Universidad Autónoma Chapingo

Universidad Autónoma Chapingo (Chapingo Autonomous University) is a Mexican agricultural college located in Texcoco, State of Mexico. The university is a federally funded public institution of higher education. It offers technical and full bachelors' degrees as well as having scientific and technological research programs. Many of these programs are related to agriculture, forestry and fishing. The school began as the Escuela Nacional de Agricultura (National School of Agriculture) which was founded in 1854 at the Monastery of San Jacinto in Mexico City. The school was moved in 1923 by President Álvaro Obregón to the former Hacienda of Chapingo, which was created by the Marques Francisco Antonio de Medina y Picazzo at the end of the 17th century, and had belonged to the Society of Jesus during the 18th century, until the religious order was expelled from Spanish territories. Postgraduate studies were added in 1959. The school received autonomous status in 1978. It offers courses of study in Forestry, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Industries, Irrigation, Rural Sociology and more.