralda, Toluca 
*'''South''': Chiapas, Cuernavaca, Hidalgo, PrepaTec Metepec, Puebla
*'''West:''' Colima, Guadalajara, Irapuato, León, Morelia, PrepaTec Navojoa, Northern Sonora, Obregón, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, PrepaTec Santa Anita and Sinaloa.
[[File:CampusSantaFe013.JPG|thumb|ITESM - Santa Fe Campus]]
[[File:ITESM Campus Puebla pasillos y la "Cafetería El Borrego".jpg|thumb|ITESM - Puebla City Campus]]
[[File:ITESM Campus Queretaro.jpg|thumb|ITESM - Querétaro City Campus]]
[[File:PIT3-ITESM-Chihuahua.jpg|alt=PIT3 at ITESM Chihuahua Campus|thumb|The Innovation and Technical and Technology Transfer Park (PIT3) at Chihuahua Campus.]]
As of June 2019, campuses were divided into the following Mexican regions:<ref name=Changes_2013>{{cite news|title=Tec de Monterrey anuncia cambios en su organización|trans-title=Monterrey Tech announces changes in its organization|url=http://www.milenio.com/monterrey/Tec-Monterrey-anuncia-cambios-organizacion_0_198580195.html|access-date=April 20, 2014|newspaper=Milenio|date=November 23, 2013|language=es}}</ref>

===Other infrastructure===
In addition to the campuses, the Institute manages:

*The [[Tec de Monterrey School of Medicine|Ignacio A. Santos Medical School]], the ''Hospital San José'' and the Zambrano-Hellion Medical Center.<ref name="zambranohellion">{{cite web|date=April 4, 2008|title=Inician construcción del Centro Médico Zambrano Hellion|url=https://repositorio.tec.mx/handle/11285/573435|access-date=February 17, 2022|publisher=Panorama-No. 1559|language=es}}</ref>
*Eight international sites in Argentina ([[Buenos Aires]]), Colombia ([[Bogotá]], [[Medellín]]), Ecuador ([[Guayaquil]] and [[Quito]]), Panama ([[Panama City]]), Peru ([[Lima]]) and the United States ([[Miami]]) offering extension courses, research and international consulting.<ref name="campus"/><ref>{{Cite web|title=Internacionalización|url=https://tec.mx/es/internacionalizacion|access-date=February 17, 2022|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey}}</ref>
*Fifteen liaison offices in charge of forging international partnerships and negotiating professional internships and academic exchanges with local universities, companies and civil institutions. Current liaison offices are located in Belgium ([[Brussels]]), Canada ([[Montreal]] and [[Vancouver]]), China ([[Beijing]], [[Guangzhou]] and [[Shanghai]]), France ([[Nice]] and [[Paris]]), Italy ([[Florence]], [[Macerata]] and [[Verona]]), Switzerland ([[Fribourg]]), Spain ([[Barcelona]] and [[Madrid]]) and the United States ([[Boston]], [[Dallas]] and [[Washington, D.C.]])<ref name="campus"/>

==Organization==
[[File:Panorama_ITESM.jpg|right|thumb|The Rectorate (left) and the CETEC towers at the [[Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey|Monterrey Campus]]]]
[[File:ITESM Monterrey Rectoria.jpg|right|thumb|The Old Library Building, current [[Rector (academia)|Rectorate]], was designed by [[Enrique de la Mora]], displays a [[bas relief]] by [[Jorge González Camarena]] and holds one of the largest collections of ''[[Don Quixote]]'' [[incunabula]], an original edition of ''L'[[Encyclopédie]]'' and other bibliographical treasures<ref name="50aniv"/>{{page needed|date=September 2020}}]]

All campuses are sponsored by [[non-profit organization]]s composed primarily of local businesspeople. The Monterrey Campus is sponsored by ''Enseñanza e Investigación Superior, A.C. (EISAC)'', which co-sponsored the system as a whole until a newly built organization, ''Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, A.C. (ITESM AC)'' overtook those responsibilities.<ref name="gomezjunco"/>{{page needed|date=September 2020}} Such organizations (effectively serving as [[board of trustees|boards of trustees]]) are responsible for electing the rectors or directors of a particular campus. Since February 2012, the president of ITESMAC is [[José Antonio Fernández Carbajal|José Antonio Fernández]], a class of 1976 alumnus and current chairman and CEO of [[FEMSA]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 20, 2018|title=José Antonio Fernández presidirá Consejo del Tec por cinco años más|url=https://tec.mx/es/noticias/nacional/educacion/jose-antonio-fernandez-presidira-consejo-del-tec-por-cinco-anos-mas|access-date=February 17, 2022|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.femsa.com/en/about/philosophy/don-eugenio-garza-lagera.htm|title=Business Social Responsibility Award to Don Eugenio Garza Lagüera|publisher=FEMSA|access-date=October 9, 2009|location=Monterrey, Mexico|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930102707/http://www.femsa.com/en/about/philosophy/don-eugenio-garza-lagera.htm|archive-date=September 30, 2009}}</ref> Former presidents include the founder, [[Eugenio Garza Sada]] (1943–73) and his son, [[Eugenio Garza Lagüera]] (1973–97), and [[Lorenzo Zambrano]] (1997–2012), a class of 1966 alumnus and until his passing.<ref name="gsb-cemex">{{cite news|url=http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/headlines/zambrano-excellence-award.html|title=Stanford Business School Honors CEMEX CEO Lorenzo Zambrano for Excellence in Leadership|date=May 15, 2008|publisher=Stanford Graduate School of Business News|access-date=October 9, 2009|location=Monterrey, Mexico}}</ref>

Former heads of the Institute include:

*[[León Ávalos y Vez]] (1943–1947) first [[director-general]].<ref name="rectors">{{cite news|url=http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/notas.asp?nota_id=290738|title=Muere Fernando García Roel|last=Reyes Salcido|first=Edgardo|date=March 4, 2009|newspaper=El Porvenir|language=es|access-date=October 9, 2009|location=Monterrey, Mexico|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721001938/http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/notas.asp?nota_id=290738|archive-date=July 21, 2011}}</ref>
*[[Roberto Guajardo Suárez]] (1947–1951) second director-general.<ref name="rectors" />
*[[Víctor Bravo Ahuja]] (1951–1958) third director-general, and from April 11, 1955, first rector.<ref name="gomezjunco3">{{cite book|last=Gómez Junco|first=Horacio|title=Desde adentro|publisher=Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Nuevo León|location=Monterrey, Mexico|year=1997|isbn= 978-970-18-0056-0|oclc=44019433|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1KBPAAAAMAAJ|access-date=July 4, 2008|language=es|page=23}}</ref>
*[[Fernando García Roel]] (1959–1984) second rector.<ref name="rectors" />
*[[Rafael Rangel Sostmann]] (1985–2011) third rector.<ref name="Milenio_2011">{{cite news|title=Salvador Alva nuevo Rector del Sistema Tecnológico de Monterrey |publisher=Milenio|year=2011|url=http://monterrey.milenio.com/cdb/doc/noticias2011/75d9bcfb7cba54dfc1973e6f4753d9b6| access-date=October 15, 2011 |language=es}}</ref>
*Salvador Alva (2011–2019) fourth rector and Executive President.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.proceso.com.mx/nacional/2011/9/12/salvador-alva-nuevo-rector-del-tec-de-monterrey-sustituye-rangel-sostmann-91964.html|title=Salvador Alva, nuevo rector del Tec de Monterrey; sustituye a Rangel Sostmann|website=www.proceso.com.mx}}</ref>
Since 2020, The Tecnológico de Monterrey Rector and Executive President is David Garza Salazar.

