The Universidad del Valle de México or UVM is a private multicampus university founded in 1960.
UVM is also the largest higher education institution in Mexico.
It also has a both traditional and bicultural high school program.
UVM’s students mostly belong to Mexico's growing upper and middle socioeconomic classes.
The school enrolls more than 120,000 students, and has approximately 11,900 faculty members and 7,000 staff employees. UVM has more than 200,000 alumni and offers high school, undergraduate degree (traditional and working adult) and graduate degree programs on 38 campuses from an international perspective.
It manages programs that respond to the market needs in the fields of Medicine; Engineering; Hospitality, Tourism and Gastronomy; Business; Social Sciences; Arts, Design and Architecture. UVM has also developed online and working adult career programs, oriented for working people who need an educational experience for a professional practice.
UVM alumni include diver Ivan Alejandro Garcia Navarro and swimmer German Saul Sanchez Sanchez both Olympic medalists; Vanessa Zambotti, Mexican judoist who won second place in 2015 Pan American Games at Toronto; Taekwondoin Victor Estrada, Guillermo Jester, winner at ELLE Mexico Diseña 2014; and Cesar Duarte Jaquez, Governor of the State of Chihuahua
