Instituto Politécnico Nacional

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National Polytechnic University
motto "La Técnica al Servicio de la Patria"
"Technology for the service of the fatherland"
founding January 1, 1936
Sponsorship state
place Mexico city
director Yoloxóchitl Bustamante Díez
Students 153,027 (2009)
Professors 16,474 (2009)
Website www.ipn.mx

The Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN; "National Polytechnic") is one of the largest public universities in Mexico with 153,027 students (2009) .

history

It was founded in 1936 during the tenure of Lázaro Cárdenas del Río in Mexico City .

In 2002 the university developed the first all-Mexican satellite SATEX I in cooperation with CICESE and UNAM .

Famous Graduates

Football department

From 1954 to 1957, the IPN maintained a soccer team in the second highest Mexican division and was thus - together with the local rivals Club Universidad Nacional from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) - the first educational institution in the country in one of the two highest divisions of Mexican club football .

In the three joint second division years, the team of the IPN scored a total of 52 points and a goal balance of 80: 122 even better than the later successful rival of the UNAM, who scored 50 points and a goal balance of 80: 137 in the same period.

After the 1956/57 season, both university teams withdrew from the league for one year each, with the UNAM actually sending a team back into the race in the 1958/59 season (which rose to the top Mexican division in 1962 and soon became one of the best and most popular teams in the country), while the IPN was never again represented in the higher football leagues in Mexico.

Web links

Commons : Instituto Politécnico Nacional  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c National Polytechnic University: Estadística Institucional 2009. (PDF) Retrieved on March 14, 2010 (Spanish).
  2. ^ Mexico - List of Final Tables Second Division (1950-1995) at RSSSF

Coordinates: 19 ° 30 ′ 2 ″  N , 99 ° 8 ′ 23 ″  W.