===High schools===

Following the historical trend of Mexico's largest universities,<ref name="wes-highschool">{{cite web|title=Education in Mexico|last=Rowling|first=Kevin|date=June 2006|url=http://www.wes.org/ewenr/06jun/practical.htm|publisher=World Education Services|access-date=October 20, 2008}}</ref> the Institute sponsors several [[high school]]s which are united under the name "HighPoint International School". This high schools share one or more national curricula: bicultural, multicultural and/or [[International Baccalaureate]], which is administered from [[Geneva]], Switzerland.<ref name="ibo">{{cite web|url=https://tec.mx/es/prepatec/programas-academicos|title=PrepaTec Programas Académicos (Spanish)|website=TEC.MX|publisher=International Baccalaureate|access-date=June 30, 2019}}</ref> The bicultural focuses on better understanding of the English language, the multicultural program requires studying a third language and to have an exchange program abroad. Finally, the IB is an academically challenging program where students can obtain the [[IB Diploma Programme|IB Diploma]] when they graduate. Additionally, students can receive college credits both at the TEC and universities abroad.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.ibo.org/blog/2018/05/05/getting-ib-credit-at-university/|title=Getting IB diploma credit at US colleges and universities {{!}} IB Community Blog|language=en-US|access-date=June 30, 2019}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=September 2020}} Multicultural students are able to take IB courses if they wish with the focus on obtaining IB Subject Certificates. {{As of|2017|12}}, over 26,000 students in several campuses were registered as high school students within the system.<ref name="cifras"/>

==Academics==

[[File:ITESM Campus Monterrey Aulas I.jpg|right|thumb|The oldest academic building in the [[Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey|Monterrey Campus]], ''Aulas I'', and the towers of the Center of Advanced Production Technology (CETEC), which house several research centers]]

Academically, the university is organized into several departments and divisions —as opposed to the traditional [[faculty (division)|faculty]] school scheme used by most Mexican public universities— and it was the first Mexican university in history to divide the academic year in [[semester]]s. Current academic calendar for both high school and undergraduate students is composed of two semesters running from August to December and from January to May (each lasting 16 weeks) and an optional summer session from June to July, where at most two courses can be taken in an intensive basis.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

{{As of|2010}}, the institute offers 57 undergraduate degrees, of which 37 are taught in English and are generally awarded after nine semesters of study (except for [[Doctor of Medicine|Medicine]] and [[Architecture]]);<ref name="cifras"/> 33 [[master's degrees]], generally lasting three to five semesters (and can also be structured in three-months terms),<ref name="cifras"/> and 11 [[doctorate degree]]s varying in length according to their academic field.<ref name="cifras"/>

===Admissions===

Since 1969 the Institute requires every college applicant to achieve a minimum pass mark at an academic aptitude test which is 900 out of 1600. (''[[Prueba de Aptitud Académica]], PAA'') delivered by [[The College Board]], a [[not-for-profit]] examination board in the [[United States]].<ref name="collegeBoard">{{cite web|date=April 30, 2008|title=Politicas y Reglamentos de Profesional|url=https://tec.mx/es/politicas-y-reglamentos-de-profesional|access-date=February 17, 2022|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey|language=es}}</ref> However, each campus is free to request additional requirements; such as a grade average of 80 or 90 in high school (on a 100-point scale) for those willing to transfer or apply to the Monterrey Campus.<ref name="admissions">{{cite web|title=Proceso de Admisión|url=https://tec.mx/es/profesional/proceso-de-admision|access-date=February 17, 2022|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey|language=es}}</ref> As for the graduate schools, the requirements may vary according to the discipline, such as a grade average of 80/100 and 550-points in both the [[GMAT]] and the [[TOEFL]] for some programs at its Graduate Business School (EGADE).<ref>{{cite web|title=Admisiones|url=https://egade.tec.mx/es/admisiones|access-date=February 5, 2009|website=February 17, 2022|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey|language=es}}</ref>

===Accreditations===
[[File:CIAP Building ITESM.jpg|right|thumb|The International Center for Advanced Learning (CIAP)]]

Studies at the institute are officially accredited by the [[Secretariat of Public Education]] of Mexico (''Secretaría de Educación Pública, SEP'') and by the [[Southern Association of Colleges and Schools]] (SACS)<ref name="sacs">{{cite web |author=[[Southern Association of Colleges and Schools]] Commission on Colleges |title=Member, Candidate and Applicant List |url=http://www.sacscoc.org/pdf/webmemlist.pdf |page=16 |date=April 2008 |access-date=September 18, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722052548/http://www.sacscoc.org/pdf/webmemlist.pdf |archive-date=July 22, 2011 }}</ref> of the United States. In November 2008, its graduate business school ([[EGADE]]) became one of the 34 [[business school]]s in the world to hold simultaneous accreditation of its programs by the [[AACSB]] of the United States, the [[Association of MBAs]] of the [[United Kingdom]] and the [[European Quality Improvement System]] (EQUIS)<ref>{{cite web|author=|date=September 14, 2021|title=EGADE Business School, #1 de México y Latinoamérica, según ranking QS|url=https://tec.mx/es/noticias/nacional/institucion/egade-business-school-1-de-mexico-y-latinoamerica-segun-ranking-qs|access-date=February 17, 2022|website=Conecta|publisher=Tec de Monterrey|page=}}</ref> while the Institute became the first [[Latin America]]n university in history to receive full-accreditation on some of its engineering programs by [[ABET]] (as opposed to the traditional ''substantially-equivalent'' designation given to most schools outside the United States).<ref name="abet">{{cite web|title=Reciben la acreditación internacional ABET 11 carreras de la Escuela de Ingeniería del Tecnológico de Monterrey|url=https://tecreview.tec.mx/2015/10/27/uncategorized/ingenierias-del-tec-logran-acreditacion-internacional/|access-date=February 17, 2022|website=Tec Review|date=October 27, 2015|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey|language=es}}</ref>

