Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

The Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) is a public autonomous research university of Mexico, founded by federal law on 1 January 1974 with the support of President Luis Echeverría Álvarez, and organised as five academic units spread across Mexico City and the State of Mexico.墨西哥大都会自治大学（Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana，简称 UAM）是墨西哥的一所公立自治研究大学，依据联邦法律于 1974 年 1 月 1 日在路易斯·埃切维里亚·阿尔瓦雷斯总统支持下创建，由散布于墨西哥城与墨西哥州的五个学术单元组成。

Its institutional motto In Calli Ixcahuicopa, a Nahuatl phrase usually rendered as House open to time, expresses the idea of a university that keeps renewing itself, and the university is grouped in the ANUIES and CONAHEC networks.该校校训「In Calli Ixcahuicopa」是纳瓦特尔语，通常释为「向时间敞开的家园」，寓意一所不断自我更新的大学，学校参加 ANUIES 与 CONAHEC 两个网络。

UAM teaches more than 60,000 students across 82 undergraduate and 111 postgraduate programmes, employs roughly 2,700 faculty, and places 61,152 students on record in the 2027 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, which places it in the 1801-2000 band.UAM 开设 82 个本科与 111 个研究生项目，在校生逾 60,000 人，专任教学人员约 2,700 人；2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名收录其在校生 61,152 人，将学校列入第 1801-2000 位区间。

History

• The founding followed the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre and the student movements that followed it, which made the need for a thorough reform of Mexican higher education plain.学校的创办源于 1968 年特拉特洛尔科惨案及其后的学生运动，这些事件使墨西哥高等教育全面改革的需求变得明确。

• In 1973 the National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education, ANUIES, presented President Echeverría with a document arguing for a new university in the Mexico City metropolitan area, citing rising student demand and the failure of existing universities to admit more applicants.1973 年，全国 Universities 与高等教育机构协会（ANUIES）向埃切维里亚总统提交文件，主张在墨西哥城都会区新建一所大学，理由是学生需求上升而既有大学无力招收更多申请者。

• The same proposal argued that the new institution could modernise higher education, and it set out the four characteristics the new university was to have, namely that it be public, metropolitan, autonomous and innovative in its educational and organisational terms.同一份提案还主张这所新机构可以推动高等教育现代化，并提出新大学应具备四项特征，即公立性、都会性、自治性，以及在教育与组织方式上的创新性。

• The law creating the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana came into force on 1 January 1974, and on 10 January of that year the architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez was appointed its first Rector.创建大都会自治大学的法律于 1974 年 1 月 1 日生效，同年 1 月 10 日，建筑家佩德罗·拉米雷斯·巴斯克斯被任命为该校首任校长。

• The university was established with three units, at Iztapalapa, Azcapotzalco and Xochimilco, chosen to promote decentralisation and to bring higher education to the peripheral districts of the capital.学校最初设立伊斯塔帕拉帕、阿斯卡波察尔科与索奇米尔科三个单元，意在推动权力下放，并把高等教育带到首都的外围城区。

• Scientific research was concentrated at the Iztapalapa unit, traditional careers such as civil engineering and architecture at Azcapotzalco, and the health field at Xochimilco.学校将科学研究集中于伊斯塔帕拉帕单元，将土木工程、建筑等传统专业置于阿斯卡波察尔科，将健康学科置于索奇米尔科。

• Its internal organisation was built on divisions and academic departments rather than on the schools and faculties used by existing universities, so that each division grouped related areas of knowledge and each department a single discipline, giving a flexible structure intended to stop education lagging behind science.学校的内部组织不采用既有大学的学院与学部建制，而以学部（division）与学系（academic department）为主，每个学部聚合相关知识领域、每个学系对应单一学科，从而形成一种旨在避免教育落后于科学进程的弹性结构。

• The Iztapalapa unit was the first to open, starting operations on 30 September 1974 under its first rector Alonso Fernández González.伊斯塔帕拉帕单元最先开办，于 1974 年 9 月 30 日开始运行，首任校长为阿隆索·费尔南德斯·冈萨雷斯。

• Azcapotzalco opened its doors on 11 November 1974 with Juan Casillas García de León as rector, and Xochimilco began teaching on the same date under Ramón Villarreal Pérez.阿斯卡波察尔科单元于 1974 年 11 月 11 日开门，首任校长为胡安·卡西利亚斯·加西亚·德·莱昂；索奇米尔科单元同日开学，首任校长为拉蒙·比利亚雷亚尔·佩雷斯。

