Year of foundation: 1967
MCI partner since: 2019
The City
Mexico City is the Federal District (Distrito Federal), capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole. Mexico City is the country's largest city as well as its most important political, cultural, educational and financial center.
It is located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus at the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 metres. The 2009 estimated population for the city proper was around 8.84 million people.
The city was originally built on an island of Lake Texcoco by the Aztecs in 1325 as Tenochtitlan, which was almost completely destroyed in the 1521 siege of Tenochtitlan, and subsequently redesigned and rebuilt in accordance with the Spanish urban standards
The University
IPADE (PanAmerican Institute for High Business Management) is the Business School of the Pan-American University, a private university in Mexico. It was founded in 1967 by a notable group of Mexican businesspersons.
More than 37,000 students have graduated from IPADE. It has three main campuses located in Mexico City, Monterrey and Guadalajara. In order to meet the needs of communities in smaller cities within the country, IPADE also offers its programmes in temporary satellite campuses throughout Mexico.
IPADE's quality and consistency has allowed it to obtain four of the international ac-creditations that are awarded to the world's most important business schools, among which AACSB and AMBA. 