Between Chiapas and Mexico City: patterns of higher education among the indigenous population

Abstract

This article is an effort to highlight the new enrollment patterns of the indigenous population in higher education in Chiapas and Mexico City, corresponding to the period 2017-2023. Descriptive statistics are used as a quantitative method, and the comparative analysis by maximum variation is applied as an analytical tool to present the selected cases. It is mainly concluded that in recent years, there has been a process of feminization in the enrollment of this population in Mexico and, specifically, in Chiapas and Mexico City; in addition, there is a considerable increase in the percentage of this population in the educational institutions of Mexico City, unlike Chiapas, which suffers from a continuous decrease. There are also differences in the formation fields in this population, such as Chiapas being more traditional than Mexico City. This implies that the different patterns regarding the enrollment of the indigenous population between both subnational entities are due to socioeconomic inequalities.