The quality of its programs is also audited by the [[Institute of Food Technologists]], the [[Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management]] and by the national accrediting councils of Mexico, such as the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (''Consejo para la Acreditación de la Educación Superior, COPAES'') and the Inter-Institutional Committees for Higher Education Evaluation (''Comités Interinstitucionales de Evaluación de la Educación Superior, CIEES'').<ref name="itesm-acred">{{cite web|title=Acreditaciones|url=https://tec.mx/es/conocenos/acreditaciones|access-date=February 17, 2022|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey|language=es}}</ref>

{{As of|2017}}, 169 undergraduate degrees were accredited by national accrediting councils and 36 were accredited by international accrediting agencies.<ref name="cifras"/> As for graduate degrees, 11 were accredited by international accrediting agencies and 58 were listed in the National Census of High-Quality Postgraduate Studies (''Padrón Nacional de Posgrados de Calidad, PNPC'') by the [[CONACYT|National Council for Science and Technology]] (CONACYT).<ref name="cifras"/>

===Academic memberships===
The institute is the only Latin American institution at the [[European Consortium of Innovative Universities]] (ECIU) —an organization committed to innovations in both teaching and learning<ref name="eciu">{{cite web |author=European Consortium of Innovative Universities |title=Member Universities |url=http://eciu.web.ua.pt/page.asp?pg=7 |access-date=January 23, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725014930/http://eciu.web.ua.pt/page.asp?pg=7 |archive-date=July 25, 2015 |author-link=European Consortium of Innovative Universities }}</ref>— and at [[Universitas 21]]; an international network of research-intensive universities established as an "international reference point and resource for strategic thinking on issues of global significance."<ref name="univ21">{{cite web |author = Universitas 21 |title = Member Universities |url = http://www.universitas21.com/memberlist.html |access-date = January 23, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100210160704/http://www.universitas21.com/memberlist.html |archive-date = February 10, 2010 |url-status = dead |author-link = Universitas 21 }}</ref> It is also the only Mexican university, along the National Autonomous University of Mexico, to be enrolled at the [[Association of Pacific Rim Universities]], an international consortium of leading research universities including [[Stanford University]], [[University of California, Berkeley]] and [[California Institute of Technology|Caltech]].<ref name="apru">{{cite web |author = Association of Pacific Rim Universities |title = Member Universities |url = http://www.apru.org/about/members.htm |access-date = January 23, 2009 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070419033539/http://www.apru.org/about/members.htm |archive-date = April 19, 2007 |author-link = Association of Pacific Rim Universities }}</ref> The institute was also the first [[private university]] to become a member of the [[ANUIES|National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education of Mexico]] (ANUIES) back when it was composed entirely by [[public university|public universities]] (1958)<ref name="70veces"/> and is a full member of the Mexican Federation of Private Institutions of Higher Education (''Federación de Instituciones Mexicanas Particulares de Educación Superior, FIMPES''). The university recently became a partner of [[Washington University in St. Louis]] through the McDonnell International Scholars Academy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://global.wustl.edu/mcdonnell-academy/|title=McDonnell International Scholars Academy|website=Global|language=en-US|access-date=August 4, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://global.wustl.edu/mcdonnell-academy/partner-universities/tecnologico-de-monterrey/|title=Tecnológico de Monterrey|website=Global|language=en-US|access-date=August 4, 2019}}</ref>

===Faculty===
{{main|List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty}}
[[File:Sustentabilidad.jpg|thumb|right|Sustainable Campus]]
The institute has over 10,000 professors at high school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels: 2,207 tenured and 7,900 associated professors, and all of them have the appropriate academic credentials to lecture at their corresponding academic level according to the [[Southern Association of Colleges and Schools]].<ref name="cifras" /> {{As of|2017}} some 470 professors taught courses, worked in international projects or attended seminars or congresses at foreign universities while some 590 foreign professors taught courses at the institute.<ref name="cifras"/>  As for their academic development, its faculty training program was bestowed with the 2004 Andrew Heiskell Award for Innovation in International Education by the [[Institute of International Education]].<ref name="iie">{{cite web|url=http://www.iienetwork.org/?p=39499|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040309054012/http://www.iienetwork.org/?p=39499|url-status=usurped|archive-date=March 9, 2004|title=Andrew Heiskell Awards For Innovation in International Education|year=2004|publisher=Institute of International Education|access-date=August 8, 2008}}</ref>

===Libraries===

The institute has at least thirty-three libraries in twenty-five Mexican cities holding over 2.4 million [[book]]s, publications, and 46 types of [[electronic database]]s with at least 51,000 specialized magazines and [[academic journal]]s and over 9000 [[e-book]]s.<ref name="bibliotecas">{{cite web|url=http://biblioteca.itesm.mx|title=Bibliotecas|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey|language=es|access-date=July 12, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805110718/http://biblioteca.itesm.mx/|archive-date=August 5, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its [[Biblioteca Cervantina|Cervantean Library]], named after [[Miguel de Cervantes]] and located in the current rectorate, holds one of the largest collections of ''[[Don Quixote]]'' [[incunabula]], an original edition of ''L'[[Encyclopédie]]'',  and the [[Mario Pani]] Archives, and other bibliographical treasures while the main library of the Monterrey Campus holds the personal collections of [[archaeologist]] [[Ignacio Bernal]].<ref name="collections">{{cite web|url=http://www.patrimoniocultural.com.mx/|title=Patrimonio cultural|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey|language=es|access-date=July 12, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424110507/http://www.patrimoniocultural.com.mx/|archive-date=April 24, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Rankings===
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| THE_W = 601–800  | THE_W_year = 2024  | THE_W_ref = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/tecnologico-de-monterrey|title=Tecnológico de Monterrey|date=November 29, 2024|website=Times Higher Education (THE)}}</ref>
| QS_W = =184 | QS_W_year = 2024 | QS_W_ref = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/tecnologico-de-monterrey|title=QS World University Rankings 2024|website=Top Universities}}</ref>
| USNWR_W = =759 | USNWR_W_year = 2023 | USNWR_W_ref =<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/tecnologico-de-monterrey-529343|title=Best Global Universities - Tecnologico de Monterrey|website=U.S. News Education (USNWR)|access-date=8 March 2024}}</ref>
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[[File:EGADE Business School at Monterrey from Rufino Tamayo Park.JPG|right|thumb|Its graduate business school, [[EGADE]], in Monterrey, Mexico.]]
{{Update|date=September 2020}}
Overall, the institute is the only Mexican university besides the [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]] to be ranked at the 2010 [[QS World University Rankings]], in which it was classified #65 worldwide at its Employer's Review, #269 in Engineering and Information Technology, #232 in Social Sciences and #387 at its overall ranking.<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://www.topuniversities.com/institution/tecnologico-de-monterrey-itesm/wur|title=QS World University Rankings 2010|year=2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626122019/http://www.topuniversities.com/institution/tecnologico-de-monterrey-itesm/wur|archive-date=June 26, 2012|url-status=dead|access-date=April 29, 2011}}</ref> In the 2010 [[College and university rankings#Professional Ranking of World Universities|International Professional Ranking of World Universities]], developed by the ''[[École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris]]'', it ranked 224 out of 390 worldwide.<ref name="minesParis2010">{{cite web|url=http://www.mines-paristech.fr/Actualites/PR/Ranking2010EN-Fortune2009.pdf|title=International Professional Ranking of World Universities|author=École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720162316/http://www.mines-paristech.fr/Actualites/PR/Ranking2010EN-Fortune2009.pdf|archive-date=July 20, 2011|url-status=dead|access-date=April 29, 2011|author-link=École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris}}</ref>

