Life at Campus
Student Talent Development
Talent is expressed differently in each and every one of us and becoming a member of the Tec community gives you the opportunity to embrace a student environment where you can discover, put into practice or drive your talent. The Tec offers innumerable opportunities for your integral education and for you to combine your professional studies with whatever you are passionate about.
Artistic and Cultural Talent
We wholeheartedly believe that through artistic expression, students can cultivate their potential in literature, drama, music, art and dance and express their concerns, interests and emotions.
We offer workshops, cultural and arts classes where you can learn and grow your skills in different artistic expressions. Such as contemporary dance, jazz, hip, hop, Latin rhythms, Arabian and Irish dance. As well as take classes in guitar, keyboard, percussion, painting, photography, amongst many others.
You can participate in plays, concerts, musical theater productions and/or join our theater, music, dance companies.
At Tec, you can participate in nationwide competitions in dance, creative writing, monologs and music performance. Also, some traditional folk dance companies have travelled and toured Europe, Asia, Latin America and United States.
You will appreciate fine arts through the “Escuela de Espectadores”, or collaborate with masters in lighting, scenery, sound, costume, make-up, through the “Escuela de Productores”.
The opportunities are exponential. Extraordinary talents have cultivated their talents within our institution. Our alumni include such talents as Ignacio Llantada, Paloma Cordero, Horacio Castelo, Alberto (Beto) Castillo who lived these moments as students and are now stars in their respective fields.
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Talento Atlético y Deportivo
We are convinced that at practicing any sports activity gives you skills and experiences that contribute to your full development. We provide spaces that will help you to either maintain a healthy lifestyle or achieve your athletic goals. There are programs for everyone at the athletics and sports department.
Sport classes
You can join a sport class at any level in which you can learn, practice or improve your skills. We offer classes in athletics, boxing, basketball, yoga, capoeira, spinning, TRX, soccer, swimming, taekwondo, rugby or volleyball, just to name a few.
Recreational
If you are passionate about a sport, you can participate in our intramural tournaments in table tennis, E-sports, soccer, basketball, volleyball, drone racing and others.
Intramurals are organized based on student´s interest and current trends. The tournaments are between students from your campus and also from other campuses.
High performance
If you are already an outstanding athlete, you can join one of our 156 varsity teams in 23 different disciplines nationwide and compete against other universities as a proud Borrego. With talent, discipline, and your coach´s guidance and support, you can achieve your competitive goals but also learn lessons that will last a lifetime. Our varsity teams represent our school at national competitions such as CONADEIP Championships, CONDDE National University Games and other high-level team sports leagues. Our student athletes have competed representing México at international competitions such as FISU World University Games, Central American and Pan-American Games, World Championships and Olympic Games. Our alumni include extraordinary world-class sports talents such as Fernando Platas (Diving), Luis Rivera (Athletics), Eduardo Najera (Basketball), Bibiana Candelas (Beach Volleyball), Ana Paula de la Peña (Tennis), among others.
Scholarships:
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Discover your talents
Take a chance and discover new talents. There are more programs that can be created according to your interests, needs and proposals because as LiFE we are convinced that to achieve transcendence in a human being, we have to do what we are passionate about and love. If other students like you have other talents, new programs can be created according to their interests and needs.
Scholarships:
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Student Wellbeing
For Tec de Monterrey, Integral Wellbeing is the state of individuals and communities that contributes to their conscious, constant and balanced development in the physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, occupational and financial dimensions, in harmony with their environment. Integral wellness allows us to evolve, approaching a state of plenitude, contributing positively to the common good.
The Student Wellbeing area on your campus is intended to support and guide you to develop the balance of the seven dimensions of your well-being through:
- Prevention and Emotional Counseling
- Wellbeing Training
- Development of Competences and Skills for Academic Success
One of the efforts of this area is the TQueremos Program, which integrates a series of training tools, services and resources that will help you manage your student life, and develop and strengthen all dimensions of your wellbeing.
Learn more and explore these resources on our Site:
The Life and Career Center helps all students to identify the professional development path of their choice, as an entrepreneur, employee, conducting research, contributing to the third sector or pursuing specialization studies.
