118 degrees, and almost everyone applies for twelve. The UNAM offers well over a hundred undergraduate programmes, but the overwhelming majority of applicants compete for the same handful — medicine, law, business administration, accountancy. Which leaves a long list of genuinely interesting degrees with far less competition for places.
Applied linguistics. One of the newer additions, alongside translation studies. It trains people to command the language analytically and to connect how a society speaks with its habits, its history and its ethics.
Biomedical systems engineering. Engineering applied to medicine, built around the technical problems that doctors and patients actually present — one of the clearest examples of a degree created in response to a specific gap.
Classics. In the Faculty of Philosophy, a long-established programme in Latin and ancient Greek. Its graduates read the foundations of Western culture in the original, which almost nobody else can do.
Archive administration and records management. The preservation of documents, taught as both theory and technique: what to keep, how to select it and how to conserve it. Taught at the Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores in Morelia.
Community development for ageing. Students work with real communities from the early semesters, researching the social reality of older people — a field that is only going to grow. Taught at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza.
Why this matters to a visitor. Because Ciudad Universitaria is a World Heritage site you can walk into for free, and because almost everything the university programmes — concerts, lectures, exhibitions, cinema — is open to the public at nominal prices.
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