Academic Information
Courses to offer in 2024
Restrictions in attending courses
To optimize your performance during your exchange program, it is recommended that you choose courses closely related to your academic background. Additionally, it's necessary to have adequate prior knowledge in the discipine being taught.
If there are mandatory courses you need to take in order to graduate, we recommend that you take them at your home university.
It is possible to mix courses from different Programmes/Years/Languages.
Grading System and Credits in UP
Academic grading
Universidad Panamericana employs a decimal system, from 0 to 10, to measure the students' scores.
The grades are:
• 10: Excellent (excelente)
• 9: Very Good (muy bien)
• 8: Good (bien)
• 7: Average (regular)
• 6: Sufficient (suficiente)
• 0–5.9: Insufficient/Failed (deficiente/reprobado)
In Universidad Panamericana the grading scale is from 5.0 to 10 and the minimum passing grade is 6.0
Credits system
In Universidad Panamericana, the credit system includes 5 hours of complementary work for every 3 hours of teaching, as well as evaluations, projects, or practices. Each UP credit represents 16 hours of work done by the students, excluding evaluation times.
Transcript of Records
Please note that transcripts of academic records are sent in February for students enrolled during the Fall semester and at the end of June for students enrolled during the Spring semester.
To complement your education in Universidad Panamericana
Spanish Courses
To prepare for your time living in Mexico, Universidad Panamericana offers Spanish courses to enhance your lannguage skills. Our program includes various proficiency levels:
Basic
Intermediate
Advanced
Levels available depend on the number of students registered for the courses.
Language Center Offer
Also, if you want to learn another language while you are in UP, you can take the following options.
Please ask your coordinator to provide more information about the courses and their availability. *Ask for each course fee
English
Italian
German
French
Chinese
Japanese