• The Organic Law of the UAM, laid down in articles 6 to 31, set out a model built on collegiate organs, academic units, divisions and academic departments, each with its own powers and obligations.《大都会自治大学组织法》第 6 至 31 条确立了由全体会议机构、学术单元、部与学系构成的模式，各层各自拥有权限与义务。

• Each of the five academic units keeps its own organisation chart with a unit rector, and the whole system is headed by a General Rector.五个学术单元各自设有组织架构与单元校长，整个体系由总校长统辖。

• The institution has had fifteen General Rectors, among them the philosopher Fernando Salmerón Roiz, who held the office from 1979 to 1981, and the chemist Salvador Vega y León, who served from 2013 to 2017.该校先后历经十五任总校长，其中哲学家费尔南多·萨尔梅龙·罗伊斯于 1979 至 1981 年任职，化学家萨尔瓦多·维加·伊·莱昂则于 2013 至 2017 年任职。

• Two further rectors were associated with UAM-Xochimilco research careers, with José Antonio de los Reyes Heredia serving as General Rector from 2021 to 2025 after leading the Basic Sciences and Engineering division at the Iztapalapa unit.另有两位总校长与索奇米尔科单元的研究经历相关，何塞·安东尼奥·德·洛斯·雷耶斯·赫雷迪亚曾任伊斯塔帕拉帕单元基础科学与工程学部负责人，之后于 2021 至 2025 年出任总校长。

• The Academic College approved the creation of the Cuajimalpa unit on 26 April 2005, and Dr Fresán Magdalena Orozco was appointed its first rector in June of that year.2005 年 4 月 26 日，全体会议批准设立夸希马尔帕单元，同年 6 月弗雷桑·玛格达莱娜·奥罗斯科博士获任该单元首任校长。

• Cuajimalpa began activities on 14 September 2005, first from premises borrowed from the Universidad Iberoamericana and then from a series of temporary facilities, before reaching a permanent site in 2014.夸希马尔帕单元于 2005 年 9 月 14 日开始运作，最初借用伊比利亚美洲大学的场地，随后几度迁入临时设施，直至 2014 年才获得永久校址。

• The permanent Cuajimalpa site was built on the Scorpio plot, formerly part of the La Venta special forestry and industrial reforestation zone, a tract that had resisted development because of legal uncertainty and local opposition to the felling of the Ocotal forest.夸希马尔帕的永久校址建在「蝎子」地块上，该地原属拉文塔特别森林与工业再造林区，因法律上的不确定性以及当地居民反对采伐奥科塔尔森林而长期未能开发。

• The Lerma unit in the State of Mexico was created in 2009, completing the five-unit structure of the university system.位于墨西哥州的莱尔马单元于 2009 年设立，标志着学校五单元结构的完成。

• A General Rectorship audit for 2009 recorded that Cuajimalpa produced its first graduates that year, with 17 in law, 30 in business administration, 10 in computer engineering, 9 in design and 1 in applied mathematics.2009 年的总校长工作报告记录，夸希马尔帕单元当年产出首批毕业生，其中法学 17 人、工商管理 30 人、计算机工程 10 人、设计 9 人、应用数学 1 人。

• The university signed 399 national and international academic cooperation agreements between 2017 and 2022 and published 26,090 articles indexed in Scopus over the same period.2017 至 2022 年间，学校签署了 399 项国内外学术合作协议，并在同期于 Scopus 数据库发表 26,090 篇论文。

• The General Rectorship is currently held by the neuroscientist Gustavo Pacheco López for the 2025-2029 period, with Esthela Irene Sotelo Núñez appointed Secretary General on 1 August 2025 for the same term.总校长一职现由神经科学家古斯塔沃·帕切科·洛佩斯担任，任期为 2025 至 2029 年；埃斯特拉·伊雷内·索特洛·努涅斯于 2025 年 8 月 1 日被任命为同届期秘书长。

• A coordination agreement signed on 8 August 2025 with the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, Secihti, set out joint work on semiconductors, artificial intelligence and the energy transition.2025 年 8 月 8 日，学校与科学、人文、技术与创新部（Secihti）签署协调协议，就半导体、人工智能与能源转型确定联合工作方向。

