Americas, University of the
University of the Americas, at Cholula, Puebla, Mexico; founded 1940 as Mexico City College. The school achieved university status in 1963. It has faculties of administration, basic sciences, engineering, humanities, and social sciences, and an institute for advanced studies.
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