The territorial distribution of Universidades para el Bienestar Benito Juárez García: Between deserts and educational mirages

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54674/ess.v34i2.625
Keywords: access to higher education, educative offer, educational equity, educational coverage, educational inequality

Abstract

Since 2019, Universidades para el Bienestar Benito Juárez García (UBBJG) have been promoted as a program to expand access to higher education (HE) in Mexico. The objective of this analysis is to show in which type of HE markets are the 145 UBBJG offices located, in order to identify the extent to which the program meets its objective of expanding access to HE in the regions that most require it. For this purpose, the educational deserts' proposal, developed by Hillman and Weichman (2016), is used. According to this approach, geographic regions and their local education markets can be classified in terms of the existence or absence of HE options. Our study found that 92 schools are in an educational desert, which means that 63% of them meet the objective of bringing HE to regions that lack an offer of this educational level, this implies redirecting efforts to better focus educational attention on people who wish to move towards HE.

Author Biographies

Humberto González Reyes, Independent Researcher

Master of Science in Educational Research (Cinvestav). Specialist in issues of educational inequality, educational trajectories and access to higher education. Collaborator in various projects for institutions such as the International Institute of Education, El Colegio de Mexico and ECLAC.

Gustavo Mejía Pérez Mejía-Pérez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, (UAM), Ciudad de México, México.

D. in Educational Research (CINVESTAV), Master in Educational Research (UAA), Bachelor in Psychology (UNAM). Visiting Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Azcapotzalco. Research topics: social mobility and territorial distribution of higher education supply.

José Luis González-Callejas , Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Ciudad de México, México.

Since 2019, Universidades para el Bienestar Benito Juárez García (UBBJG) have been promoted as a program to expand access to higher education (HE) in Mexico. The objective of this analysis is to show in which type of HE markets are the 145 UBBJG offices located, in order to identify the extent to which the program meets its objective of expanding access to HE in the regions that most require it. For this purpose, the "educational deserts" proposal, developed by Hillman and Weichman (2016), is used. According to this approach, geographic regions and their local education markets can be classified in terms of the existence or absence of HE options. Our study found that 92 schools are in an educational desert, which means that 63% of them meet the objective of bringing HE to regions that lack an offer of this educational level, this implies redirecting efforts to better focus educational attention on people who wish to move towards HE.

Published
2022-12-20
How to Cite
González Reyes, H., Mejía-Pérez, G. M. P., & González-Callejas , J. L. (2022). The territorial distribution of Universidades para el Bienestar Benito Juárez García: Between deserts and educational mirages. Higher Education and Society Journal (ESS), 34(2), 123-146. https://doi.org/10.54674/ess.v34i2.625
Issue
Vol 34 No 2 (2022): Democratization and diversity inclusion policies in higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Section
Articles Thematic Dossier

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