Overview
- UNAM’s 2025 admission tallies show 14 of 133 bachelor's tracks drew fewer applicants than available seats, with 596 places offered and 514 students registered.
- By contrast, medicine, law and accounting together drew about 47,204 applicants for 2,235 spots, including roughly 27,038 candidates vying for 326 seats in the médico cirujano program.
- Low‑demand fields include geosciences, sustainable materials science, social studies and local management, territorial development, ethnomusicology, and several modern‑language and humanities degrees.
- Nine of the 14 under‑subscribed options are taught at ENES campuses in Morelia, León and Yucatán, which limits interest from Mexico City students who would need to relocate.
- UNAM says these programs are not at risk of closure and has tasked academic area councils to study causes and propose fixes, as roughly 200,000 applicants each year continue to cluster in a small set of traditional careers.