Academics

• UAM offers 82 undergraduate and 111 postgraduate programmes, taught across five academic units and their divisions of basic sciences and engineering, biological and health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.学校开设 82 个本科与 111 个研究生项目，由五个学术单元及其基础科学与工程、生物与健康科学、社会科学与人文等学部承担教学。

• Each academic unit is divided into three divisions, and the division names differ from unit to unit, so that Azcapotzalco has Basic Sciences and Engineering, Social Sciences and Humanities, and Sciences and Arts for Design.每个学术单元下设三个学部，且各单元的学部名称并不相同，例如阿斯卡波察尔科设有基础科学与工程、社会科学与人文、科学与艺术设计三个学部。

• Cuajimalpa instead runs a Communication Sciences and Design division, a Social Sciences and Humanities division, and a Natural Sciences and Engineering division.夸希马尔帕则设有传播科学与设计、社会科学与人文、自然科学与工程三个学部。

• Iztapalapa and Lerma both combine Basic Sciences and Engineering, Biological and Health Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities, while Xochimilco pairs Sciences and Arts for Design with the biological and health and the social sciences divisions.伊斯塔帕拉帕与莱尔马均设基础科学与工程、生物与健康科学、社会科学与人文三个学部；索奇米尔科则以科学与艺术设计学部搭配生物与健康科学、社会科学与人文学部。

• Azcapotzalco offers seventeen programmes, covering engineering from civil and electrical to metallurgical and chemical engineering, plus administration, law, economics, sociology, architecture and industrial design.阿斯卡波察尔科单元提供十七个专业，涵盖土木、电气、冶金、化学等工程专业，以及工商管理、法学、经济学、社会学、建筑与工业设计。

• Cuajimalpa offers eleven undergraduate and four postgraduate programmes, including design, communication sciences, information technologies and systems, socio-territorial studies, biological engineering, applied mathematics and computer engineering.夸希马尔帕单元提供十一个本科与四个研究生专业，包括设计、传播科学、信息技术与系统、社会地域研究、生物工程、应用数学与计算机工程。

• The university reported more than 60,000 students, 82 undergraduate programmes and a faculty of 3,088 academics in a teaching and research profile, 89 per cent of whom are full-time and 87 per cent of whom hold postgraduate degrees.学校曾报告在校生逾 60,000 人、本科专业 82 个，并拥有 3,088 名教学科研型教职人员，其中 89% 为全职、87% 拥有研究生学位。

• The 2027 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings records 61,152 students and a student to staff ratio of 44.7 to 1, while the QS 2027 edition reports 362 international students, or 0.5 per cent of the total.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名收录该校在校生 61,152 人、师生比 44.7 比 1；QS 2027 版则记录其国际学生 362 人，占总数 0.5%。

• The World Higher Education Database records 2,862 full-time staff for 2022-2023, of whom 1,792 held doctorates, and total enrolment of 61,152 for 2024-2025.《世界高等教育数据库》记录该校 2022 至 2023 学年全职教职人员 2,862 人，其中 1,792 人拥有博士学位，2024 至 2025 学年在校生总数为 61,152 人。

• Over 38 per cent of the academic staff are registered in the National System of Researchers, which recognises research quality and relevance, and the university states it has the highest such proportion among Mexican public universities.学校逾 38% 的教职人员注册于国家研究者体系（Sistema Nacional de Investigadores），该体系对研究质量与相关性予以认定；学校称此比例在墨西哥公立大学中最高。

• The whole system spans about 485,000 square metres, has more than 300 laboratories, and has graduated more than 207,000 people from its undergraduate and graduate programmes.整个体系占地约 485,000 平方米，拥有 300 余间实验室，其本科与研究生项目已培养出 20.7 万余人。

• Standing out among the fields in which UAM is recognised for its contribution to society are nanotechnology, biology, sustainable energy, materials, mathematics, chemistry, physics, economics, education, urban development, anthropology, health, architecture and design.学校在贡献社会的领域中获得认可的方向包括纳米技术、生物学、可持续能源、材料、数学、化学、物理、经济学、教育、城市发展、人类学、健康、建筑与设计。

• Admissions run through two selection processes a year, one in March and one in September, in which applicants sit a knowledge test for each subject area they apply to.学校每年举行两次招生选拔，分别在三月与九月举行，考生须就所报读的每个学科领域参加知识测试。