Among its graduate schools, [[EGADE]] has been ranked 7th among the best [[business school]]s outside the [[United States]] according to the [[Wall Street Journal]] (2006),<ref name="wsj2006">{{cite web|author = Wall Street Journal |year = 2006 |title = CareerJournal:International Business Schools |url = http://www.careerjournal.com/reports/bschool06/20060920-table-international.html |access-date = September 20, 2006|archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20070110132125/http://www.careerjournal.com/reports/bschool06/20060920-table-international.html | archive-date = January 10, 2007
|author-link = Wall Street Journal }}</ref> 4th in the world in business ethics and social-responsibility programs according to [[BusinessWeek]] magazine (2005),<ref>{{cite web |author= |author-link=BusinessWeek |date=November 1, 2005 |title=B-Schools Ranked on Social Studies |url=http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/nov2005/bs2005111_4475.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080504154449/http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/nov2005/bs2005111_4475.htm |archive-date=May 4, 2008 |access-date=July 4, 2008 |publisher=[[BusinessWeek]]}}</ref> among the 100 best graduate business schools in the world by the [[Economist Intelligence Unit]] (2009)<ref name="economist_2009">{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/business-education/whichmba/displaystory.cfm?story_id=14530168|title=EGADE-Tec de Monterrey |date=October 19, 2009|publisher=The Economist|access-date=July 10, 2010}}</ref> and its OneMBA program, delivered in partnership with four different institutions (see [[#Joint programs and international partnerships|Joint programs and international partnerships]] below) was ranked 27 worldwide by the [[Financial Times]] in its 2009 Executive Master in Business Administration rankings.<ref name="ft-emba">{{cite web |author = Financial Times |year = 2009 |title = Executive MBA Rankings |url = http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/emba-rankings |access-date = July 10, 2010|author-link = Financial Times }}</ref>

===Joint programs and international partnerships===
[[File:Tec-de-monterrey-student-activities-in-wikimedia.webm|thumb|Student-created video documenting Tec's collaboration with Wikipedia]]
{{Update|date=September 2020}}
Some of its academic programs are offered as joint degrees or in partnership with foreign universities:

*Its Master of Science in Information Technology is offered as a joint degree with [[Carnegie-Mellon University]],<ref>{{cite web|date=May 21, 2018|title=Aprovecha las maestrías de Ingeniería y Tecnología|url=https://tec.mx/es/noticias/nacional/educacion/aprovecha-las-maestrias-de-ingenieria-y-tecnologia|access-date=February 17, 2022|work=Conecta|publisher=Tec de Monterrey|language=es}}</ref> which is ranked 4th for graduate studies in computer science in 2008 according to ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' and 7th in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences among [[Shanghai Jiao Tong University]]'s world's top 100 universities.<ref name="cmu">{{cite web|url=http://www.cmu.edu/news/rankings/|title=Rankings|publisher=Carnegie Mellon University|access-date=July 7, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221151333/http://www.cmu.edu/news/rankings/|archive-date=February 21, 2009}}</ref>

[[File:ITESM EGAP Monterrey.jpg|right|thumb|[[Ricardo Legorreta]] designed the EGAP CEMEX building, which houses the Graduate School of Public Administration and Public Policy, at [[San Pedro Garza García]], a suburb of [[Monterrey]]<ref name="egade">{{cite news|url=http://cmpublish.itesm.mx/wps/portal/egap/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4p3DwHJgFhuvvqRaCI-cJEgfW99X4_83FT9AP2C3NCIckdHRQDqvCG_/delta/base64xml/L0lDU0lKQ1RPN29na2tBISEvb0lvUUFBSVFnakZJQUFRaENFSVFqR0EhLzRKRmlDbzBlaDFpY29uUVZHaGQtLzdfMl9MVQ!!?WCM_PORTLET=PC_7_2_LU_WCM&WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/wps/wcm/connect/EGAP/Con%C3%B3cenos/Sala+de+prensa/Noticias/Institucionales/Inaugura+Presidente+de+M%C3%A9xico+edificio+de+la+EGAP |title=Inaugura Presidente de México edificio de la EGAP |last=Ortiz |first=Aída |date=February 20, 2008 |publisher=Agencia Informativa ITESM |language=es |access-date=July 10, 2009 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>]]

