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In its early years the school served a population of barely a thousand in each school year's enrollment. At that time Mexico's total population stood at only 26 million people, with three quarters of a million in
Chihuahua. Back then, Mexico's total enrollment in higher education was 29,000 students.
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The current campus has an area of 25 hectares, which originally formed part of an area of 107 hectares donated by Elias
Brothers to the State Government, in order to build a sports and recreation park in memory of their mother, Mrs. Emilia M. de Elías. These lands are now occupied by the University,
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was founded on March 19, 1835. In order to promote cultural development in the emerging city of
Chihuahua, it offered to the community studies of Latin and Spanish grammar. In the beginning there were 21 students, and between the years 1835 and 1900 around 996 people received education in its
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Legislature, with Governor of Oscar Soto Maynez, issued the decree 171, which founded the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (UACh) on December 8, 1954.
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The demand for education in the state grew, so that many students had to leave the entity to Mexico City for their studies. Many of them stayed in that city, and for that reason the State lost many important personalities.
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Department of Fine Arts, later the Institute, and today the Faculty of Arts, was born with the university. The School of Nursing and Obstetrics was raised to a degree college and soon became a separate faculty in 1976.
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A fruit farm engineering school began, creating the school of fruit engineering in 1974. This became independent from the School of
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Dentistry was created in the city of Chihuahua in 1991, and the School of International Economics was located in the city of Hidalgo del Parral the same year.
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