School of Sciences, UNAM School of Sciences, UNAM The Faculty of Sciences () at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the entity where natural and exact science-based majors are taught. It has both undergraduate and graduate studies, some of the former in joint teaching with other faculties, most commonly the Faculty of Engineering. The Faculty of Sciences is the most important science school in the country by the number of students and the quality of its research. Together with the research institutes that surround it, it is considered one of the biggest research complexes of the UNAM. The history of this faculty
School of Sciences, UNAM four other buildings lodging the Faculty's respective departments and their faculty. The newer part of the complex consists of two buildings, one called "Amoxcalli", which holds the Faculty's library and the Computing Center. The newest one is called "Tlahuizcalpan" which hosts various labs and research premises, as well as classrooms. In recent years, an interdisciplinary extension of the Faculty was inaugurated in the port of Sisal, Yucatán, devoted to the research of coastal ecosystems and their species. The National Herbarium of Mexico at UNAM in Mexico City houses the largest collection of plant specimens in all of Latin America and