*The OneMBA degree is offered through a partnership with the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]], the [[Rotterdam School of Management]] of the [[Netherlands]], the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]] and the [[Getulio Vargas Foundation]] of [[Brazil]] and is ranked 27 worldwide among executive MBAs by the [[Financial Times]].<ref name="ft-emba"/>
*The B.A. Finance and Accounting is offered as a joint degree with the [[University of Texas at Austin]], Master in Professional Accounting, ranked #1 Graduate Accounting School in the U.S. by ''U.S. News & World Report'' since 2007.<ref>{{cite web |title=Best graduate schools for accounting |url=http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/accounting-rankings |date=2022-05-31 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20170210185355/http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/accounting-rankings |archive-date=2017-02-10 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*The Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering is offered in partnership with the [[University of Technology of Troyes|Université de Technologie de Troyes]] in [[France]] and with the {{Lang|fr|[[Université Laval]]|italic=no}} in [[Quebec City|Quebec]], Canada.
*The Global MBA for Latin American Managers is offered in partnership with the [[Thunderbird School of Global Management]], which has been ranked consistently by ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]'' as the #1 school in International Management since 1995.<ref name="t-bird">{{cite web|url=http://www.thunderbird.edu/prospective_students/working_prof_degrees/gmba_latam/index.htm|title=Global MBA for Latin American Managers|publisher=Thunderbird School of Global Management|access-date=July 7, 2008}}</ref>
*The [[Doctor of Medicine|medical degree]] is offered as a dual Ph.D. program with the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences of the [[Texas A&M Health Science Center]].<ref name="texasa&m">{{cite web |url=http://www.tamhsc.edu/news/?postID=2233 |title=HSC signs agreement for new graduate program with Monterrey Tech |date=July 14, 2006 |publisher=Texas A&M Health Science Center |access-date=August 2, 2008 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*An International MBA program is offered as a joint degree with the [[University of San Diego]].
*The institute has a strategic partnership with [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]] through [[Johns Hopkins Medicine International]].
*The Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Global Business and Strategy (MBA-GBS) is a double degree MBA program jointly offered by the Graduate School of Business Administration and Leadership (EGADE) at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, and the Belk College of Business (Belk College) at the [[University of North Carolina at Charlotte]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Maestría en Administración y Dirección de Empresas - Doble grado académico con University of North Carolina at Charlotte (MBA - G)|url=https://maestriasydiplomados.tec.mx/posgrados/maestria-en-administracion-y-direccion-de-empresas-doble-grado-academico-con-university-of-north-carolina-at-charlotte|access-date=February 17, 2022|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey}}</ref>
*The bachelor's degrees in Chemical Engineering are offered as joint degrees with the [[Reutlingen University]] of [[Germany]].<ref name="reutlingen">{{cite web|url=http://webfolders.mty.itesm.mx/panorama/pdf/2008/02-28/p09.pdf |title=Ofrecen doble titulación a IQs |last=Guerra |first=Raymundo |date=February 28, 2008 |publisher=Panorama |page=9 |language=es |access-date=July 7, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003031908/http://webfolders.mty.itesm.mx/panorama/pdf/2008/02-28/p09.pdf |archive-date=October 3, 2008 }}</ref>
*Several ITESM high schools offer the [[International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme]], which is administered by the [[Geneva]]-based [[International Baccalaureate]].<ref name="ibo"/>
*The school partners with New York City-based [[Trilogy Education Services]] to host a tech training program on ITESM's Mexico campus.<ref name=edsurge>{{cite web|url=https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-09-28-as-us-tech-companies-look-to-mexico-coding-bootcamps-follow|title=As US Tech Companies Look to Mexico, Coding Bootcamps Follow|website=Edsurge.com|date=September 28, 2017|access-date=September 12, 2018}}</ref>

==Medical school==
[[File:Facultad de ingenierías en ITESM campus Guadalajara.jpg|thumb|ITESM campus [[Guadalajara (México)|Guadalajara]].]]
[[File:Medical and Health School (Escuela de Medicina y Salud).jpg|thumb| [[Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine]], in the Guadalajara Campus]]
The [[Ignacio A. Santos School of Medicine]] (Escuela de Medicina Ignacio A. Santos, aka: EMIS) is the medical school division of the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM). Established in 1978 in Monterrey, Mexico.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://escuelademedicina.tec.mx/nosotros/historia.aspx|title=Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud TecSalud del Tecnológico de Monterrey|website=Escuelademedicina.tec.mx|access-date=December 22, 2018}}</ref>

The School of Medicine was founded to satisfy the country's need for high quality medical training and innovation in [[biomedical research]]. Currently, there are approximately 500 students enrolled in the M.D. program and about 105 postgraduate students. Aside from the medical doctor program, the School of Medicine also offers a joint M.D.-Ph.D. program with Houston Methodist Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas A&M Health Science Center, and other Bachelors in Biosciences, Nutrition Sciences and Biomedical Engineering. The graduate medical education department offers several medical residency and fellowship programs.<ref name="escuelademedicina.itesm.mx">{{cite web|url=http://escuelademedicina.tec.mx/programa-md-phd.aspx|title=Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud TecSalud del Tecnológico de Monterrey|website=Escuelademedicina.tec.mx|access-date=December 22, 2018}}</ref> The general director of the TecSalud organization is Guillermo Torre M.D. PhD, a cardiologist who trained under [[Michael E. DeBakey]] MD at [[Baylor College of Medicine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.houstonmethodist.org/faculty/guillermo-torre/|title=Houston Methodist|website=Houstonmethodist.org|access-date=December 22, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/ResourceMetadata/FJBBQQ|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917064100/http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/retrieve/ResourceMetadata/FJBBQQ|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 17, 2015|title=A Conversation Remembering Michael E. DeBakey with Dr. Donald A. B. Lindberg and Dr. Guillermo Torre-Amione|first1=Guillermo|last1=Torre-Amione|first2=Methodist|last2=Hospital|date=March 31, 2010|website=Profiles.nlm.nih.gov|access-date=December 22, 2018}}</ref>

[[File:Logo_TecSalud.png|thumb|TecSalud [[TecSalud]].]]

==Research==
[[File:Laboratorios CB.jpg|thumb|right|[[Biotechnology]] Center Research Laboratories]]
[[File:ITESM Femsa Biotechnology Center Aulas I.jpg|thumb|Its [[Fomento Económico Mexicano|FEMSA]] Biotechnology Center (left) is the leading source of [[patent application]]s among its research centers<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/notas.asp?nota_id=197689|title=Realiza centro del ITESM investigaciones en varios sectores|last=Córdova Rojas|first=Consuelo|date=February 29, 2008|publisher=El Porvenir|language=es|access-date=April 22, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721001542/http://www.elporvenir.com.mx/notas.asp?nota_id=197689|archive-date=July 21, 2011}}</ref> In 2008 the institute was the leading patent applicant among Mexican universities<ref name="1st-patents">{{cite web|url=http://portal.exatec1.itesm.mx/egresados/plsql/NoticiasPortalOr.NPO_Inicio?l_noticia=1835|title=Tiene Tecnológico de Monterrey 1er. lugar en solicitudes de patente|last=García|first=Diana|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey|language=es|access-date=April 22, 2009}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and generated three times as many international patents as its closest competitors.<ref name="financiero-ompi">{{cite news|url=http://web-archive-sources.org/repository/june14/MonitoreoTec_26-03-09.pdf|title=Presentó México 218 solicitudes de patentes en 2008|last=Otero Briz|first=Mariana|date=March 26, 2009|publisher=El Financiero|page=20|language=es|access-date=April 22, 2009|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821161820/http://web-archive-sources.org/repository/june14/MonitoreoTec_26-03-09.pdf|archive-date=August 21, 2014}}</ref>]]

Although some of the founding members of its faculty were prominent researchers (first rector [[León Ávalos y Vez]] had formed a National Commission on Science and served as director-general of the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering of the [[National Polytechnic Institute]]) formal research activities at the institute did not start until 1951, when its Institute of Industrial Research was founded in close collaboration with the [[Southwest Research Institute]] of [[San Antonio, Texas]] —one of the oldest and largest independent, nonprofit, applied research and development organizations in the [[United States]].<ref name="10-aniv">{{cite book|title=Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey: Décimo Aniversario 1943–1953|publisher=Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey|location=Monterrey|date=January 1954|page=26|oclc=19450249|language=es|quote="Fue creado bajo patrocinio de Enseñanza e Investigación Superior, y está afiliado al Southwest Research Institute, centro de investigaciones norteamericano.}}</ref>

