Internationalization policies in a southeastern Mexican university

Abstract

This study reviews the current situation of a higher education institution (IES) in southeastern Mexico, taking into consideration the degree of implementation of international, national and state policies in higher education. This IES has as one of its guiding principles the educational quality to achieve internationalization, since this is the mechanism by which it achieves international impact and recognition. A descriptive and documentary quantitative research was carried out, based on a review of the state of the art and the analysis of documents on internationalization, reports of the institution and educational policies of the different levels of government. The IES has internationalization policies as a transversal axis in its Institutional Development Plan (PDI); there are efforts to position it at the international level, mainly through professors who have formed collaborative networks for research, and educational quality has been improved in the search for foreign students and for the benefit of national students, teachers and administrative staff.