Title conferred: Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Public Administration
Duration of program: Four years
Credits required: 335
Plan: Semesters
For all bachelor’s degree programs in the Department:
Additional admissions requirements for all bachelor’s degree programs in the Department of Political Science
- Minimum grade point average of 8.
- Interview and introductory letter explaining the motives for entrance to the program of Political and Social Science.
- Induction course
Entrance profile:
It is indispensable for students interested in any of the Bachelor’s degree programs in the Department to have:
- Basic general knowledge and in the field of social science
- Understanding of the current social conditions in Mexico
- Command of verbal and written language
- A vocation for research
- Skills of analysis, reflection, and observation, as well as the ability to relate phenomena, processes, and ideas
- Discipline, initiative, and innovative thinking in order to adapt to different situations that require social analysis
- Strong commitment to society, the University, and to the search for scientific truth
- Aptitude for understanding and appreciating the pertinence and necessity of continuing education and self-improvement
- Interest in working in multi-disciplinary teams
- Interest in working in multi-disciplinary teams
- Disposition for working in different social realms
- Ability to adapt
Graduate profile
Upon graduation with a high level of training, the student will be able to:
- Stimulate development, efficiency, and competitiveness of public social institution where professional services and provided.
- Modernize bureaucratic organizational structures, permanently innovating their administrative systems and providing the necessary information in order to achieve higher productivity.
- Develop participatory leadership styles that build consensus based on knowledge and respect for the ethical values and professional quality of the human element in organizations.
- Actively participate in the research and development of political science, in the democratic and administrative processes of social organizations.
- Become a self-motivated learner by fostering an independent attitude that ensures maintaining abreast of current advances in political and administrative science.
- Interpret their political, social, and economic surroundings in order to propose concrete solutions to real problems.
Field of Work:
Public Administration, central and state
Public Administration at the federal, state, and municipal level
Human Resource Development, teaching and research, economic, federal, state, and municipal government, educational non-governmental institutions and organizations, unions, and political parties.

Interdisciplinary area
Admissions period: Annual School Year
July-December
Last updated: June 24, 2004
Creation of program: March 20, 1997