University Statute: Admissions, Enrollment & Graduation
ARTICLE 1
This system is designed to regulate:
I. The admissions process, registration, re-
enrollment, retention and low student
University;
II. The recognition of studies and the establishment of equivalence of study completed
institutions of higher education in the country or abroad, and processes
accreditation of courses taken in the different curriculum itself
University;
III. The evaluation of the learning process of students studying in the
University;
IV. The process of granting degrees, diplomas and degrees of expertise
students who have completed their studies at the University;
V. The legal basis for educational programs and curricula that are taught
University;
VI. Service programs to the students and the university academic support
available to students, and
VII. The basis for the academic and administrative organization of education programs
offered by the University continuously.
ARTICLE 2
The observance of this statute shall be binding on all authorities,
civil servants, academics, clerical workers, students and graduates
University, which will release its content by all means at their disposal.
Against the observance of this statute can not plead ignorance, obsolescence or practice
otherwise.
ARTICLE 3
For purposes of this statute shall apply:
I. Accreditation of Education: the determination of the similarities between the academic units
for learning plans and curricula of their own
University;
II. Admission: the process involving the applicant’s timely attention to the calls
issued for such purpose the University, compliance with the conditions
in them, and the admission notice in his case is made;
III. Students: Persons who have been admitted in accordance with the procedure established
in this statute, an educational program of the University, provided that no
Final nor have left yet obtained the title, diploma or degree specialty
academic question;
IV. Special students are those who enroll in the University in terms of
student exchange or one or more courses of so-called free or special
but without the right to obtain a degree or diploma;
V. Students irregular: regular students who do not have regular status;
VI. Regular students: those enrolled in the University in order to study
aimed at obtaining a diploma, degree or university degree
VII. Regular students: regular students who have demonstrated each and every one of
learning units that are registered in the previous school periods,
according to the curriculum in force;
VIII. Subject: course curriculum consists of value-related issues as elaborated
comprehensive and sequential to meet certain objectives in a curriculum;
IX. Applicants: Those who have applied for admission to any educational program
offered by the University through the channels established in this statute;
X. Coordination: Coordination of Student Services and School Management;
XI. Coordination: The coordination and management of Student Services School of
Basic Education, Vocational Training and Outreach College and Graduate
and Research, jointly or separately;
XII. Course: a combination of teaching techniques for individual or group, whose
purpose is learning new skills or update existing
a specific theme;
XIII. Department: Department of Student Services and Campus School Management
appropriate;
XIV. Higher Education Unit (DES): an assembly of several academic units
for the mutual reinforcement of corporate goals;
XV. Diploma: educational plan which aims to update knowledge and / or
promote professional development of qualified human resources in different
disciplines, whose studies do not confer academic degrees;
XVI. Doctoral degree: bachelor’s degree education program is the highest awarded by the University,
and aims to prepare researchers to develop research
original independently or in teams, so as to permit the advance of
knowledge;
XVII. Graduates: students who obtained their certificate of studies have been completed and covered
total credits of a curriculum;
XVIII. Equivalency studies: the procedure whereby recognition is given
studies completed and approved by higher education institutions other than the
University and as part of the national education system
XIX. Specialization: educational program that aims to update and / or expand
student’s skills and develop abilities and skills required in
practice of a specific area of knowledge, from an eminently
applicable, which is one further academic in training
professionals;
XX. Alumni: People who had the last time as students, regardless
have graduated or obtained the title, academic degree or diploma concerned;
XXI. Registration: the administrative process by which the student registered at University
in a particular educational program;
XXII. Degree: professional studies are performed after high school or
equivalent, whose purpose is to provide students an ethical and cultural training, enabling
scientifically and technically in the field of study relevant to
that, as professionals, can provide useful services to society;
XXIII. Master-oriented research: an educational program aimed
give students an ethical and theoretical skills, technical and methodological
by driving the development of scientific research, humanistic or development
technology;
XXIV. Career-oriented Master: The educational program aims to give
students with an ethical and theoretical skills, techniques and methodologies for the
solve specific problems with a comprehensive view in his practice;
XXV. Mixed or blended learning mode: it is one that combines the various forms
existing education to achieve the desired learning;
XXVI. Non-face mode: mode of education that develops outside the classroom and
likely to meet the availability and needs of each student based
programs open and distance education;
XXVII. Modality: type of education that takes place in classrooms, workshops and