The Life and Career Plan Workshops provide tools to self-manage your personal and professional development. The workshops are designed to be fully practical and focus on helping you discover your personal and professional strengths, and successfully make the optimize your talents. We can give you advice on building your curriculum and provide first-hand activities in recruitment processes, such as competency-based interviews and assessments.
Your ideal job is just a click away. On the job board, you can find more than 13,000 job listings that are of interest to you, from the over 3,000 companies partnered with us.
Year round, representatives from different companies and institutions visit our different campi to recruit students and graduates for specific vacancies. During their visit, they give informative sessions to explain the company’s or institution’s profile, their trainee programs and the vacancies they offer and wish to fill.
At Tec, we have relationships that enable you to have internships in the top national and international companies, non-governmental organizations, hospital centers that are highly renowned for their innovation, and/or at the campus itself through the program On Campus Jobs.
We support you in building a plan to gain work experience in any area of your interest. Tec de Monterrey offers experience of making contact with national and/or international organizations that are looking for professional talent.
Creation of Communities
At Tec de Monterrey, you can be part of a vibrant, student community that lives in harmony and supports an inclusive environment to people of different ideologies and interests.
We firmly believe in celebrating our differences and the connections that come from our students’ different sets of talents and skills. We support and seek to generate and live an inclusive culture of respect, free from discrimination, with equality in different area, such as gender, disabilities, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socioeconomic level and generational diversity, among others.
Each student will discover a campus environment that inspires them to study, innovate and transcend. Each student is unique and has particular skills and talents, Tec de Monterrey offers a broad range of activities that promote wellbeing and encourages integration.
If you´re interested in being a positive influence in your community, organization or school, at Tec de Monterrey you can make this dream come true by participating in any of the 1,143 student groups available at the different Tec campi. These groups focus on different topics, such as Ecology and the Environment, Sports and Recreation, Art and Culture, Leadership, Politics, Citizenship and a Humanistic Outlook, Professional Development and Entrepreneurship, Inclusion, Diversity and Gender; Religion and Philosophy; Health and Integral Wellness; Student Life and Alma Mater; Graduation Committee amongst many others.
Important leadership events are held every semester, which you can attend and with other passionate student leaders like you.
Be a member of the Student Government and participate in generating solutions for the benefit of other students like you.
On Campus Jobs es la evolución de los programas de prácticas donde los alumnos podrán expandir sus habilidades a través de acompañamiento con líderes de todas las áreas del Tec.
Con un alcance nacional y dirigido a nuestros alumnos de profesional, maestría y doctorado, creamos un espacio en donde pueden experimentar la vivencia de una comunidad con una cultura organizacional dinámica e incluyente.
Los Campus Interns tienen la oportunidad de desarrollar fortalezas y competencias a través de desafíos de alto impacto, donde podrán seleccionar si desean enfocarse en su área de estudio o en algún otro interés específico.
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Life at Tec
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Borregos
You are part of Borregos, your support makes us stronger and inspires us to leave it all on the field.
Learn all about our origin, history and traditions and keep up with Borregos’ Athletics from all the different campuses.
Get ready to fight for the blue!
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Life in Tec Residence Halls
Discover our Tec Residences, an ideal space to live and meet new people who, like you, decided to be part of the Tec community.
More than a room, it's like being at home.
All our buildings have common areas and services that will allow you to lead a quiet and comfortable life that lets you take advantage of your time at Tec.
We currently have Tec Residence Halls at the following campuses:
- Monterrey
- Guadalajara
- Chihuahua
- Puebla
- Querétaro
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Passion for Reading
Is Tecnologico de Monterrey’s reading promotion and reader development program
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Social Responsibility
Considered a formative experience that strengthens development of competences from our graduates, Social Service promotes profesional excellence and involves personal skills development to help others and contribute.
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TECstore
TECstore was created with the purpose of fostering pride and a sense of belonging towards the institution and to promote Tec's Spirit through official products, as well as creating new experiences to connect Tec's community with our brands.
Visit us in your nearest store, located at: Chihuahua, Ciudad de México, Cuernavaca, Estado de México, Guadalajara, Hidalgo, León, Monterrey, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Santa Fe, Sonora y Toluca.
