Overview
- The new Chalco site will host 1,000 students on campus while 4,000 begin distance courses under a hybrid model.
- The campus launch falls within the Plan Integral for ten municipalities in the east of the State of Mexico, alongside water, drainage and transport works.
- Sheinbaum reiterated a national objective to create at least 350,000 additional higher‑education places, building on earlier Benito Juárez expansions.
- Officials cited a longstanding shortfall—roughly 600,000 places today and about one million more to reach 55% coverage—as the effort’s rationale.
- UNRC is being developed as a national network, with degrees across 22 undergraduate and 15 postgraduate programs; attendees included Governor Delfina Gómez and SEP chief Mario Delgado.