Notwithstanding some reputable achievements, throughout most of the 20th century its research activities —normally financed independently or under private sponsorship— were rather scarce in comparison to public universities such as the [[National Autonomous University of Mexico]] or the [[National Polytechnic Institute]], whose budgets make up to 30% of the federal spending in higher education and, as such, are heavily financed by the government through the federal budget.<ref name="oppenheimer">{{cite book |last=Oppenheimer |first=Andrés |author-link=Andrés Oppenheimer |title=Cuentos chinos : el engaño de Washington, la mentira populista y la esperanza de América latina |publisher=Editorial Sudamericana |location=Buenos Aires, Argentina |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-307-34799-2 |oclc=70055929 |url=https://archive.org/details/cuentoschinos00andr |access-date=July 4, 2008 |language=es |url-access=registration }}</ref>

Despite its inherent difficulties to secure research funds in a [[developing country]] where private sponsorship barely accounts for 1.1% of the national spending on science,<ref name="jornadaOCDE">{{cite web|url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/01/03/index.php?section=sociedad&article=034n1soc|title=OCDE: insuficientes investigadores en México para actividades de alta calidad|last=Aviles|first=Karina|date=January 3, 2007|publisher=La Jornada|language=es|access-date=July 6, 2008}}</ref> a new institutional mission in 2005 made social and scientific research in Mexico's strategic areas one of its top priorities for the next decade. As a result, new corporate endowments and funds were committed, new research programs were created (including the first research program financed by [[Google]] in [[Latin America]])<ref name="google">{{cite web|url=http://web2.mty.itesm.mx/temporal/transferencia/?p=93|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722225832/http://web2.mty.itesm.mx/temporal/transferencia/?p=93|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 22, 2011|title=Google desarrolla proyectos de investigación con el Tecnológico de Monterrey|date=February 2, 2007|publisher=Transferencia: Posgrado, Investigación y Extensión en el Campus Monterrey|language=es|access-date=July 6, 2008}}</ref> and important labs and infrastructure have been built, such as the {{nowrap|[[United States dollar|US$]] 43 million}} Femsa Biotechnology Center,<ref name="femsa-biotech">{{cite web|url=http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/335262.buscan-en-plantas-mexicanas-solucion-a-enferm.html|title=Buscan en plantas mexicanas solución a enfermedades|date=March 8, 2008|publisher=El Siglo de Torreón|language=es|access-date=July 5, 2008}}</ref> the Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean (financed by the [[Inter-American Development Bank]] and the Femsa Foundation),<ref name="water">{{cite web|url=http://www.iadb.org/topics/water/waterinitiative/watercenter.cfm?lang=en&id=wasa |title=Water Center for Latin America and the Caribbean |publisher=Inter-American Development Bank |access-date=February 5, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326132201/http://www.iadb.org/topics/water/waterinitiative/watercenter.cfm?lang=en |archive-date=March 26, 2009 }}</ref> the [[Motorola]] Research and Development Center on Home & Networks Mobility,<ref name="motorola">{{cite web|date=June 12, 2008|title=Abren Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Motorola|url=https://repositorio.tec.mx/bitstream/handle/11285/573444/DocsTec_6565.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|access-date=February 17, 2022|publisher=Panorama|language=es}}</ref> its {{nowrap|MXN $24 million}} Center for Advanced Design at the [[Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara|Guadalajara Campus]]<ref name="cda-gdl">{{cite news |last=León Martínez |first=Tansania |date=November 23, 2005 |title=Centro de Diseño madurará a incubados |language=es |publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey |url=http://www.tecdemonterrey.edu.mx/sistema/noticias/nota3.html |url-status=dead |access-date=July 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722224631/http://www.tecdemonterrey.edu.mx/sistema/noticias/nota3.html |archive-date=July 22, 2011}}</ref> and, in association with the [[Institut für Mikrotechnik Mainz|Mainz Institute of Microtechnology]] of [[Germany]] (IMM), the first center of chemical [[micro process engineering]] in [[Latin America]].<ref name="microprocess">{{cite web|url=http://webfolders.mty.itesm.mx/panorama/pdf/2008/04-10/completo.pdf |title=Innovan con Centro de Microprocesos |last=Guerra |first=Raymundo |date=April 10, 2008 |publisher=Panorama |page=5 |language=es |access-date=August 3, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003031842/http://webfolders.mty.itesm.mx/panorama/pdf/2008/04-10/completo.pdf |archive-date=October 3, 2008 }}</ref>

Additionally, the Institute developed a researcher-friendly [[patent]] scheme that aims to attract talented researchers and reduce the national [[brain drain]]. The scheme, in which the researcher may receive up to 30% of the patent licensing income,<ref name="patent-itesm">{{cite web|url=http://www.cnnexpansion.com/emprendedores/2008/03/17/listo-para-armar/view |title=Innovación: de la academia a la empresa |last=Ángeles |first=Alejandro |author2=Moctezuma, Regina |date=March 17, 2008 |publisher=CNN Expansión |language=es |access-date=July 5, 2008 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080327231219/http://www.cnnexpansion.com/emprendedores/2008/03/17/listo-para-armar/view |archive-date=March 27, 2008 }}</ref> works in combination with its internal {{nowrap|[[Mexican peso|MXN$]] 100,000}} '''Rómulo Garza Prize''' and its national {{nowrap|[[Mexican peso|MXN$]] 200,000}} '''Luis Elizondo Prize''' and has allowed it to become the leading [[patent]] applicant among Mexican universities since 2006.<ref name="patentes">{{cite web |title=2009 Mexican Institute of Industrial Property Annual Report |url=http://www.impi.gob.mx/QuienesSomos/Documentos%20Varios/IA2009.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=February 11, 2015 |publisher=[[Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial]] |language=es |quote=Las universidades que presentaron más solicitudes de patente en nuestro país fueron: el Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) con 37, la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) con 21 y la Universidad de Guanajuato (UG) con 10.}}</ref>

==Student life==

[[File:Borregos Salvajes ITESM CEM.jpg|thumb|right|An [[American football]] player from the [[Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, State of Mexico Campus|State of Mexico Campus]] overlooks the playing field. Teams from the Institute won every single American Football [[ONEFA|Collegiate Championship]] in Mexico from 1998 to 2008<ref name="onefa" />]]

Student life, traditions and activities vary among campuses. Generally speaking, student involvement is encouraged by the local campus through an office of student affairs and the Department of Leadership and Student Formation (LiFE), which supervises most of the student groups, sports teams, regional associations and its student federation (FETEC).

