Postgraduate Problems 1988 to 2000: ESE-IPN Case in Mexico

Abstract

This article is presented under the deductive method, in the hermeneutic paradigm, with a qualitative approach, of interpretative type and narrative design of topic. The Escuela Superior de Economía: Instituto Politécnico Nacional (ESE-IPN) - Higher School of Economics of the National Polytechnic Institute- offers a master’s and doctorate in economics, starting courses in January 1970 and February 1986 respectively. During the last years of the last century, these postgraduate programs presented two complex problems: Too long time between the completion of academic subjects and the achievement of the professional license, and they were not recognized by the Programa Nacional de Posgrados de Calidad (PNPC) -National Quality Postgraduate Program. The first master’s degree card registration is kept until 1993 and the doctorate one is given in 2003, after completing the thesis and defense of the exam, taking up to fifteen years to obtain it. Regarding the degree of excellence that the PNPC qualifies, the ESE-IPN doctorate obtained this recognition until 2010, eighteen years after the first register of postgraduate excellence in the country was released, the master’s degree being in a similar situation.