• UAM publishes several titles including Casa Abierta al Tiempo and Ciencia desde la UAM, together with Revista Casa del Tiempo and its own University Press.学校出版《向时间敞开的家园》《来自大都会自治大学的科学》等刊物，以及《时间之家》期刊，并设有自己的大学出版社。

• Its leadership runs a directorate for cooperation and inter-institutional relations, assisted by a deputy directorate for internationalisation and mobility that administers the exchange agreements.学校设有合作与国际机构关系局，并由负责国际化与流动的副局协办各项交流协议。

• Study plans are evaluated by CONAES and the inter-institutional committees for the evaluation of higher education, known as CIEES.学校的教学方案由高等教育评估与认可委员会（CONAES）及跨机构高等教育评估委员会（CIEES）评估。

• The university takes part in institutional research programmes and multidisciplinary projects with more than 425 higher education institutions and research centres at national and international level.学校参与机构性研究计划，并与 425 家以上的国内高等教育机构与研究中心开展多学科项目合作。

Campus

• The Rectoría General, the main office of the university system, stands in the south of the city on Prolongación Canal de Miramontes at the former San Juan de Dios hacienda in Tlalpan, postal code 14387.作为整个大学体系总部的大都会自治大学总校长府位于城市南部，坐落在特拉尔潘区圣胡安·德·迪亚斯旧庄园的卡纳尔·德·米拉蒙特斯延长线上，邮编 14387。

• The Rectoría's architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez auditorium, named for the university's first rector, is used for the academic ceremonies of the system.总校长府内的佩德罗·拉米雷斯·巴斯克斯建筑师大礼堂以学校首任校长命名，用于大学体系的学术典礼。

• The five units are spread around the metropolitan area, with Azcapotzalco in the north of Mexico City, Iztapalapa in the east, Cuajimalpa in the west and Xochimilco in the south, while Lerma sits in the State of Mexico near Toluca.五个单元分布在都会区各处，阿斯卡波察尔科位于墨西哥城北部，伊斯塔帕拉帕在东部，夸希马尔帕在西部，索奇米尔科在南部，莱尔马则位于托卢卡附近的墨西哥州。

• The Xochimilco unit is addressed at Calzada del Hueso 1100 in the Villa Quietud colonia of Coyoacán, postal code 04960, a site close to the chinampa zone of Xochimilco.索奇米尔科单元的地址为科约阿坎区比利亚克维图德斯的靴子堤道 1100 号，邮编 04960，毗邻索奇米尔科的浮田农业区。

• The Iztapalapa unit is at San Rafael Atlixco 186 in the Vicentina colonia, postal code 09340, and the Azcapotzalco unit at San Pablo Xalpa 180, postal code 02200.伊斯塔帕拉帕单元位于比森蒂纳区的圣拉法埃尔·阿特利斯科街 186 号，邮编 09340；阿斯卡波察尔科单元位于圣巴勃罗·哈尔帕街 180 号，邮编 02200。

• The Cuajimalpa unit is at Vasco de Quiroga 4871 in the El Contadero colonia, postal code 05370, and the Lerma unit at de las Garzas 10 in the El Panteón area of Lerma de Villada, postal code 52005.夸希马尔帕单元位于孔塔德罗区的瓦斯科·德·基罗加街 4871 号，邮编 05370；莱尔马单元位于莱尔马德维利亚达潘特翁区的德拉萨尔加斯街 10 号，邮编 52005。

• The Xochimilco campus holds the Auditorio Jesús Virchez, the Sala Leopoldo Méndez named for the printmaker who lived from 1902 to 1969, the Sala Gilberto Aceves Navarro and the Galería del Sur.索奇米尔科校区设有赫苏斯·维尔切斯礼堂、以 1902 至 1969 年在世的版画家命名的莱奥波尔多·门德斯厅、吉尔伯托·阿塞韦斯·纳瓦罗厅与南方画廊。

• On that campus the Aula-Casa Rural, a prototype for a thousand rural schools built in 1959 and awarded the Grand Prize of the XII Milan Triennale, was conceived by the architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez.该校区内还坐落着「乡村课堂之家」，这是 1959 年为千所乡村学校设计的原型建筑，曾获第十二届米兰三年展大奖，由建筑师佩德罗·拉米雷斯·巴斯克斯设计。