laboratories and across rooms, practice and school visits, technical and vocational
at times and certain periods;
XXVIII. Curriculum: the reference synthetic, schematic and structured units
learning or other forms of education, is the guide for accreditation
for students who met the income profile, to achieve the objectives and
graduate profile referred to therein;
XXIX. Postgraduate programs: the studies are conducted after a degree in the
specialty programs, master’s or doctoral degree, and that are intended to form
highly trained professionals to the scientific solution of problems
faces professional practice and for the training of teachers and researchers
with high academic standards;
XXX. Joint graduate programs are those involving more than one unit
University academic, with capacity to offer a graduate program,
linking the academic resources, infrastructure and lines of work or research,
to expand the supply of graduate quality;
XXXI. Agency joint degree programs: those in which the University and
one or more universities of the country or abroad, with academic ability to offer
a graduate program quality, join their academic resources, infrastructure and
lines of work or research, in order to expand the supply of graduate quality;
XXXII. Program unit of learning: a description of the contents of a synthesized
learning unit provided for in the curriculum, structured in a relevant,
which also includes teaching resources, bibliographic and electronic indispensable
with which to develop the educational process;
XXXIII. Training Program: a joint plan or curriculum, physical infrastructure, administrative,
human and financial resources, operational and management mechanisms, and all
those elements that contribute to its proper functioning and justify the
University integrate it as part of its educational services;
XXXIV. Re-registration: the administrative process by which students enrolled in a
formalized educational program to continue their studies in each school year;
XXXV. Revalidation of Education: the procedure by which recognition is given
studies completed and approved by higher education institutions abroad;
XXXVI. Seminar focused on delivering the experience of a group learning from its
own interaction on selected topics, where participants bring to the seminar
their knowledge and experience in a particular theme, coordinated by a moderator;
XXXVII. Workshop: experiential approach to skills which aims to develop
skills from the exercises, where the tasks are proposed by
the coordinator to guide and accompany the participants, assisting in the process;
XXXVIII. Senior technical university (TSU) are the technical level studies resulting from
partial studies of a degree, which will enable students to quickly enter
the work force and save the effort of those for different reasons
not completed a degree program;
XXXIX. Step school means of administrative management to be made by a student before the
department, in order to maintain or to state such a condition, unsubscribe, graduation,
obtain the certificate, diploma or degree for studies or any
another similar;
XL. Academic Unit: colleges, schools, institutes and centers authorized University
by the University Council, to provide educational programs,
XLI. Learning unit: the functional component of the curriculum that offers a set
organized and scheduled activities and learning experiences and has a
credit value. They are the subjects, workshops, seminars, professional or
research, and in general, any experience led to student learning and
the achievement of the graduate profile referred to in the curriculum;
XLII. University: Autonomous University of Baja California.
ARTICLE 4
The graduates, seminars, courses, workshops and similar activities which are not
part of the curriculum will be covered by this statute and the provisions
complementary in this regard issued by the rector.
ARTICLE 5
The Rector shall approve the school calendar, considering the opinion of the vice-chancellors
and directors of academic units. The school calendar shall be considered as binding
throughout the University for each marking period, and must be published in due course
Gaceta Universitaria.
ARTICLE 6
The school calendar shall include:
I. Periods of admission, registration, induction courses, re-enrollment, low, accreditation,
revalidation and equivalency studies;
II. The class period;
III. Exam periods regular, special, regularization and skills;
IV. The period of school holidays and day suspension of classes, and
V. The evaluation period teacher student opinion.
ARTICLE 7
Prohibited the suspension of classes at the University outside of the dates and
periods expressly stated in the school calendar. Only in extraordinary cases or
force majeure, the principal may authorize the suspension of classes throughout the University, or any
campus academic units.
ARTICLE 8
For the development of its activities, the coordination work with departments
on each campus, which will be in charge of a chief, which in turn is under the
immediate direction of the Vice Chancellor, as appropriate, without violating university regulations
applicable.
ARTICLE 9
Coordination, through the departments, will be the only agency authorized
to issue and record documents certifying the studies conducted by students.
ARTICLE 10
Coordination and their respective departments are entrusted only
administrative functions and therefore not be entitled to make decisions
relate to academic and university authorities in their
respective areas of duties, in accordance with the provisions of the General Staff and
this ordinance.
ARTICLE 11
Applications for school paperwork must be submitted directly
with the department or electronically through the established University system.
Applicants will receive advice from University staff for procedures
school.
ARTICLE 12
The school procedures will be carried out personally by the applicant in
dates and times specified by the school calendar.