1 kiosk in Prepa Tec Garza Lagüera
8 Pop Ups: Tampico, Sinaloa, Laguna, Saltillo, Aguascalientes, Wellness Center, EGADE and Perú.
Visit us as well in our official stores in Mercado Libre and Amazon.
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Chilaquiles Tec
A traditional dish
In 1968, the Monterrey campus's "El Borrego cafeteria" hosted the first chilaquiles tastings. They started to be served in the cafeteria, and gradually, they started to become an iconic dish in this campus.
All the university cafeterias started serving chilaquiles in 1985 and in 1993 “Jubileo”, the newly opened restaurant on the Monterrey campus, also started serving them.
Being an iconic dish, Chilaquiles Tec registers its own brand and opens its first location on Monterrey campus with the goal of becoming more community focused on August 12, 2019.
The concept of setting up a franchise for the well-known Chilaquiles Tec originates from their big success.
We have branches at: Campus MTY, GDL, CCM, CEM, CSF, PUE Y QRO.
Services
We generate constructive collaboration with valuable partners to offer a better service and experience on campuses through technological tools that help us generate sustainable, accessible, and safe Mobility, always working responsibly with our assigned resources and aligned with regulations.
Services
- Parking lot
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Tec makes available to its community an efficient and safe system for parking vehicles on campus. places, available for our students, collaborators, and visitors.
There are special spaces reserved for pregnant women, people with motor disabilities, carpool.
- Carpool
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This is a convenient and sustainable option for those who want to share a ride with other members of the community.
This service is free and only requires at least 3 people inside the vehicle to use the available places. *Exceptions by campus.
- Electric vehicle charging stations
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As part of our sustainability plan, our campuses have charging stations equipped with connectors compatible with different types of electric vehicles in our parking lots.
It is essential to reserve the charger and pick up your vehicle at the end of the scheduled period or penalties will be applied.
This service is only available for students enrolled in the current period and for active teachers and collaborators. Personnel outside the institution and EXATECs will not be able to use the chargers.
- Transportation
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In support of the mobility needs of the Tec community, we offer safe and efficient transportation service on some of our campuses.
- Non-motorized transportation: micromobility
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To facilitate transportation near some campuses, non-motorized vehicles for individual use are permitted.
The following means of transportation can be used on campus:
- Bicycle
- Scooter
- Roller skates
- Skateboard
Some campus may have bicycle racks available. **
Due to the long distances that can be traveled within some campuses, we provide you with bicycles, which you can use in designated areas only and must be placed only in any of the racks on campus.**
**Check details by campus.
- Circuito TEC. – Monterrey campus only
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Circuito Tec has strategic mobility points to help students, collaborators, and teachers to move quickly, safely, and sustainably in areas close to campus and other venues.
At Tec Food, memorable experiences are created, fostering emotional and physical well-being through several food options available throughout our Campus facilities, committed to fulfill pre-established service and quality standards.
Tec´s community cohabitation is promoted at our cafeterias and concessions, alongside sustainability initiatives and the usage of technological innovation tools for our continuous service improvement.
At Tecnologico de Monterrey, the health and well-being of our community is our commitment and priority. To ensure this, all our campuses are equipped with medical units, led by a team of health professionals, made up of doctors, paramedics, nurses and physical therapists, ready to respond to any medical emergency.
At TECMed Center we are ready to provide you with:
- Basic medical care
- General medical consultation
- Urgent and emergency care
- Observation and stabilization of patients (short stay)
- Assistance and medical coverage at student life events
On the 37 campuses of Tecnológico de Monterrey, for high school, professional and postgraduate level, we have cardio protection equipment and highly trained personnel to deal with emergencies of cardiological origin.
ProTect is a group of security experts committed to identifying and managing risks effectively, consistently and efficiently. Its purpose is to enable a safe environment, in an atmosphere of trust and respect for Tec Community.
To achieve this, ProTect has three prevention and care programs:
Protected Environment
Services on campus of:
- Medical emergency care
- Secure access to campus
- Road support
- Locatec
Safe Community
It is an awareness program that provides recommendations, training and actions for preventing incidents.
Protection and Security
It is the development of protection activities and protocols in the event of emergencies.
On your campus, identify ProTect staff. If you require security assistance, approach them.
Your safety is our priority, ProTect.