• Also nearby in the historic centre of the city stands the Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América, the house of the first printing press in the Americas, now the continuing education centre of the UAM.邻近的城市历史中心则矗立着「美洲第一印刷所之屋」，即美洲最早的印刷作坊所在地，现为该校继续教育中心。

• The Xochimilco unit also maintains up to seventeen cultural workshops per term in dance, music, theatre, literature and visual arts, open to the public and to the university community.索奇米尔科单元每学期还开设多达十七个文化工作坊，涵盖舞蹈、音乐、戏剧、文学与视觉艺术，向公众与校内师生开放。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana is placed in the 1001-1200 band worldwide, a position it shares with other universities in that interval.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，大都会自治大学位列全球第 1001-1200 位区间，与该区间内其他高校并列。

• The university is ranked ninth in Mexico and thirty-third in Latin America and the Caribbean in the QS Latin America and Caribbean ranking for 2027.在 2027 年 QS 拉丁美洲与加勒比大学排名中，该校位列墨西哥第九、拉丁美洲与加勒比地区第三十三位。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it in the 1801-2000 band, and the same edition records a student to staff ratio of 44.7 to 1 with 0.5 per cent international students.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列入第 1801-2000 位区间，同一版本记录的师生比为 44.7 比 1，国际学生占 0.5%。

• It does not appear in the US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027, nor in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026.该校未进入 2026-2027 年度《美国新闻》全球最佳大学排名，也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名。

• In subject rankings UAM appears in 31 QS subject tables and is placed in the 101-200 band overall, while the QS Sustainability Ranking 2026 records it at a tied 768th place.在学科排名方面，该校进入 QS 的 31 个学科榜单，整体位列第 101-200 区间；QS 可持续发展排名 2026 则记录其并列第 768 位。

• Its scholarly output recorded in OpenAlex stands at 60,975 works drawing 1,148,463 citations, the largest publication total of any of the universities in this band of the list.OpenAlex 记录的其科研产出为论文 60,975 篇、被引 1,148,463 次，是本排名区间内各校中出版总量最大的。

• In the 2019 Comparative Study of Mexican Universities, UAM ranked first among both public and private institutions, second for the number of full-time research professors holding doctorates and second for membership of the National System of Researchers.在 2019 年《墨西哥大学比较研究》中，该校在公立与私立院校中均列第一，拥有博士学位的全职研究教授数量居第二，国家研究者体系成员数亦居第二。

• It is the second Mexican institution to have publications in refereed journals indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information, by Latindex and by the CONAHCYT index of Mexican scientific and technological journals, and it is among the top four Mexican universities for patents granted.该校是墨西哥第二家在美国科学情报研究所、Latindex 以及 CONAHCYT 墨西哥科技期刊索引收录的同行评审期刊发表论文的机构，专利授权量亦位居墨西哥前四。

• Under the 2025 agreement with Secihti, UAM reported the highest proportion of doctoral enrolment in the country with 1,679 doctoral students in the 2023-2024 period, and counted more than 1,300 researchers belonging to the national system.据 2025 年与 Secihti 的协议，学校报告其在 2023 至 2024 年期间以 1,679 名博士生拥有全国最高的博士注册比例，并拥有逾 1,300 名属于国家研究者体系的研究人员。

• In the yearly survey published in the magazine El Universal the university was placed second among Mexican higher education institutions with a score of 9.85 in 2015, a position it has held since 2009.在《El Universal》周刊年度调查中，该校 2015 年以 9.85 分位列墨西哥高等教育机构第二名，自 2009 年起一直保持这一位置。

Student life

• The university's motto is the Nahuatl phrase In Calli Ixcahuicopa, translated as House open to time, which expresses the idea of a university that stays open to change.学校校训为纳瓦特尔语「In Calli Ixcahuicopa」，释为「向时间敞开的家园」，表达一所始终向变化敞开的大学的理念。

• The UAM system and its units each carry their own colour, with black for the university as a whole, red for Azcapotzalco, orange for Cuajimalpa, green for Iztapalapa, purple for Lerma and blue for Xochimilco.学校体系与各单元各有代表色，整体为黑色，阿斯卡波察尔科为红色，夸希马尔帕为橙色，伊斯塔帕拉帕为绿色，莱尔马为紫色，索奇米尔科为蓝色。

