Opinions on Tech Universidad Technologica?

Popestt introduced us to this school on the other forum. I'm hoping someone familiar with this school or higher education in Mexico will be able to determine whether this is a semi-legal scam. Here's what I provided in a series of posts on the other forum.

The educational group, TECH, is a company based in Spain, but the first and main university created by this company is TECH Universidad Technologica in Mexico aka Aula Digital Mexico LLC. They plan to open schools all over Latin America. They claim to have 10,000 degree and certificate programs, but it's more like they have several hundred programs being offered in multiple countries. A minority of those programs have official recognition.

In Mexico, the Mexican Ministry of Public Education does not grant a general approval for private institutions to award degrees. They grant a Recognition of Official Validity (RVOE) for individual programs offered by a private institution. While an RVOE is not required to legally offer a program, private institutions are required to include a notification to students that a particular program does not have RVOE or they'll risk government sanctions. I do not see these notifications on TECH's non-RVOE programs. Without RVOE, your credits may not transfer to other Mexican universities, your degree may not be recognized when applying to graduate programs at other Mexican institutions, you won't qualify for any licenses or professional titles, and your degree might not be recognized as valid in another country. RVOE can be granted at the federal level by the Ministry of Public Education, state governments, or public universities in Mexico.

On top of a government stamp of approval for meeting minimum quality standards, Mexico recognizes accreditors recognized by CHEA (some schools in Mexico are accredited by U.S. accreditors), Council for Accreditation for Higher Education (COPAES grants program-level accreditation), and Federation of Private Mexican Institutions of Higher Education (FIMPES grants institutional-level accreditation). You can potentially work in the private sector in Mexico without RVOE, but this could cause issues in the United States and other countries.

If you want to check for a program's current status, go to this link below, choose "Mexico City" as the state, and type in "Tech" as the institution name. I found the search function to be finicky, and typing in "Tech" was the only way I could get the school to come up in the search results. There are two campus names: Grenade and Campus.

https://www.sirvoes.sep.gob.mx/sirvoes/mvc/consultas

This document also lists which programs have RVOE.

Mixta = blended or hybrid
Escolarizada = face-to-face
No Escolarizada = online

http://www.sep.gob.mx/work/models/sep1/R...21_K-T.pdf

The instructor for the Master in Educational Psychopedagogy only has a bachelor's degree.

TECH has some...interesting marketing practices. On Trust Pilot, it appears they've flooded the website with positive reviews. They unprofessionally challenge negative reviews. They're now in a public spat with public officials in the Canary Islands over allegations that TECH has engaged in misleading advertising.

https://spainsnews.com/education-reports...vertising/

For a school that claims to be the largest online university in the world, I expected to find more discussions on various forums and more graduates and current students on LinkedIn. It's easier to find information on ENEB.

 

Sin RVOE - y sin declaración? No me gusta. Great info here. Thanks. And a campus named "Grenade." Now isn't THAT a warning?

 

Apparently, they have about 3717 alumni on LinkedIn.
https://www.linkedin.com/school/tech-universidad-tecnologica/people/

I randomly checked the alumni profile and some of them have multiple "masters", which several from ENEB.

5 masters https://www.linkedin.com/in/jriverac/details/education/
4 masters https://www.linkedin.com/in/reynaldotapia/details/education/

 

Oh, dear. Maybe there's a 12-step group for degree-a-holics, somewhere... there's a crying need.

 

Thanks. I should have went to TECH's LinkedIn page instead of trying to use the search box. I've checked dozens of profiles within my network, and almost all of them have multiple graduate degrees. Similar to ENEB students, it makes it difficult to determine whether they've used their TECH degrees for employment.

 

Someone created a subreddit for TECH students, but it only has one post so far.

estudiantestech (reddit.com)