The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) is a public university based in Mexico City. Its statistics portal reports 371,594 students in the 2025-2026 school year, with 16 faculties, 10 multidisciplinary units and 5 national schools, and 36 institutes, 14 centres and 15 university programmes in research. Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas is Rector.
Agricultural teaching is based at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores (FES) Cuautitlán, in Cuautitlán Izcalli, State of Mexico. Opened in 1974 as ENEP Cuautitlán, it added the Ingeniería Agrícola degree in 1976. Its Departamento de Ciencias Agrícolas teaches the ten-semester agricultural engineering programme, and its Centro de Enseñanza Agropecuaria has agricultural and livestock units. FES Cuautitlán also teaches veterinary medicine and food engineering and offers master’s and doctoral programmes in animal production sciences.
The faculty’s Unidad de Investigación en Granos y Semillas (UNIGRAS) carries out basic and applied research on the post-harvest handling of grains and seeds and, the faculty says, provides grain quality analysis services.