Mexico: teachers in higher education 2022-2023, by state

Mexico City is the federal entity with the highest number of teachers and professors in higher education in Mexico. In the academic year 2022/23, about 78,100 teachers worked in higher education institutions in the Mexican capital, which represented over 17 percent of all teaching staff in higher education in the country. Teachers were counted as many times as the number of work centers to which they were assigned. The largest number of higher education students in Mexico are enrolled in the country's capital.