n August 2019, the DCC was admitted to the National Registry of Quality Graduate Programs (PNPC) and currently belongs to the National Graduate System of CONAHCyT in Category 1 - Research. The DCC is an academic continuity program with the MCC; the creation of the DCC was explicitly planned from the inception of the MCC (2010). The DCC is included as an institutional commitment in the MCC Improvement Plans that UAEM submitted to CONAHCyT for each evaluation. The DCC is the natural response to providing comprehensive, high-level training for Cognitive Science researchers beginning their studies in the MCC; there is a large and solid pool of candidates for the DCC who come from the MCC. Furthermore, most of the professors who form the Academic Core (NA) that supports the MCC also support the DCC's Academic Core.

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Academic Coordinator of the Program: Dr. Jorge Oseguera Gamba