The city of Juarez broke ground on a new, 300-hectare educational complex last Thursday, August 27th that will include eight of the most prestigious higher-education institutions of Chihuahua State and Mexico in an ambicious development known as City of Knowledge.
The new higher-education district will consist of campuses by the city's flagship university, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ); Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Juárez (ITCJ, our city's high-achieving tecnological school), Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (UACH, the state's main university), Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN, Mexico's leading technical school), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM, Mexico's highest educational institution), Colegio de Bachilleres (Cobach, a local technical high-school), Universidad Tec Milenio (a private university) and Colegio de la Frontera Norte (Colef, or Northern Border College).
 Classes are scheduled to start by August next year with an initial enrollment of about 1,700. By 2030 our City of Knowledge is expected to house about 17,000 students.
The new development, unique in Latin America, will tap local natural desert features with solar and wind energy systems to help meet its own energy needs.
UACJ will have the biggest campus within the City of Knowledge (300 hectares), followed by ITCJ (20 hectares), UACH (20), IPN (13), UNAM (10), Cobach (10), Tec Milenio (5) and Colef (5). A Sports Unit will occupy another 48 hectares.
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