• The system is nicknamed the Black Panthers, and its mascots are Oncahui, UAMito and Xochito.该体系昵称「黑豹」，其吉祥物为 Oncahui、UAMito 与 Xochito。

• Student cultural life runs through the Casa del Tiempo lecture series and the copperplate open-air concerts held on the balconies of the Rectoría in the historic centre.学生的文化生活通过「时间之家」讲座系列以及在历史中心总校长府阳台举行的铜版画露天音乐会展开。

• Campus broadcasting is provided by UAM Radio, whose transmitters are based at the units and whose programming carries cultural outreach into the surrounding communities.校内广播由 UAM 电台承担，其发射点设在各单元，节目以文化推广的形式进入周边社区。

• The Casa Rafael Galván, which stages the university's cycle of lectures on Afro-descendant communities in Mexico, is one of the recurring venues of the Rectoría cultural programme.「拉法尔·加尔万之家」是总校长府文化计划的固定场地之一，常年举办关于墨西哥非洲裔社群问题的系列讲座。

• The university participates in ANUIES and CONAHEC, the national association of universities and the commission for the evaluation of higher education, which coordinate Mexican academic sport and inter-institutional activity.学校参与 ANUIES 与 CONAHEC，即全国大学协会与高等教育评估委员会，二者统筹墨西哥的学术体育与跨机构事务。

• Life on the units is tied to their districts, with Iztapalapa serving a heavily populated eastern borough, Xochimilco adjoining the chinampa landscape, and Lerma opening to the Hochob volcanic and wetland country of the State of Mexico.各单元的生活与所在城区紧密相连，伊斯塔帕拉帕服务人口密集的东部城区，索奇米尔科毗邻浮田区景观，莱尔马则面向墨西哥州的霍乔布火山与湿地地区。

Notable people

• The architect Pedro Ramírez Vázquez was the first Rector of the UAM in 1974, and designed its Rectoría auditorium as well as the Aula-Casa Rural rural school prototype.建筑师佩德罗·拉米雷斯·巴斯克斯是该校 1974 年的首任校长，他同时设计了总校长府大礼堂与「乡村课堂之家」乡村学校原型。

• President Luis Echeverría Álvarez supported the creation of the university, and the National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education put the 1973 proposal to him.路易斯·埃切维里亚·阿尔瓦雷斯总统支持了这所大学的创建，1973 年的提案正是由全国大学与高等教育机构协会提交给他的。

• Among the first rectors of the founding units were Alonso Fernández González at Iztapalapa, Juan Casillas García de León at Azcapotzalco and Ramón Villarreal Pérez at Xochimilco.创校初期各单元的首任校长包括伊斯塔帕拉帕的阿隆索·费尔南德斯·冈萨雷斯、阿斯卡波察尔科的胡安·卡西利亚斯·加西亚·德·莱昂，以及索奇米尔科的拉蒙·比利亚雷亚尔·佩雷斯。

• Cuajimalpa held its first classes on premises lent by the Universidad Iberoamericana, and a graduate of the Iztapalapa unit, Edith Ponce Alquicira, was appointed its successor as unit rector for 2026-2030.夸希马尔帕单元最初在伊比利亚美洲大学借用的场地开课；伊斯塔帕拉帕单元毕业生埃迪丝·庞塞·阿尔基西拉获任该单元 2026 至 2030 年校长，接掌其领导权。

• Gustavo A. Chapela Castañares, a General Rector from 1989 to 1993, received the Molecular Simulation Prize in 2010, as did two further Iztapalapa researchers, Fernando del Río in 2012 and José Alejandre in 2014.古斯塔沃·A·查佩拉·卡斯塔尼亚雷斯于 1989 至 1993 年担任总校长，并获 2010 年分子模拟奖；另有两位伊斯塔帕拉帕研究者分别在 2012 年与 2014 年获此奖。

• The neuroscientist Gustavo Pacheco López, a professor at the Lerma unit and General Rector for 2025-2029, received the State of Mexico Science and Technology Award in 2017 and the Cleveringa Lecture recognition from Leiden University in the same year.神经科学家古斯塔沃·帕切科·洛佩斯是莱尔马单元教授、2025 至 2029 年总校长，他于 2017 年获墨西哥州科学技术奖，并于同年获莱顿大学 Cleveringa 讲席认可。

