La acreditación de los posgrados en instituciones privadas de educación superior mexicanas

Abstract

The exponential growth of private higher education in Mexico, especially over the last 30 years, has also raised questions about the level of quality offered by some of the professional oriented graduate programs. In order to know how these universities handle quality, this paper collected opinions from four academic administrators interviewed in three private universities in the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Their points of view expressed concerns around the parameters used by Conacyt to assess quality among professional oriented graduate programs. The major areas of disagreement were related to assumptions dealing with the production of knowledge and the requirements for professors and students to be part of an accredited program. Possible alternatives concerning the actual model for assessing quality are given and discussed.