National Polytechnic Institute (Instituto Politécnico Nacional)(IPN)

A strategy was developed in 1932 to combine and appropriately structure a technical education system. IPN alumni Narciso Bassols, Luis Enrique Erro, and Carlos Vallejo Márquez all played important roles in this project.

In 1936, Juan de Dios Bátiz, a senator in Congress, and Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, president of Mexico, proposed carrying out the educational postulates established during the Mexican Revolution, which resulted in the establishment of the IPN.

The IPN was created to promote development and equity, support the country’s industrialization process, and provide educational opportunities for all segments of the population, particularly socially disadvantaged populations.

The National Polytechnic Institute provides mobility opportunities for national and foreign students and researchers who wish to participate in the IPN’s global, educational, and research environment. In keeping with our purpose to foster innovation and stimulate linkage and outreach with the productive and social sectors, we want to contribute to the country’s and the world’s technological, economic, political, social, and cultural development.

State educational institution that integrates the training of technicians, professionals, and researchers through relevant programs in various fields of knowledge, conducts scientific and technological research, promotes innovation, and fosters linkages and outreach with the productive and social sectors in order to contribute to the country’s technological, economic, political, social, and cultural development.

To be a model for technological higher education in Mexico and around the world for the excellence of its training, cutting-edge scientific knowledge generated, innovative solutions to national problems provided, and contributions to the country’s transformation into an environment of inclusion, freedom, equity, transparency, and democracy.