Universidad Autónoma de Occidente

The University Campus meets the technological, architectural, and environmental elements ideal to guarantee the integral development of our students in accordance with the goals set by the Institution for the future. The University forms ethical, creative and reflective professionals, able to think globally in order to act locally, with skills for team working, communicating ideas, respecting others’ opinions, and assuming leadership. Therefore, the training aims at developing competences that enhance: • Critical reflection on the learning content • The ability to judge rational arguments, even their own ones, and to learn by themselves in order to promote intellectual autonomy and personal growth. • Disposition to dialogue and various forms of analysis, knowledge, argumentation, and research. • Respect and care for the environment, looking for sustainable development. • The use of technological tools to facilitate the generation of knowledge. In this context, the new educational model of the Institution is integral, flexible, and socially relevant. Integral because it deals with professional, physical, and ethical formation of the students; flexible for the content of programs to adapt to the changes and needs of modern life; and socially relevant, for the University to hold a synergistic dialogue with the region and to propose solutions to their problems. In order to do this, the University has 75 laboratories, over 130 audiovisual spaces, a library with access to over 200,000 documents, both physical and digital, in all areas of knowledge; a teaching staff with master’s and PhD, graduated from recognized universities in the country and abroad.