In the case of school procedures by their nature do not necessarily require
individual concerned may be carried out by a representative of the former. Such representation
As proof of power of attorney signed before two witnesses, without need for ratification
previous signatures, or some different formality. No representation is permissible where the application
is made electronically.
ARTICLE 13. The University at any time, investigate the authenticity of documents
received during any school process. When checking the total misrepresentation or
part of a document, coordination shall immediately give the final floor at the University
the student responsible, without prejudice to other legal liabilities that it had
incurred. In such cases, the University report the incident to authorities.
Will be subject to legal consequences set out above, students
submitting false documents where it appears the university as issuing institution before any
instance, and for any purpose.
ARTICLE 14
The director may issue supplementary provisions as may be required to
in order to provide academic and administrative sphere strict compliance
contained in this law.
ARTICLE 15
Any situation not covered by this statute will be resolved by the rector,
consultation with relevant bodies, on the fundamental rule that the student
is the center of university activity, and it’s mission and duty to provide the University
same education of good quality and in accordance with the educational program that is
registered.
ARTICLE 16
The University will establish its educational offerings, the criteria for admission of its
students and the growth rate of enrollment, in accordance with Development Plan
Institutional and the provisions of this statute.
ARTICLE 17
To be admitted as a student of the University, the applicant shall abide
a considered selection process, equity and transparency, skills, abilities,
skills, academic abilities and health conditions of the applicant which do not pose
risk to the individual or the community, enabling them to conduct studies of higher technical level
university undergraduate or postgraduate request.
ARTICLE 18
The call for the selection of applicants to enter the
different educational programs at the University will take place from time to time authorize the
rector, but in the case of undergraduate programs will convene at least once every year.
ARTICLE 19
The rector, hearing from the vice-chancellors and heads of units
academic, authorize the number of local and foreign applicants may be admitted to a
program of education or common stock at each incoming call, taking into account
the availability of physical and human resources to ensure good quality of programs.
Article 20
To be admitted as a special student of the University is not required to participate
in the competition for selection, but in any case the income shall be subject to that
meets the requirements of the additional provisions in this area
issued by the rector, and the share of the educational program.
ARTICLE 21
Applicants may be admitted as regular students of the University
where the entry is proposed by an institution in agreement, that has previously submitted
a selection process, adherence to eligibility criteria established in the Convention itself,
and if permitted by the quota program is intended to take.
ARTICLE 22
Complementing the selection process, there will be a Committee on Equity,
which will integrate and operate in accordance with supplementary provisions
issued by the rector, which may make the admission of candidates in education programs when
space permits, attending social equity considerations, humanitarian, health and others that the
committee deems appropriate.
ARTICLE 23
To participate in the selection process to enter the University are required to:
I. Apply for admission in accordance with the notice issued by the University;
II. To enter the degree, submit the original certificate of high school education
or constancy of studies showing that the applicant is enrolled in the
high school last school year;
III. For postgraduate studies, the original certificate of previous studies;
IV. To cover the share of the tab to the selection examination. The fee referred not
refundable;
V. No final ceasing of the University, and
VI. Other requirements to be determined for the additional provisions.
ARTICLE 24
Those who have met the requirements of the preceding article
department will get the tab for the selection examination. Obtaining such
tab is only entitles the person concerned to participate in the selection examinations on the dates,
locations and times indicated in the document itself.
ARTICLE 25
Coordination related in decreasing order of candidates according to their
academic merit, and notify applicants for admission to the first relationship to
exhaust the quota of the program, provided that the result obtained by the applicant not less than
the figure previously given by the rector and the academic unit.
Notification of acceptance to applicants are made on the terms indicated in the call
respectively.
ARTICLE 26
The academic merit of applicants referred to the previous article,
quantitatively determined, taking into account the average weighted combination
scores overall educational attainment, the results of tests for selection,
personal interviews and any other factors that are fixed in the incoming call.
ARTICLE 27. Other things being equal, the University will give preference for admission to
graduates of educational institutions of the state of Baja California with respect to whom they are not;
to new students, for those who choose to make a program change
educational programs simultaneously or pursue a second program, and seeking entry
as regular students, compared to those who aspire to become a special student.
ARTICLE 28
Applicants admitted as students of the university, for that fact alone
acquire the rights and obligations under the Basic Law, the General Staff, and
This statute, applicable regulations and university rules.
ARTICLE 29
Shall be deemed waived his status as student, who was admitted,
does not comply with the registration process referred to the following article for
the school term for which he was admitted.