The best place for congresses, plays and other events. Located in the center of campus, it is the most popular meeting area. It will be very hard not to find some activity inside.

For your days and nights of studying, our library is not only comfortable, but fuses the traditional with on-site and online services. There are 4 multimedia collaboration rooms and 3 bibliographical teaching rooms with computers, as well as cubicles for individual and group study.

This expression area includes audio and lighting, seating, a stage, dressing rooms, storage, ticket office and workshop.

As part of your academic formation, we have science, health science, mechanical and industrial engineering, and telecommunications and water treatment labs. We also have a language learning complex, oral trials room, financial simulation room, projection room, qualitative and innovation research labs, marketing and retail qualitative research rooms, a Gesell chamber, a mobile app lab as well as photography, television, dance and music labs and a 3D printer. We also have a lodging lab, better known as San Andrés Hostel, open to the UDLAP community and overseen by students from the corresponding areas.

UDLAP has macro computer rooms with over 866 latest-generation equipment with specialized software to meet your needs. You may use these rooms 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

You can locate them at:

• Business and Economics: NE-137
• Arts and Humanities: HU-224
• Science: CN-106

This is the preferred meeting place for the UDLAP community. It has services and activities that will keep you busy during your free time.

Here you will find from food services to office supplies, as well as projection rooms and student organization offices.

To assure your wellbeing and physical health, we have a clinical analysis center and medical services that provide free service to community members who need it.

UDLAP has a comprehensive rehabilitation center (CIR) which provides medical care in orthopedics, joint surgery, sports medicine, rehabilitation medicine, physiotherapy, nutrition and physical preparation, with the latest in scientific and technological knowledge, always looking for innovation.

Equipped with dorms, projection rooms, auditoriums, cafeterias, and more, we have designed these spaces so you can live comfortably on campus. You may choose one of the four Colleges: Cain-Murray, Ray Lindley, Ignacio Bernal, or José Gaos.

Concerned with your academic and physical development, we have sports facilities that you may access daily to care for your physical wellbeing.

You will find:

• Pool
• Baseball field
• Futsal field
• Basketball courts
• Tennis courts
• Integral Rehabilitation Center (CIR)
• Basketball court at the Moe Williams Gym
• Weight room
• Track and field
• American football field, Templo del Dolor
• Soccer fields

Ideal to relax, spend time with your friends and carry out activities, which make these some of the favorite areas for the UDLAP community.

Among them you will find: the lake, the bonfire and meditation gardens, the couple’s garden, the main fountain and Flag Plaza. All these are meeting and socializing areas for the university community.

UDLAP’s mission is based on the following seven strategic guidelines.

I. Relevant study programs

Quality licenciatura and graduate on-site and online study programs that meet the needs and expectations of public and private organizations and society, as they are the basis for the professional development of our alumni.

II. Prestigious faculty

Professors who are recognized nationally and internationally, derived from their academic background, professional development, teaching experience, and research and/or artistic creation.

III. Research and artistic creation

The development of research and artistic creation projects to create cutting-edge knowledge that impacts the formation of high-level human resources, whose results and products will be presented, disseminated, and published in diverse forums.

IV. Excellent students

Students who are known for their knowledge, learning experience, and social responsibility to develop professionally, personally, culturally and athletically in a plural environment during their time at the university, meeting the quality and excellence standards required by public and private organizations as well as society.

V. Outreach

Establish national and international networks with alumni, private and public organizations, and society to promote a mutually beneficial collaboration.

VI. Administrative efficiency

Optimal administration of human, financial, and material resources to guarantee financial stability to meet the objectives and continuous growth of the institution.

VII. Vanguard facilities

Modern and sustainable facilities, with the necessary technological equipment and tools to fully develop teaching, research, cultural, sports, outreach, and administrative activities.

To meet UDLAP’s vision, five priority objectives were set for 2023:

1. Financial stability

   Generate the necessary resources to guarantee the institution’s sustainability, diversifying income and its efficient use to attract and retain human resources and maintain the levels of investment in technology, facilities, and financial scholarships and programs for the development of society.

2. Prestigious faculty

   Strengthen academic recognition through a faculty that has professional, teaching and research credentials and experience. offer accredited study programs that are flexible to meet our current reality, transforming our students with an integral formation so they become excellent alumni.

3. Institutional prestigel

   Position udlap in mexico and latin america as one of the best private universities in the creation of applied research, and a leading opinion in specialized topics.

4. Outreach to society and businesses

   Strengthen udlap’s outreach to alumni, companies and society to attract resources for research and social programs, thus positioning the institution to create job opportunities for students and alumni.

5. Organizational capital

   Create a work environment that promotes an appropriate organizational climate to develop their functions, effectively and efficiently, having a staff that is quite competent, meeting the standards of an udlap collaborator.

Therefore, each yearly plan will be made up of the collective goals defined by all UDLAP areas, which positively impact meeting the priority objectives.

Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to grant licenciatura, master and doctorate degrees.

Any questions regarding Fundación Universidad de las Américas Puebla’s accreditation can be forwarded by mail to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia, 30033-4097, EUA; via phone +1 (404) 679-4500; or at SACSCOC’s website SACSCOC.

Fundación Universidad de las Américas, Puebla has, through institutional development and strengthening of its programs, a full accreditation for the campus located at Ex Hacienda Santa Catarina Mártir, 72820 San Andrés Cholula, Puebla, before FIMPES’ admission and permanence system.

The council for the accreditation of higher education (COPAES)accreditations

Recognition of good quality programs by the interinstitutional committees for evaluation of higher education (Comités Interinstitucionales para Evaluación de la Educación superior, A.C. - CIEES)

Graduate programs in the national registry of quality graudate programs (Padrón Nacional de Posgrados de Calidad - PNPC) of the national science and technology council (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología - CONACYT).