Overview
- UNAM rector Leonardo Lomelí said the university cannot shoulder the national shortfall in higher-education places and that decades of internal austerity limit what it can reallocate.
- UNAM reported that a presencial 'examen de control' fixed anomalies from an earlier online test and gave the university confidence no students who cheated were admitted.
- Lomelí said minimum admission scores fell after the in-person control exam because applicants faced high stress and had less time to prepare for the repeat test.
- The university opened 2,000 additional spots for applicants who selected a second-choice program, while the federal education ministry will request anonymized origin data on rejected applicants to guide where new campuses are built.
- The federal government counts roughly 245,000 new higher-education places created outside UNAM during the current administration and is urging further administrative austerity at universities even as UNAM plans program reforms to boost demand.