The Institute goes to great lengths to provide scholarships to those in need, awarding partial financial assistance to 49% of its student population.<ref name="cifras"/> However, with tuition fees exceeding {{nowrap|[[Mexican peso|MXN]] $200,000}} per academic year<ref name="tuition">{{cite web|url=http://pie.sistema.itesm.mx/costos.asp|title=Tecnológico de Monterrey: Plan de Inversión Educativa|year=2011|publisher=ITESM|language=es|access-date=October 15, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130221024117/http://pie.sistema.itesm.mx/costos.asp|archive-date=February 21, 2013}}</ref> (among the highest in [[Latin America]] according to [[Forbes magazine]])<ref name="forbes">{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2008/01/21/education-university-globalization-biz-cx_bw_lh_0121colleges_slide_13.html?thisSpeed=35000|title=In Pictures: The World's Most Expensive Universities|last=Wingfield|first=Brian|author2=Hau, Louis|date=January 21, 2008|work=Forbes|access-date=July 7, 2008}}</ref> most of its student community comes from upper and upper-middle class and the overall atmosphere is arguably politically and socially conservative. For example, opposite-sex visits are forbidden in dormitories unless it is in common areas and some [[high school]] staff in the Mexico City Campus has publicly admonished students for questioning conservative politicians during school visits<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/04/15/008n1pol.php|title=Reprime el Tec a alumna que increpó al Presidente|last=Herrera Beltrán|first=Claudia|date=April 15, 2005|publisher=La Jornada|language=es|access-date=July 5, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406051727/http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/04/15/008n1pol.php|archive-date=April 6, 2008}}</ref> (although no disciplinary action was ever taken).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/04/16/007n2pol.php|title=Se desiste el Tec de expulsar a estudiante|last=Herrera Beltrán|first=Claudia|author2=Bolaños, Ángel|date=April 16, 2005|publisher=La Jornada|language=es|access-date=July 5, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071205181044/http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2005/04/16/007n2pol.php|archive-date=December 5, 2007}}</ref>

The number of international students vary notably among campuses. {{As of|2017|12}}, 4,714 foreign students were studying in one of its campuses while 10,618 Tech students were taking courses in a foreign university.<ref name="cifras" />

===Athletics===
{{See also|Borregos Salvajes}}
{{Update|date=September 2020}}
[[File:ITESM Estadio Tecnologico.jpg|right|thumb|The ''[[Estadio Tecnológico]]'', aside from hosting athletic and cultural events, hosts professional football matches since 1952<ref name="terra-stadium">{{cite web|url=http://www.terra.com.mx/articulo.aspx?articuloId=736738|title=El Estadio Tecnológico|date=September 12, 2008|publisher=Terra Networks|language=es|access-date=July 10, 2009}}</ref> and served as an official venue for the [[1983 FIFA World Youth Championship]]<ref name="Contreras_2010">{{cite web|url=http://web2.mty.itesm.mx/panorama/pdf/2010/07-01/p01.pdf|title=Celebra 60 aniversario|publisher=Semanario Panorama (Tecnológico de Monterrey)|access-date=July 10, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722230248/http://web2.mty.itesm.mx/panorama/pdf/2010/07-01/p01.pdf|archive-date=July 22, 2011}}</ref> and the [[1986 FIFA World Cup]].<ref name="fifa-venues">{{cite web|url=http://de.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mencompwc/51/97/64/ip-201_05a_fwc-stadiums.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119054409/http://de.fifa.com/mm/document/fifafacts/mencompwc/51/97/64/ip-201_05a_fwc-stadiums.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 19, 2012|title=FIFA World Cup: Venues|publisher=Fédération Internationale de Football Association|access-date=July 10, 2009}}</ref>]]

[[file:EstadioTecnologico.JPG|thumb|Aerial shot of the stadium of the Monterrey Rayados soccer team.]]

Tec has a good record in college athletics, picking up over 18% of the medals at the 2007 national collegiate competition (''Universiada'')<ref>{{cite web|date=November 19, 2020|title=¡Medallas, récords y hazañas! Borregas del Tec en lo alto del deporte|url=https://tec.mx/es/noticias/nacional/deportes/borregas-75-aniversario-medallas-records-y-hazanas-borregas-del-tec-en-lo-alto-del-deporte|access-date=February 17, 2022|work=Conecta|publisher=Tecnológico de Monterrey|language=es}}</ref> and one of its campuses won every American Football Collegiate Championship in Mexico ([[ONEFA]]) from 1998 to 2008.<ref name="onefa">{{cite web|url=http://www.onefa.org/historia/mayor/histmay.htm|title=Cronología de Campeones Nacionales (12 Grandes)|publisher=Organización Nacional Estudiantil de Futbol Americano|language=es|access-date=July 7, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420073412/http://www.onefa.org/historia/mayor/histmay.htm|archive-date=April 20, 2008}}</ref> Such accomplishments were possible through the institute's investments in sports facilities and personnel and a well-funded and comprehensive athletic scholarships program, which attracted a significant number of promising athletes but prompted allegations of talent drain by some of its rivals.<ref name="onefa-division">{{cite web|url=http://www.esmas.com/deportes/futbolamericano/704010.html|title=Se divide la ONEFA, con la creación de la Conferencia del Centro|date=February 13, 2008|publisher=Notimex|language=es|access-date=July 7, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090913030020/http://www.esmas.com/deportes/futbolamericano/704010.html|archive-date=September 13, 2009}}</ref> Before the 2009 season the Institute decided to part ways with the organization and create a new league;<ref name="abandoned-onefa">{{cite web|url=http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8544690|title=Abandonan la ONEFA|date=March 14, 2009|publisher=Milenio|language=es|access-date=March 14, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217081150/http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8544690|archive-date=December 17, 2009}}</ref> however, the league didn't materialize after other breakaway universities decided to remain in the ONEFA.<ref name="new-league-onefa">{{cite web|url=http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8562154|title=Dos más se quedan|date=April 18, 2009|publisher=Milenio|language=es|access-date=March 14, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724145553/http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8562154|archive-date=July 24, 2011}}</ref> The Institute asked to return to the organization, but the ONEFA Board decided that the request should be formally presented in its next ordinary meeting, after the 2009 season,<ref name="fuera-borregos">{{cite web|url=http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8574134|title=Fuera Borregos|date=May 12, 2009|publisher=Milenio|language=es|access-date=March 14, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091226042630/http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8574134|archive-date=December 26, 2009}}</ref> which its four teams ended up playing between themselves in a Tech-only championship.<ref name="campeonato-borrego">{{cite web|url=http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8662237|title=Ya tienen rival para la final|date=October 24, 2009|publisher=Milenio|language=es|access-date=March 14, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724145632/http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8662237|archive-date=July 24, 2011}}</ref> For the 2010 season, the Institute decided not to participate in the ONEFA championship and, instead, asked the CONADEIP, a national athletic association of private educational institutions, to create an American football championship.<ref name="ahora-ellos">{{cite web|url=http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8722302|title=Ahora ellos dicen no|date=February 19, 2010|publisher=Milenio|language=es|access-date=March 14, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326042119/http://impreso.milenio.com/node/8722302|archive-date=March 26, 2010}}</ref>

