Type Jesuit, Catholic | Gender Coeducational | |
Established 1982; 35 years ago (1982) Rector Antonio Oseguera Maldonado, SJ Director Nelson Martinez Villarreal Grades Secondary & baccalaureate | ||
Ibero College Tijuana, opened in 1982, is a Jesuit secondary and baccalaureate school on the campus of Ibero-American University Tijuana in Playas de Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.
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History
In 1973 Ibero-American University in Mexico City was recognized by the government as an autonomous university. It proceeded to open branches of higher learning in Tijuana and Torreon in 1982 and in Puebla in 1983. It was from this initiative in 1982 that the high school was born on the premises of Cuauhtlatóhuac Institute. Undergraduate degrees were offered also, in architecture, law, and graphic design, Jesuit Fr. Manuel Ruiz Ugalde was Director. Two years later the school moved to Playas de Tijuana. In 1998 the school year opened at its present facility. In 2010 Ibero College Tijuana began offering the baccalaureate as well as secondary education.
Vision and service
The college sees training men and women in service of others as a part of its mission. It attempts to respond to the mandate for Jesuit education in Latin America, that students become acquainted with the situation of the majority of the people in the country, the rural poor. Contact with the poor varies from year to year, beginning with visits to a children's home, then to a nursing home, and then to a camp for migrants. At the baccalaureate level students collect goods for the needy, have an immersion experience in a rural area, choose a social service experience, have a practicum in ecology, and then choose a service work experience.
Programs and facilities
French and English classes are offered. There are laboratories in technology and science. Sports facilities include football, track, rama sports, basketball, volleyball, handball, rugby football, and porras football. Interchange programs are in place with the United States, France, Japan, and Brazil. The College participates in the Interjesuit Games between Jesuit schools in Mexico. In 2015 students from the College placed first in Baja California and fifth nationally in a mathematics tournament. Ibero Tijuana also sent a delegation of eleven to the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice in Washington, DC, in 2014.