Chapingo Autonomous University. Universidad Autonoma Chapingo is an agricultural college located in Texcoco, Mexico State in Mexico.
The university is a federally funded public institution of higher education. It offers technical and full bachelor's degrees as well as having scientific and technological research programs.
Many of these programs are related to agriculture, forestry and fishing. The school began as the Escuela Nacional de Agricultura which was founded in 1854 at the Monastery of San Jacinto in Mexico City.
The school was moved in 1923 to the President Álvaro Obregón ex Hacienda of Chapingo. Postgraduate studies were added in 1959.
The school received autonomous status in 1978. It offers courses of study in Forestry, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Industries, Irrigation, Rural Sociology and more. The main attraction for visitors at this school is its murals, especially those in the Chapel of the Chapingo Autonomous University by Diego Rivera. The room was old hacienda chapel, but is now the University Ceremonies Room. This work was begun in 1924 and completed in 1927. Rivera painted 41 separate panels that cover the walls and ceiling of the room. The murals contain imagery relating to the revolutionary struggles of the peasants and working class of Mexico and the fertility and cycles of nature. Covering an area of over 700m 2, the work divides into three parts. The left panels depict man's
The university is a federally funded public institution of higher education. It offers technical and full bachelor's degrees as well as having scientific and technological research programs.
Many of these programs are related to agriculture, forestry and fishing. The school began as the Escuela Nacional de Agricultura which was founded in 1854 at the Monastery of San Jacinto in Mexico City.
The school was moved in 1923 to the President Álvaro Obregón ex Hacienda of Chapingo. Postgraduate studies were added in 1959.
The school received autonomous status in 1978. It offers courses of study in Forestry, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Industries, Irrigation, Rural Sociology and more. The main attraction for visitors at this school is its murals, especially those in the Chapel of the Chapingo Autonomous University by Diego Rivera. The room was old hacienda chapel, but is now the University Ceremonies Room. This work was begun in 1924 and completed in 1927. Rivera painted 41 separate panels that cover the walls and ceiling of the room. The murals contain imagery relating to the revolutionary struggles of the peasants and working class of Mexico and the fertility and cycles of nature. Covering an area of over 700m 2, the work divides into three parts. The left panels depict man's
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