Although there are local adaptations, since 1945 the system-wide sports mascot is the ram (''[[Borregos Salvajes|borrego salvaje]]''), traditionally embodied in a male [[bighorn sheep]]. A somewhat popular [[urban legend]] states that the mascot was chosen by the American football team on its way to a match, after spotting a male sheep on the road. According to the official sources, however, the mascot was chosen during an official contest held by students in the mid-1940s.<ref name="70veces" />

==Notable people==
{{See also|List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni|List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty}}
From December 2006 to January 2009 both the [[U.S. Secretary of Commerce]] and the [[Secretary of Economy (Mexico)|Mexican Secretary of Economy]] (former [[Kelloggs]]' CEO [[Carlos Gutierrez|Carlos Gutiérrez]]<ref name="CarlosGutierrez">{{cite web|url=http://www.commerce.gov/bios/Gutierrez_bio.htm|title=Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez|publisher=U.S. Department of Commerce|access-date=September 1, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080422103511/http://www.commerce.gov/bios/Gutierrez_bio.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = April 22, 2008}}</ref> and [[Gerardo Ruiz Mateos]]<ref name="RuizMateos">{{cite web|url=http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/en/cabinet/?contenido=28709|title=The cabinet|date=August 8, 2008|publisher=Presidencia de la República|access-date=September 1, 2008}}</ref>) were Tech alumni. Other businesspeople include [[Cemex]]'  CEO [[Lorenzo Zambrano]],<ref name="ZambranoEconomist">{{cite news|url=http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5017200|title=Face value: The master builder|date=October 13, 2005|publisher=The Economist|access-date=September 1, 2008}}</ref> [[FEMSA]]'s CEO [[José Antonio Fernández Carbajal|José Antonio Fernández]],<ref name="CarbajalFemsa">{{cite web|url=http://www.femsa.com/en/about/management/carbajal.htm|title=José Antonio Fernández Carbajal|publisher=Femsa|access-date=September 1, 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517120441/http://www.femsa.com/en/about/management/carbajal.htm|archive-date=May 17, 2014}}</ref> [[Grupo Salinas]]' CEO [[Ricardo Salinas Pliego]],<ref name="SalinasPliego">{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/U8K0.html|title=Ricardo Salinas Pliego & family |year=2006 |work=Forbes |access-date=September 1, 2008}}</ref> film producer and activist [[Max Appedole]], and Casa Cuervo's CEO Juan Beckman.<ref name="beckman">{{cite web|url=http://www.lideresmexicanos.com/articulos.php?id_sec=64&id_art=739&id_ejemplar=76 |title=Juan Beckman Vidal |date=July 2, 2007 |publisher=Revista Líderes Mexicanos |access-date=September 18, 2008 }}{{dead link|date=June 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In science and technology, [[Alexander Balankin]],  former lecturer at the [[Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City Campus|Mexico City Campus]],<ref name="BalankinCV">{{cite web|url=http://www.mfractal.esimez.ipn.mx/integrantes/ab/ab_cv_en.html|title=Alexander Balankin CV|publisher=Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica (IPN)|access-date=September 1, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005121414/http://www.mfractal.esimez.ipn.mx/integrantes/ab/ab_cv_en.html|archive-date=October 5, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> has received the 2005 [[UNESCO Science Prize]] for his works on Fractal Mechanics; [[Ernesto Enkerlin]] received UNESCO's 2005 [[Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Preservation]] for his involvement in sustainability<ref name="unesco">{{cite web | author = UNESCO | title = Australian Marine Park Authority and Mexican Ecologist Receive 2005 Sultan Qaboos Prize for Environmental Protection | url = http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=28293&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html | date = July 5, 2007 | access-date = June 2, 2008 }}</ref> and two alumni have been members of the [[United States President]]'s Information Technology Advisory Committee: [[Pedro Celis]] (Distinguished Engineer at [[Microsoft]]) and [[Héctor García Molina]], former Director of [[Stanford University]]'s Computer Science Department, 1999 [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] [[SIGMOD]] Innovations Award<ref name="acm">
{{cite web |author= Acm sigmod |title=SIGMOD Awards |url = http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/sigmodinfo/awards/ |access-date= March 10, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080514034911/http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/sigmodinfo/awards/ <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = May 14, 2008}}</ref> and highest [[h-index]] in [[Computer Science]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://infolab.stanford.edu/~hector/xfer/NatureHIndex.pdf|title= Achievement index climbs the ranks|last=Ball|first=Philip|date=August 16, 2007|journal= Nature|volume=448|issue=7155 |page=737|doi=10.1038/448737a|pmid=17700666|bibcode=2007Natur.448..737B|s2cid=4430827|access-date=July 8, 2008|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080419025825/http://infolab.stanford.edu/~hector/xfer/NatureHIndex.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = April 19, 2008|doi-access=free}}</ref>

At least two late presidential candidates and democracy activists, [[Luis Donaldo Colosio]] and [[Manuel Clouthier]], were former graduates. Over a dozen Mexican governors and cabinet members have attended classes at the institute, including former Secretary of Commerce and [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA) negotiator [[Herminio Blanco]]. In cultural affairs, [[Gabriel Zaid]] has distinguished himself as one of the leading Mexican intellectuals of the 20th century, and in sports, [[Fernando Platas]] and [[Víctor Estrada]] have both won [[Olympics]] medals, while former coach of [[Mexico national football team|Mexico's national football team]], [[Miguel Mejía Barón]], is in charge of the Football Department at [[Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Puebla|Puebla]].<ref name="mejia">{{cite web|url=http://www.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx/noticia/346577.recuerdos-del-ayer.html|title=Recuerdos del Ayer|last=Rosas|first=Sergio Luis|date=April 23, 2008|publisher=El Siglo de Torreón|language=es|access-date=July 8, 2008}}</ref>

As for staff and faculty, at least two rectors or directors of different universities have been lecturers or members of the staff at the institute. [[Luis Ernesto Derbez]], a former Foreign Minister, is currently the Rector of the [[Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla|University of the Americas, Puebla]]. Enrique Cabrero Mendoza is the current head of [[Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico)|The National Council for Science and Technology]] and a former rector of [[Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas|CIDE]]. In addition, the Ex-Rector [[Rafael Rangel Sostmann]] is member of the External Advisory Council of the [[World Bank Institute]].

==See also==
* [[List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education faculty]]
* [[List of Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education alumni]]

==References==
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