• He holds a doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Duisburg-Essen, has been an honorary professor at the ETH Zurich since 2012 and a senior researcher at Leiden University since 2014, and coordinates the Mexiquense node of the National Laboratory for Research in Instrumentation and Medical Imaging.他的博士学位取得自墨西哥国立自治大学与杜伊斯堡-埃森大学，自 2012 年起任苏黎世联邦理工学院名誉教授，自 2014 年起任莱顿大学高级研究员，并协调国家仪器与医学成像研究实验室的墨西哥州节点。

• Esthela Irene Sotelo Núñez, appointed Secretary General in August 2025, received the Best Poster Award of the European Soil Society in 2007 and took her master's and doctorate at the Colegio de México.埃斯特拉·伊雷内·索特洛·努涅斯于 2025 年 8 月出任秘书长，她曾于 2007 年获欧洲土壤学会最佳海报奖，其硕士与博士学位均取自墨西哥学院。

• She also represented the National Institute of Ecology on Mexico's water sector standardisation committee between 2005 and 2008, and her teaching and research stay at the Xochimilco unit.她还于 2005 至 2008 年间代表国家生态研究所出任墨西哥水行业标准化委员会委员，其教学与研究工作始终在索奇米尔科单元。

• José Antonio de los Reyes Heredia, General Rector from 2021 to 2025, is a Level III researcher in the National System of Researchers and a professor of chemical kinetics and catalysis at Iztapalapa.何塞·安东尼奥·德·洛斯·雷耶斯·赫雷迪亚于 2021 至 2025 年任总校长，是国家研究者体系三级研究员，也是伊斯塔帕拉帕单元的化学动力学与催化教授。

• Edith Ponce Alquicira, rector of the Iztapalapa unit for 2026-2030, is a Level II researcher, holds a doctorate in food science from the University of Nottingham and received an academic honour award from the Mexican Meat Council in 2025.获任伊斯塔帕拉帕单元 2026 至 2030 年校长的埃迪丝·庞塞·阿尔基西拉是国家研究者体系二级研究员，其食品科学博士学位取得自诺丁汉大学，并于 2025 年获墨西哥肉类委员会学术荣誉奖。

• José Octavio Natteras Domínguez, rector of the Iztapalapa unit from 2014 to 2018, is a physician and psychologist who has worked on political psychology and identity, and Javier Solórzano has written on the Organic Law governing the university.何塞·奥克塔维奥·纳特拉斯·多明格斯于 2014 至 2018 年任伊斯塔帕拉帕单元校长，是兼具医师与心理学家背景的学者，研究政治心理学与身份认同；哈维尔·索洛尔萨诺则曾就规范该校的《组织法》撰文。

• Among the university's better known graduates are the writer Juan Villoro, the journalist René Bejarano, the sociologist Genaro García Luna and the German-born sociologist Heinz Dietrich.该校较为知名的毕业生包括作家胡安·维洛罗、记者雷内·贝哈拉诺、社会学家赫纳罗·加西亚·卢纳，以及生于德国的社会学家海因茨·迪特里希。

• Rafael Guillén, who taught philosophy at the university, has been identified as the man whose academic career overlapped with the origins of the guerrilla leader known as Subcomandante Marcos.曾在该校教授哲学的拉斐尔·纪连，被认为即是其学术生涯与那位被称为「副司令马科斯」的游击队领袖早期经历相交的人物。

• A graduate of the Iztapalapa unit in physics from 1977, Pablo Laguna Castillo took his doctorate at the University of Texas and worked in the theoretical astrophysics group of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.1977 年毕业于伊斯塔帕拉帕单元物理专业的巴勃罗·拉古纳·卡斯蒂略在得克萨斯大学取得博士学位，并曾在洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室理论天体物理组任职。

• An electrical engineering graduate of 1985, Daniel Ruiz Vega became a professor at the National Polytechnic Institute, and a 1975 industrial engineering graduate, Pedro Luis Grasa Soler, became director general of the Monterrey Institute of Technology campuses in the metropolitan area of Mexico City.1985 年电气工程专业毕业生丹尼尔·鲁伊斯·维加成为国立理工学院教授；1975 年工业工程专业毕业生佩德罗·路易斯·格拉萨·索莱尔则出任蒙特雷理工大学大墨西哥城都会区各校区的总区长。